Heir To Magic

I’ve been working on Heir to Magic for the past few days.  A commitment to finish my novel for my mom.  She believed in my writing ability, not just my ability, but that I would be a published author.  So, I am determined to prove her belief in me was right.  I got around 500 to 1,000 words added to Heir to Magic and am working on adding more this weekend.

At the moment I am still a considerable distance from getting to the end of the novel, but I am at least making good headway and know where I am going with it.   I’m determined that I will be adding more words all through this month and finishing the whole novel by the end of this month so that I can start the second novel in the trilogy as my NaNoWriMo project this year.

Which means I have a LOT of writing to get done.

I’ve been working my way through Holly Lisle’s online course, How To Think Sideways, and I am now very glad that I have placed Heir To Magic on hold while I focus on this course.  I have learned a lot about what it is about my plotting that had been wrong, and about what I had done right too.  For the course I have started a new story from scratch, just so I can get a good idea on how to start with nothing and end up with a story I enjoy working on, but I can not wait to finish the course and get back to Heir To Magic so I can put what I have been learning to the test with Heir.

Right now my writing has all been focusing on my work more than on getting more writen for Heit To Magic, which is a good thing since I am  not so sure that my desktop computer is going to last much longer.  It has a weird problem making it restart itself repeatedly when I turn it on over the last couple of days.  I’m trying to cure that, and suspect it might have somehow caught a virus or something, but will be making preparations for the possible need to replace it if it is a serious issue it is having

Okay, so maybe I have not been keeping the blog fully up to date, but as anyone that has visited the main site can tell, I have been working on the site.  I’ve also been working on my novel. I now have it outlined out to about chapter 30.  I loaded it all into yWriter4 the other day and have even added some scenes to it, although I seem to be missing some scenes I know I wrote for it.  That is annoying, but I’m sure that I’ll live if I can’t find them.  Still… that’s almost three chapters worth of scenes I am missing, so it is annoying.

I have added another 189 words to my novel.  I had to go down to the doctor’s office with my dad today, get a blood test for him, so while we sat in the waiting room, I worked on my novel.  Did not have a very long wait, but enough to get another almost 200 words on the novel.  I started off a scene that I know will make it into the final version of the novel, so it is even a good expenditure of my writing time.

I also got my March/April issue of Poets & Writers today.  I was reading the Editor’s Note, and Ms. Gannon said something I found very interesting, something I want to do myself.  It seems that she has a journal where she notes down her favorite sentences in novels she reads.  I read that and just went “Oh kewl!” because there have been a lot of times over the years where I would read a passage I particularly loved, but I never thought to make a record of them in a journal.  I have no idea how Ms. Gannon makes her entries, but I would think the best method for me would be to enter the passage that I loved, then the book, author and page number where the passage was to be found.  That way I can always find it again in the books in my library.

Something else that caught my attention in Poets & Writers is an article about writer workshops, in particular what is wrong  with them.  I bookmarked that for careful reading when I get a chance to read it.

Only other item of writing note is that I got my renewal for Writer’s Digest mailed off today.  I’ve been trying to get that mailed off for some time, so I was glad to have got it out the door finally.  Now I just have to mail in the talking books deal for my dad.  Should get that done by Friday.

I need to move a website that I had created called Wyvern’s Crest, so instead of losing all of the information that I had wrote for it, I decided that I would move the some of the information over here, onto Heir to Magic, instead.  It is mostly things on castles and dragons and ships anyway, so it will fit in perfectly with the information that I need for Heir to Magic.

I want to try and reconfigure things here anyway, create a site that is more like what I am trying to create, so moving that stuff over here will help with that endeavor as well.  I want Heir to Magic to not only track my efforts to write my novel, but to be a place where I can have a virtual scrapbook that contains all of my notes and efforts and everything.  Let you, dear reader, see what I have been doing as I work to bring my novel to life.

So, please bear with me as I try to sort out the best way to create the world that I have dreamed about.