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February 19 Writing Time: 0h Word Count: 0 words I flew back to Colorado. Busy catching up with school work. February 20 Writing Time: 30min Word Count: 500 words With hundreds of lines to learn and rehearsals underway for both the sketch show and Scooter Thomas Makes it to the Top of the World, I’m…

Writing Time: 2h Word Count: 885 words I continued working on a creative essay about my relationship to video games. I’m excited to write this one. I’m sharing stories from my childhood that my parents and many of my friends have never heard before, because they took place in my “second life”: in video games…

Writing Time: 1.5hr Word Count: 712 words I worked on “Beyond the Walls.” I was very sleepy while I was writing, so I didn’t make a lot of progress, but it was something, and I kept up the routine. This story has grown a lot longer than I anticipated — it’s at 9,000 words right…

Writing Time: 2h Word Count: 800 words After working on “Beyond the Walls” for a while, I returned to a collection of short, nonfiction paragraphs that I wrote last year. I started compiling them into an essay that will tell the story of my relationship with video games, from when I first played Minecraft at…

Feb 13 — Writing Time: 1.5hr I worked on “Beyond the Walls” on the plane ride from Colorado Springs to Minneapolis. Feb 14 — Writing Time: 0h Thursday was my first day home, and instead of writing, I finished reading A Feast For Crows and hung out with my girlfriend, Hales. Feb 15 — Writing…

Writing Time: 1.5h Word Count: (I don’t know) Worked on “Beyond the Walls.” Also started writing an essay about giving and receiving creative feedback.

Writing Time: 1.5h Word Count: 424 I continued working on “Beyond the Walls.” I’ve decided to finish this story and then figure out what I want to do with the novel. Work was smooth today and the words flowed. I spent half the time editing my writing from the last time I worked on the…

Writing Time: 1h Word Count: 0 words I found myself staring at pages tonight. I scrolled through short stories that I never finished, like “Charlie Delaney, Sculptor,” “Moleskine,” and “The Underground Poker Club,” and I re-read portions of the novel that I’ve been toying with since the summer. Thing is, it’s feeling dead to me.…

Writing Time: 1h Word Count: N/A (editing day) I revised “The Belief Machine” and “I Saw Claire Punch Noah.” The latter is flash fiction. It often feels like I’m remaking the entire story when I revise flash pieces, because if I change one paragraph I’ve changed 10% of the entire work.

Writing Time: 2h Word Count: N/A (editing day) I deleted, polished, honed, fine-tuned, tweaked, labored over, battled with, lost sleep because of, reorganized, rewrote, reworded and submitted “Alice & Harry” tonight, which is now called “My First Love.” I’m very tired. I’m proud of the story, though. While trying to select a piece to submit…