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I have been very quiet here these last few months, not because I haven't been busy, but precisely because I have been super-busy. Here are some of the things that have been going on ( Read more... )

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Matt Harding and Melissa Nixon have done it again. You've probably seen it. It's worth seeing again.

I have been inundated with comment spam. You haven't seen it because LiveJournal does a good job of screening it, but I end up having to deal with it on the back end, and it's wasting a lot of my time.

As an interim solution I have changed the comments setting so that only people who register with LiveJournal can post. I apologize to folks who don't ( Read more... )

12,502 words down; 37,498 to go.

When I signed up for NaNoWriMo, I knew that the task would be daunting. You have to average 1,667 words a day to complete a 50,000-word manuscript in 30 days. But I also knew that I didn't have 30 days.

Realistically, I have about 20 writing days this November, and that's with the help and cooperation of my family ( ( Read more... )

This year I signed up for NaNoWriMo: that's National Novel Writing Month. It's taken place each November for the past 14 years. The challenge: to write 50,000 words (about 175 pages) towards a new novel in 30 days time.

I don't generally need incentives to write novels. I've published three, have four more in my files, and am currently in the middle ( Read more... )

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I was baking today and listening to They Might Be Giants. Now I have this song stuck in my head.

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