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Category Archives: Writing Journal
November 26, 2008
12:39 am
After a hu-u-u-u-uge push tonight, I’ve managed to get my NaNoWriMo novel more or less back on track. Still a ways to go yet in too little time, and good Lord why won’t the NaNo system update its tracker already, but I’m now at 41,355 words where I was at 36,764 when I woke up […]
November 25, 2008
8:24 am
Here’s a tip: if one is considering doing NaNoWriMo, there are a number of dumb things you can do. The first is attempting to do DrawMo at the same time, although that’s really not that big a deal at all, especially for those of us who think in pictures as well as in words. No, […]
November 21, 2008
5:58 pm
“Here we are,” Michael said in a low voice as we filed out of the tunnel and gathered around him, all of our necks craning as we stared up, up and further up. The tunnel must have led us into the mountains, all right – because right then and there we sure seemed to be […]
November 18, 2008
11:29 am
A bit of a hiccup in my NaNoWriMo scribblings, due to this turning out to be an incredibly tempestuous week (and it’s only Tuesday). Big news is breaking here in the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT, which I’ll link to as soon as it is officially announced… And now the cat is out of […]
November 16, 2008
1:44 pm
Only 11 words shy of another 3,000 words banged out this morning means that I’ve tipped over the 30,000 word mark, and am now over 3/5ths of the way to being done. Woo-hoo! I’m acutely aware that the majority of the book so far has been dialogue with a couple of action scenes thrown in, […]
November 15, 2008
11:29 pm
Despite having come down with the plague that’s been going around the lab, this evening I successfully cleared the halfway mark for NaNoWriMo with room to spare. Yesterday I turned in 2,446 words and today I turned in another 3,540 to bring me up to 27,196. I need to be stockpiling some for next weekend, […]
November 14, 2008
8:57 am
The steady march to 50,000 words nears the halfway point, as I hit 23,656 words this morning. I elected not to attend the Simon Winchester lecture last night after all due to feeling a little under the weather, so I used the time instead to get a mess of work done on both this and […]
November 12, 2008
12:22 pm
First of all, I’ve just uploaded a mess of illustrations from the last 10 days or so to my Flickr account as part of my DrawMo 2008 experiment. I cheated a little by doing three drawings yesterday to make up for missing two days before (shhh, don’t tell). Mostly they’re influenced by my recent obsession […]
November 11, 2008
8:16 am
Ever since I first dreamed up the premise for Children of Winter, Children of Wolves (which has the unfortunate shortened name of CoW, CoW) last year in Frank Espinosa’s world-building class, I knew where I wanted to take the story: Romania. There was something about the lore of Eastern Europe, tied up in all its […]
November 10, 2008
6:38 pm
Boom! And, in one half-decent scene, I have introduced Vicky’s ex-boyfriend, finally gotten to riff on Pi’s unusual name, and demonstrated the uncanny power of women to impose their will over both their current boyfriends and their past ones. Man, this story is turning out to be fun.
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