I just, write.
What I Am Working On
I submitted 6 stories this month, 4 of them are flash fictions(under 1000 words), 2 are short fictions (About 3000 words) (3 of the flash fiction and 1 of the short fiction were rejected earlier by others and I submitted to another place).
Starting to write with more subtleties, more details and greater length. Working toward my first paid publication.
New Target: One submission to The New Yorker per month, so that I can focus on one very important writing every month. Silly? maybe. P.S. Already submitted one for this month.
Working on a piece that is almost ready for submission to The New Yorker for January 2014, something about the world banned tobacco and alcohol. I just couldn't resist writing it ahead of time with the writer inside me just kept yelling at my reluctance to progress.
Working on another piece that is, well, on-going, I don't even know where it will lead me. I think I will send it to Tor.com, if I could ever finish it next month. Scifi for sure, alien invasion, mind control, soul walking, virtual reality, that sort of ideas. Right?
Why I Write
I dread office, kitchen, university, college. I adore solitude.
Where I Write
In my own room in front of the Acer C720 Chromebook.
And other imaginary spaces I conjured upon writing.
Who Motivated Me This Month
The Hobbits. Read below.
What Am I Reading
Reading Douglas Adams’ The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy . Still reading it, yeah, finding it hard to keep up with its mind boggling story.
Reading The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien. Instant classic. Vast setting and epic journey, I want to do something this scale, or much larger, like gigantically. GALAXIES!
Am I studying
Obviously YES.
I am currently enrolled into 2 MOOC(Massive Open Online Course) provided by Coursera and iversity, and I believe much more to come in the next year.
Fantasy and Science Fiction: The Human Mind, Our Modern World
The Future Of Storytelling
Some more courses coming in January 2014.
Continue
It has been a fruitful fourth month, I believe I’ve been more productive and dug deeper into myself, about what I want to write and what I need to write.
Roughly 20,000 words.
~7000 words short fictions, ~15000 words blog and other writings.
I will be revisiting my first NaNoWriMo draft - Space Extra: Envision and made vast adjustments and massive rewriting, so, yeah, pretty busy to say the least. rewrite!
Who Motivated Me This Month
The Hobbits. Read below.
What Am I Reading
Reading Douglas Adams’ The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy . Still reading it, yeah, finding it hard to keep up with its mind boggling story.
Reading The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien. Instant classic. Vast setting and epic journey, I want to do something this scale, or much larger, like gigantically. GALAXIES!
Am I studying
Obviously YES.
I am currently enrolled into 2 MOOC(Massive Open Online Course) provided by Coursera and iversity, and I believe much more to come in the next year.
Fantasy and Science Fiction: The Human Mind, Our Modern World
The Future Of Storytelling
Some more courses coming in January 2014.
Continue
It has been a fruitful fourth month, I believe I’ve been more productive and dug deeper into myself, about what I want to write and what I need to write.
Roughly 20,000 words.
~7000 words short fictions, ~15000 words blog and other writings.
I will be revisiting my first NaNoWriMo draft - Space Extra: Envision and made vast adjustments and massive rewriting, so, yeah, pretty busy to say the least. rewrite!
Planning on writing a piece on Red Van, a local story with a blend of sci-fi, ghost, thriller, fantasy, I don't know yet, haven't decided nor would I. I'll sleep on it till the idea crystallized.
Happy New Year
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