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Jul 13, 2010 10:22AM
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher, is a great book to read! It really makes you think about life and how you affect others.
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Writing Word Count: 6,743 wordsEditing Page Count: 0 pages
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Total Rewriting Count: 72 pages, 31,675 words
Well, my Inciting Incident is over with. Now I'm on to the boring parts of Rising Action. *yawn*
I'm so proud of my photoshop skills, I have to share these with you. :DThey're covers to my books. :D
My writing has been very spazzy lately with getting ready to move and all, so hopefully I'll get back on track when my life is back to normal. haha
Guestimation of the past two week's writing. ;)Writing Word Count: 5,921 words
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Total Word Count: 104,185 words (YEAH I BROKE 1K!)
Total Edited Page Count: 424 pages
Total Rewriting Count: 72 pages, 31,675 words
You went to a Justine Beaver concert?? **shakes head** Oh, Anilynn...Psst - you didn't break 1k. You broke 10k. k= 1,000.
Your covers are really cool. :)
haha ;) Yeah, but the concert still rocked, and he's still hot. ;)
Thank you!
How are you Tink?
Okay. I'm working on a lot of stuff and trying to get an agent for Soulfire...
Hey guys! Will you check out my thread and vote for the picture you'd like to see on the back cover of Unlocked? (book going to be released on August 13th)We need your help deciding. Thanks!
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/2...
Writing hasn't exactly been great for me in the past few weeks, but oh well! Who cares?! However, now that my computer's hooked up after moving I'm set and ready to start up again! I have noticed around that writers are posting all of the titles that they're working on, and I thought I'd do the same just to keep organized. ;)
Simply Ideas
-A Country Tale (Working Title)
-Failure High
-The Classic Tales of "What If"
-The Secret Hideout
-Prequel(s) to the Dreamer Saga (Unknown title(s))
To Be Written
-Embyrx (3rd book in Dreamer Saga)
-Ashes (4th book in Dreamer Saga)
Works in Progress
-W.R.K.R. (Haha, I remember this one!)
-The World of Matame (Working Title)
-Storm or The Piano and the Storm (Working Title)
-The Unknown Heroes (Working Title) (My NaNo novel I've rewritten for the 3rd time. So far, it's working out great!)
-Sparx (2nd novel in the Dreamer Saga)
Finished Novels (Unedited)
-The Black Shadows (NaNo novel draft #1)
-Black Shadows (NaNo novel draft #2)
Finished, Edited, Hopes to Be Published
-Fyre (1st book in the Dreamer Saga)
Total: 15
I've got a lot on my hands ;) Hopefully I'll be able to finish The Unknown Heroes quickly so that I can work on that novel with hopes to publish it in the near future, while Fyre tends to be tossed around from agent to agent.
Good luck with all of your novels and stories! I'm sure an agent will turn up and publish Fyre.
Thanks!I sure hope an agent will too!
I must vent right now.So today, I talked to people about how they were "someday going to write a novel". *sigh*. Of course, I understand the fact that adults are busy and don't really have a whole lot of time to write. But all the same, if you want to write a novel now, then write it now! Dude, I'm fifteen, and I started writing a novel at eleven years old. Of course, it wasn't as great, but as I progressed in life I really learned how to make it better! And my writing is still getting better.
So as I vent, if you want to write a freaking novel, write it now. You'll be a better writer if you're writing as much as you can.
That's at least what I think.
haha.
Okay.
I'm done now.
;)
I vented on this same topic Friday. I agree. here's my vent:
http://christinebryant.blogspot.com/2...?
I loved it Wendy! I wholeheartedly agree with you!
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Hey Paige! Thanks for dropping by!I did read the first two chapters of Unlocked and it looks really good. I'll see what I can to enter your contest. :)
Writing is slooooow!I hate it when I suddenly get a crave for doing more roleplays. It just clogs everything up in my schedule, and then I get addicted to the computer, and then my parents get mad at me because I'm online 24/7..... *sigh*
I have AP US History homework to do still....crap.
I wrote more of Sparx today...that is uber, uber slow right now. I can't seem to figure out what my next approach is on that story, and yet I've got every important part of the plot planned out in my head....It's just not working out so well.
haha
Plus I started getting into depth on US history stuff so I'm reading A Patriot's History....It is by far the longest and most boring book I've ever read. I'm | | this close to giving up! | | THIS CLOSE!!!!!
Anyways, that's my writing rant for the month.
I hope you enjoyed my slowness and boringness of it all.
