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Update/I Love the Sound Deadlines Make When They Zoom By/Two New Stories

admin — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:18:36 +0000

Last week I had goals. Did I make them? Haha, hehe, hoho. Er… short answer? No.

Long answer, here’s where I’m at (for anyone who cares to know):

Word count on my YA novel: 12,307. I wrote a little over a thousand words on it this weekend. Ouch.

I did, however, complete editing my picture book (which, I promise, is harder than it sounds). I also made a dummy book and it seems like my story will fit in the right format. I sent the manuscript along to my primary reader, who slashed it to ribbons last time. This time she complained about the things I didn’t change, but liked it over all. Win! So, I’m going to go to the bookstore this weekend and browse picture books to make sure I have the right feel. Then, it’s research time for publishers and agents for picture books. Also, who will accept unsolicited submissions? The game, as they say, shall be afoot. Yay!

I didn’t go to the Chino Family Festival of Books. I wanted to, but I got lazy and my friend wasn’t able to go and it’s a long drive and, and, and… I didn’t go.

I am still working on touching base with my friend, la photographer, for my ebook. We should get together soon I hope. That’ll be awesome.

NOW! I have a cool surprise coming up in the next post. The post will be a little late. In fact, it’s going up March 9th for my dad’s birthday. Basically, it’s two stories. Story numero uno will be the one by me dear old dad. Story number two is by me. My dad wrote the story first, which inspired me to write the second. Pretty neat, huh?!

Update/Word Count/World Domination

admin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:49:32 +0000

I did some writing over the weekend and tonight. My word count on my YA novel is now at 11,137. Not bad. 30,000-40,000 words to go.

My goals this week are to get the word count on the YA up to 15,000, to complete editing my picture book and send it to various readers (again), to go see Pseudonymous Bosch (or The Imposter)at the Chino Family Festival of Books, schedule a few poems into the story mix so you get some more content more often and (possibly) meet with a photographer about illustrations for the ebook that will eventually come of my collection of short stories and poems. Busy busy. That might not all get done this week, but I’m prepared for that eventuality.

What’re we going to do today, Brain?

Friday, April 24 2009

admin — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:49:31 +0000

I just finished a short zombie story called “Getting Gas”. The first draft is 1,208 words. I know writing a zombie story is probably cliche at this point, but you have to understand that zombies terrify me, so writing this story was no small task. Anyway, next I have to do some edits and give it to my first reader. We’ll see what he thinks.

A note on Desperation. It went out to Writers of the Future yesterday. Cross your fingers!

Thursday, April 23

admin — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:13:02 +0000

Okay, I finally got some writing done. I got feedback on Desperation from my first reader (who shall remain nameless…) and I finished the edits. It is now an 1,820 word short story. I am going to submit it to Writers of the Future. Cross your fingers and wish me luck. I get so nervous submitting…

Weds – April 15 2009

admin — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:55:56 +0000

So the word count for Desperation went up to 1,961. I’ve finished all copy edits and story edits and I’m giving it to my first reader. The plan with this story is to send it along to Writers of the Future. I might change the title though, because the ending changed… but maybe not. We’ll see.

Monday – April 13

admin — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:38:41 +0000

So, today I wrote a 1,703 word short story. It’s a Sci Fi story with the working title of Desparation. I really shouldn’t say I wrote it today. I actually started it about five days ago, but I’ve been working on it, editing and refining ideas since then. Today I finally typed it up.