This is not so much of a blog about the book but one born of hearing stupid things. When I hear certain things it just sticks in my head and after awhile I HAVE to brain vomit it out. Its like a sickness I have.

I have discovered the joys of having a Bluetooth headset for my phone this last week by having some really good conversations with my friend Judah (you can find his site here) who also wants to get into writing. Awhile ago both of us decided to do NaNoWriMo and have been very excited about it, then Judah went to a writing conference. One of the things this dude said is that his editor is against National Novel Writing Month because they get so many people sending them possible novels that they might want to publish.

This is the first retarded thing that annoyed me this week. How is it that you do not like people wanting to help you make money. One of these people might just be the next Stephanie Meyers, they might be crap but you do not really know until you go over them. Considering how many people in America are so stupid that they do not understand the value of a book you should be freaking ecstatic that people are writing novels at all.

To this guys credit if you do not take your time to edit your work them you are a moron that does not deserve an opportunity to have some sort of professional read your work. This is point #2 that annoyed the crap out of me. After I finish Americoma I plan on editing the crap out of it, giving it to people I trust and letting them edit it and then editing it again myself in order to catch as many issues as possible. If you send a un-edited novel then you deserve to get a rejected submission. Idiots…

In the end though I still think that authors should be more accepting of NaNoWriMo. I doubt anyone really cares about my feelings in this matter but being able to rant about this finally is making me feel better.


After ranting I feel like one happy panda...

Milestone

Well I have been putting off blogging the last couple of days in order to focus on my writing as much as I can. I have been spending several hours a night writing on top of my normal daily word count and I have now reached a new milestone for my novel. I am now 7/10th through the original word count goal. For those who do not remember my first goal was to finish around 50,000 words (similar to my NaNoWriMo goal this November) which means that I am currently at 35,000+

Time to take a break, watch some of “The Stand” and relax before starting back in on writing again.



Oh and this is my new writing buddy! I do not have a name for him yet, any ideas?

My workspace (@ home)

So, this is the work space i find myself using tonight. I swear all that junk food has not been consumed by me in one night, the popcorn was mine though. I just thought it would be an interesting picture to see all of the jargon i have laying around while i am trying to work.

Bam!

So my last post was not overly warm and fuzzy but I swear that this one is going to be different! Today I reached another milestone in the book which is I am 3/5th the way complete. That is right I have written over 30,000 words and plan to put a few more in there before I call it a night.

Perfection

Perfection is an interesting thing. I am by no means perfect, not in a single thing (unless you ask my wife). I never have pretended to be perfect and do not believe that any of my work, written or artistic, to be perfect.

Why am I writing this? Several comments have been made and this is my way of talking about it. I am working on finishing my first novel and a lot of edits will be needed. I have never tried to write anything like this before and I know I have many, many things to improve on. There is something that, I believe, that does not need a critique and that is the concept of what I want to do.

I am just a little upset…

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Friday Update

So I am about to hit another milestone for the book. I am about to hit the 30,000 word count which would be 3/5th through the novel. I feel, and it might look, as I am working very slowly but with my current work schedule, schoolwork, and other things going on it is going to have to do.

Blogging while listening to some DIstorted Penguins

So I managed to update on time!

Not a huge amount of information to give right now but this is what I have going on in the world of “Americoma”. I have started typing out chapter 12 and am trying to finish writing it but that is coming a little slow at the moment. I blame school, mass effect 2 and the Nintendo DS…. Just saying…

I have managed to outline the rest of 12 and mostly likely a good chunk of 13. I am about to enter into another exciting part of the story so it should be easier to write. Maybe I should just skip all the character progression and just do action (just kidding). My word count, typed out, is 26040 and that is only a few hundred words into chapter 12. At size 12 courier new font, it comes to 109 pages of story so far!

On a sad note things have been rather tough with my family… several bad news updates from back east and it has made it rather hard to function but we all get through it right?



Listening to: Magic by Distorted Penguins
This is one of the best albums ever if you enjoy ska music. It never fails to put a smile on my face and no matter how hard I try, I end up singing to it most of the time

Post-Easter

I have been absolutely horrid about updating my blog but I think things are calming down so I should be able to get back on track. School is ending for me next week, which is very exciting because not only will I have more time to do the things that want to do but also I will not have to deal with his crap.

In other news, I have not been doing well this last week. I spent two days sick, got bad news from back east, had a huge amount of schoolwork to do but I still managed to stay on top of my daily word count. I am right on schedule with having the book done by August if the book ends around 50k words, if it is more then that then I might be in trouble with NaNoWriMo coming up in November. That might sounds crazy but it is going to be a huge project and I want to have this done before I going gun-ho on the next work.

Ah the craziness of trying to be a writer, even if it is only for fun.

Happy Easter