Sorry for the long delay in posts. We had a holiday and then I got sick, so I didn't have time to get all my posts written like I normally do. But I'm back now, so yea!
I bet you're wondering how First Sight is going. Well, good news: I finished the second draft just before Labor Day! The new draft comes in at just over 50k words, which is great since that was part of my goal with this draft. I'm still not super thrilled with the story as a whole, but I think I made real progress on improving it, so that's good.
Since I finished that draft, I've decided to get back to work on Alana. I started working on revising it into a fifth draft. This time, my focus is on really upping the description and wording so it feels more vibrant and alive. I've been rereading a particular series of books and I've found that it's really helped me think about describing things in new ways. Because of this, I feel like I'm doing a lot better at making my description pop. At least I hope so.
More exciting writing news. I have decided that I'm going to take an online writing workshop to help me really hone my novel writing. I only took two creative writing classes in college and neither of them really focused on novels, so I'm going to do that now. I figure it can just help improve my writing. And that's something I really want to do. So I'm gonna get signed up for those shortly.
All right, that's all I've got for today. On Wednesday I'll post some kind of list. Not sure what it'll be about yet.
Until then.
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