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Yay! Another blog....
Hmm, every new website I go to seems to want to host a blog. Must be a curse I've set upon myself when coming up with my new http://www.nanowrimo.org idea. As I don't plan to start writing it until November, perhaps it's practice designed to get me into the mindset for what I'm right now calling 'Another New Beginning.'
Before I ask you to get excited about that, I'd like to request that you take a look at what I've already written. I have always been a fan of sci-fi and fantasy as you might imagine when reading my first novel 'The Speed of Darkness.'
available at
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/The-Speed-of-Da...
or
Smashwords: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/...
It's pretty short and cheap. If you want shorter and cheaper, go here: http://beta.iwritereadrate.com/books/... you can buy pieces or all that is written of my more classic science fiction story that doesn't involve werewolves.
If you have any other interest in me go here: http://sarahsreadings.wordpress.com/ I think that site is connected to anything else of mine on the web.
Before I ask you to get excited about that, I'd like to request that you take a look at what I've already written. I have always been a fan of sci-fi and fantasy as you might imagine when reading my first novel 'The Speed of Darkness.'
available at
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/The-Speed-of-Da...
or
Smashwords: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/...
It's pretty short and cheap. If you want shorter and cheaper, go here: http://beta.iwritereadrate.com/books/... you can buy pieces or all that is written of my more classic science fiction story that doesn't involve werewolves.
If you have any other interest in me go here: http://sarahsreadings.wordpress.com/ I think that site is connected to anything else of mine on the web.
Scratch that- New idea!
Well writing this'll probably change my mind,but now I'm practically certain that I'm going to use my NaNoWriMo time to work on the second part of my envisioned 'Fixing Time' novel.
Now I just need to think of a name for the second part before November so I can fill out my http://www.nanowrimo.org page...
Now I just need to think of a name for the second part before November so I can fill out my http://www.nanowrimo.org page...
It's Short Fiction Week 2011? It must be a sign
Sunday morning I finally worked out in my head how I could write a story with some fantasy characters I've been playing around with for quite a while.
My only problem was that before now that's all it was, 4 characters and no story. And one idea of a scene- a centaur and a satyr hiding inside a fast food joint, trying to serve customers without letting on that they aren't human.
My other 2 characters are a girl dragon in human form with the other mythical creatures and some teenage-20 something guy who is first meeting the others.
Now this was all a bit fanciful even for me so I tried not to give it too much serious thought; but the ideas kept coming back; building into more of a story.
I just knew certain things about my characters:
-The centaur is somehow in charge, the leader or something.
-The Centaur and the Satyr are much older than the other two, and have been teamed together to get past something seriously bad...
-My satyr has goat horns on his human head except one is broken short where the centaur kicked him once. Centaur dude feels guilty about this and it's probably the only reason why he will put up with the satyr acting like he does sometimes.. (you know, like a Satyr ^^)
-The normal guy somehow becomes a werewolf as a result of something the other three do and so they now feel responsible for looking out for him as his beliefs in reality are rewritten and keeping others safe from a werewolf who hasn't learned to control himself.
(As none of them are human they don't have to worry about going werewolf, I guess...)
Need I go on? All that's important is that I never felt it was enough to make a story
Yesterday morning I was looking at how it's still about a week until November so I probably shouldn't start on my NaNoWriMo story just yet, but that would be enough time for a semi-flash short story.
[if you never have heard that description before, it's probably 'cause I 'semi-made' it up~ flash-fiction, as I understand it uses no notes and very little forethought- I can't do that! I like to have even minimal notes; to build myself some sort of frame to work within and to spend a bit of time even if it's just a day or two to think about how I would react to the situations I've given my characters.]
So I decided I'm gonna write not the entire story of my 4 characters (for one reason- because I'm pretty sure I haven't thought it all up yet) but just the tale of how my creatures and the human came together, at their lovely fast-food place with dragon-fire-grilled burgers.
Hmm, I wonder if that mode of cooking would pass a health inspection....
My only problem was that before now that's all it was, 4 characters and no story. And one idea of a scene- a centaur and a satyr hiding inside a fast food joint, trying to serve customers without letting on that they aren't human.
My other 2 characters are a girl dragon in human form with the other mythical creatures and some teenage-20 something guy who is first meeting the others.
Now this was all a bit fanciful even for me so I tried not to give it too much serious thought; but the ideas kept coming back; building into more of a story.
I just knew certain things about my characters:
-The centaur is somehow in charge, the leader or something.
-The Centaur and the Satyr are much older than the other two, and have been teamed together to get past something seriously bad...
-My satyr has goat horns on his human head except one is broken short where the centaur kicked him once. Centaur dude feels guilty about this and it's probably the only reason why he will put up with the satyr acting like he does sometimes.. (you know, like a Satyr ^^)
-The normal guy somehow becomes a werewolf as a result of something the other three do and so they now feel responsible for looking out for him as his beliefs in reality are rewritten and keeping others safe from a werewolf who hasn't learned to control himself.
(As none of them are human they don't have to worry about going werewolf, I guess...)
Need I go on? All that's important is that I never felt it was enough to make a story
Yesterday morning I was looking at how it's still about a week until November so I probably shouldn't start on my NaNoWriMo story just yet, but that would be enough time for a semi-flash short story.
