Day Two!

Well it's day two of the hub challenge and I have manage to write 2 hubs in two days. Maybe this weekend, I'll write more than one a day, but at least I'm holding up so far. Have to work on my essays and my short story tomorrow though, so I've got to get the hub out of the way early in the morning.

On another note, I have become fascinated with the hubbers at Hub Pages. They are a great bunch of writers and very supportive. I'm glad I joined.

I'm a hubber at this site called Hub Pages and there's this big challenge going on there these next thirty days. The challenge is either write 100 hubs or articles, in 30 days or write 30 hubs in 30 days.

I'm not completely crazy enough for 100 hubs, so I've decided to write 30 hubs in 30 days, which is still an awesome amount to me. I'm not sure I'll be able to do it, but I'm willing to try, God help me. I've got a lot of other writing to do as well, which is to finish a short story for a Writer's Digest contest, a personal essay I'm submitting for Newsweek and a couple of school essays. Here's hoping I produce some quality, reading worthy hubs in the next 30 days.

Progress Report

The times are tough and things have been getting worse by the day for me. I finally settled on a book idea for a novel and work out the outline, the characters profiles and a perfect interview. I need a cop or preferably a detective who worked in downtown Los Angeles in the early and mid 80s for my research. However, it seems to have fallen through and I very disappointed about it.

I was really hoping this would finally get me going on a book and I have vowed or resolved to complete one by the end of this year. I need to hustle if I’m going to make it, because I’m tired of wasting time and I have to focus. I am going to reassess my writing goals and priorities again and maybe redo them. I want to be published in something by the end of this year.

I read and read and then I read some more, and I’m thinking that it’s keeping me from not writing enough. I’ve been neglecting this blog, while I’ve been working on other things and not all of them include writing. I usually focus on one thing at a time, but I need to learn to multitask. Unfortunately I end up feeling overwhelmed with too many things. I’m just not that strong a writer right now to do so much. I wish I was and I’ve decided to push myself to do more, because a lot of my future depends on whether I can make this work or not.

Update!

Well I haven't post in while, but a month hasn't passed yet and that's good. I feel like I finally found the right story for to write. I have already written two outlines and characters bios for this story and alot of ideas are just flowing for me. I can see the beginning, the middle and the end, but I don't feel like I'm just going to be typing out an outline. I know the real story will come when I actually start out the first draft and I'm very excited about it. I'm going to try and keep better updates and regular posts on this darn blog. It helps my writing because writers write!

Good Talkers are Good Writers!

I find that alot of people who talk alot, write alot as well. It comes natural for them and I envy them. I'm not that much of a talker, and I say that with shame. I wish I was, but I'm just not and I'm trying to improve on that all the time. I really need top find some chat group or something, but in person, not online. Although I wouldn't mind one of those either.

In order to write great dialogue, you need to be around great conversation and I'm limited there. I don't mean to put down my friends and family, sometimes they're great conversationalists, but most of the time it's the same whole thing and it's gets dull.

I guess I have to be bold and start finding some other means. I'm seriously thinking about interviewing people lately and see where that goes. Different types of people for research for my stories. I'm hoping that will help me out, but in the mean time, I'll read blogs like crazy.

the Trials of Writing

One of the things about writing that bugs me the most is when it reminds me of how little I know about anything. I feel my personal knowledge about the subjects that I do know is not enough or interesting to write stories, article or even poems. I'm left wondering what I can contribute to the literary world and that bothers me a great deal.

I'm trying to write a short story right now and I'm figuring out to write adequate description for it. I don't know that much about scenery or architecture to create captivating images for readers. I mean, I don't want to simply say: "The big brown tall building was in the middle of the street or the lane was lined with big beautiful trees."

I would like to know what kind of trees and what kind of building style it was or what kind of trees. Knowing that isn't enough either, because I need to be able to also blend it into the story so that it flows and helps the story along; however, I still need to know some basic stuff about these two topics to make my description and setting effective and realistic.

I'm researching all the time and and I just get overwhelmed with all of the information. I wish I could find a website that could give basic info on home and building design as well as nature stuff. That would be a tremendous help and I wouldn't end up feeling like an idiot.

Day One!

Well this is day one of my first blog. What I really want from this blog is to keep a daily record, and I do hope I blog on a daily or at least weekly basis, of my writing progress. I've been writing on and off for years, but this year I am committed and determined to become a published writer.


Here are a few things I'm currently doing to improve my writing. I'm analyzing a novel to help develop my own writing style. I'm also reading a dictionary from beginning to end to improve my vocabulary. I'm also working on a novel outline, plus doing research for questionnaires I'm developing for interviews I plan on conducting for my novel.



The other projects I'm developing is an article for a local magazine and a memoir about a personal experience I went through a couple of years ago.


I'm hoping all of these projects will help me improve significantly as a writer, regardless of the outcome. Meaning that even If I don't' get published or sell anything, that's okay, I'm still going to continue with my writing. Well that's enough for now, I'm off to write!

Another blog about writing!

Yes, that's all we need, another blog about writing or about anything else for that matter. However, when you feel very passionate about something, then you just can't help but try to express yourself about it. I'm an aspiring writer, and hopefully I will be a published one someday. I've always written stuff here and there, but I finally decided a year ago to try and write professionally. I would like to write creatively through fiction on non-fiction or articles as a freelance writer.

This blog will be about my journey and development as a beginning writer. I plan on sharing with you what I learn and achieve along the way in this process and maybe I'll be able to teach you something as well.

Sometimes, I'm prolific and other times, I can't get anything out of me and that frustrates the hell out of me. Regardless, I'm going to write and keep trying to write. I just hope that I don't bore the hell out of anyone with mindless rantings. I would like to both inform and entertain you, because that's to me is the mark of a gifted writer.

So welcome to my blog!