Sunday, August 30, 2009

Word Update

Ugh! What happens next?!?

Ok, so have you ever had it where you are reading a book and it starts to get real good and then you hit the end of the chapter and the last few words give you chills and you just think to yourself...or out loud like me..."Ahhh I can't wait to find out what happens next!". Yeah, well I just had the feeling from a bit of a story I was reading. Problem is, its a story I am currently writing, so I don't KNOW what happens next, and know will know what happens next until I write it. LOL! I hate that. Sometimes I think my stories are crap but when I go back and read over bits of them I think to myself "Oh man that was genius right there.", and half the time I can't believe I wrote that. So yeah, I have stopped working on the blog story for now and have gone back to my work on my NaNoWriMo story that I am still writing. I'd like to finish it before NaNoWriMo pops up this year. I kept trying to work on other stories because this one wasn't coming to me, but my mind won't let me work on other stuff fully until I give this one my full attention. I can't leave my character's Andrea and Max stuck in the future without any hope of bringing them home. So I am back working their story. Right now I think its time for a fight scene. Ugh, I'm no good at fight scenes. Oh well, if it sucks, that's what editing is for. :-) So I need to make a new counter for my current story I am working on. Gonna do that now. Laters.

Writing away,
M.

Friday, August 21, 2009

Word Update

Word Update

Day one of a new writing challenge.

Ok, so here is my brand spanking new blog for writing. I think trying to put all my interests on one blog was a bit too much. So here I am to post about my writing. Quick note about my title. I didn't know what to name my blog. All the names I wanted were taken. So I decided to use the name the blog layout designer called the layout. I thought it was cute and fitting. :-) Be sure to check out the links at the bottom of the blog to get yourself a cute blog layout.

I strive to be an author and have been doing so for years now. Only one problem. I haven't really tried to get published. Granted I have sent work in several times and never heard anything back from any of the places. So, I am still unpublished, but I have at least made an attempt to get published. But now I want to get serious about my writing and really start submitting my work for publication.

But I have been in a writing funk. I have several stories going and know I need to focus on one. I was working hard on my Nanowrimo story, and I still love the story and characters, I just can't finish it yet because the plot is getting sticky. So what I plan to do is give myself a break from it and try writing a novel that I came up with a little while back. Its going to be a story completely in blog format. I know, its been done before, but this will be a tale of fiction. I am going to be writing it up in a an actual private online blog that I will eventually give a few trusted people access to for reading and editing purposes. So I have decided to start it today and finish it by the end of September. Its not really meant to be overly long, but we will see when I get to the end of September how it will turn out. So I will update here on how things are going with it and posting bits and pieces from the story as well. That's about it for now. More later.

Writing Away,
M.