Already I am starting to see how this semester is going to cause problems for my writing. Not only am I taking 5 classes and a lab, I’m continuing to work at Starbucks 20 hours a week. This leaves me virtually little to no time to do any work. On most days, I won’t be able to sit down at the computer until after 8-9PM, when chances are I’ll have homework to do. I do however, have Friday nights, and weekends totally off, which is usually when I do most of my writing any way during the school year.
This leaves a few things open to happening. One, is that I’ll lower my hours at work to 15 hours (Five hours makes a massive difference at this job–you would be surprosed). Another is dropping a class and taking it over the summer. Worse still, is pushing back ET until next semester when I’ll hopefully have less classes. I’m counting on the lab class not being that bad–if it is, I’m screwed. But at least it’s out of the way.
On the writing front, I’ve been scrounging up time to work on Endoflux Theory lately. The writing is really good for the most part. The problem I’m running into is that the first page doesn’t lead into the main character the way I want to. The result is a lot of rewriting as I struggle with finding an easy-to-follow way to get readers into the story without confusing the shit out of them. The past couple days I’ve been breaking from that to get some work done on characters and plotlines.
Although I’d rather avoid pushing back ET, it remains a possibility. The upside is, I’ll be able to spend my wayward time working on Hellion. It won’t be until a few weeks into the semester when I’ll know for sure, and heavily depends on how much editing I can get done before plunging into the week. We’ll see.
Spinner Endoflux Theory
http://spinworkstudios.com/endofluxtheory/
As some of you might have extrapolated, I’m about ready to begin posting ET in September. I finished the prologue of the story a couple of days ago. In a few days, I’ll begin editing and finalize the details for the first “Act” of the story. Since ET is pretty much being written for the internet the chapter structure and updates will be different. Given how difficult it is for some people to read stuff on the computer, I’ve shortened the updates to three pages (A4/8×11 size).
As for the preview: What you see is a first draft with a lot of the prose removed. I did it more or less for the “wow” factor. I know there’s some awkward phrasing there. I’m pretty sure it’ll be changed in the final version.
Spinner Endoflux Theory
It’s been a chaotic couple of weeks for writing. I haven’t had much time to do any work on any of my projects, but I am intending to find one to settle into within the next week or so–probably with either Hellion or Endoflux Theory. I have soft spots for both projects, but I’m pretty sure since Hellion is physically further along, I’ll be working on that. =)
I’ll try to write a better update when I’m not horribly crunched for time (ah, family vacations).
Spinner Daily Blogging
Today I figured I’d sift through my notes and material for Hellion for my antagonistic problem, and got hit by a nasty case of OMGWTFDIWT-itus (Oh my god, when the fuck did I write this. -Itus). By the time I finished reading the notes–which were only from around May, actually, I was about ready to start dancing. Turns out the problem was really close to being solved when I got a job and set my work aside for a bit.
This–and I stress–is the reason why freewriting and note taking is so important for a writer. Life’s a chaotic thing, and there are times where you will be writing one thing and suddenly you’ll have to go take out the trash, only to come back and not remember what you were working on. I have to say, I had absofuckinglutely NO recollection of writing this stuff, although reading it over did remind me a lot of my train of thought when I did set it down. To be honest, I was about to set off on a different direction with the story entirely, and without it, who knows where I’d have ended up.
Now, if I can only stop being distracted by all these effing dolphins that are swimming by the beach outside (I mean, come on, fucking _dolphins_!), I can finally get enough work done on these concepts that I can pick up on that scene again.
Spinner Daily Blogging, Hellion