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Keep Writing! Keep Writing! Keep Writing!
NaShoStoMo is a month-long challenge to write 30 stories in 30 days. The rules? Must be at least 200 words long, so none of this cutesy 12-word crap. And it must have a beginning, middle and an end, so none of this 1000-word vignette/visual tone-poem crap, either ( Read more... ) -
Plotting Short Stories
So I'm doing NaShoStoMo, and it's WAY harder than I thought it would be. The rules are simple: for every day in April, write a short story. It must be at least 200 words long and it must be a complete story with a beginning, a middle and an end. I have discovered something: It is really hard to write a complete story in 200 words ( Read more... ) -
NaShoStoMo: Success
So, yeah. Gonna do this NaShoStoMo thing. I'll publish something here if I think it's interesting. This story is terrifying to me because I wish it could be true....
NaShoStoMo Day 2
Success
Doctor Samson tapped his metal fingers on his desk, like tiny gavels. "Try it again," he said. "What do you want ( Read more... ) -
Critical Chain Analysis and Morning Routines
Chaliren and I are a well-matched pair. She is organized, I am messy. She is responsible, I am creative. She is efficient, I am... well, I'd say I have more fun. But there is one area in which I am astonishingly more efficient than her: morning routines ( Read more... ) -
Hey. Quit Being a Dick.
So I guess today was the day for taking the piss out of Dave. ( Strong language behind the cut ) -
Good References
Good friends are good. So, I'm bidding on this short-term contract project. (As an aside: wish me luck ( Read more... ) -
Enough Crimefighting, I'm Going Vigilante
I have had a fantastic time at Public Engines working on CrimeReports. When I started, they had a small dev team laboring under thousands of lines of legacy code. They used Subversion. They coded in whatever technology the previous teams had left behind: PHP, Python, C#.NET, even a tiny image processor written in C ( Read more... ) -
Vegan Tikka Masala
I've been experimenting with vegan food lately, not out of any sense of morality but rather for the health benefits. I'm also getting back on the Eat To Live diet, which is even more strict than veganism, so I go vegan when I need to splurge ( Read more... ) -
"Normal"
I just spent 20 minutes standing inside the screen door onto my rear patio, porch light on and flashlight in hand to attract bugs, a jeweler's loupe headband on my head to study the bugs that land on the screen, and every so often flicking a bug on the screen, knocking it directly into the gigantic web that a garden spider has strung across my ( Read more... ) -
Great Basin: Pretty Great Actually
Yesterday we went to, but not into, Lehman Caves. The caves are in Great Basin National Park just over the Nevada border, almost exactly 200 miles away from my doorstep. We didn't get to do any of the things we wanted to, got to do a lot of things we didn't expect, and had a pretty great time ( Read more... )