Wow, I have been off track. I havn't written much in the last few days . Before that I finished most of my language for Holly Lisles Create A Language Clinic. It is amazing.
But the last four days, I have slacked. I have written about a paragraph for "The Thorn Prince". First off, I wanted a break. Then the next day I had an exam. When I got home, I was feeling a little sick, so had a nap. Then my friend came over and we played Warcraft 3. THen I went to work, came home, and didn't feel like doing much. So I played Civ 4. I haven't played video games in a month and a half, so it felt good to do so.
Then today, after my last exam. My friends and I went to a place called Mulhurst and ate at a restraunt. My friends came over, and we gathered some rocks for my mom. Then we played Warcraft again. After that I took my one friend to work with me. When we came home, we played Age Of Empires 2. Then he went home. Now I am writing here. I need to get on track.
I just keep feeling crappy about the writing. I know where I need to go, but everytime I try to do it, I feel like I am going the opposite direction, or I can't put it down right. I'll figure it out, but I won't if I keep stalling.
Tonight is late, so there is not much point starting. I need to be awake for tomorrow. I think we are going to parade. I don'treally want to. I want to stay home and write, figure out everthing. Oh well, I will.
I have also enrolled in the "Beyond the Basics" writing course at the "Institute of Children's Literature". It is the course after the one I graduated. They only accept the people that are recommended by their instructers. I was recommended. Anyways, I am doing that course.

This is totally off topic, but I needed to say it. FABLE 2 and HALO 3 are going to be so amazing. I watched the trailers. I can't wait until they are out. They are the reason for me buying the 360. I haven't boughten any games like I told myself, not until I beat the ones I have. But when each of these games come out, they are in my collection soon. They are exceptions to the rule. Like I said, they are the reason for my 360. Anyways, I just thought that had to be said. They look so cool. I recommend everyone check out the E3 Trailers.

ANyways, this has been an update in my writing life. I need to get back into it.

Yay!!! Holly Lisle has put up "Creat A Language Clinic". I bought it right away. I printed it off and prepared everything I need to start creating languages. I thought I would use a language for the Petost people in "The Thorn Prince". Heck, Petost might not even be their names by the time I am done with the Language. Gavania might be something different. My main Characters could have different names. Though I plan to have Gavania and the main character names stay the same as I really am not up to going through everything I got just to switch names. Though if I come up with something cool, it might be worth it.

Speaking of "The Thorn Prince", I worked on it today a tad bit. Caught up to were I was in it, relearned some of whats going on; I have been busy with "The Prairie Fire". I will start working on it again, soon. Probably after I am done fooling around with the Language Clinic.

I also downloaded a two year course from Lyzette Gittford( I hope I spelt her name right). It seems promising. I might use it to write a book my sister gave me an Idea for. She dreamed a story, so she would like me to make a book out of it. I will see how that goes. I don't want to much on my plate.

I have "The Thorn Prince" and an unknown story a friend and I are working on, in the making. With my sisters story on top, it might be to much, or it might balance out nicely. I also have to remember those short stories I sent out. I should be hearing from "What If?" magazine. "Realms of Fantasy" in about three months.

Well I actually feel like I am in the world of Writing, imersed in it. I want to be more imersed into it. Eventually I will be out of school, and then I will have lots of extra time for writing, while working on the dairy farm.

Well, it is late. I am going to bed, after posting on Holly Lisles site about her clinic. I am so excited. Good night.

Cuyler Callahan

I just finished "The Prairie Fire". I am mailing it today when I go to town. It was a hassle though. I thought I had it all ready and primed last night. Though I was reading it outloud and realized it had quite a few mistakes left. So I recorded my self reading it outloud and then this morning I read it while listening to myself. It helped dramatically. I fixed almost all the mistakes. When I read it in my head once more, I only found five mistakes to correct. It is now in it's mailing envelope, awating it's journey to the post office. Wish me luck.

I didn't post yesterday. So yesterday I played my violin. I am trying to learn how to Vibrato. It sounds really cool. I can do it a little bit, but I need a lot more practice with it. I edited "The Prairie Fire" quite a bit. I have 4 more pages to edit. Then I will do a scan over edit one more time for any spelling and grammar mistakes. I'll then prepare the submission package and send it on it's way. I hope I will be ready by monday. That is the goal.
Today I woke up around 11:00 Am. I wish I hadn't, my day was wasted. Oh well. I went to work at 1:00 Pm. Me and the boss set up some lights. Then worked on a new compressor he bought. I cleaned the medical barn and milked the cows. Now I am home. I will do my thirty minute excersise- I have to stay healthy if I am going to write. Can't write if I die of a heart attack, lol- then I will edit the rest of "The Prairie Fire", maybe play some video Games, or play the Violin. I really want to learn that Vibrato.

Well I am off.

Cuyler Callahan

I put in a considerable amount more of my chicken scratch into wordprocessor. I am very pleased with how it is coming out. "The Prairie Fire" is really shaping up well. Oh, by the way, if any of you are intrested, I use Openoffice as my wordprocessor. I find it a very well made program, and it is totally free. Just go to openoffice.com. Although I can still not figure out how to make seperate sections of chapter headings with it. It would be very nice to be able to put the name of the chapter at the top of the page. I can switch page settings, but only a little. I can not do lots of whole sections. Oh well. What I have right now seems to work fine, and it is editor friendly so I won't be rejected for haveing the wrong manuscript format.

Well, I have to go decipher some more of that chicken scratch.

I put some of my chicken scratch editing into my wordprocessor. About a page and a half. "The Prairie Fire" is coming around. I should be able send it out the door in a few days. A week at most.

Well that is it for the day.

Well, I finished my pen to paper edit of "The Prairie Fire". Now, after it looks like a pack of rats moved in, I need to interpret the new dialect of my messy editing and put into good word proccessing font so I can actually read it.


Cuyler Callahan

Well, this is my first ever blog post. I will introduce myself.

My name is Cuyler Callahan. I am a writer, though I have only been published in a newspaper. I live in the Edmonton Area of Alberta, Canada. I have been writing ever sense I was twelve years old. I am now seventeen and have completed a writing course called "Writing for Childeren and Teenagers" from the Institute of Children's Literature.

I am currently working on a Novel called "The Thorn Prince" In which I have 46000 words and 213 pages. I am currently have a short fantasy story out to a magazine called "What If?" called "Halrak Hunter" I should be hearing from them soon. I am in the editing stage of a short story called "The Prairie Fire." I will be sending it to a magazine called "Realms Of Fantasy". A friend and I are in the planning stage of a science fiction story, based on earth, but we have no name for it. It is very sketchy. I am waiting for some faxes from him, of some concept art.

I have entered into a draw to test out Holly Lisle's "Create A Language Clinic". Hopefully I will be drawn. I recommend that anyone who likes reading, or writing, to try out her website. It can be reached at www.hollylisle.com.

Well, it was nice to meet you all and I hope that writing on this blog will help me get through the current writing slog I am in.

Cuyler Callahan