After a month and a half of putting it off, I just wrote 1,000 words of my 2,500 word Doctor Who short story in the last hour. =D I'm so happy! Unfortunately I have to stop now to go make pizza dough so dad can have hot pizza when he comes home from dialysis. It's so cold today I'm going to need to give it extra time to rise and stuff.

Yesterday was cool. I actually got to attend a real live writer's workshop with real live people and everything! The library was hosting Brian Griffin, who is apparently a local writer/professor/etc. I like him, he's funny. Sort of the stereotypical vision of the absent minded professor - thinning white hair, tweed-ish jacket, rumpled clothes, disorganized notes, terrible handwriting, the lot. But even if I do get kind of sick of all the quotes he uses as centerpieces to his topics of discussion, he's still an intelligent guy. I know this because the first class was full of stuff I alredy knew, which for once didn't annoy me because it was the stuff I've been absorbing from my different podcasters for over five months now. :) It was sort of like having Michael Stackpole, Mur Lafferty and Holly Lisle merged into one tweed jacket wearing body! Only less gross than that. Anyway, I did learn a few things, took some interesting notes, had fun, and will be going back next Thursday. That class should be a lot of fun since we'll be critiquing a few people's work. There were like forty people in yesterday's class so he couldn't take short stories from everyone, unfortunately, but it should still be interesting. Hopefully he remembered to ask for volunteers. ^_^()

I also picked up a copy of Nancy Kress's book, "Dynamic Characters", while I was at the library. I've spent most of today reading it and it is AWESOME. The first thing it says after the Table of Contents is "WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE, AND WHO NEEDS THEM?", which is hilarious since I often feel like saying that about my characters. "WHO THE HELL ARE THESE PEOPLE AND WHAT ARE THEY DOING TRAIPSING AROUND IN MY BRAIN LIKE THEY OWN THE PLACE?" The book is actually a lot like Holly Lisle's "Create a Character Clinic", only a little less structured and funnier. (Which is not to say that CACC was bad or totally unamusing) I've learned so much already and I plan on buying it as soon as I finish reading it/acquire money. =D Great book. I'm glad I heard Nancy Kress on "I Should Be Writing".

Dough time!