Am I doing NaNoWriMo this year? Sadly, no. Well, sort of. [There's more! See the original entry here]

As part of my general budget-cutting measures, I've taken a good hard look at my book-buying habits -- especially from online venues -- and decided I needed to make more use of my local library system. I was pretty surprised...
[There's more! See the original entry here]

And so now the list of NaNo '09 candidates is at four.

1. 4DW II: RPG Boogaloo (not the actual title)
2. Frozen Corpse Stuffed With Dope (yes, the actual title; the name itself is indeed homage to Agoraphobic Nosebleed, who I cannot deny know how to come up with a great album title)
3. the "samurai story", which plays out sort of like GoodFellas meets Gohatto, ( Read more... )

The last couple of night's catch-up for NaNo / Tokyo Inferno came out a little better than I thought -- I'm still behind, but not as grotesquely as I was before.

One of the beauties of last night's run was getting to a point where I understand now what the story is truly about and where it is headed. It was a kind of cards-on-the-table moment, ( Read more... )

On the first day of NaNoWriMo 2008, I racked up a nice, solid 2,143 words for Tokyo Inferno. My initial hesitancies about how difficult it was going to be and whether or not I would get mired down in topical details have more or less melted away. It's a first draft, and getting to the finish line / rounding all the bases / [insert metaphor here] ( Read more... )

I completely forgot to ask: Who else is doing NaNoWriMo this year ( Read more... )

You probably noticed I posted a bunch of new stuff in the Movies department [over at my main site] -- it's actually backlog that I had piling up and wanted to get published before it got too stale.

Much of the tinkering that has been going on behind the scenes here at Genji Press has been about making it easier to post things like that. It used to ( Read more... )

I've created a separate writing category for Tokyo Inferno, this year's NaNoWriMo project, and appropriately updated the pinned messages in each section.

What I may do this year is file excerpts from the ongoing NaNo on a daily basis -- nothing major, just little teasers here and there to keep people curious. They will probably be enormously ( Read more... )