I, like everyone else and their moms, have the dream of writing a novel one day. It’s cool to know that you’re actually doing it.

Novels are too big of a scope for me right now. I have enough trouble with short stories and stuff like that. Maybe I could gather up enough material for a novella or something. Maybe.

Both of your stories seem like they’ll end up being complex and enjoyable…and carry some substance too. I’m sure you’ve heard this, but you know, it’s oftentimes the ones that we have no clue where it’s going until we write it that turn out to be our best work. Personally speaking, knowing how everything will play out is one of my biggest weaknesses, I think.

Let me know when you win the Nobel or Pulitzer! (Perhaps one for each novel?)

I don’t want to go into much detail about them online because both of them contain ideas and beings I have never seen in any fantasy novel to date and I want to keep it that way. If a book is published that contains my fantasy people (or something like them) before I get to do it, I’ll be pissed. It’s not the typical fantasy with magic, elves, dragons, witches, vampires, and werewolves. I’m sick of reading about those. In the high fantasy I created my own type of people with their own world in which the main character must fight against an accepted form of social injustice.

The urban fantasy is about a new race of people in THIS world. They are separated from the rest of humanity where few know they actually exist. The main character in this one is must also struggle against a form of social injustice within her own society, but she’s not going to try to gain acceptance. She going to go through a whole lot of crap… She won’t get her acceptance at the end, but she’ll get something else. This ones seems easier on me write because I know how I want everything to play out vs the other while I’m 18 chapters in, I still don’t know wtf I’m doing with it.

You’re experiences are dead-on. It’s so damn easy to get distracted. I almost think that all those old writers had it easy with just a typewriter, ink ribbon, and some paper.

Although, I’ve had some luck lately because the wireless router is broken and I’ve had to connect through an actual cable. This router happens to fail a lot for me and I have to bother the guy who rents out the room next to me to reset the router (the router’s in his room).

So…I usually figure I’ll get some work done instead of dealing with the hassle of asking for a reset…especially late at night, when I do most of my time-wasting. This has been working out marvelously for me. I’ve heard talks that the router may have to be moved to my room. That will be the end of me.

(What is your novel about?)

Sometimes I would be looking up something specifically for my novel and end up reading random garbage for three hours. For example, I was supposed to be looking up common languages spoken in West Africa and translators for them (rare) and some how ended up becoming fascinated looking at the American dollar drop real time and related economy stuff for three hours. WTF?

What I do to help that problem is I turn off the internet sometimes (meaning hardly ever) so that when I click on firefox and get a blank page I know I’m not connected because whatever I’m thinking most like has nothing to do with my story and I force myself to focus again.

I don’t know if that’ll help you, but it’s worth a try. It actually works for me when I do it.

leafless: Prioritize my life? I could do that later…right now, I’m going to check out some youtube videos and procrastinate some more =)

…while I’m at work.

A) the statement about the 99% distraction time is probably too generous. Seriously, I never even watch TV anymore because I am sucked into the endless loop of “researching” ideas and topics.

B)There are no songs with Kristiane in them, and never will be. I can accept this as then there cannot be a BAD song with my name in it, though there will never be a good one too.

C)I, for whatever reason, have not one time had an issue with my internet connection since I moved about nine months ago. I would knock on wood right now but I am in class and the room is full of concrete and molded plastic. Whoops.