So as you may have noticed from my NaNoWriMo page, I didn't make it this year. The current word count is accurate. Just couldn't do it this time ( Read more... )

Ba-tweet-tweet. So it goes. ( Read more... )

You know the drill by now:
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Okay, a little under 5000 words up. This piece finally started to flow today. I started out trying for a tone like Camus' The Stranger, but I couldn't really hold it as the piece went on. Got too personal, and his character in that barely cared about himself, let alone about international politics. Still. Guess that the first person worked out for ( Read more... )

So help me out here - I'm trying to come up with a pithy logo for a bumper sticker from a Lake Ridge-style high school. (To everyone who didn't go to my high school - think small secular private school, very focused on academics, horrible at sports). I'm not letting this little detail stop me, but here are some possibilities I came up with today:

• No ( Read more... )

Damn it, damn it, damn it. I tried, I really did try. I went to Borders after work, sat down and tried to write Avram's story. And it was okay for a little while, but then I started using the eraser and went back, and then the doubts kicked in - like the voice sounded a little too much like Richard's, and was the third person really the best idea ( Read more... )

Lots of stuff to talk about. Where to start?
I know that at least one person reading this blog has noticed the lack of NaNoWriMo updates. After a strong start this past weekend - thanks in no small part to the help of Nate, Kari, Sebastian and Ryan - I ended up neglecting the whole thing over this past week. I'm aware that the month is already half ( Read more... )

So the sign that I put out on the mailbox has been there ever since Saturday, and was still there this morning when I left for work. Maybe whoever's been taking it has finally given up and gotten the point. Either that, or I'll find it gone when I get home tonight. We'll just have to see ( Read more... )

Oh, hey - speaking again of NaNoWriMo, has anyone else noticed the lineup of authors they've got for the Pep Talks this year? Sci-fi guru Piers Anthony, Phillip Pullman and - here's for me the big one - Brian Jacques. (REDWALL ROCKS NO I DO NOT WISH TO HEAR ABOUT ITS INCIPIENT SYMBOLIC/OBVIOUS RACISM THAT IS MY CHILDHOOD YOU ARE HURTING STOP IT ( Read more... )