Thank God that's over.This experience taught me a lot of things, but I'm damned if I'm going to write it all out now. Maybe next time.Now, I can get on to some serious, hopefully publishable writing. Not to mention bloggi...
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Ways to comment on Thanksgiving:Just say "Happy Turkey Day"Throw in jokes about the various minories--racial, ethnic, religious, or dietary--who do not find a reason to celebrate this holiday seasonPoint out how different countries celebrate the same holiday.Gnawing on a dried-out plucked buzzard to celebrate Britain chucking all the creepy inbred sandal-chewing God-botherers into boats and shipping...
37,460/50,000 Words.74.9% toward completion.I'm 881 words behind where I should be at this exact moment.What I've been doing is writing really long chapters (i.e. short stories) with the novel's characters. It's the George Lucas method, where he does his real "directing" in the editing room, rather than during the takes. So, I'm writing pages and pages of stuff, and plan to cut it out, lat...
Thursday, November 17, 2005
...The Reader's Digest VersionITEM ONEDear Sony:Suck it.Love,Bill G.And, it still didn't stop me from getting Chris Botti's To Love Again!ITEM TWOI'm takin' what they're givin''Cos I'm workin' for a livin'-Huey Lewis & the News, "Workin' for a Livin'"Well, workin' when I'm called, anyway.ITEM THREEHave it...
This is pages 71 to 120 of my NaNoWriMo piece. I've cranked out another five pages tonight (I had another gig), but I gotta tell you. Week Three started out being the picnic that was promised in the book No Plot? No Problem!. But, it's killing me, now. To be honest, I know why. That "Inner Editor" of mine,...
Monday, November 14, 2005
I mentioned (Or, did I? My sense of time and place has become skewed for the past few weeks) having a temp gig three days last week. There was nothing today (though perhaps for tomorrow), so I had time to work on The Novel, Draft 0.9. I won't even give it the dignity of calling it a "first draft," because since last week, it's degenerated into a bastardization of narrative prose, blocks of text...
Friday, November 11, 2005
I'm not really doing anything "bad" according to the NaNoWriMo rules. The point is word count, by any means necessary short of typing out "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" over and over like Nicholson did in The Shining. But, I've now resorted to what I feel are dirty tricks to keep myself at a decent pace (which is to say, two days worth of work behind).In those spaces I feel stuck,...
Thursday, November 10, 2005
You will probably win Nanowrimo - it's a brillantopportunity to lord your mighty brains overyour less well-endowed friends. Whatever. It's Nanowrimo Time! Will you reach 50K?What kind of novel will you write?brought to you by QuizillaI was going to let this slide this week, between NaNoWriMo and a little temp...
Sunday, November 06, 2005
Yeah, I slacked this weekend. I took the time to attend a reading by Pulitzer Prize-winning local author Alison Lurie. While her book really didn't interest me (at least, what I read of it), I guessed that she'd have a lot of interesting insights to share during whatever Q&A session that might take place, and I was right.[Edited to remove the broken counte...
I did say that I'd blog less in November, although it just seems like I'm posting at the usual (dismal) rate :).Seems like most of the people doing NaNoWriMo who keep blogs like to brag about how they're taking part. I was down with that. I even put the meter in the sidebar from an adjunct "this site is in no way officially affiliated with NaNoWriMo" website that a lot of people use. What I hadn't...
Thursday, November 03, 2005
Yes, I've got some nerve to be here after the last post, but I do this every week. Fashionista 59% Tastefulness, 51% Originality, 67% Deliberateness, 45% Sexiness [Tasteful Original Deliberate Prissy]One is certain: you have great taste and plenty of ideas. You have clearly defined beliefs about what's...
Wednesday, November 02, 2005
There will probably be very little of it this month because of NaNoWriMo. It's Day 2, and I'm just on track. I was about 20% ahead of schedule last night, but hey. I had other things to do earlier today and Law & Order was on. Hey, where else can I catch actor Richard Brooks since good vs. evil was cancelled?...
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