Wow, it's been a long time since I was on my blog. Life got a little crazy and then school decided to jump on the crazy train too. Everything has settled down for a minute, so here I am.
I finished the second draft of Black and Gold in February. I'm currently halfway through my next round of revisions. I'm guessing I'll need maybe one more round after this but we'll see. I got excellent advice about that, actually: I should revise until 75% of the pages don't have any marks on them.
The third draft will be finished before school ends in May. That is the personal goal I have set for myself and I'm in a good place to actually accomplish that goal.
In the time I didn't get to work on BG, I was writing papers for school. I had an in class midterm and a critical essay in Shakespeare. I also had a researched story for my fiction class. I wrote mine on the WASP and B-29 in World War II.
That was actually an interesting experience because I always thought I would really like writing historical fiction. But after writing that story, I'm thinking maybe not. I liked doing the research for it but when it came to writing the story, I had a lot of trouble with interweaving the historic information and my plot. I don't like the idea of not writing something because it requires more work so at a later date, I'll return to historical fiction and give it another shot.
So now I'm going to go for a run. When I come back, I'm going to make some coffee and keep on revising.
