Keeping Balance

Week two is in the bag. So far, so good. It is still difficult to grasp the fact that I am putting down on paper this idea I have had in mind for years. Things have stayed relatively on track and well written (or at least I think so) given the recent craziness life has presented me with. Along with my aspirations to be a writer my brothers and I have always wanted to get a record deal and tour with our music and stage show. We sing and dance (don't get too weirded out, I know how it can sound) but as hard as it is to express in words it is so simple for people to understand once they see us live. We are on the brink of completing an album that all of us are happy with. Myself along with my brothers Zach 21, Jacob 15 and Caleb 13 have been doing this since I was 12, but just recently have we been as serious as ever and plan on achieving this goal. I bring this up because we have a few shows coming up and trying to prepare for those with the responsibilities of class and the burden of a job is quite difficult. I don't fond them affecting my writing, but it is certainly harder to find a balance and ease in shifting focus. Week two wasn't as bad as I imagined, but three and four will test my strengths. We'll see. One highlight of the week was writing an e-mail to Mr. Chris Baty who penned the book that is helping me through this novel writing process. I feel it is a good possibility I will hear back from him, but as of two days after the e-mail, no such luck. Again, I guess we'll see.

The End of Week One

This writing a novel thing has neither been as difficult as I expected it to be or as completely freeing as I hoped it to be. There is a nice balance right in between where I find myself with what I consider good ideas and trying to figure out how all of this will play out. It is a large task to take on and think about when you really have no idea what you are doing. It is no doubt fun though and after my first 4600 words I am rather pleased at how well it is going. I have had the idea for a while now, but I have still found no way of describing it without making it sound like something its not so I won't give it away here, but lets just say I was watching a documentary a few years back about George Lucas getting his Star Wars film off the ground and how he'd written the scripts and all the sources he'd pulled from to create this common story within a world all his own. I wanted a world all my own, something I could lay claim to and so I began to think. I pulled from many sources, have had ideas, titles, even a few characters and plot lines floating around in my mind for years now, but nothing was ever made permanent on paper. Now, I am probably a chapter into this world and I must say, I'm completely in love. So far, it is everything I imagined it would be, but the toughest parts are still sure to come. Week one is done, but so many more lie ahead and Lord knows what will happen within the story and my life that will cause it to go in certain directions. I can't imagine that I will have the end of this story on paper by December, but it is an exciting thought and honestly cannot wait to get there. Writing this way almost feels like reading, I am finding out things about my characters and story as I get further into it and cannot wait to get to the end to find out what happens. That has to be a good sign right? right.....?

It Starts...

The beginning of a new semester always brings new projects to the forefront. I am in my last semester of college, graduation is closer every day and everything seems to be falling into place rather nicely. An example of this would conveniently happen to be the classes I am enrolled in this fall. While I'm taking Sir Vanderslices novel writing workshop and am embarking on completing a novel in fifteen weeks I am also enrolled in this "Into Print" course with Lady Vanderslice so let's hope these two coincide nicely : ) As for being knowledgeable about the ins and outs of the literary world, well...I hate to say it, but I am not as up to date as I should be. I have just recently began reading Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games series because of such good word of mouth, and am interested in reading Steig Larssons Millennium Trilogy because I watched the incredible film based on the first book. Other than this though I don't know much about whats going on in the publishing world or what the hot topics may be...So, lets get to learnin'!