Dragonfest was last week. I've been to several festivals and other large events in the last year, but Dragonfest is still my "home gathering." It's my speed, has the sorts of opportunities I like, and a surprising number of people know my name. The following summary is long and features some parts that are probably boring for folks who aren't ( Read more... )

Thanks to slyviolet for alerting me to a wearable I Ching hexagram generator. I wonder if I could convince them to make a hat...

I just heard a remix of Orb's "Little Fluffy Clouds" with an English guy responding to "What were the skies like when you were little?" with "The skies were grey and monotonous and dull... It used to rain a lot. Like it is now." As the question gets asked again, he gets annoyed and repeats himself ( Read more... )

Zhun - (Difficulty at the) Beginning done. 778 words. Here we go again!

Last year I spent three weeks working on a lame novel and then thought of a better story. In ten days, while sick for much of it, I wrote over 14,000 words toward a goal of 50,000.

Next month (National Novel Writing Month 2007), I'm setting the odometer to 0, but picking my I Ching-based story up. I can write 50,000 words in November, especially ( Read more... )

In three days (if you combine yesterday and today as a single unit of mostly sick) I've exceeded my word count for the first two thirds of the month. Combining the two stories (hey, creative word count inflation is legit), I've written 10,509 words this month. More than 20% to the goal and a whole week left. Is it achievable after all ( Read more... )

In two nights I've amassed 3297 words, well over half of what I produced in the first two plus weeks. Ku (mountain over wind, Work on What Has Spoiled [Decay]), Kuei Mei (thunder over lake, The Marrying Maiden) and Wei Chi (flame over water, Before Completion) have been fluidly well above the 762 word target and haven't induced extensive amounts ( Read more... )

I was planning on giving up on NaNoWriMo today, since I've written 5,000 words in 20 days. But then I got an idea ( Read more... )