31/50 ( Read more... )

    At 25k words, I am half-way there ( Read more... )

    The last three days have been productive ones -- productive for two reasons. First, I found and enforced upon myself the time necessary to write a good deal more than I have in any other three day period so far. Second, in the time I have been writing, I haven't come upon too much editorial stumbling and I have kept up a very reasonable speed. ( Read more... )

    Two days of too much sleeping and too much partying on the 6th and 7th led to absolutely no writing. I was going to catch up yesterday, but then I ended up getting free tickets to a Metric and OK Go concert. That's a different topic however ( Read more... )

    I worry about the content of my writing. Rules I know, which I'm probably not following:

• All dialogue should accomplish two things.
• Show; don't tell.
• Believeability is in the details.

    I worry less if I think of my novel as a more detailed outline than the one I have taking up a several hand-written sheets of loose-leaf at the moment. Right now ( Read more... )

    Similarly with the massive number of other projects I had for the end of October, I made it through most of the books from my last post in time for NaNoWriMo. Unfortunately, I didn't get my entire to-do list cleaned off, and I'm only halfway through Vogler's analysis on Campbellian Heroes ( Read more... )

    One year and one month later, and it looks like I always end up back on LJ in the Fall. I'm not going to pretend like I'll update regularly, but I've got a use for LJ for the next month and a bit. I'm going to give (Inter)National Novel Writing Month a shot ( Read more... )

    Today, I finally realized that early written work was built upon a tradition of poorly argued points and badly articulated ideas. The writers of history weren't the most intelligent their time had to offer; they were the people who could afford a leisurely lifestyle of studying facts and offering their opinions. An English Literature university ( Read more... )

    Got a pass to a local Career Counseling website through a friend who was signed up. Took the online quiz (I love that shit), and got a list of jobs that fit my likes and dislikes as they apply to tasks involved with each job. Another survey then also rated each job as to how good a match my skills are to that job's requirements. As listed, the ( Read more... )

Age of consent, drinking age, smoking age -- I think the state should leave parenting in the hands of the parents. I dislike the idea of the "underage" being treated as second-class citizens ( Read more... )