Archive for April, 2007
The Scapegoat
(Via Jeffrey Burton Russell)
Purgatorio
Woke up yesterday, right eye swollen and painful. I spent most of the day writing, making pots of tea, and bathing my eye with warm water and Eyebright.
End of the day, the eye was worse . . . but I’d managed to write through to the end of Book Two, putting the total word count [...]
They Don’t Have Meetings About Rainbows
A few weeks back, after the Virginia Tech shootings, I wrote a fairly long post about how I was concerned that a precedent had been set for teachers to essentially “profile” problem students by what they wore or wrote. In writing that post, I realized I was overreacting and perhaps a bit paranoid. So I [...]
A Thursday Milestone on a Friday Evening
Last night I ran a word count and was happy to see that I’ve passed 75,000 words. That’s how much of the second draft is done.
It seems like a lot — but only if you don’t realize how much more there is left to write. I think I’m going to get close to 175,000 by [...]
“Why don’t you come to me now, more like you are?”
Over the past day or so, I’ve put in a handful of hours into the second draft (not a lot, really — would that I could do more).
Because I wrote the first draft in longhand, working on the second draft has been an odd sort of process somewhere between rewriting, editing, and transcribing.
Which means that [...]
“Wandering Among the Twittering Dead”
A few weeks back, Jack went into a spiel about Twitter and how cool it was. Soon a bunch of people at work were jumping in.
Usually, I’m not an early adopter and Jack goes through software demos like, uh, something really fast that’s funny . . . but I figured I’d give it a try.
Once [...]
On Heads
Over on his blog, Neil Gaiman writes
Probably more than you really wanted to know, but I’m an author who’s been writing a book, and mostly it’s what my head is filled with, and it’s interesting if you’re me.
And, not for the first time, I have to agree with him. Yes. That’s exactly how I feel [...]
Early Morning Thoughts on a Clean House, Gatsby, Pronoun Trouble, and the Seduction of the Innocent
I’ve been cleaning the kitchen tonight — trying to get a head start on the weekend, really. My rationale has been that the more I do tonight, the more time I have to write this weekend.
It’s Saturday now and I’ve got a very clean kitchen. Yay. That’s two more hours that I can use tomorrow.
I [...]
We Control the Vertical
Just noticed that there are lots of goofy characters showing up all of a sudden. I apologize to anyone who isn’t seeing the em-dashes, quotes, and apostrophes the way god intended. It appears to be a character encoding issue. I will try to fix it at some point over the next few days.
Until then, enjoy [...]
USB and You
It’s been a while since I’ve gotten all geeky on you. This online exhibition of USB-inspired devices has some very thought-provoking ideas (see right) as well as a few genuinely marketable ones.
I would, for instance, buy a tie with the blue USB symbol on it. Very cool. I don’t even need the plug. I wonder [...]
