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Reborn City: The Final Edit

Posted: March 29, 2012 in Novel, Progress Report
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Ladies and gentlemen, I have finally finished the last edit of my novel, Reborn City! I had some free time today, so I sat down at a computer and just started editing. I got through the last four chapters and guess what? It almost edited itself, it went by so fast! I’m happy now, because now, I’ll be able to seriously consider finding an agent. Or maybe I’ll submit Reborn City to a contest, see if the judges like what I’ve written.

Whatever happens, I’m not going to stop until I’ve gotten published, and hopefully with Reborn City as the first in a long line of horror/sci-fi/fantasy novels. Until then, let’s keep our fingers crossed and praythat I’ll find someone willing to take a chance on a manuscript written by a college student from Ohio.

I’d like to find an agent now, but I don’t have the book I got from the library with the listings for good agents with me right now. Instead, I think I’ll work on a new short story. I had a great idea for this story the other day and I’ve been itching to write it. Now that the edits for Reborn City are done, I can finally scratch that itch.

Wish me luck!

Reborn City Chapter Twelve

Posted: March 22, 2012 in Novel, Progress Report
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I finally got around to editing the twelth chapter of Reborn City (and for those of you just tuning in, Reborn City is the novel I’ve been working on for the past couple of years). This puts me officially at the halfway point in the editing process. I’m glad I finally got to work on it and that it’s done. In the story, we’re steadily speeding along to the events that will lead to the climax of the novel and set up for the two sequels I have planned.

You know, I really hope that I am able to find an agent once I’m done with the current edit I’m going through. If I can’t find an agent immediately, maybe I’ll try a writing contest. Anyway, I’ll keep trying, and hopefully I’ll get it published someday.

All for now, bye.

Winter Quarter Wrap-Up

Posted: March 20, 2012 in Living and Life, Novel, Progress Report, short story
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I know, that title sounds like something after a NCAA basketball game, but I’ve already used “update” twice in relation to winter quarter, and I don’t want to be redundant.

Now on to the news. Well, I had a slightly lower GPA this quarter, a 3.1, but I’ve got less classes next quarter and despite the reviews of some of them, they don’t seem too difficult or terrifying to me, so hopefully I’ll have a higher GPA than this quarter. I’ll even be taking a class on the search for extraterrestrial life and ways of going about it (yes, my school offers a class on that, you can take it to fulfill a science requirement). Although I don’t believe in alien visitations, I still think the class will be interesting to take. Though if we’re going by what our book teaches, it’ll mostly be what allows life on Earth and how we go about looking for that on other planets.

And as for writing, I’m still working on the final edit for Reborn City, but I hope to get some more of that done. I also wrote a new short story based on the Kony 2012 video I mentioned in my last post. I hope, after that story’s been edited, that a certain magazine I know might want to take it. Fingers crossed, right?

I’m looking forward to spring quarter. More flexible schedule, more time at work, what could go wrong? Wait, don’t answer that.

See ya next post, when it strikes my fancy to write one. Have a good spring break.

Reborn City Update 2-27-12

Posted: February 28, 2012 in Novel, Progress Report
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Sound the trumpets, I’m officially a third of the way through editing Reborn City. I just finished Chapter Eight, and although it’s a short chapter, it’s what I’d call a transitional chapter. With this chapter we really start to get into the thick of the plot and to the events that lead to the climax of the novel. I’m looking forward to seeing where I go from here in terms of editing. A lot in the first eight or so chapters has really changed from even the draft before it, so I wonder how much more will change.

Hope to have more for you soon.

Oh, and a huge congratulations to Octavia Spencer for winning the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in her role of Minny Jackson in The Help. Honestly, you brought the character to life, and endeared her so much to me. I wish you continued success in your future and perhaps, if God blesses me and I’m lucky enough, we could work together sometime (there’s a character in a series I plan to write someday that’s even more cantankerous-yet-hilarious than Minny, and I can’t imagine anyone but Ms. Spencer playing her).

Winter Quarter Half-Time Report

Posted: February 7, 2012 in Living and Life, Progress Report, Uncategorized
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No, the title of this post is not a reference to the Super Bowl. You’ll probably be disappointed to know that I am not a fan of sports and only watched a small part of the Super Bowl just so I could be social with the other tenants of my building.

Anyway, to the point of the post: I just got out of the last of my midterms, so the quarter is officially halfway done. Another four weeks and I’ll be worrying about finals! Yippee! My tests were okay, I think I did especially well on my History exam. The English exam was difficult though because it involved a lot of poetry and as you probably realized, I’m mostly a fiction kind of guy. Anyway, I’ll keep working hard.

Oh, and speaking of fiction, I’m still giving Reborn City another edit, but what I’ve done so far is pretty good. I think that maybe after this edit I’ll be ready to find an agent. Let’s keep our fingers crossed and hope for the best, okay?

In the meantime, I’ll try and get some editing done after this post. Bye!

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