Man, I got nothin’ on the word front today. Nano is exhausting. I am generally not a defeatist, but I have serious doubts about making 50K by the end of the month. I have a lot of words in me, but the well is beginning to go dry. Generally I have random phrases running through […]
Monthly Archives: November 2006
I cleaned the studio, unpacked the boxes that deserved to be unpacked, tacked up a great deal of random visual knickknacks to the walls, and called it good. It only took me seven months to finally unpack everything! Woot! In honor of this, I’m going to go take a celebratory nap.
Ironically, having hammered out my quota and no more on Nano, I had a wild idea on something totally unrelated and wrote 3K words on it. I suspect this may be an interesting form of procrastination on the part of my brain–“I’m tired of this idea. Ooo! Look here! Look at the shiny new idea! […]
20,745 words. A bit behind, but at least I got my quota hammered out for the day. It’s amazing how the little things take on lives of their own–Hemlock kills a raging badger in the basement as a random bit of character development to show how unflappable she is, and now a second badger shows […]
Ladies and gentleman, I come before you, a freak of nature. I have the rarest kind of PMS right now. No, not cleaning PMS–that’s pretty common. Not inspired creative genius PMS–that’s exceedingly rare, but it’s happened a time or two, and I would give my liver to know how to tap it on command. No, […]
19K on Nano. I had no ambition this morning at all, but I surprised myself by hammering out 2K words with relative ease. Got James to hang some art for me, and spent a bit of time in the garden, doing the last gardening of the year (i.e. yanking out the dead annuals and trimming […]
Neverwinter Nights 2, like many other games, has its flaws. However, unlike most other games, it has achieved what only two games in recent memory have done for me–Jade Empire and Bard’s Tale. I am playing almost entirely to see what the heck my NPCs say next. I just giggled through my entire trial for […]
I sent the people at the cat shelter a note a few days ago saying that we were very happy with Gentle Ben and that he seemed to be settling in nicely, and the occasional nippiness they’d mentioned had almost entirely dissipated. (Which it has. Now if he’s in a disembowel-the-hand mood, he generally swings […]
17K on Nano. I fell down hard yesterday, and today was hard to hammer out, but at least I’m on track for the month. For a cold-blooded killer, Hemlock certainly baby-talked to her horse a lot. Angler’s conception of wild-eyed murderers had not previously included the phrase “Who’s a good boy? Who’s my snoogie-woogums, den?” […]
Got a Digger done. Slept for several hours. Had a dream about a malfunctioning clone machine spitting out dozens of two-headed cannibal ponies and the severed torso of Anne of Green Gables. Got up. Made tea. Wondered what my subconscious smokes. I got nothin’ creatively today. I’m gonna go play Neverwinter Nights and wait for […]