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First draft done on hurricane story.
The first draft clocks in at 10,113 words, and it's likely to expand in revision. For one thing, I think the end is a little abrupt (in fact, I may not be done after all), and for another, I don't think there's enough tech, and there are characters who disappear in...
Screenplay Competition Season
I've started getting notifications about screenwriting competitions, which means I need to decide which ones I'm going to pelt with screenplays. I'm considering blowing off Austin this year--I won't have anything new until Script Frenzy, and they've seen everything...
Or, maybe what I need is a lack of distractions.
1533 words written today, for a total of 4582. That's almost NaNoWriMo productive. Note to self: Distraction=Evil.
No, it’s definitely stalled.
I'm not sure what's up with the story, but it's at 3049 words and just doesn't want to move at all. Maybe this is the equivalent of the NaNoWriMo week two, and I should try to plow forward. Maybe I should set an arbitrary wordcount and do it even if those words suck....
200 words, yay! or something.
Last night, I added 200 words to a story I hadn't touched in over a year. I really like the story, so I hope this means I'm going to finish it now. Of course, I'm also wibbling that I think you can tell where the join is, blah blah, but I should just cut that out. I...
Happy New Year!
May all y'all have a wonderful 2007.
Immortal Gifts invites readers to re-evaluate the meanings of things such as life, death, freedom, hate and love from the first page. Katherine Villyard manages to capture some of the most poignant questions we ask ourselves as we go through our individual lives. Is it worth being able to live forever if, in the end, we’ll lose the ones we love to mortality? Is Death really the ultimate enemy to life, or is death just life’s misunderstood old friend? To stop hate, do we need to restrict our freedoms? This book makes readers ask and answer tough questions not only about the characters and plotline, but about their own beliefs, understandings, and dreams.