Dec

16

Testing a new technology

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I’m trying to find new ways to make this blog useful, so I thought I’d see if I could get a Google Wave to embed here.

Nov

9

Tweets for 2009-11-09

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  • Have I written? No. Have I eaten lunch? Yes – 2 c stir fry veggies, handful of walnuts, left over spicy stir fried pork. #

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Nov

5

Tweets for 2009-11-05

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  • Enjoying a nice hot coffee with sugar free gingerbread syrup. Yum! #

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Nov

5

Ready at last?

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I’ve finally finished up entering all my scene cards for TMA and getting them in order. I’ve assigned them to chapters, and printed up the Book Summary (I’m using the program StorYBook, a free and open source program for novel writing. The program doesn’t have every feature I’m looking for, but it has most of them and that’s good enough for me. :)

Anyway, the summary is 13 pages. It’s a bit misleading, as there’s stuff in it like locations and character’s present for each scene. Many of the scenes have little more than a sentence or two to tell me what’s supposed to happen in them. Once I’ve finished with the complete first draft (and after NaNoWriMo), I’m going to go back and put in more text for the scene summaries. That way I can use the book summary for a synopsis when it comes time to submit the thing. Good idea, don’t you think?

But not this weekend. Between housework and my hemming the kids’ pants, I’m not going to have much free time.

Nov

5

I told you so.

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Yes, I’m doing NaNo this year. And my word count so far? 256.

Man, that sucks.

I have lots of excuses, but very few good reasons as to why it’s happened. All I can say is I’m working on a plot problem, and hopefully when that’s taken care of, the words will start flowing.

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