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Quasi-NaNoWriMo 2011: Day 3
Here are the grim numbers: Date: November 3 Number of words at the start of writing today: 4,828 Number of words at the conclusion of writing today: 5,291 Words written today: 463 Words written in November: 2,623 Blame modern convenience for the paltry total. I came home from work at midnight, wrote most of a … Continue reading
Quasi-NaNoWriMo 2011, Day 2
Here are the latest tabulations as I keep myself accountable on a novel project I’m tentatively calling Rayfield: Date: November 2 Number of words at the start of writing today: 3,738 Number of words at the conclusion of writing today: 4,828 Words written today: 1,090* Words written in November: 2,160 * — This is why … Continue reading
NaNoWriMo: I’m in! Kinda. Sorta.
As I write this, National Novel Writing Month — known by adherents as NaNoWriMo — is sixty-four minutes old. Hundreds of thousands of would-be, never-will-be and most-definitely-are novelists are taking to their keyboards and trying to pound out a minimum of 50,000 words over the next thirty days. I already have the only NaNoWriMo badge … Continue reading
Memories of the Texas Rangers
I’ve never held myself out as much of a baseball fan. Part of it, I’m sure, is that I grew up in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, and everything there — particularly when I was a kid — began and ended with the Dallas Cowboys. I also imagine that the state of the area’s professional baseball … Continue reading
Awards and other jazz
Lots of great literary news from the weekend. I’ll start with something not great but okay nonetheless: The Summer Son, which was up for the Utah Book Award in fiction, didn’t win. Congratulations to Gerald Elias, who took home the prize for Danse Macabre. Here in Billings, the High Plains Book Awards were handed out … Continue reading
A new direction: over and out (for a while)
On May 2, 2011, with this post, I began everyday blogging around here (well, Monday through Friday, anyway). For nearly five months, with the exception of a legitimate week’s vacation, I made sure something new was up every morning at 8. On Fridays, I even posted off-the-cuff short stories, inspired by words suggested by my … Continue reading
The Word: Mercurial
The drill: Each week, I’ve asked my Facebook friends to suggest a word. I then put the suggestions into list form, run a random-number generator and choose the corresponding word from the list. That word serves as the inspiration for a story that includes at least one usage of the word in question. This week’s … Continue reading
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