Yet another blogmeme via matociquala: Put your music player on shuffle, and write down the first line of the first twenty songs. Post the poem that results. The first line of the twenty-first song is the title. Additional: I skipped…
Month: November 2008
67,118 words
Finished my NaNoWriMo 2008 novel tonight. I had been shooting for 75,000 words, but I reached a natural and satisfying endpoint for the story I was telling at just over 67,000. I considered going back and inserting a few chapters…
A Public Service Announcement
The Dr. Horrible DVD is now available for pre-order on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B001M5UDGS/curtiscchensfree Happy Black Friday! ~CKL
Hello Stanford
Friend-of-the-blog Loren mentioned that my Class Notes made it into the current issue of Stanford Magazine. If you got here from there, welcome! You can find tales from our summer road trip (featuring Bayla and Jasper) over at Travels With…
Lowered Expectations
I started this year’s NaNoWriMo with the goal of reaching 100,000 words, but with ten days left and a current total of 42,717 words, that’s probably not going to happen. So I’ve revised my goal down to 75,000 words, which…
CKL+D Go To OryCon
OryCon 30 starts tomorrow! You can view our tentative schedule on Google Spreadsheets. We also hope to meet up with our friends Ken & Cera and Kevin & Steph at some point during the weekend. And find a couple of…
Me and Ken Levine
I spent last weekend at Sitcom Room 3, where for two days I got to experience a simulation of the glamorous life of a TV comedy writer. (See? You’re laughing already.) As shown above, I was delirious happy enough after…
Why I wasn’t writing this weekend
Actually, I was writing; it just wasn’t noveling. I just finished two days in Ken Levine‘s Sitcom Room, which he gleefully and accurately describes on his blog as “hell-arity!” My excellent writing team consisted of this motley crew: Gary, a…
Why I wasn’t writing last weekend
This game was called Ghost Patrol. The conceit was that we were hunting and exorcising ghosts. Slime was involved. There was an entry fee, but all the money is right up there on the screen, as they say. I saw…
The Day After
A selection of this morning’s Twitter messages: Damn it, I have a headache! I thought electing Obama would FIX THINGS! — John Scalzi (eater of Schadenfreude Pie) Prop 8 passed. Goddammit. I will continue to fight for equality for all…