Monthly Archives: November 2009

Blaming my tools

Posted on November 30, 2009 by Jeff

I was going to talk about my new sooper seekrit plan to release and mar­ket Uni­fi­ca­tion Chron­i­cles today, but I expe­ri­enced some tech­ni­cal dif­fi­cul­ties recently that I just have to rant about. We’ll get to the busi­ness plan stuff, I promise. Even­tu­ally. But … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-​11-​29

Posted on November 29, 2009 by Jeff

Up to 42225 today, over 1500 words in a day filled with real life stuff. #amwrit­ing #mguwc #nanow­rimo # Cre­ated a “Pink Floyd/​Roger Waters” sta­tion in #pan­dora and OMG TEH AWESOME. Doors, Dire Straits, Led Zepellin, Bea­t­les, etc. # @dmc­duck My … Con­tinue read­ing →

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A big meal in small bites

Posted on November 27, 2009 by Jeff

I’ve heard it said that writ­ing a novel is kind of like eat­ing an ele­phant. And how do you eat an ele­phant? One bite at a time. Same thing for a novel. 80,000 – 100,000 words seems like a lot, seems insane to write that much … Con­tinue read­ing →

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I won NaNoWriMo 2009!

Posted on November 25, 2009 by Jeff

50,000 words down, 510,000 words to go…

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Indiana Jones and losing your audience

Posted on November 23, 2009 by Jeff

I got to think­ing about “Indi­ana Jones and the King­dom of the Crys­tal Skull” recently, because I do things like that. I think there’s an inter­est­ing les­son here in how to lose an audi­ence, if you think you’re doing okay. The fourth … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-​11-​22

Posted on November 22, 2009 by Jeff

@bil­lious Prob­a­bly not as bad on deeper PC key­boards with more key travel. But on a flat net­book key­board, even 1mm nails slip. in reply to bil­lious # @niassa @kazoochica Sadly a squid don­key prob­a­bly would have made for a bet­ter movie. Assum­ing … Con­tinue read­ing →

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The daily writer’s kick in the nads

Posted on November 20, 2009 by Jeff

I had a good day yes­ter­day. I had a great day, yes­ter­day, really. I added 4,310 words to Rev­e­la­tion, bring­ing the total to 32,000 even. Last night I went home, yam­mered on the phone to my writ­ing part­ner for a while, and then watched NCIS and … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Brainstorming with the hive mind

Posted on November 18, 2009 by Jeff

Yes­ter­day I was floun­der­ing a bit in my writ­ing. I still really had no firm vision of act 2 and all I did know — that Batarel was try­ing to kill Daniel and Jack was try­ing to catch Daniel and Daniel was try­ing to be nei­ther killed … Con­tinue read­ing →

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No, really, I should be writing

Posted on November 16, 2009 by Jeff

I’m not blocked, I know exactly where my story should be going, and when I do sit down to write, the words that show up, how­ever grudg­ingly, are good ones. And yet, I logged a grand total of 192 words over the week­end, 5 (yes, … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-​11-​15

Posted on November 15, 2009 by Jeff

@tib­bar­erew Looked at the site, but didn’t see where to order the strip­pers and the “wed­ding porn” sec­tion was hella mis­lead­ing in reply to tib­bar­erew # RT @JeremyCShipp: Some­times, putting on a gnome-​based musi­cal of Mr. Belvedere is the best med­i­cine. … Con­tinue read­ing →

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