New Year's Resolutions

For the new year, I have a few things I'd like to do.

1: Finish Gemini (a novel)

2: Finish revising Assassin's Game (a short story) and send it into the Writers of the Future contest.

3: Win the Writers of the Future contest. :D

I've gone through a long bout of not writing...and that bugs me. Sure, I'm busy; sure, lots of things have cropped up that were unexpected...but that's a lame excuse. I'm going to work hard on those first 2 and pray the third follows the second.

My plan for Gemini is to write all the chapters as short as possible...more like little scenes than chapters. That way, it'll be easy to scribble one down. With a full-blown chapter, I feel like it has to be a perfect union of style, prose and awesome...crafted painstakingly over several days of heartache and ibuprofen. If I do them shorter, that should alleviate some of that. Here's hoping, at least.

Assassin's Game...it's 1/2 rewritten anyways. I have section 1 to tweak and then sections 3 and 4 to completely go through. I think my problem was that sections 3 and 4 needed the most work, and I had so much else to do at the time anyways, my brain gave up even if my heart kept trying to push me back to it. Now that I've been away from it, my objectivity should be that much greater.

Of Gemini and Assassin's Game, I'll post some samples shortly. I probably can't post it all (publication rights and all), but I'll definitely give you guys something to look at. They are, I think, my two best stories. I would love some feedback.

I've done enough posting for today. I'm off!

-jl