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Five Months and Sixth Months Coming Up! Plus Update From My Novel Writing

I am back from the novel writing, which had been a complete overhaul. I did not just rewriting it, but created a new story inside the same universal settings. Since the story I wrote for NaNoWriMo seemed truly amateurish.

For the last 30 days or so, I wrote about 22000 words. It's all new materials and the novel itself relied heavily on conversations between the main characters.

Just today I had complied everything and sent it to Lulu.com for a free first edition hardcover, one of the winners goodies from NaNoWriMo. Though I had to pay about 9 USD for the shipping, it's still worth the money.

At least I could read it on paper, in a more professional book-like format.

How I Write

Staring at the monitor and type anything that came to mind, and let the story flow freely like a kite before dragging it back at the end of the session.Since Google Docs have the lag when the number of pages in one documents excess twenty, I had resided my work into an Chrome App, Writebox. It ran very smoothly and never gave me any trouble, besides I need to manually sync the file to Google Drive (It also supports Dropbox), the experiences has been really positive. It's a minimalist's toy, so, go figures!

What I Worked On

I submitted 2 stories during this period, 1 flash fiction(under 1000 words), 1 short fictions (About 3500 words) (the flash fiction were rejected earlier by others and I submitted to another place, and was rejected again a few days ago, man, flash fiction is a though market!).

Also, the novel. I can still tell it's not a grown-man's book, but it's getting there, especially after reading (am still reading) Moby Dick. It's dominated by conversations, dialogues, and is about life and beyond, and more so about the current society.

Why I Write

Writing send me to places.

I wish I had never left #NYC, even though I haven't been there before. But what's stopping me from saying that anyway? #ibelieve

— Stephen Y (@writeryuii) February 14, 2014

Where I Write

In my own room in front of the Acer C720 Chromebook or in my parent's room because it's warmer. (Freaking weather, below 10 degree Celsius is not funny. I had lost all motivation and have caught a lingering cold, still not yet recovered from it at the time of writing.)

And other imaginary spaces I conjured upon writing, still.

Who Motivated Me This Month

Moby Dick. Read below.

What Am I Reading

Read a lot of books since the beginning of January. For more about what I've read, please visit my reading list

  1. Foundation by Isaac Asimov[04/01/2014] 
  2. Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov[09/01/2014] 
  3. APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur-How to Publish a Book[10/01/2014] 
  4. Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov[14/01/2014] 
  5. 1984 by George Orwell[24/01/2014] 
  6. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway[25/01/2014] 
  7. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt[01/02/2014] 

Currently reading Moby Dick; or, the White Whale by Herman Melville, and had spent twice amount of the time checking dictionary than actually reading it. But I like how it was composed, so tightly packed with 10 dollar words without lessening the essence of a good story. And it's really interesting, in a way that it covers many things underneath the story itself. I am not trying to write like this, but I am trying to convey my ideas more logically and clearly with words of gold. Before that? I have to write more as to get a hang of it. See what I did there? Still plain and dull writing. How I hate myself for not having a rich mixture of vocabulary inside my tongue so that I could taste the smell of good writing. I am getting by at around 33%, hoping to finish it next week and move on more works by Ernest Heminingway.

P.S. Listened to a few stories in the Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology by Bruce Sterling, getting to know more about Cyberpunk, since I knew nothing about besides a few articles and Wikipedia.

Am I studying

Obviously YES.
I am currently enrolled into 1 MOOC(Massive Open Online Course) provided by edX, and I believe much more to come this year.

Jazz Appreciation

I've also picked up a new language to master this year and is currently advancing my German on Duolingo!

Hallo, Ich bin Stephen.

Continue

It has been five months, and I think I had cut my self some slack, and resorted to the novel writing, which I both love and loaf so much. I have been indulging myself in games and TV shows and movies, since January and February had too many good things to offer (Looking at you, Archer, True Detective, Amazon's Pilot Transparent, Titanfall, Hearthstone) But I am back, maybe it is for the best. Even when I am typing this, I could feel a surge circling around my brain, giving me waves of things to write about, but it's been long, and I don't want to include a too long; didn't read, so tl;dr.

Roughly 25,000 words written this month.

~2200 words Novel, ~3000 words blog and fiction writings.

Currently think about writing a story about what if I had a house of my own for the monthly submission to The New Yorker. It would be quite a dark comedy.

I've also had other ideas, and are starting to use Evernote whenever I've a new ideas stream to mind.

tl;dr : Basically, I am back.

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