I finished my 11k challenge for the weekend, and now have somewhere just north of 35,000 words. I’m shooting to hit 50 next Sunday night, but I’m not entirely sure 15k in 7 days is entirely realistic. So we’ll leave that alone other than to open the betting pool for when I’m going to hit […]
It was a pretty good day, but I’m going to eschew blogging for the sake of increasing wordcount. But today was good because: * I crossed the 30,000 word mark * Cal won, which is always good * I had lots of good times with people who are pretty awesome. Worrying: * Stanford curbstomped USC […]
Random thoughts from ye olde brain of mine: * The stoplight question from a few days ago? The reason it came up was that I was reading a fascinating book about traffic and automobiles, and in a discussion about relative corruption levels and traffic laws obeyed, he brought up that point — that even at […]
So, y’know how I’ve been asking y’all for money? I’m down to needing to come up with ~$20. This is because I have a set of awesome friends. I’m going to write (by hand, mind you) thank you cards to everybody that’s supported me once things have calmed down a bit and I know who […]
Yeah, that’s *my* mint farm! (Or it might just be an anagram for my first and last names.) Anyway, I need eight more donations of ten dollars each to get to The Night of Writing Dangerously, thanks to a few awesome friends. Can you help by donating? Also, since a picture’s worth a thousand words, […]
First of all, and I know this is becoming annoying, please donate to help send me to The Night of Writing Dangerously. I just need 15 more people to donate $10 each, and the clock is starting to tick down. (I have to make it to the goal by Nov. 18!) This is what I’d […]
I swear, Mondays account for 53 and three-quarters percent of all my extensional crises. This was another bad Monday. Anyway, to explain my topic, it comes from the children’s book Alexander and the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day, in which the main character contemplates several times about moving to Australia. I’ve thought about […]
I need to go back and add yesterday’s server-maintenance delayed post, but it will be up. Meanwhile, today, I’m giving you an excerpt from my novel-in-progress. Help me get to the Night of Writing Dangerously! I only need about 16 more people to throw $10 at the pot! Anyway, this is told from the point […]
Just a quick note: My blog provider is down, I’ll be posting a backdated message there when it comes back up. (It’s upgrade night, and I forgot!) On track with NaNo, crossed the 15k mark, will do a couple other things I really need to do tomorrow. That’s about it. [Edit: Obviously, moving this back […]
Another post just to have something up. I promise you all that I’ll try to write you a longer one tomorrow — well, after I do some other things I’ve been slacking on. I’m feeling a little better emotionally, but I’ve got a bit of a cold, so my head hasn’t completely been in the […]
Coffee shop closing Time to put ‘puter away You cannot stay here. [I’ll write more later, but I wanted to make sure I got something posted.]
This entry exists merely to meet the letter of the challenge. It probably doesn’t meet the spirit, but since the last three days’ entries have seemed to be on the negative side and nobody wants to read that crap. So, I’m going to spare you all another rendition. It’s November. It’s supposed to be my […]
I deliberately set the blog to email me when new comments are made. There’s three reasons for this madness: That’s the way LJ comments are handled, and I’ve liked being able to see them It allows me a quick response if there’s a comment that needs to be handled in a particular fashion It allows […]
Mondays are hard days. Not only are they the start of the work week, but they seem to serve as a reminder of just what kind of failure I am. I mean, I get up, I go to work, and I work. But I know deep inside that I’m only working three days and not […]
So it’s November. November means it’s NaNoWriMo month, which means that I’m running around like a crazy person. Then I stupidly said, “Ah why not, I’ll update my blog every day this month. It’s not like I don’t have enough to do.” Since I’m sure there’s folks out there that want to keep me honest, […]