It's been a while, but I just finished with the second act. The third act should go nicely; all the major mystery elements will be uncovered and the action scenes will come quick and furious. I'm better at those I think. or at least I like them better than all the fucking TALKING detectives and detective look alikes end up doing ( Read more... )

Got my main story down pat now. A couple of tweaks here and there, and suddenly, it fell into place; what's really happening, the twists, everything. I'm sure it's change a little as I go; It's like taking a twisted cord and straightening out, watching the free end flop around for a minute before it calms down. Or forms a knot ( Read more... )

I got 3892 words of 5100 for 3 days. Still a little behind on the count, but I don't feel I can go farther before I get some more info on a few things. So, a little research, and I'll make up the 1200 words over time ( Read more... )

Spent evening working on NaNo. Got 2400+ words out, rah me. Still, that's less than I need to get out, and I'm not sure what sort of time I'll have tomorrow between game and work tomorrow. I may have to dedicate most of Sunday to catch up. Ah well ( Read more... )

So, I've been diddling with the back story on this thing, and I swear, I've written 1700 words on that alone. Insanity. But I haven't written a single word of story yet, because I'm trying to loosen the separate storylines, so that there's no glaring bullshit meters going off when someone points out that this person couldn't know X at the time he ( Read more... )

So, because isaiahwordsmith just hadda go and sign up, and I heard about this challenge not two weeks ago, I thought "Why the Hell Not?" and I'm gonna go for it ( Read more... )

This afternoon after work, I went shopping with Nikki and we bumped into a guy I used to work the city council meetings with, Bob. Bob and I caught up, and he asked me if I had heard about Jack Oliver ( Read more... )

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Now we're cooking!

So, me and Nikki had our 1st anniversary yesterday. Slept in (natch), had breakfast, goofed around til noonish, saw Knocked Up (very funny), ate big assed steaks at Cattleman's. Then came home. We're fairly simple folk, Nikki and I.