266 pages, suck it mother fuckers! And I just got done with the last big plot point. The two remaining scenes are just needed to finish off some subplot stuff and make the book a bit more cohesive ( Read more... )

Sunday night I hit 230 pages, went across the street because my favorite bar tender was working, got trashed, went home, sicked, and passed out. I didn't make my goal of 232. Thankfully the original goal for the week was only 225 pages, but I'm still pretty disappointed with myself ( Read more... )

So yesterday I hammered out my required 10 pages for the day. Then when I got home, I managed to knock out an extra 2, so I'm sitting on a pretty 222. My goal for the end of today was 230, but I was also planning on doing 10 today, so I don't really see my extra effort last night as giving me any reason to work less today, which means the new ( Read more... )

I'm guessing some...if not most of you don't know this, but I'm writing a novel titled Ghosts of Monte Sano. I recently got myself a writing buddy and we're pushing each other to crank our respective books out ( Read more... )

People need to stop saying Can't when they mean Won't or Don't Want To. 99% of the time that you say Can't, you mean something else, so please, start saying what you actually mean ( Read more... )

As you probably don't know, and how you don't know, I don't know, there was an explosion (reported as a steam pipe explosion) in midtown Manhattan today at about 5:50 leaving a, literal, crater in Lexington Avenue. So far there has been 1 fatality and 16 injuries reported and the area may be contaminated with asbestos ( Read more... )

Late Monday afternoon I get an assignment to do some research with an informal report (e-mail, whatever). I was told to have it down by the end of day Tuesday, no problem. But, come 3:00 Tuesday I get an e-mail saying it now needs to be a memo (our more formal written report). And, the deadline for the memo is now Wednesday afternoon. And ( Read more... )

Today marks 3 rather...dumb firsts ( Read more... )

"Each of these quetions contains a pair of quotations from the readings. In each case, identify the authors ( Read more... )

I couldn't sleep and felt like writing ( Read more... )