[if you never have heard that description before, it's probably 'cause I 'semi-made' it up~ flash-fiction, as I understand it uses no notes and very little forethought- I can't do that! I like to have even minimal notes; to build myself some sort of frame to work within and to spend a bit of time even if it's just a day or two to think about how I would react to the situations I've given my characters.]
So I decided I'm gonna write not the entire story of my 4 characters (for one reason- because I'm pretty sure I haven't thought it all up yet) but just the tale of how my creatures and the human came together, at their lovely fast-food place with dragon-fire-grilled burgers.
Hmm, I wonder if that mode of cooking would pass a health inspection....
NaNoWriMo
Would you believe it's almost November again?
If you said 'so what?' I'm gonna guess you aren't a writer. November would be National Novel Writing Month. (Don't ask me where they mean by 'national', as far as I can tell writers from any part of the world are invited to write.)
The challenge is to write an entire novel within the month. So,starting midnight Halloween on until the first second of the morning on December first me and thousands of other authors will be frantically writing plenty of words (the goal is 50,000~ something like 1,666 per day) that will hopefully give birth to a real novel.
Now I may have never finished all the writing, editing, tweaking to finish a novel I'm ready to try and publish in just one month before, but both of the stories I've linked here started as my NaNo attempts.
With any luck I'll bring to life what shall become a whole new new novel that I see as fit to publish.
If you wan't to see how well I'm doing, you can come check out my progress here. And if you just wanna put your writing to the test, feel free to come along and set up your NaNoWriMo web page. It's free, it's fun, and it may spur you into writing that book you've always said you will work on 'later.'
If you said 'so what?' I'm gonna guess you aren't a writer. November would be National Novel Writing Month. (Don't ask me where they mean by 'national', as far as I can tell writers from any part of the world are invited to write.)
The challenge is to write an entire novel within the month. So,starting midnight Halloween on until the first second of the morning on December first me and thousands of other authors will be frantically writing plenty of words (the goal is 50,000~ something like 1,666 per day) that will hopefully give birth to a real novel.
Now I may have never finished all the writing, editing, tweaking to finish a novel I'm ready to try and publish in just one month before, but both of the stories I've linked here started as my NaNo attempts.
With any luck I'll bring to life what shall become a whole new new novel that I see as fit to publish.
If you wan't to see how well I'm doing, you can come check out my progress here. And if you just wanna put your writing to the test, feel free to come along and set up your NaNoWriMo web page. It's free, it's fun, and it may spur you into writing that book you've always said you will work on 'later.'
NaNo Demon Wins
Although I'd pretty much decided it by Monday, I'm going to now officially declare that I've thrown in the towel on NaNoWriMo this year. I don't think I've written on my story since Friday, and I don't think there's any chance I can bring up the word count fast enough to get 50,000 in November.
This isn't a bad thing, however. I now have the full set of notes to carry on writing a story I really like. Without worrying about my writing speed, I can now pull the story together and let it improve as I consider all of what could possibly happen.
It may even be a good thing, I never finishedThe Speed of Darkness until a good while after NaNoWriMo.
This isn't a bad thing, however. I now have the full set of notes to carry on writing a story I really like. Without worrying about my writing speed, I can now pull the story together and let it improve as I consider all of what could possibly happen.
It may even be a good thing, I never finishedThe Speed of Darkness until a good while after NaNoWriMo.
Will a facebook page jump-start my sales?
I'm not very good at this whole advertising thing, but now my book has a somewhat made facebook page. The Speed of Darkness on Facebook
Here's an Interview of Me
Writing blog Author Morgen Bailey has posted an interview of me here: http://morgenbailey.wordpress.com/201... for my book The Speed of Darkness.
Virtual-Muser ebook review
I got a new *** review of The Speed of Darkness
here: http://vm-ebookreview.blogspot.com/20...
It may be a tie with my lowest review, but it supports a story concept I've been playing around with in my head for a couple of days. This might be the motivation I need to get to writing again!
here: http://vm-ebookreview.blogspot.com/20...It may be a tie with my lowest review, but it supports a story concept I've been playing around with in my head for a couple of days. This might be the motivation I need to get to writing again!
Joey Pinkney interviewed me
I've been interviewed about my book: http://joeypinkney.com/amazoncom/5-mi...
Happy with the 1 star review
Say what? Perhaps it's just too early in the morning, but I like the review I got today: http://heatherslibraryworld.blogspot....
1/5 score, but not because my story stinks or I'm a crappy writer, but because I didn't spend enough time finessing my words and writing into the best that they could be; apparently I left a few rather glaring mistakes. So why does this earn my enjoyment? Because of the time and effort I'm taking with my current writing.
a happy reminder that resisting the urge to rush, may be be beneficial.
And hey, if you don't get too worried about the technical aspects of writing, you can read a novel that, according to Heather, has 'a promising storyline' by an author described with 'great ideas are in her head.'
1/5 score, but not because my story stinks or I'm a crappy writer, but because I didn't spend enough time finessing my words and writing into the best that they could be; apparently I left a few rather glaring mistakes. So why does this earn my enjoyment? Because of the time and effort I'm taking with my current writing.
a happy reminder that resisting the urge to rush, may be be beneficial.
And hey, if you don't get too worried about the technical aspects of writing, you can read a novel that, according to Heather, has 'a promising storyline' by an author described with 'great ideas are in her head.'
