Caveat, caveat, caveat. Caveat caveat? Dismissal of caveat. Apology for excessive caveat. Gratitude. Sneaky caveat. (Seriously, this one’s all conversation and brutal info dumps, and my webcomicky soul gets itchy and I start to think that ninjas should fall from the ceiling, but…well…couldn’t work ’em in.) Also, this was going to be longer, but they’ve […]
Monthly Archives: December 2006
My father’s a Republican. He also lobbied clear to the state Senate for his right to put up solar panels in defiance of his HOA, spends most of his time making bio-diesel in the garage, and is currently trying to get a job working for the Head Start program. I tell him that they’re going […]
It’s long. It’s rough. It sounds like the intro to a dirty joke, but actually, it’s the resolution of that cliff hanger I threw at you. It still needs a lot of polish, but…oh, well, caveat caveat, you all know the drill by now. My info dumps are graceless. I am aware. They’ll work themselves […]
One of my characters just did something really intelligent. I looked at him and went “Wow! Nice! I totally wouldn’t have thought of that!” If there was ever proof that writing is a form of marketable insanity…
As many of you probably already know, the baiji, the Yangtze River Dolphin, has been declared extinct. Say it with me, O humanity — “Well, we sure fucked that one up…” My first exposure to the baiji came from reading Douglas Adam’s brilliant Last Chance to See over a decade ago. Today, both Adams and […]
6K today–not too shabby. That puts it at 18K total. Word counts make me feel like I’m achieving something, which is good, because I still have no desire to paint. On the down side, since we’ve barely gotten anywhere, and there’s three more characters off in the wings clearing their throats, they also give me […]
Another day of endless printing stretches out in front of me. And NPR is talking about economic theory, so it’s a put-on-the-music day. The one advantage to these days is that I can get a lot of writing done–got about 12K on the asylum story in the past three days. (Not consecutively, alas. There’s a […]
Went digging around in some old files and turned up a few logs of my MUD days–the sort of things that are of no possible interest to anyone else on earth, but which take you back. Man, I miss that character. I’ve had a few that I really loved–Mouse the samurai comes in a close […]
Well, y’all were so nice and encouraging about the rough draft on Nanowrimo, so…err…have a chunk of rough. I don’t know if it works. It may be insipid or dreadfully cliche. The problem is that Myra’s opening narration has to be flat and matter-of-fact and not particularly funny, and that’s not something I have any […]
Printing, printing, endless printing. And also writing. The character who keeps talking, and has me running along with a notepad yelling “Wait up! Hang on!” just uttered the disturbing phrase: “Hey, I wouldn’t kick him out of bed for biting the head off a live chicken.” That…kinda…worries me…