Saturday, 20 December 2008

50,000, snow, and Christmas!!

Howdy!

It's Christmas break! Finally! Freedom! Sixteen straight days without having to run off to school! Huzzah!

Also, I recently passed the 50,000 word mark in my book. Large milestone for me....I'm hoping to almost finish my first draft by the end of the Christmas holidays. With no school, I should have plenty of time for writing.

Another goal for the holidays is to finish the tune for that song that I posted a couple of weeks ago (called "This Christmas"). I have the full tune for the first verse, and a little over half for the second. It shouldn't take long to finish the tunes for all the verses, and after that I just need to write a chorus (and possibly another verse). It will be a short song, but it will be the first one that I've actually ever completed. :D

And...it snowed a couple of days ago! not enough to close the schools, unforutnatley...<_<. But I got to stay home anyway. =D. It wasn't that deep, and it's mostly melted now, but there is supposed to be a LOT more over the Christmas break...(there's a blizzard scheduled for...tomorrow, I believe?)

Anyways, that's all I have to say for now!

Ciao!

10 comments:

Judi said...

YAY for 50,000 word marks! I, for one, am very happy that you reached that goal..it's a tough thing..the longest novel i ever wrote and finished was only 53,000 words..I applaud you..
Remember you promised I could sing that song..
-Judi

Araken said...

That's awesome! How many words are you shooting for?

Ian said...

Judi - yeah...I remember...don't worry...

Araken - I'm not sure. Around 100,000, I think, unless the book winds up ending before that. But that was my goal when I started writing.

So I'm going to try to compress over a year of work into two weeks. Fun. :P

:)Ian(:

IdinaTook said...

Snow? That is awesome!...and very unfair! ;) It is a very lucky thing to get any snow where I live! lol

Q said...

Congratulations!

Sonbeam3 said...

Loved your poem, "This Christmas". Have you thought about attending the Florida Christian Writers Conference?
...great avatar, too. 50k+....that is awesome!

Ian said...

Sonbeam - thank you for the compliment. :)

I actually really, REALLY wanted to go this year...unfortunately, the necessary funds are lacking...and I would like to be able to go with a completed book or two. Maybe next year. *sighs*

By the way, welcome to my blog!

:)Ian(:

Christopher Hopper said...

Congrats on 50,000! I remember the first time I breached that goal and though, "Oh my goodness, I think I can do this!" lol Still doing it years later, by the grace of God!

Keep going bro!

CH

Polka Dotted Pickles said...

Yay for breaks from school!!!!!!!! :) I just graduated, so I have quite a long break coming up. Well, we'll see. ;)

bookworm4god said...

I just passed my 50k word mark too! Congrats to you! :)

Nice post, keep it up!
And have a very Merry Christmas!
~Bookie