Archive for October, 2007
My work hours are very flexible. As long as I’m available for meetings, hit my deadlines, and make my monthly hours, I can basically work when I want. This means I don’t have a strict time I need to be at work in the morning. I love this about my job, and I consider it a [ READ MORE ]
I can’t believe I have to start NaNoWriMo in three days. This whole thing seemed like a great project when it was still a month away, but as the dread grows and the inevitable failure closes in, I’m realizing what a silly, silly idea this was. In order to ready myself for this, I have: Written a [ READ MORE ]
This is an updated list of the books and graphic novels I’ve been reading this year. I’ll be continually adding new books and occasionally creating a new post to bump to the front page when it’s had a few updates. I think it’ll be interesting to look back at the end of the year and [ READ MORE ]
The NaNoWriMo website appears to finally be functional, so I thought I’d drop in here and point you to my profile. If you’re taking part this year, add me as a writing buddy. I don’t know what writing buddies do, exactly, but if nothing else I can spy on your word count like the big [ READ MORE ]
I’m listening to M. Ward’s Transfiguration of Vincent right now. He’s an American singer-songwriter, and I’m really enjoying the entire CD. It’s hard to describe his sound, but it’s kind of laid-back and bluesy most of the time. It sounds like a dusty, relaxing afternoon in the middle of summer. He reminds me of Tom [ READ MORE ]
Sorry for this mass of text. I’m too tired to write any CSS to add linebreaks, and my CMS dictatorship, commonly known as WordPress, won’t let me add them manually in the HTML. I tried. Thanks everyone who left book recommendations on the last post. I’m a little embarrassed that I’ve read so many writing books [ READ MORE ]
I visited a local bookstore this afternoon to buy some writing references for November. Unfortunately, I left empty-handed. I’d already read the well-known books on the shelf, and nothing else really jumped out at me. I was also disgusted by the outrageous prices. Writing books are usually quite expensive, but still having to pay an [ READ MORE ]
I’ve decided to attempt NaNoWriMo. I’ll start drafting an outline tomorrow and try to find some direction. I’m actually getting quite exciting about it. I still can’t see myself getting to 50,000 words, but I’m willing to give it a shot. Even if I fail miserably, at least I’ll be writing. Sigur Rós is an Icelandic [ READ MORE ]