Outline, partial detailed outline. Don't click if you don't want spoilers for my novel!

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I have a rough outline, already posted. I always keep the non-written part of the current chapter's outline in the file I'm editing. Every editing session begins with a new file, with the naming convention of day-of-month.file-in-day.txt, both numbers padded out to two digits so that they will sort correctly. When I close out an editing session, I ( Read more... )

It's 1:16am localtime here, and I'm 2330 words into nanowrimo.
Not as good as I hoped, as I wanted to have 5000 done before morning, but better than strictly necessary.

I wanted to know how fast I could get words out -- this stuff matters for NaNoWriMo. So I took a silly idea I found in the threads about the whole story being told with interruptions and retellings, and tried to make a story out of nothing but that. Note, as per nanowrimo advice, I did not edit worth for shit. The drivel that follows may be ( Read more... )

Before LJ, my journal was the moshez.org mailing list, now long gone. I managed to rescue this old story.

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Spoilers within, click on cut-tag at own risk.
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So I've had this tagline in my head: "Magic is entering the world -- and the world doesn't like it one bit!" I've thought about what to do with it, with the prime contenders was "write a novel" and "do an RPG world". However, as some of you know, November is upon us and with it NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). So, that settles it, I guess ( Read more... )

Y and I were watching "Dead Like Me", and then we started discussing how most TV shows belong to the same genres ( Read more... )

I finally managed to follow the instructions about how to emulate the OLPC well enough to run it. (Download image ( Read more... )

Steve Austin, astronaut. A man barely alive. Gentlemen, we cannot rebuild him. We lack the technology. We have, however, a demo of the capability to build the world's first bionic man. Steve Austin will seem like that man.To all appearances, better than he was before. As far as anyone will know, better, stronger, faster.