Hey!

A little bit later than I was planning on posting, but hey!  ^^;

Had a lot of fun this week.  :)  Got to go to see fireworks for the local Pioneer Day celebration (for those of you who aren't familiar with Utah holidays, it's basically like a second fourth of July, where we have fun and celebrate the pioneers who came in to settle the valley and subsequently the rest of the state).  I re-watched both Frozen and Tangled--in that order--and perused a little bit through my copy of Brothers Grimm fairy tales because retellings of those are one of my favorite kinds of stories, and some day I want to have my own on the bookshelf somewhere.

Mostly lately I've been having a lot of trouble telling myself to get back to writing.  I haven't known this until recently, but apparently I struggle with writing out fight scenes and I've been having trouble figuring out the choreography in the one I'm currently dealing with.  I want my character to seem skilled and competent, but not as good as the person she's struggling with.  She's a night guard, and the way I have this part of the story written out, she's going to need some help from her manager/overseer.

So I've been avoiding it lately, and my brain won't let me work on anything else in the meantime.  I've been going to all of my usual haunts on the internet--yay neopets--and wasting all my time there.  All I can hope for is that I can ignore my OCD for this part and just write through it.  Fun scenes are following up, and if I can just get past this first chapter, I'm hoping that I'll have less trouble for the rest of the book--or at least for the next few chapters, heh.

So what aspects of writing do you guys have trouble with?  Dialogue?  Pacing?  Descriptions of new characters?  Let me know in the comments and maybe I'll be able to help you.  :)

In the meantime, maybe I'll procrastinate some more by plotting my novel for nanowrimo this fall... even if it doesn't start for another three months... lol.  Just kidding!  Plenty of time for that later.  Time to get a cup of lemon tea and push past this writer's block/procrastination!

Introductions!

Hi!  The name is Lacee Martin and I'm an artist and writer!  A little bit about myself?  I live in Utah and I'm in mah early twenties.  I love movies so much I'm hardly ever surprised by the movie posters on the walls in theaters, I'll read most genres from YA Dystopian to High Fantasy to Crime/Mystery novels, and I'll write stories in most of those genres.  Right now I'm in the process of writing a superhero novel because that's in the top three of my favorite types of films, and I'm currently an English Major with an emphasis in creative writing.  :3  One of my dreams (besides getting published and living in New York) is to be an intern at the Nanowrimo office down in Berkeley, CA.

My blog here is going to have an emphasis on writing as well as tidbits on my own life (such as right now I'm recovering from a sunburn!  Though it was incredibly getting it inner tubing on the lake; I never knew falling off those things could be so entertaining!)  I'll post reviews of my favorite books--some old and some new--and offer storywriting tips to those who ask (and those who don't ask as well, I suppose, :P)

So come back next week, and I'll have a new epic post to share with y'all!  I'll be updating every Friday.