Day 1 of 10 Writing FayTown Calling
The first day and, as expected, I’m a little bit behind, a little bit ahead. Something I forgot to do in my post yesterday was discuss what all I’m looking at, or even how far along the story is. Dean Wesley Smith has been doing a daily writing log for the past six months or so, that’s what gave me the idea for this in the first place, but he mainly focuses on word count. He’s a big believer in the one draft, beginning to end style of writing. There is A LOT to take away from that, I should have finished this six months (if not a year) ago. I’m still developing as an author though (I think having a full time day job, child, and wife in nursing school has also played its part) and there have been many story and plot elements I just didn’t know what to…
10 Days
That’s how long I have to finish the rough draft of FayTown Calling. Why am I telling you that? Because I’m going to record my progress here. Let me lay this out in detail. I’m off work, ten days of wide open time to write and create, time I intend to use its full extent. The first third is pretty much done, enough that I’d be happy to let someone read it. The second third is rough but will really only need some polish. It’s that last third that’s going to be the tough part. Does this mean FayTown Calling will be out in June? No, sorry. After I’m “finished” there’s a good bit of editing that will need to happen. Not polish, I intend to polish it as best I can in these ten days as well, but still a lot of work to make sure it is presentable. It will however…
Guardians of the Galaxy Has a New Trailer
This is why I’m all about what Marvel and Disney have done with their movies. They are, more than anything else, fun. This looks like it will be a blast. http://youtu.be/urhMLk4VOLA
Bear With Me as I Nerd Out
Growing up, I loved animals. Not like a normal kid, of course, who might love cuddling with animals or playing with them, no, animals pretty much hate me (except cats, go figure). What I always loved was learning about animals, all their amazing little quirks and qualities. Eventually, after so many of the things you hear about animals as a kid (how fast a cheetah is, how quickly piranha can strip a cow of its flesh, etc.) I graduated to monsters and they’ve been my fascination ever since. Every now and then though, I find something out about the world that blows me away, that is simply so amazing I’d have thought it too far-fetched to write about. I’ve seen this video a thousand times, but it’s one of my favorites.