Extra time to Write

Posted on September 18, 2016 by Laura Highcove Leave a comment

Starting in September I now have my weekday afternoons to work on my writing. I knew it would be an extra four hours a day, but I don’t think I quite understood how much time that was when I made my plan the other week. Which is a good thing, because working through the fight […]... Read More

Analyzing The Prince of Persia

Posted on September 8, 2016September 8, 2016 by Laura Highcove Leave a comment

I love a movie with a good title screen. The Prince of Persia movie is one of the few video game movies that is considered good. It is in my own list of favorite movies, though not because it is a video game movie. This movie does a lot of things well and is overall […]... Read More

Catching Up on My Journal

Posted on September 7, 2016 by Laura Highcove Leave a comment

So I’ve been gone from here for a while, but not from writing. Even on my wonderful Disney Cruise to the Caribbean I spent about five hours one day people watching and working on my novel. That’s right, blue water and white beaches. What I have been working on was giving my novel a complete […]... Read More

Analyzing Howl’s Moving Castle (And Why I Liked the Book Better than the Movie)

Posted on August 11, 2016August 11, 2016 by Laura Highcove Leave a comment

Next in my series of analyzing my favorite media is Howl’s Moving Castle. I saw the movie before I read the book, mostly because I watch all of Hayao Miyazaki’s films. I loved the movie and so I went out to buy the book. I also loved the book. Over time, when I would pull […]... Read More

Getting Ready for a New Draft

Posted on August 6, 2016 by Laura Highcove Leave a comment

This past week I spent most of my time going through and making changes brought about by feedback from my beta readers. So there were a lot of non-connected pieces that I worked on, but I do feel like I’m moving forward well. I think my plan after this is to finish making a few […]... Read More