Ahh, I am back! Actually, I've been back for about a week, but somehow blogging has slipped my mind! I took a break over the holidays and formed some bad habits, I guess. Nevertheless, it was a relaxing and much-needed excursion, and I hope you all got to take a break and have some fun, too.
I wasn't lazy in every regard, though! My current WIP novel has a story-within-a-story structure, because I love those, and I've been working consistently on the inner story for the last few weeks. As should be expected of me, it's turning out longer than I'd anticipated. I'm about 3/5 of the way through my outline and already passed my estimated word count for the whole thing! But I think it's because the second fifth needed to be more complex than I'd projected, and thus took more time to tell properly. Even now I can feel the story threatening to turn into its own novel, but I quite like it, even in first draft form. I'll just need to figure out a way to tighten it up while enhancing the characters, their relationships, and the plot revelations that come out as a result. Then once that's done, I have to start on the main storyline. Eesh.
Looking forward, it's going to be a busy year for me! Let's see, coming up I have my last semester of grad school, which will start in a few weeks and end in May. Pretty soon I should start keeping an eye open for job listings. I've got Literary Orange in April, so I need to read my panelists' latest books for that. My best friend is getting married in August and I'll have to fit in maid of honor duties there (which I'm excited about, though!). And on top of that and writing, I want to submit some short stories for publication and start querying agents this year!
All written out, it doesn't look that bad. I'm looking forward to it. And to prepare for this year to be awesome, I will share this masterpiece with you:
My admiration of the person who drew, yes, Chewbacca riding a freaking squirrel into action against some Nazis knows no bounds.
Happy belated New Year! What do you hope to get done during this turn around the sun?
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2 comments:
I feel that, at least for me, the busiest times are when I get the best writing done, because you have less time to procrastinate. Hopefully your writing projects are as awesome as the image that you shared!
Holy busy-ness lady! What a year you've got ahead. GOOD LUCK ON YOUR FINAL SEMESTER!! You're so close--feels good, don't it? And that picture is amazing. Holy crap, I love it so much. Thank you for sharing!
And I hear you on the blogging thing ... I'm struggling to catch up with the 128 posts from the blogs that I actually comment on (rather than just scan). Little by little, I guess!
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