I did read through the first 10 chapters and revise them a bit. I suck at beginnings.
At least I admit it.
Anyway, did anyone ever tell you formatting is mind-numbing work? If you want to fall asleep, format a novel... that's what I've been doing for the last hour...
An anthology of stories aimed at teenagers, written in historic periods-during the depression, the war of 1812 (which is outshone by the Napoleon wars but is cool because we burned down the white house), World War Two, that sort of thing-and aimed to make learning history more interesting, maybe even *fun*, while encouraging literacy.
I wanted to write something like that a while back. I'm thinking it would be a good thing to work on during the school year while I'm too busy to properly work on much in the way of novelling. My final edit of Moonshadow's Guardian will be done by October first and Jihad's next draft will be done by November first. After NaNoWriMo and National Novel Finishing month (more on that later), NaNoFiMo, I was thinking that starting in January I'd write one of these short stories and polish it up per month.
The way I figure, that means there might actually be an anthology out within the next couple of years, probably self published because anthologies are not easily published. It's something that I would like to do just because I'm fascinated by history. I'd also love to do a couple things in feudal Japan, maybe one in Egypt, and maybe a few in England or Scotland. Not just North America.
Thoughts?
Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me, happy birthday...
It's the hottest day of the year and I haven't left the house at all. My internet has returned from its way-too-long vacation. My editing hasn't really returned yet. I'm not able to get into it like I was before; the heat has completely fried my brain and I'm finding myself completely unable to think straight.
I did get two critiques back. The first seven or so chapters are the only ones anybody's really complained about, which is a happy moment for me. The unhappy moment is that there was really quite a lot of complaining about the first seven or so chapters. I may post the prologue up here to get some comments on it. I'm horrible at beginnings and my books tend to get better and have really awesome endings, but beginnings? *Snicker*
Talking about Moonshadow, by the way. I'll be getting down to business and doing a basic revision of the first ten chapters tonight, and printing out a fair number of said chapters just because. I hate printing. Our printer is slow. It's really no good at all. But whatever.
At least I've gotten some decent sleep and should be able to get some decent writing and revising done tonight. I'm off to take a bath, and then I shall return to the world of the internet... *Is happy*
Not much today. Actually, I didn't do anything, and I won't get a chance to; I'm heading out now and I won't get home until around eleven thirty. I'm working tomorrow starting at 9:15, so I need to sleep.
See you tomorrow! (I'll post today's post tomorrow. Just think of it as late. Sorry.)
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