I just finished reading The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss. It is the second book in the Kingkiller Chronicles and wow was it a hefty book: 1,107 pages. This took me about three months to read and I am finally done! It is about a mysterious man named Kvothe who is telling his [...]
After a long four hour drive back to DC and a Mean Girls movie night with the roommate, I somehow got the motivation to wake up at 8:10 am on a Saturday and go to yoga. After releasing all the toxins and extra turkey still in my body from Thanksgiving I was able to get [...]
After a long four hour drive back to DC and a Mean Girls movie night with the roommate, I somehow got the motivation to wake up at 8:10 am on a Saturday and go to yoga. After releasing all the toxins and extra turkey still in my body from Thanksgiving I was able to get [...]
No progress in writing today. Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Thank you to everyone who has been following my blog posts!
This is it! I have finally made it to the giant battle scene at the end of my story. It has been a long 23 days of patient waiting but tomorrow I get to finally start it. Yesterday I was able to outline a few more story lines within the battle to make it even [...]
After a crazy weekend and some birthday celebrations, it is time to get moving on the home stretch of NaNoWriMo. With less than ten days and 10,000 words on the horizon, I started to get to work today. I have officially started writing the end of book 2, the climax. I was a bit scared [...]
Today is my birthday and I finally made it back home to New Jersey! We had a nice family dinner last night to celebrate with all the grandparents and a few cousins. Today I went to the Ramapo reservation to do some hiking in this crazy weather we have been having. To further celebrate, I [...]
One thing I will never do again is write in my car. It was a terrible experience. My brother was nice enough to pick me up on his way home from Virginia Tech. So I took the time in the car to catch up on my writing but didn't get much progress done. My creativity [...]
I almost broke the streak last night! This weekend is a little hectic with the concert from the previous night, and I have my brothers visiting me in DC this weekend. So I got a lot of writing done today before they get here. I am not sure if I will be able to get [...]
Today was a really exciting day! I got my first review on my book from a random reader! I posted my book, Junkland, the first book in The Hoarding Series, on a website called Inkitt where writers can upload their non published books and have people read them and write comments. Mine has been up for about [...]
After a long day of work and cleaning my bike outside before the winter finally hits, I finally got some writing done. I am about two more chapters away from being done with Act 2. Currently, I am writing the climax of my second major turning point of book 2 and also, in my opinion, [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDK9QqIzhwk I thought that song was necessary in this situation. Halfway to 50,000 words! Today I reached 26,120 and it feels fantastic. I went into today's writing session not feeling great. I am still having some trouble filling in the in between spaces before my second major plot point. But I left today's writing session [...]
I hope you enjoyed my new song I posted in my previous blog for Day 11 and I appreciate you taking the time to listen to it. I am not sure what inspired it but I did find the line, "Afternoons on Sunday," very catchy. It almost reminded me a bit of Sunday Morning by [...]
Today I have finally finished the first act of book 2 of The Hoarding Series. So what's next? Figuring out what the hell happens in Act 2... I have a general idea of what needs to happen and the major plot points but I am still a bit confused on where to go with a [...]
Tonight marked the end of another intramural soccer season. We got our butts kicked and did not advance in the playoffs. But hey we did better than last season with 1 win, 2 tie games and 4 losses... Maybe I should find a different sport. So with soccer done that means I can fill that [...]
Since it is election day and you are probably huddled around your tv waiting anxiously for the results as I am, I have decided to post the next chapter of my book, Junkland, as a treat! But first a little update on my NaNoWriMo writing progress. Today I have written a pretty lame chapter that will need [...]
For those who are following along and saw my previous post, I hope you enjoyed the first chapter of Junkland. I will continue to release a sample chapter every Sunday. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! It is a fact that I have outlined more with my second book in my series than I have with my [...]
So tonight on day 6 of NaNoWriMo, I have decided to change things up a bit. On every Sunday of November I will release a sample chapter of my first book of The Hoarding Series called Junkland. What I will be posting is not the final draft! It is as final as I could make [...]
Today, instead of being productive with my writing, I decided to go for a hike with my roommate and a few of his friends. We traveled two hours to Shenandoah to hike a beautiful 7.3 mile trail. It had amazing waterfall look out points and the fall leaves were absolutely stunning in the sunny day. [...]
Today is Friday on Day 4 of NaNoWriMo and I had off from work so I was able to get a jump start on my book! I have successfully filled in that plot hole I was freaking out about from yesterday. It turned out I didn't know my antagonists as much as I thought so [...]
Day 3 of NaNoWriMo has come and gone and now it is time to blog. After that crazy game last night and a huge win by the Cubs, I decided to work from home today to get a few extra hours of sleep! It was well needed and I realized I am still not recovered [...]
Day 2 of NaNoWriMo was a lot more successful than day 1! After being so excited to start my second book of The Hoarding Series, and day 1 being a total disappoint with the writing done, day 2 was definitely a step in the right direction. I have finished a rough rough rough draft of [...]
NaNoWriMo has officially begun. For those of you who don't know, National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is an annual (November) writing project that brings together professional and amateur writers from all over the world. The overall goal is to write 50,000 words in 30 days. Today is day 1 and I have officially begun writing [...]
So today is the day before NaNoWriMo begins and I will need to write 50,000 words before the end of November. My goal is 1,666 words a day which will be a struggle but I have faith! I will be focusing on my second book of The Hoarding Series which I am looking forward to [...]
So today I just finished the Marine Corps Marathon. I have been training for three months and I am finally done! I thought I would take this moment of not being able to feel my legs to finally start my blog. This blog will discuss my writing experiences as I develop my second novel of [...]
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