Interim Post – I admit fully that I’m having a hard time concentrating on the book today, what with all the election stuff and whatnot. But I just laid down about 500 of the most interesting words. I think the world just up and spoke to me. Not sure where they came from, but there’s […]
Read More ...Novel Dare – Day 6
Interesting day, this election day. It’s fair to say that voting cost me probably 1,200 words–though it trough I probably would have used that hour and a half wait to cut the grass. But I got 2,600 words this morning, and then I got back to it over the past hour and powered down another […]
Read More ...Dare to Be Bad – Day 5: Update, eh?
My 1,800 words or so grew this evening, edging to just over 3,000 for the day mostly on the power of adding character background on the most entrepreneurial of the main characters. I’m happy with this, as I want to get at least 3K a day while I’m off this week. Things are coming together, […]
Read More ...Novel Dare – Day 5
Nearly 1800 words this morning, despite a couple interruptions. Such is life, eh? But this runs my total up to just over 5K, which doesn’t suck. I’ve gotten some good progress in defining the base conceit of the world in place, and set up the intersection of two of the main characters. So that’s all […]
Read More ...The 51% Club
Lisa and I are both off for the day. She’s taken advantage of it to get her work out in this morning, and I’m downstairs toiling away at this novel that always seems to be just on the edge of breaking to my will when the phone rings … “Hello,” I say as I answer. […]
Read More ...ND – Day 4.5
Added another 750 words tonight, fleshing out a bit more on the third character and his relationship with his coach–which is really a conduit to his relationship to the world, I guess. More to come there. The character is a runner, which I’m finding interesting to think about. I’ve come to a firm conclusion about […]
Read More ...Novel Dare – Day 4
Good, but tentative progress. I’m up to a not startling 2,543 words total (which means I’ve added about 1500 so far today), but I’ve used those words to explore three of the four main characters of the book. Two of them I have down pretty well, and the third is about half-and-half fleshed in–maybe 75%. […]
Read More ...Novel Dare – Day 2/3
Okay, I think I ‘m actually ready to start now. This month’s novel is truly just that–a novel in a month, all the way from concept to end. I honestly had no idea what I was going to write when I sat down on Monday morning. I started with only a very vague notion that […]
Read More ...Novel Dare – Day 1
Lisa Silverthorne and I are doing a Novel Dare during NanoWriMo. We were originally going to do a Dre in October, but she got caught up in work issues that pushed it back, and as luck and synchronicity would have it, I got caught in work issues later in October that made this decision work […]
Read More ...Fun Podcasts
For those with a little extra time, here’s an interesting pair of podcasts, both from Studio360. American Icons: The Wizard of Oz Like many American’s, my family has a history with the Wizard, though we tend to call it “Wizard a’Boz!!!” these days due to it being one of those films that Brigid watch about […]
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