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…
Year: 2008
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…
Historic, Wot?
D and I watched the election results and speeches last night via BBC News‘s live Internet video feed. It was nice to get a more international perspective on the whole thing, and the uncooperative satellite connection to Kenya was amusing,…
NaNoWriMo Has Begun
That’s National Novel Writing Month to you. My current progress: D and I got a head start at a midnight write-in on Friday, and an after-hours library write-in on Saturday night. Then we totally slacked off today and played Rock…
Creepy Gaiman
Three days ago, in Manchester, UK: If you believe their blogs, Neil and Jonathan both enjoyed themselves. I’m confident that Coulton will have similarly entertaining surprises lined up when we see him in Portland on January 24th. ~CKL
Sherman Alexie pwns Stephen Colbert
My favorite part is at the very end, when Colbert knows he’s been pwnd and can’t even summon a comeback: Just before D and I watched this, we had a brief discussion about how it made more sense for even…