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…
Category: writing
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…
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…
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
I Voted Yesterday.
The government here in our new home conducts all elections by mail, so D and I have already cast our ballots. If you can vote early, I encourage you to do so. Yesterday, I helped decide legislation and appoint leaders…
jra’s thoughts redux
My friend Jeff, late of MSF and now in the UK, recently started blogging again. He’s a smart geek who cares. You should read his stuff. ~CKL