Footsteps in my mind
I've decided that serializing Adventures in Thailand when it's already on Blank Slate is somewhat pointless, so you can just go read it all there.
It's been a somewhat overwhelming few days lately, with the combined weight of work and school and other obligations pushing down on me till I thought my spine would snap, but it'll get better soon. It always does. I'm still writing away, 30 minutes a day. I've finished the rough draft of the first chapter of Whistle in the Wind (the novel I started writing a few days ago) and gotten into the second. Now I'm debating whether I should revise the first chapter until it's good or keep plowing on until I finish the whole book and then go back and revise. We'll see.
In other news, I'm reading up on screenwriting. Making films has been in the back of my mind for the past year or so, and the call is getting stronger. It seems like many of the filmmakers I've read recently have said that what they need these days are good writers. (I think I blogged about this a few months ago...) And heaven knows there's an awful lot of garbage getting made these days, both artistically and morally. I'm reading Andy Horton's Writing the Character-Centered Screenplay and Irwin Blacker's The Elements of Screenwriting.
Went to D.I. today and got a bunch of sweaters and a jacket since winter is almost here and I don't particularly want to freeze to death.
It's been a somewhat overwhelming few days lately, with the combined weight of work and school and other obligations pushing down on me till I thought my spine would snap, but it'll get better soon. It always does. I'm still writing away, 30 minutes a day. I've finished the rough draft of the first chapter of Whistle in the Wind (the novel I started writing a few days ago) and gotten into the second. Now I'm debating whether I should revise the first chapter until it's good or keep plowing on until I finish the whole book and then go back and revise. We'll see.
In other news, I'm reading up on screenwriting. Making films has been in the back of my mind for the past year or so, and the call is getting stronger. It seems like many of the filmmakers I've read recently have said that what they need these days are good writers. (I think I blogged about this a few months ago...) And heaven knows there's an awful lot of garbage getting made these days, both artistically and morally. I'm reading Andy Horton's Writing the Character-Centered Screenplay and Irwin Blacker's The Elements of Screenwriting.
Went to D.I. today and got a bunch of sweaters and a jacket since winter is almost here and I don't particularly want to freeze to death.
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