20,000th words, or 40 pages: take your pick. The more I write, the easier the words come. I’ve done more in a day, in 2 hours, than I have in two weeks. So, is that the key, then: write, write, write, even if it’s dull and boring and insipid, keep ( more… )
It’s been a month already. Not much has gotten done, a fact that I would like to blame on the move, but in the end it still comes down to me, doesn’t it? Although watching this very large cockroach race across my living room wall is very distracting. This place ( more… )
So, lately, I’ve been playing the hell out of a video game called “Halo Wars.” For those of you unfamiliar (ie, everyone with a life), Halo Wars is a strategy game, kind of like Risk, but in real time, because if time waits for no man, it sure as hell ( more… )
So today I hacked on the rough draft. It was hard at first, but after awhile things started flowing a little more freely. I always start off terrible; write, write, rewrite, then I’m not quite sure what I want to write in the end. What I wrote about mostly was ( more… )
So, last year, like all wannabe wordsmiths, I had a go at NaNoWriMo, and failed miserably. An entire month which you are supposed to dedicate to crackin’ out a 50k word novel, at a rate of 1.5k words a day, and I was hosed by the third day. In the ( more… )
This morning, I had a dream. In the dream, I was in class, because I was a tiny, adorable child (<3), or I was a grown up in a class full of children. It’s pretty high tech, kids are building small nuclear reactors and other crazy sciencey things. I can’t ( more… )