November 28, 2008
5:05 pm
Woo-hoo! I have no illusions about the quality of those 50,000+ words, but just being able to bang out a first draft of the follow-up to Bones of the Angel feels great. The new book feels very much like the Empire Strikes Back of the series so far because this is the book where everything […]
November 26, 2008
9:31 am
Now I’m a big fan of the gray lady, and I’m also a big fan of long, complicated sentences, but Manohla Dargis should be taken aside and given a strict talking-to for this doozy in today’s review of Baz Luhrmann’s Australia: Though “Australia” is narrated by a young boy of mixed race, Nullah (the newcomer […]
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 21, 2008
10:04 am
A quick note: people interested in following C3’s Futures of Entertainment 3 conference in real time should hop on Twitter and follow http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23foe3. There’s a whole mess of current students, alums, consulting researchers, partners and interesting folks twittering away over there. Those of you who are physically camped out here in the Bartos Theater at […]
November 21, 2008
9:44 am
I am currently camping out at the MIT Convergence Culture Consortium‘s Futures of Entertainment 3 conference, and live-tweeting it at http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23foe3. Come follow along!
November 19, 2008
9:40 pm
Adding further fuel to the tempestuous insanity that has been this week, I’ve had two somewhat interconnected papers accepted to two more conferences coming up this spring! First is the 2009 American Comparative Literature Association Conference, which takes place at Harvard March 26-29. This overlaps a bit with the tail end of the 2009 Game […]
November 19, 2008
2:11 pm
I am having one of those days where my brain is being pulled a thousand different ways at once. Hence, a links list post. First the stories closest to home: The Chronicle of Higher Education on Henry’s departure for USC. Gamasutra on the same. The Chronicle on the Media Lab’s Center for Future Storytelling. Sam […]
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 […]
