Wow. Tomorrow is December 1st. Two weeks after that, is exam week. A week after that, Christmas. Another week after, New Year’s.

Time is going by so fast that I feel as though I’m in the eye of the tornado and my life is literally blowing all around me in speeds so fast that the human eye cannot follow.

I owe you all a big apology. I am not finished with V. Fia…partially because my parents randomly decided to go to NM (as mentioned in my previous post) and they let me use my laptop for a limited amount of time because apparently typing on a laptop in a moving car can make my eyesight worse. I don’t know whether that’s true or not, but I do know I’ll be very much annoyed if I find out it isn’t.
(I FREAKIN’ WASTED 20 HOURS OF MY LIFE DOING NOTHING BUT STARING OUT THE WINDOW/SLEEPING/WATCHING RANDOM DVDS!)
Roadtrips are not my ideal form of transportation.

And not only that, but to tell you the truth, I haven’t been that great of a writer lately. I haven’t been able to get through a lot of the scenes (call it writer’s block, if you will) and found myself reading my WIP over and over again…This probably has to do with the fact that I write with only a very loose plan of what to write, which is subject to change any time my brain comes up with a better idea to replace it. The action has been a lot slower than I’d planned it out to be, and I haven’t been able to move past scenes as quickly as I’d like to.

This loose planning strategy (which is also used by Meg Cabot, because apparently for her, planning takes out all the fun in writing) has worked for me in the past, but I am now considering doing the structured spreadsheet plan like Scott Westerfeld and Justine Larbalestier.

I’ve also found myself on chat programs like Gtalk and Facebook constantly, sometimes being on them for approx. 2 hours when I could be writing 20 pages in my novel.

SO, I will propose a self-inflicted punishment on myself for violating my promise. From now on until I finish V.Fia, I vow to not get on Gtalk and Facebook. I will only get on my computer with internet when I need to do research for school/check my grades/check my email.

So, sorry again, and feel free to visit both of the Writing and V.Fia pages for more updates.