Seeing as it's been over half a year since I wrote a new one of these things...Might as well.
I have and haven't been getting a lot of work done. I've written two short stories, true, for my fiction class. My professor gave me one of the best complimnets I've ever gotten--called me a "virtuoso"--a master of my craft. It's really hard to stop my head from floating up to the ceiling after something like that. Plus over the summer I got some fantastic comments on my poetry from Jack Ridl. So all-in-all, it's starting to feel like this whole writing this might actually work out for me!
On the other hand, being in college and having more credit hours than I'm supposed to I have virtually no time to do anything (Though I do things anyway, and pay the price later) so I feel like my writing-mind is getting angry at having to write essays instead of fiction. Well, specifically my American Lit research paper. What it really wants to do is start that short story about the lady with the meat-tenderizer. Angry lady + big metal spiky hammer = lots of fun.
Anyway, I'll have the revised "Allison" up soon, along with some non-fiction papers. Hopefully I'll be able to crank somthing out over Christmas break. I've been reading "Fragile Things" a collection of short stories by Neil Gaiman, and it's got me all fired up to get back to fantasy.
So much to do, so little time...This is the problem with finals...

So I was digging through all my giant piles of crap and I decided to put up a couple of my favorite essays. Yes, I have favorite essays, because a good essay is fun to write. Yadayadayada, you're supposed to be a creative writer why are you posting this scholarly crap, well know what? I think essays are a form of art! The art of persuasion, reason, argument! And when I get to write a good one I enjoy, so shut up and read them! It may delight you, or even better, outrage you!

Yeah so...Mr. RAS had to write a journal...then I realized it's been forever since I've bothered with one of these things, so I had to do one. Plus I'm bored and I should be working, except right now I'm not.

Sooo, anyway...

I'll tell those of you who give a damn what's coming up. I've been working more on Starlight, less on the actualy writing on the story than on the back stuff though. I am happy to announce that I should be coming out with a history of the Church of the Guided and Ohalling soon, probably tomorrow. I've also got a bunch of alternate endings to Peter in mind for this week, cause I realized that I HATE the way it ends now. So there will be about five new versions, a lot less sucky than the current one.

My regular stream of poetry will keep flowing, seeing as I'm still in my poetry writing class (which reminds me--I still need to put up the TB one...).


So that's what I'm up to work-wise...hopefully my life doesn't get in the way, although I get the feeling it will soon; long as no poetry comes out of it...

Sadly, I must say, expect not much from me for a few weeks, a month tops. a new idea has popped into my head, and I'm working diligently on it everyday, unfortunately, said project must remain secret except by a select few who already know who they are, at least until the time of its completion. Drives me nuts not to be able to share all my hard work yet, but I must resist, and also put my other writings on temporary hold for the sake of the...Secret Project.

Yes! I'm working on my next tale of the wondrous world of Atropia: Starlight! And since I've actually got a work SCHEDULE planned out for myslef, hopefully I'll be avle to do a chapter a week or so. That's assuming I at least obey the rules of the schedule enough to work on SOMETHING everyday, even if it's not what I'd planned on. A hopelessly spontaeneous peersonality makes life exciting and unpredictable true, but it also makes it so hard to get things done.

But this past weekend I've been a good little worker and done lots of stuffs! I just gotta keep up the trend...somehow...

Hoh boy.