November 10, 2008
6:19 pm
I have now successfully written 13,201 additional words in the last 72 hours, or the rough equivalent of 48 pages. I’m almost caught up with the 16,000 words that I’m supposed to have at this point, but I’m not quite there yet. It’s very obviously still first draft material, but I am frakking elated. So […]
November 10, 2008
11:19 am
Still not caught up with where I’m supposed to be yet, but having written almost 4,000 words in a relatively short amount of time (most of yesterday afternoon/evening got devoured by running errands instead of writing, alas) I’m still feeling pretty proud of myself. At this stage in the novel I have all the exposition […]
November 9, 2008
10:49 am
I’m having issues with my NaNoWriMo 2008 project. For starters, I was actually traveling when November began, crisscrossing Ohio in a short tour of schools I have known: the College of Wooster, Kenyon, Ohio State, and finally Ohio University down in Athens. Long story short, I was looking for answers to some questions that I […]
Because I am completely barking mad, I’ve decided to attempt both NaNoWriMo and DrawMo this month. So far DrawMo is winning, as “Lanterns” indicates, but I have several things kicking around for the story already. I’m trying to decide if a series of interconnected short stories counts as cheating for NaNoWriMo. I hope not. (Hey, […]
September 20, 2008
3:39 pm
First off, let me assure all my friends and co-conspirators that yes, I have returned from Texas safe and sound, and actually Ike gave Austin a wide enough berth that aside from a number of uncomfortable-looking evacuees camping out in another part of the Austin Convention Center, there was very little evidence of anything out […]
I love that blessed and beautiful feeling when you discover something that’s been missing for all too long. For me, lately, that feeling has been coming in waves with the discovery of an entire collection of my peers that are working in the slipstream / interstitial / contemporary reinvention-of-genre spaces. I blogged about this before […]
Man, I gotta learn to pace myself. In addition to my own entry this morning, “On Maps and Legends,” I also posted two more essays on the MIT blogs: “WiiWare, PSN, XBLA and the Long Tail” on the GAMBIT blog and “The Dangerous World of a GPS That Does Not Exist” on the C3 blog. […]
So. Earlier this week I did something perhaps I shouldn’t have done, and right now I’m doing something else I shouldn’t be doing by taking a break at my dayjob to blog, but right now I think the head of the lab and I are the only two people left in the lab (today being […]
February 15, 2007
6:52 pm
I just added a couple pieces from late January and early Febuary to my writing archives. For the interested, these pieces are as follows: April Showers, Champs Elysees, Paris, 1888 Vestments Storage Morning Labor on the Seine Things with Wings
January 17, 2007
10:31 pm
Over at Making Light, Teresa Nielsen Hayden posts some modified entries to a writer’s Devil’s Dictionary: Self-publishing: How authors who are slow learners find out about marketing and distribution. Small Press: A publishing house that’s only as good as the people running it. (This applies to publishing houses of any size.) My time with Inkblots […]
