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 | GallopLib-0.0.1
2009 Mar 16 - Monday
( About: gallop )
| | I finished v0.0.1 of GallopLib today. It is the foundation code for the rest of the project. Check it out: GallopLib-0.0.1
The code is free under the three-clause BSD license.
Milestone 1 down, 17 more to go. :)
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| | Bible Reading and Development Plan
2009 Feb 4 - Wednesday
( About: God, gallop )
| | I read 17 chapters this week, bumping my Genesis-to-Revelation progress to 2%.
I also posted my development plan for my new programming language Gallop.
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| | Gallop
2009 Jan 23 - Friday
( About: gallop )
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| | Bible Study
2009 Jan 8 - Thursday
( About: inlovewithGod )
| | I'm planning to read the entire Bible through. Starting now and probably taking 5 years to complete, since I only have so much time I can devote to read. If you're interested in following: Bible Study.
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| | NaNoWriMo results
2008 Nov 24 - Monday
( About: writing )
| | I got to 20,000 words in my novel. I realized I was heading towards the end, and I was only going to get about half way to the 50,000 word goal. It was pretty hard to write enough words per night, let alone figure out how to go back and insert enough extra in the middle to double the word count.
But it was not a failure in my eyes, because I learned a lot about what it's going to take if I want to finish my novels:
| | A novel is not one single happening. I only had one main conflict in my story, and that is not enough. You have to have a stream of conflicts in a novel. |
| | I had characters designed in my head, but they were too shallow. I need to really do an in-depth character analysis to make sure my characters are deep and have their own desires, struggles, and goals. |
| | I need to study pacing. Sometimes it's OK to go fast and tell, but sometimes it's OK to go slow and show a lot. You can take multiple pages to detail one scene, or one conversation. |
| | I don't yet fully have my world designed. What kind of houses do they live in? What organization are their governments? Etc. |
So I now have some more information I would have never had if I just thought about my book instead of sitting down to write 20,000 words. I consider this a success.
What's next for me? Well, I have two projects I'm going to start at the beginning of the year. One is that I'm going to start writing and releasing (in a MIT/BSD style license) some great code that will be the foundation of some software projects I am going to do. Second is that I'm going to start a beginning-to-end Bible Study, where we go through and try and find answers to some basic questions like: Who is God? What has God done? What has God said? Why did he do things, say things? What does He expect from me? What must I do to have eternal life? So I'm pretty excited about both projects. Stay tuned!
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| | More NaNo Progress
2008 Nov 10 - Monday
( About: writing )
| | 16327 words and 8 chapters. I'm only 300 words behind where I should be, which is great. I'll fill that gap easily tomorrow night. I'm starting to get a feel for how to write 2,000 words a night easily. Which means my writing craft is improving. And that's a good sign that this month of NaNo is actually helping.
About 12,000 words into my story I realized things were not going well with the plot. So after thinking and praying it turns out I'm actually writing the second book in my fantasy trilogy. Who knew?
Yes, I'm writing a fantasy trilogy. That sounds cliche but it's true. I'm not writing about dragons or elves though, so that should be refreshing. Not that Tolkien's world is lame, it's wonderful, but it's been done so much that I just had to create my own myths, creatures, world, etc. And I'm very happy with what I've come up with. Don't tell my wife that. She thinks I get all my good ideas from her. It's simply not true. Honest.
Yesterday I was actually quite frustrated. I felt like I wasn't sure how I was going to write the middle of my story. I had the setup, and I knew the ending, but what was going to fill the bulk of the middle? Which is only, what, 20,000 words? But yet again prayer succeeded. Talking to God helps. It's amazing really. Which you wouldn't be able to tell by how often I pray. It seems I have a brain with a 3 second memory. One day I'll learn. But hopefully I'm not writing the same paragraph over and over in my book. That would be disappointing.
Here's to success! With prayer and a determined soul, who knows what might happen. You just might see my name in your local bookstore one day. :-)
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