Done!

Hello all!

I am happy to announce that I have finished my short story. It is fifty pages long and I am very proud of the story. This time last week I had eleven pages of good material, and I have written so much in the past week, I'm surprised anything else got done. They defeated the bad guys, saved the world, and characters got together in the end. Yay!

Time to reflect. I did struggle a bit and shifted my goal around at the beginning, I spent more time then I meant to on character development and research, but I think it all paid off. I was going to write a satire on the education system in America, and then I was going to write a book about Genesis and her life, and it ended up being a short story focused on Alvin. There were times I didn't want to write at all and wished that I had picked something else for this project. I probably could have written a whole book is I had written as much as I did this past week for the whole semester. I learned that just because I was able to write something of book-length within a semester in in middle school, when I had nothing better to do, doesn't mean that I can do it during senior year while worrying about college, family, and four AP classes. However, I actually accomplished a story with a decent plot, a beginning, a middle, and an end, so that's a success. While the finished product is not what I originally expected, it is something that I'm proud of.

Now I need to spend the next few days working on my final presentation of the project and determining how much and which parts of my story I'm going to share during said presentation. I love my characters, and I'm proud of what they have accomplished.

“The story never ends where it stops being written,” William had told me after reading what I wrote for him. And our story does not end here. In fact, it’s only just begun.

Midweek-ish Report!

Hello all!

I wanted to have some sort of midweek report this week because I am getting a lot done right now and I wanted to share. This one will be shorter than usual and I will be posting again on Sunday.

On Monday I wrote eight pages, Tuesday I wrote two, Wednesday, three, and so far today I have written seven. I have written twenty pages in four days. Given this fact I have affirmed my theory that I write more and better when I am not okay. All of my previous major writing projects were during 7th-9th grade, which was not a fun time for me. There were a lot of emotions and I stayed in my room and wrote all day. This is a mixed blessing because I now know I will be able to get a lot done this month in general because I also like to keep busy when I'm not okay, however, I am not okay. My sibling is going to have to go away for a while as soon as possible and will be gone for at least 30 days, but we do not yet know where or when they are leaving (they need residential care for depression and prayers are welcome).

On a different note, I now know where the plot is going! I have introduced everything and a problem has presented itself for the characters to solve. We have character development going on with William and Mark's sister who has made many poor life choices has appeared asking for help. She saw something she shouldn't have... Something that wasn't human and that makes Genesis scared. That alone is terrifying. Basically they have to save the world from these creatures, the Unnamed, and from perfect order. After all, “Entropy is life. Chaos is life. Perfect order is stagnation, is death. Only in disorder is there a possibility of change.” James A. Owen in The Dragons of Winter.

I am at thirty-one pages with an average rate of five pages per day this week. I hope to reach forty-five or fifty by Sunday, and then it will be something I am willing to share with the public (aka you).