Writing Exercise #6
November 17th, 2011 § 1 Comment
I’m actually pretty proud of this one. In fact, I may try and turn this into a real short story later. After NaNoWriMo of course. The prompt is: “Santa Claus” is really a package delivery service run by Aliens.
“How could you loose an entire squadron of elves, and half a contingent of reindeer in one night? Do you have any idea how much your little stunt is going to cost me? What were you thinking? An unauthorized fly by, in a major metropolitan area, during the day, in November for cripes sake! Hundreds of people saw you Zant! How are we going to explain this one? The US military is already up my ass about the sightings last Christmas over Des Moines, and now this? Do you have anything to say for yourself?”
NaNoWriMo Update
November 16th, 2011 § 1 Comment
Well we’re at the halfway mark and I have to say this is way more difficult than I anticipated. Don’t get me wrong, I knew that it was going to be hard, but this…this is hard.
So far, I have managed to scrape together about 6,000 words, which puts me pretty dang far behind. I’m having a couple of problems:
1) Turning off the internal editor/critic.
2) Finding time to write.
3) Staying motivated.
Tapestry
October 23rd, 2011 § Leave a Comment
I am a huge Star Trek: The Next Generation fan. Even though this isn’t directly related to my writing exercises I would nevertheless like to take a moment to discuss an episode from season 6 entitled Tapestry. In this episode Captain Jean-Luc Picard is given an opportunity to relive his life at age 21. For the benefit of those who have been living under a rock since 1993, I’ll go over the plot. For those of you who have already seen it, well then, this will be a nice review. Or you can Click this to jump ahead.
