New Rewrite?

I am heavily debating beginning the next version of WMRR, just because the beginning is so weak. The quality of writing definitely improves over time and the poor start just gets on my nerves. I will be able to integrate it better with the latter half of the story. I personally believe that it starts to get better around Chapter 5. Chapter 4 isn't bad, it's just shorter than I would like and it's the last time a Chapter is written from Grypt's POV until CHAPTER 15. It makes sense as he is more of a support character and his character is to inherently exist in the background, but still, the reader needs to know what's going on with him as he plays an important role in the end. The first 3 chapters and Dedrad's Interlude are just...brutal. I could barely read it without getting uncomfortable with how terrible it is. Regardless, I still really like chapters 5-7, even though they need heavy editing.

The downside of the rewrite though is I will be stuck at chapter 15, and I really want to try and get this finished. I have been working on this for too long to be stuck on loop for the next few months. As school isn't exactly keeping me busy, I can focus on WMRR. Speaking of school, I am glad that I am almost finished. My classes are just silly this semester. I have no idea what we are doing or learning in my Art and the Media class. The prof has mysteriously gone missing and his students have taken over. I'm not sure they are 100% sure what they are supposed to be teaching, but at least they're giving it a shot. My communications class is good for meeting interesting classmates...and bad for pretty much everything else. I haven't learned too much, but the teacher's pretentiousness is enough to keep the lulz a-coming. History is interesting, but it's nothing I haven't seen before. I'm just glad I'm actually learning something in that class.

Minotaurs and Cake

I had a fairly productive day doing pretty much nothing. I would like to report that chapter 5 is FINALLY done. I said I would finish it on Monday, but I didn't write the last few paragraphs until a few minutes ago. Honestly, the stupid chapter wouldn't end. I'm convinced it's a boring POS, but my second read later on will reveal if it truly is or not. I need better language that's for sure. I have these amazing environments, but I don't use them to their full potential.

Other than the completion of the chapter, I finished Portal for the second time today, started my writing tips page on my website, failed my Fire Emblem level AGAIN and watched my brother play Call of Duty for about four hours. So yeah, totally productive. I should probably start studying soon for my test on Tuesday.


Current rough draft completion: 32.5%
Overall completion: 24%
Word Count: 28,426

(MAN it's been a long time since I posted one of those)

The following is a link to the "EGAW Tips" or the "Ever-Growing Amateur Writing Tips" that I started today. I just wrote it, I am not finished and there are probably a ton of typos. I will work on it more when I have the time. In the meantime, check it out and let me know if it's useful (please please I need feedback!)

http://drschwa.webs.com/theegawtips.htm

The Ugliest Muse

...must be with me tonight. I pick strange times to be motivated. I have everything under the sun due in the next two weeks, not to mention exams, and I decide now is the right time to write chapter five. I don't know what it is tonight, but I feel inspired. I hope to at least get half of it done tonight. I am also going to finish editing TOA by the end of tomorrow night, which will hopefully make a friend of mine quite happy. He's waited about 2 months for it. Yeah I feel pretty bad about that...

I also have a strong desire to make Fire Emblem comics. Once summer rolls around, I'm going to work on not sucking so much at drawing. Either that, or find someone willing to draw Fire Emblem characters for me. I have a lot of jokes, which is kind of pathetic. Also, Hector's story from Fire Emblem is so much more fun. Not that Eliwood's wasn't, I just like Hector as a character so much more.

TO DA WRITIN' MOBILE!

Serious Business Time

I honestly considered writing this post Arby and the Chief style. Only one person I know would probably appreciate that. So I'm done my traveling and my skiing (not without aches and pains, but it was hella worth it) and now I think it's time I get down to some serious business. I was supposed to be done up to chapter 15 by the end of this month. I was giggling to myself about that last night after I stopped freaking out about other issues. School is getting busier, and I have less time to write let alone maintain my sanity. I started to write some of WMRR last Wednesday, which actually went quite well. I got about 3 pages done, which is good considering how distracted I was. I now have a chapbook story(well it was technically due today...), a bunch of critiques and my third short story due within the next week. That and I want to finish chapter 5 and Dedrad's Prologue this week. I want to finish more of course, but I have other issues to contend with.

So I'm off to be anti-social and wonder how badly I failed my Science Fiction class quiz (I really did fail...I put Chuck Norris as one of the answers). It's what I get for not reading either one of the books, Wikipediaing it 10 mins before class. Oddly enough I don't really care. I'll do better on the next one.

By March 5 - Chapbook submission
March 6 - 25% completion for WMRR
March 9 - Short Story 3
March 31 - Chapter 18 (at least) of WMMR

Chapter 6!

No I haven't made that much progress. I skipped chapter 5 and Dedrad's prologue to write chapter 6. Why? Well I had no idea how to write chapter 5 and I didn't feel like writing about Dedrad yet, so I skipped them. I need to rewrite the beginning of chapter 6 and think of a more evocative ending. The chapter turned out to be mostly dialogue, which works in this case. It will be an offset to chapter 5, which is going to be mostly narrative. I need to finalize my points of view for that chapter still. I also need to fix the horrible ending to chapter 4 in the near future (chapter 4 is PAIN). Anyhow, I'm happy with how some of the characters are turning out, especially Virgil and Colonel Card. I think the Colonel is my second favourite character, right after Ash. It's going to be fun writing about him that's for sure.

I will be backtracking to the parts I skipped when I have some more time. As of now i have two document analysis, one annotated bibliography requiring 15 sources, a seminar on Thursday (ARGH SHOOT ME IN THE FACE PLEASE), four critiques (due tomorrow heh), a group meeting and a headache of a science fiction novel to read (Sybil by Benjamin Disraeli), all of which I must do this week. Thankfully, I have an Epica concert on Thursday to ease my pain (yay!).

Current rough draft completion percentage: 23%

Overall completion percentage: 17%

Seriously, shoot me in the face right now.


ALSO: For some reason I had this episode of Nostalgia Critic stuck in my head while I was writing chapter 6. Particularly at the end around 12:50.