Musings of Two Creative Minds

College mid-terms and exams are keeping me swamped.  Hope to do a proper entry about writing soon, please be patient.  In the meantime, please check my other blog for samples from my novel "The Bridge" and updates on the sequels to it. Oh and HAPPY HALLOWEEN all.  Remember to keep writing after you get your haul of candy... I mean Brain Fuel. http://akrummenacker.wordpress.com/2011/10/30/still-here-still-alive-still-studying/

Survived three major exams this last week.  Got a mid-term coming up in two more weeks and will be starting to study for that one in the next few days.  Hopefully, I can do a proper entry here soon, I hate neglecting everyone.  I've got a lot to say about writing sequels and the difficulties I'm encountering. In the meantime please enjoy this link to another section of my first novel "The Bridge".  Have a great weekend and keep writing everyone. http://akrummenacker.wordpress.com/2011/10/09/still-more-from-my-novel-the-bridge/

College has been keeping me pretty busy so I haven't had as much time to post  anything about writing here.  I hope to do so soon, after this weekend specifically.  I've got 3 tests coming up next week, 2 on Monday and 1on Thursday, plus an on-line exam for the weekend.  Whew! In the meantime I've posted another piece from my horror/sci-fi/mystery novel at my other blog.  Hope you enjoy it gang.   Keep writing. http://akrummenacker.wordpress.com/2011/09/28/the-bridge-another-section-that-brings-us-full-circle-gang/

Just a quick post here.  I put up the link where you can read another scene from my horror/mystery/sci-fi novel "The Bridge".  I'll be posting here about writing again soon.  I'm using the other blog mostly to post samples of my works, both completed and still in progress.  I hope you get a chance to check them about.  Have a great weekend everyone.

I have a Writer's Page on  Facebook, where I post whatever progress I made on my writing.  So the other day I looked at several of my recent entries where I talk about how much progress I was making.  I was counting how many words per day I had written and this sounded really good.  But when I went back to the novel itself it felt like I hadn't made a lot of progress after all.  This puzzled me exceedingly so I started to think about it.  As I did so my eyes focused on the novel in progress and I spotted several areas where I needed to fix a problem.  That's when I had a "Light Bulb Moment", I was editing while I was still creating the first draft.  Not a bad thing in and of itself, but I had been doing this almost constantly.  Each day I'd go back to see what I had done when I left off in order to recapture the mood and the moment and I wound up doing bunch of 'repairs' before moving on.  Now don't get me wrong, it's important to make...

I posted another section of my novel "The Bridge" at my WordPress Blog.  You can check it out by clicking on this link: http://akrummenacker.wordpress.com/2011/09/05/another-installment-from-my-novel-the-bridge/ Hope you all enjoy it.  I'll be posting a new blog entry here shortly.  Stay tuned.

Tomorrow my summer vacation is officially over.  Not that I've had a lot of vacation time per se.  I was doing intern work at a Center for  Domestic Violence over most of the summer.  I had a couple of weeks to myself, but tomorrow I go back to college.  And what a way to start things.  I have 4 classes tomorrow.  The first one starts at 9:30AM and the last one ends at 9:00PM.  I'll be taking a heavier load this time.  This is so that I can finish my major and get a B. S. in Human Services and several certificates by December.  Great way to end the year and give myself an early X-mas present. But even then it's not over.  Oh no.  I'm already approved for more Pell Grant money for another semester so I'll be taking some evening courses in order to make myself prepped to transfer to a four year college IF I choose to do so.  In the meantime I'll be looking for a regular job.  UNLESS of course I get an agent and my boo...