Rapid Close

Bam. I just knocked out over 4,500 words to make up for the vacation I took with Rachel and her family this weekend. It was fun, but there was literally no time nor place for me to do any kind of writing. But now it's all made up in one night. What a rush.

The book's coming to a rapid close. It's very exciting. I'm beginning to realize just how extensively I'm going to have to revise this. It is going to be no easy task. There are entire sub-plots I want to add, some important story details I'm going to have to change, and a whole ton of re-organizing and re-imagining to better present the story. And that's just the first revision. Then come the character studies, the dialogue tweaking (for which I'm going to spend a lot of time eavesdropping on random real-life conversations), the prettifying of the descriptions, and the tightening of the words... Wow. Lots to do.

I've been reading Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder and I like it. It's sort of in the same genre as my book, I guess. The writing is good, but I wouldn't say it's the best I've ever seen or anything like that. It's at a level I honestly feel I could match, given some time, and that gives me a lot of hope that my book might honestly be marketable and somewhat successful. I would love for my creation to grow up and go out there to live on the same shelves as other books like it. I want people to read my book and enjoy it, maybe even get inspired by it to write their own or something. I think that, given the chance, I would really like to convert my book into a major video game someday. I can think of so many awesome things I could do with that. But writing the book is a great first step toward something like that, and writing it only takes one person, whereas making an original video game would take an entire team of talented professionals. First things first.

Thank you all for the support you give me. It means a lot. This is one of my dreams, and it's exhilarating to see it coming to life.

On another note, whoever is posting rude and pointless comments as "Anonymous" needs to either say something worthwhile or stop altogether. If not, I'm going to disable anonymous comments and you'll be forced to give a name. Grow up, Anonymous.