Anyone who commented on the posts I've made over the last few days will notice that their comments are now being responded to-and thanks to everyone who's been reading-as I am back from the cottage.
I had a great time. I did pretty much everything I wanted to do in terms of writing except outlining the pre-Nano course I have planned. I went swimming twice every day except yesterday, when I only got down to the beach once (I wish I could've gone twice though). I watched the sun rise and set on the beach, and we had lots of fun with fire.
Today I have to catch up on my Augnowrimo. For the end of this week my goal is/was 45K, and I'm currently at 37K. I hope to write 3-5K tonight and finish the rest tomorrow.
I'm also working on Bleed, the poetry collection. I'm hoping to have 30-40 poems in it by my birthday because I would like to submit it to the Youthful Wisdom Press. Having an actual publisher behind my work will help a lot with marketing it, so hopefully I'll sell a lot more copies. Due to the sensitive nature of Bleed's content, I don't intend to announce it to my friends or most of my family, but if I do sign up with Youthful Wisdom Press I will have to get my mother to sign the contract for me.
Once I've hit 50K, which I'm actually hoping to do Monday, I will be starting work on A Cutter's Journey good and proper. It's going to be research intensive, mostly finding websites that I had bookmarked on another computer but don't currently have any real access to.
Tonight I'll be posting the Sunrise on the Beach exercise. I did get pictures of the sunset, but not the sunrise; I'm going to wait until the pictures are sent to me to post my other exercises because they'll be so much better with the pictures.
I had a lot of fun, I'm so glad that I got out of the city for once, and I feel a lot better and more at peace with everything. You can expect more posting later.
This is a list of ten things you can look forward to here on this blog over the coming year. I've been planning quite a few workshops and things to do around here to make life more interesting. I've also been debating making a forum for these workshops. Anyone who would be willing to help me run it should contact me at diannalgunn@gmail.com about it.
Here are some things you can expect to see:
1. Early Releases Of Ebooks Bleed and Myths of Tamraq will both be announced here before anywhere else. I will also be releasing a couple free PDFs of myths. A Cutter's Journey will be announced here and on its own website a week before I go to any of my regular forums and places to announce it.
2. Nanowrimo World-Building Workshop This will be a two week workshop, with a half hour exercise every day. You can expect things like building a God, building a religion, looking at architecture, looking at weather, culture, and art. It will be run in the second week and second last week of October.
3. Nanowrimo Pep Talks I will be doing a weekly pep talk for Nanowrimo once again on this blog this year, because I had lots of fun last year. I'll also be looking for a couple other Nanoers and asking them to do guest post pep talks.
4. Dear Diary Workshop This will be going on next February. I will be doing my own Dear Diary, and each day have a list of questions to consider when writing your own. More on this later, when I have a proper 'course' outline type of thing.
5. World-Building Workshop This will be a multi-post workshop, each post focusing on a different part of the world building. There will be two exercises a week. This and the following few workshops already have basic outlines, and I'm seriously considering starting a forum for the different workshops on this blog.
6. Religion-Building Workshop This is another multi-post workshop which will be six weeks long, one exercise per week. It will cover how I usually build my religions and have various questions to ask. One of the exercises will be myth-building.
7. God-Building Workshop The Gods are characters too. This will be a four post workshop, two posts each over two weeks, about how to create a God.
8. Culture-Building Workshop This will be a six week workshop like the Religion one, with exercises focusing on art, myth, music and language.
9. Character-Building Workshop This workshop will be like the others, showing how I develop characters.
10. Plot-Building Workshop This workshop will cover various ways to build plot, including my reviews on two or three different methods and an overview of my own personal method.
These and much more will be coming over the next year. Thinking about it, I will be creating a forum in October which will have sub-forums for each workshop so that people who do the workshops at any time can discuss them.
Thanks for reading,
~Dianna
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