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Wordle

6/24/2008 – 11:48 am

I haven’t shown anybody, and I do mean anybody, my NaNoWriMo novel yet. It needs a lot of work. But I did Wordle it, if you’re curious.

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Plucked from the jaws of defeat

11/30/2007 – 9:38 pm

I did it!

With just over three hours to spare (and 90 words).
The book is far from done. Two of the four plot lines were left completely dangling in the middle. And one looked like it was over, but just joined up with the fourth one.
What is it about fiction? I always start [...]

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NaNoLoser

11/29/2007 – 8:49 am

Being sick for five days has probably taken me out of the running. I haven’t updated more than 900 words in the last week. I’d have to kick in about 8000 words today, and the same tomorrow, to finish. And I still have a job.
But I think I will try anyway. [...]

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The Future of Reading

11/20/2007 – 10:52 am

Mark Pilgrim: The Future of Reading (a play in six acts).

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Book-writing poll

11/13/2007 – 10:10 am

I put a new poll up on the sidebar, for what it’s worth.

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The halfway point

11/13/2007 – 8:45 am

I’ve cleared 25000 words, with two days to spare to the midpoint of the month.
I was going to be rather proud of my achievement, until I noticed that Calvindude is about 5000 words away from the end. Zowie.
In other news, though, I think that I’m just wrapping up the first act, but I don’t [...]

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Things I wish I knew for NaNoWriMo

11/12/2007 – 1:13 pm

Things I wish I would have learned about before starting a novel about aliens saving the world from an asteroid (it’s better than it sounds, I think):

Volcanic ash composition
The irregularity of the moon’s orbit, and what would happen if the orbit became more elliptical
Metal composition of the core and mantle of our planet
Likely weather patterns [...]

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NaNoWriMo

11/9/2007 – 8:51 am

If you haven’t been following my Twitter feed, then you may not know that I have been doing something a little crazy this month. To be specific, I’m trying to write a 50,000 word novel entirely in the month of November. We’re not talking final product, here; merely the first draft. Apparently [...]

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