While I struggle to get rolling again (I wonder if the Connecticut for Lieberman Party has any of that “joementum” left over?), I figured now’s as good a time as any to get y’all up to speed on the new book. What follows, then, is an edited and expanded version of the journal I’ve been [...]
Just as I’d feared, I got no writing at all done over the weekend, and I’m struggling to get back into a BHH frame of mind. It’s really just a matter of going back through my notes and digging in, but making myself do it is proving problematic.
Part of it is scheduling. I work swing [...]
Rick commented yesterday that while I’m taking as long to write BHH/UC as Tolkien took to write LotR, Tolkien had considerably more time and less stress than I do. Not to take advantage of such excuses, but I’ve had almost no time to do anything writerly today. I ran late getting out of the house [...]
Got the following from one of the Asimovs regarding my current plan:
Ever since I’ve known you, you’ve been constantly re-working the same stories. Do they get better each time? Sure, but you’ve long since reached the point of diminishing returns. I’m tired of reading about how you’re going to rewrite the same old stories. Let [...]
For the past week or so I’ve been keeping a development journal detailing my thoughts about reworking Revelation. I’ve sent the first several entries on to the Asimovs and I asked Josh if I should post them to this blog. He said no, that they were too “Inside Baseball” and that people don’t really want [...]
As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, I’ve come to terms with why I write. Writing is my stab at immortality, at leaving a legacy. Once I had that figured out, the next question became: what do I write?
I’ve got a lot of ideas, a lot of projects that have been sitting on the back burner [...]
Okay, I know my regular readers will want to throttle me, but I’ve switched projects again, and this time I think it will stick (yes, I know I say that every time, but I really mean it this time. really. what?).
I’ve done a lot of soul-searching recently and really questioned if I want to write [...]
They say journaling really helps in goal achievement, and I guess I understand why. In that it forces someone to actually think about their life and where it’s going. I’ve been far too lax in this myself over the past… Five years. Ow.
I think it’s telling that my journalling seemed to stop when I got [...]
Okay, by now you guys know I’m not a fan of the iPhone. There are some things I like about it (battery life, durability, music UI) but I don’t think it’s a very good phone. The lack of 3G, inexplicable inconsistencies in the UI (different themes, different gesture effects) and the crippled Bluetooth profiles make [...]
Okay, I’ve seen the iPhone in person now and my opinion still stands. It’s sleek, stylish and completely ill-suited to any of its intended uses. The phone we’ve covered, so I won’t belabor the point. But what about the rest?
The user interface
The UI on the iPhone is amazing, just gorgeous. The animation between screens [...]