Tee hee
;)
-Anilynn (Annie)
I'm getting through by and by. Writing Word Count: 1,270 words
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Side note: For those of you who haven't heard of Tyler Ward or Julia Sheer, please YouTube him. This guys needs to be famous.
Side note 2: Hopefully I can keep up writing with school starting.
Side note 3: It's weird how whenever fall comes along, I fall in love with country music. I'm weirded out over it.
haha
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I was going to update my word count....but I'm on a Mac computer, and I'm still learning how it works. So, I probably won't do it 'till I get home. haha ;)
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There's something about Spring and Fall that makes me write so much more and much better. I'm not sure what it is.Writing Word Count: 1,154 words
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I've been brainstorming all freaking day! I've got so many beyond amazing ideas running through my head I have a headache!
Oh my....NaNoWriMo's coming up quick isn't it?!
Book cover for Ashes. I'm in love with this one. Recognize the famous people?
I'm pumped up for NaNoWriMo. I've got everything figured out now! I love it! And guess what? I actually wrote out an outline for this book! Maybe it will turn out well....?If you want to see what I'm writing about this November, check out this link!
I need your help.I have 4 books that I want to write or have written in a series, and I have an idea for what I want them to be.
The only problem is, is that the first book is written in a journal-like form with people reading the journal. The journal mostly takes place with a character who is the antagonist of the series in first person, while the people who read it take place in third person.
The rest of the three books are (bascially) about one person: the protagonist. The rest of the 3 books take place practically 100 years after the journal was written, and in third person. (But the antagonist and the majority of the characters in the 1st book are used.)
What I'm trying to decide here, is whether I shouldn't use the "journal" book as the first book, and instead use the following 3 books as the series, and then go back and basically....pull a Lord of the Rings type deal ("The Hobbit" kind of thing).
If I go with that idea, I have chapters that I would have liked to include in the series, but they wouldn't make much sense because the people don't know exactly what I'm talking about because they haven't read the "journal" book.
*sigh*
This has been eating at me for four/five years.
If any of that makes sense to you guys, please post your feedback. I really, really want to solve this problem so that I can write my story without having all of these problems.
Hey guys! I've got a new story on Goodreads, and if you all would read it, that would be beyond amazing! p.s. I love feedback! http://www.goodreads.com/story/show/2...
Ok here's what I have to say about your new story! (I'm more of a grammar/sentence structure person so I won't give you too much feedback on characterization and such. I don't feel too comfortable giving edits on things that I'm not good at myself)I really liked the part about the tigers. I've never read a story started that way before.
Some of the ellipses seemed unnecessary. Perhaps rephrase the sentences so they aren't needed. It's especially noticeable when they are used in two paragraphs in a row.
A few tense issues: "One young man wishes... Mercy, however would never come...He is quickly forced to face...He moaned and he's pulled up
Some unclear sentences:
...the bag ripped off of his head and was shoved onto a hard table (what's shoved: the bag or his head?)
I pray that we never will. (who is the "I"?)
edit: I never thought I’d see the day when the great trickster became a broken man...
edit: He would rather explore this forest than get a bath.
edit: By the time the doctor began to rub clean the area of his chest above his heart, he knew something dangerous was about to happen to him.
I would end the chapter with "darkness overcame him." It is really suspenseful and the next bit is kind of disjointed from the rest of the chapter.
I really like your idea, and I am waiting to read more!
Awesome. I'll go in and fix that stuff! Thanks for your in put Kritika!
No problem! Would you mind reading one of my stories? I'm adapting one of my short stories into a novel:http://www.goodreads.com/story/show/2...
Thanks!
Oh wow, it's been a while since I last updated.I'm going to guesstimate I've written about 10,000 words.
Writing Word Count: 10,000 words
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Total Word Count: 118,939 words
Total Edited Page Count: 424 pages
Total Rewriting Count: 72 pages, 31,675 words
I just finished the book Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick. Best. Book. Ever. I knew there was a sequel, but I didn't realize it hadn't been released yet....I think I might die.
Really? I didn't like Hush Hush that much. But then again, I'm not much of a (paranormal)romance-novel person.
I've written so much lately that I don't even want to try and find out how many words it is.
Hey Annie, thanks for reading Sea of Fire! I just noticed that you had read it today.I've kind of stopped writing it... I feel bad for leaving it because I know how I want to write the end, but I'm annoyed with how I'm getting there. It's getting super plot-driven (my specialty: flat characters with fast-paced plots), and I know I'm doing it but I don't know how to fix it.
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