Well, I'm hoping the challenge that Dana set us in writing class will help me get back into the act of writing again. I haven't done much work on my novel since before Christmas - actually, since October; November was NaNoWriMo and after that Christmas was coming, so work on my novel got pushed out of my mind for a while. Never go that long without writing. It takes forever to get back in the groove. 5,000 words in two weeks and I don't even have 700. Patrick and Michael are in the thousands word count - which just proves that they're awesome. (Speaking of which, Dana; how much have you written? :-D ) So I need to push it!
We got to learn how to solder in our ham radio class today! That was fun. Scary at first, but fun. So we now have most of our capacitors soldered onto our circuit boards. Everyone who didn't get to come today missed out on all the fun. But in a way that was a good thing, because there were only two soldering stations and three radio kits to be built, plus one that hadn't been fully inventoried yet. Can't wait to keep building! I should have soldering in a story somewhere.
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Vocations and writing and such
It's my turn to teach the young women of my church on Sunday and the lesson is about choosing a vocation. How fitting, considering that I don't have one myself. But they do say that the teacher learns as much as the student, if not more.
I love to write, and I love to read. I can certainly use those to an advantage and make some kind of income off of it. I'm even taking a novel writing class, but my own novel isn't coming along as well as I'd like it to. I've changed the time period it was originally in - which reminds me that I need to finish reading my friend's novel, since it was partly the inspiration of my novel - and of what I have written so far, I only truly love what is now chapter 5.
I'm tossing around different ideas for a particular character - Reed Bentley - who is essential to a part of the plot, as well as a friend of my main character Selene. He is a member of the Sovereign Guard (the military in my novel), but how long has he been a member? Right now I have him just signing up for training. Or would it be better if Reed had been a Trooper (the nickname for the Sovereign Guard) for a few years and is in the same platoon with Selene's younger brother Primus?
Oh, so many things to rethink for this novel. But I won't despair! I know I can do it.
I love to write, and I love to read. I can certainly use those to an advantage and make some kind of income off of it. I'm even taking a novel writing class, but my own novel isn't coming along as well as I'd like it to. I've changed the time period it was originally in - which reminds me that I need to finish reading my friend's novel, since it was partly the inspiration of my novel - and of what I have written so far, I only truly love what is now chapter 5.
I'm tossing around different ideas for a particular character - Reed Bentley - who is essential to a part of the plot, as well as a friend of my main character Selene. He is a member of the Sovereign Guard (the military in my novel), but how long has he been a member? Right now I have him just signing up for training. Or would it be better if Reed had been a Trooper (the nickname for the Sovereign Guard) for a few years and is in the same platoon with Selene's younger brother Primus?
Oh, so many things to rethink for this novel. But I won't despair! I know I can do it.
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