Independent Study

A new semester has begun, and this one brings with it an exciting new opportunity. The school's creative writing professor has agreed to do an independent study with me. The course will be on writing a novel and preparing it to submit to a publisher. She has asked me to prepare a 300-400 page manuscript by the end of the semester. This is a pretty intimidating task to someone who has only produced a fraction of that in the past, but I am excited by the opportunity, and there should be plenty to blog about.
Wish me luck.

Writing Class Dialogue

This semester I enrolled in a fiction writing class. I am enjoying the experience despite the fact that it starts at eight in the morning. Last week the professor gave us a quick exercise. We picked a line from a list and wrote a dialogue in under five minutes. I chose the line “That picture in hanging crooked”, and this was the result:

-That picture is hanging crooked.
-Yeah that happens in this area.
-Crooked pictures?
-Earthquakes.
-Then why did you move out here?
-They say its cause of a tectonic plate, but eventually it’ll be gone.
-But why did you move here if it gets earthquakes?
-Like I said the plate will be gone eventually.
-Shouldn’t that take thousands of years… and lots of earthquakes?
-Well I don’t mind crooked pictures in the mean time.