Good news/Bad news

I need to update this dealy bob more. Dealy bob? Seriously? *shakes head* It's ok. It's my native dialect and not wrong/incorrect just different. lol. My linguistics class has started to influence my speaking all the time now. It's a very interesting class though. Ok here it is...

Good news: I had 11 writers come to the first craft discussion of Writers Guild. So including myself that's 12 which makes 3 groups of 4 for workshops. Woot. They were all really neat people and I'm super excited about it. Next week we're talking about imagery. And I already have what I'm going to say all outlined out. I'm going to be an awesome professor.

Bad news: My doctor told me this morning that I have a viral infection and it takes 7-10 days to get over it. Boo. I was super sick all day yesterday. I HATE being sick. At least I don't have strep throat like I thought.

Good news: Only 18 more days until I'm 21. Double WOOT! But that leads me to...

Bad news: I found out recently I can't go to FenCon and have my first legal drink. :/ Sad day. I have sorority stuff that weekend. The kind that I can't get out of like I did to be able to go to ArmadilloCon. When's the next con after FenCon? I'll have to look it up.

That's all for now. This weekend I really need to get caught up on my journal for my English class. And I need to order my books for that class. Bleh. Damn bookstores don't buy as many as we need. Super lame.

No FenCon for me.

I haven't finished the new story I wanted to send. I don't want to send the Merlin story again, I feel like it's bad form to send the same story to three workshops in a row. Plus I seriously can't afford the workshop at FenCon right now. It's $35 on top of the regular membership that's $70. I'm still gonna go but just as a convention going not a workshopper. That makes me kinda sad but this is my last week of summer school and somehow I need to make myself focus on finishing my classes. Trying to write a story during that just won't work. It's ok though. Because I really like where the Shep story is going and I don't want to rush it.

AND!!!! FenCon will be my birthday weekend. You better believe I'm going to panels hungover. :D I need to bring someone with me to be my keeper. lol. Hey I'll be 21. You're supposed to engage in debauchery on your 21st birthday!! No I won't really be that bad. I'm just trying to cheer up because I can't do this workshop. It's ok! I'm going to work on querying those Wainscot essays to Strange Horizons. Oh and they might want to publish my Merlin story eventually too. Because I didn't know but a fellow workshop attendee from ApolloCon pointed out to me that they're interested in Hypertext stories. Which the Merlin Story very well could be. I wish I could get an artist to do a picture for the newspaper for me. Maybe I'll try to find one sometime soon.... Who do I know that's an artist?

I have main characters!

WOOOO!!! Lots of character building and plotting going on. The prologue and first chapter are plotting out and that's what I'm going to turn in for FenCon writers workshop. Woot! I've decided not to send in the Merlin story for the contest. It's not even close to being ready yet and I need to leave it be for a little while. Right now I want to scrap it and just rewrite the whole damn thing. Which I'll probably end up doing mostly but not right now. Anyway. Lindsey is bugging me to leave the coffee place we've been working at. So! Until tomorrow. I'm just excited that this is shaping up well.

Ok final stretch................

This week is my final stretch for polishing up the Merlin Story and entering it in the FenCon short story contest. I also need to work on writing something new for the FenCon writers workshop. Which I hope I can do fast enough to secure one of the last spots. I have the beginning of the Shep story but I don't know whether that's worth working on right now or if I should try to get the first chapter of the Muse story done. Well the prologue and first chapter. *sigh* I dunno. But finishing up the Merlin Story first is imperative because I'm going to try and mail it thursday. So seems like I'm going to be spending all my free time this week writing! But that's always fun. I think I write better with deadlines and expectations. So off to class then finish up at work and get home to write!

I had a story idea last night about people with empathy type powers. But that there were other people out there that were emote'rs who give off negative and positive emotional energy. Hmm. I dunno it was right before I fell asleep I'm surprised I even remembered it.

I need to leave for class...

But I'm just going to cross the street and catch the bus on the way out. I think I hear it at my stop right now. Oh well. So.... I think I've decided to wait a year to apply for graduate school. Then I can apply early next year and have been able to take the GRE as many times as needed to make a kick ass score. Plus my GPA will be higher after the spring semester than this fall and I'll have had plenty of time to write an amazing critical writing sample (all 20 pages) that will knock the socks off the admission staff. It all just seems much better the more I think about it. However that also means while I'm biding my time somewhere (probably Austin or Houston) I will have time to really get to writing. I'll just got a grunt job somewhere part time for rent money and write full time! Woot. I think this is a brilliant plan and more conducive to both career goals.

Here are my goals for the summer:
-Edit and finish off the Merlin story, submit it for the FenCon Short Story Contest and then do market research on where to send it. According to Amy Sisson this weekend I should look into online publishing because they'll be able to do cooler things with the formatting. According to Kate Sanger I should look into some of the more humorous/light fantasy venues. She said she would email me a more detailed list. They were so nice!!
-Work on the Shep story. Send it off as soon as possible for FenCon writers workshop.
-Keep researching and taking notes for both novels. Which my American Foreign Relations class is really getting my head spinning again about the Xavier world. I'm planning a weekend trip to Austin mid-July to research for the Muse world. But there's plenty of world building I can do here also. WOOT! Which I think I'm going to start on right now. Although I should be working. When do I ever do that?