Class work 20 Hours
It is the first week of class. Lots of reading, lots of different sessions to attend. All kinds of new information. This is a great idea and I am really enjoying the reading, although Rose is incredibly dense. The calculated poetics workshop on Thursdays is amazing, all kinds of great information and writing and inspiration. Excited to see more happen and for the new minds that are in class. Interesting to see all of the different view points. I also like the feedback I get in peer review. It’s kind of nice to have writing be picked apart and made better, got a little bit spoiled last quarter in that a lot of the writing that I did was mostly just… Awed I suppose.
Sunday – 4 hours
Monday – 4 hours
Tuesday – 6 hours
Thursday – 6 hours
Writing 30 Hours
So the story that started off as being around 3,000 words is turning into a novel. Auntie/Mauri is such an interesting character and to learn about her backstory is amazing. I am still very much in the first draft suck stage, just trying to get everything off the ground and out so that I can start organizing it. This is by far the biggest thing I’ve ever written and I’ve spent about ten hours on world building alone, just starting to get the gods straight in my head, building this universe. There’s so much that I have that I probably won’t even show, but if I have the details down in my head it will make the world much more coherent. The amazingly rough draft is about 10 pages long already and it’s going to get much bigger. I allotted fifty pages for the first draft, thinking that would be enough but that seems to be more than a bit silly of me, seeing as how I haven’t even really gone past the introduction. I also have about twenty pages of world building, details, and outlines. Digitizing this is going to be a nightmare.
Monday – 6 hours
Tuesday – 6 hours
Wednesday – 12 hours
Thursday – 4 hours
Friday – 4 hours
Publishing 6 Hours
Mostly a lot of phone tag with people I want to meet with. A little bit of looking up literary agents. Spent about three hours reading cover letter examples, figuring out how to sell my work. Spent another two looking for literary agents and another hour tracking down people to talk about different types of publishing. I’m looking forward to having more people read my work and having more feedback. I wish I had more of an outlet because most of the peer feedback that I’ve gotten is just that my novella is amazing. Which is nice to hear for my ego but not much for the quality of the piece.
Tuesday – 2 hours
Friday – 4 hours
Total: 56 hours
Cumulative total: 56 hours