School has begun once more. So, I looked through my degree requirements and figured out if I took 4-5 classes a semester I could finish up in two years. That's not counting the two summer terms they offer, which I'll for sure take some classes in. But we'll see what happens and what classes are offered during those times. So with those added summer classes I think two years (including this semester) is an realistic goal. I've got philosophy, health, history, and web languages this semester, two classes online and two lectures. I'm bouncing in between institute classes at the moment too. I about signed up for the two I thought would be interesting (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith and Living life with the Gospel or something like that), but the classes seem... I don't know too small or whatever, I'd like to find some classes that are more populated. When there's only ten people in the class getting a good discussion going is intimidating. Besides, there weren't any cute girls in the two classes I went to hah.
My writing is going pretty steady at the moment. I've realized I've written probably five or six pages, which is like an eighth of everything I've written, that won't end up in the book at all, which is kinda disappointing but necessary. I realized I didn't have some back stories fleshed out and the only way to do it honestly was to sit down and write how it happened for reference in the actual story. But I'm not too worried about all that because the back stories might be kinda dull anyway, or if I find some way to tell them in a different interesting way other than the linear method I did to get it down on paper. Anyway it's fun to have something down to mess with, but kinda frightening to just delete a whole page because I realize I was trying to muscle the story the way I wanted it to go instead of the way it wanted to. The sculpture is in the stone already, I've just got to remove the unnecessary parts.
Also, writing a truly evil, sadistic person isn't as much fun as it might sound.
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