Random Thoughts

Writing in random times

Goal Post for September 22 to September 28

Warren | September 22, 2009

First off, my goals:

Work on Unicorn’s Twilight (Novel). Working on Chapter 4
Input Brother’s Keeper (Short story), edit story
Get Trace Memory (Short story) up to snuff
Work on Nine Lives and Call Center (Movie Scripts)

Now for how I am doing:
It has been a bit since i Posted a Goal Post, so I think I’ll go ahead and [...]

Some thoughts on “A love story over three years.”

Warren | September 20, 2009

First off: If you are not on gather.com, go ahead and click here to read my new story. Yeah I know the title isn’t that great, but hey I just finished the piece.
This story came to be because of a writing exercise over on gather.com. Every week or so there are several people [...]

Goal Post for August 24th through August 30th

Warren | August 24, 2009

First off, my goals:
* Work on Unicorn’s Twilight. Working on chapter 2, 3, and 4
* Input Fantasy story, edit said story
* Work on Nine Lives and Call Center
Now for how I am doing:
The last two weeks have been pretty productive. I’ve sent one story (Jupiter Rising) off to Asimov’s Science fiction to be published.
I finished [...]

Goal Post for August 3, 2009 through August 9th, 2009

Warren | August 3, 2009

Goals for this week:

Work on Unicorn’s Twilight. Plan on writing 3,000 words a day
Finish writing a new Unnamed Fantasy story.
Pick one Science Fiction Magazine to send Jupiter Rising off to and send the story off.
Work on Nine Lives

Short but sweet this week. Not as short as it seems, however…
A review of the last Goals [...]

Working from an Outline: The reason I do this

Warren | August 1, 2009

I tend to work from an outline now when I am dealing with anything bigger then a short story. I have heard that there are people that don’t work from an outline when writing books, but that is not something that is easy for me to do.
Believe me, I’ve tried.
I say this as someone [...]

Bloggery: Or “How I am going to blog on here.”

Warren | July 27, 2009

I tend to get obsessive about things. I don’t know if it is a mental disease or what, but I will often obsessed about “stuff” for awhile, over doing certain things to the point of not wanting to do that thing anymore. I do not want that to happen with this blog, so [...]

Goal Post - July 26, 2009 - August 1st, 2009

Warren | July 26, 2009

Going over my project list, I think I need to concentrate on a few things.

First I want to get Jupiter Rising off to be published. - Still working on that
Second I want to finish writing Trace Memory. - on hold for the moment
Third I want to work on Nine Lives, get it finished and out [...]

Of new starts, goals, and random ideas

Warren | July 26, 2009

After the last real blog post (Something snapped) I have been slowly setting up my life to seriously pursue writing as a Career. To get back to the point where I *create* on a daily basis, not just say I am creating while doing my best to stare down a computer monitor while my [...]

Something snapped inside me today…it kind of hurt

Warren | July 21, 2009

So I was doing my self pity act today. You know the one that is way to easy for me to plunge into? A self pity act tends to come from a struggle with self image (at least for me) and is way to easy to trigger. I could be sick, just [...]

Posted Projects and Goals

Warren | April 18, 2009

So I went through and posted the projects I’m working on. You can take a look at them on the “Projects” page. I’ll be updating them as I work on them, finish them, update them, whatever. There are a few other things I need to put on there, but for the moment [...]