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Audience Intentions
As I mentioned in the previous entry, our neighbor P, has now read Riptide, and has started working through Ghost Dancer. I've had a few conversations with him about it, and I'm having a little trouble sorting out what of his criticisms I ought to follow, which can be safely ignored, and which aren't really criticisms ( Read more... ) -
My Goodness!
Eleven weeks since I last posted here. Wow, does time fly! I'm at least somewhat in the habit of updating The Perpetual Beginner, but I haven't established a habit here, so it tends to languish ( Read more... ) -
NaNo Outline
As promised, here's the breakdown of this year's NaNo plan. I'm using the Speed Outline used by Paperback Writer (aka SF and Fantasy writer Lynn Viehl) in her post here. Detailed outlines give me an allergic reaction, effectively sending my muse screaming for the hills. This format, however, seems bare bones enough to avoid that effect ( Read more... ) -
NaNo!!
After a week of company, car repairs and emergency room visits (not serious, just lengthy), I finally have the house to myself for a little while to ponder the imminent arrival of NaNo. This year is going to be a challenge for me. Nov. 1 starts out with a bang by also being the day of the Lennox Legacy Tournament. IOW, I will be on the road to Ohio ( Read more... ) -
Back to Normal Life
The DI articles are edited, re-edited and away. The deadline was midnight last night, and everything I had a hand in was done by at least twenty-four hours ahead of time. I'm fairly pleased with how everything came out - certainly much happier with this version of the pituitary article than I was with what was with the original site-copy ( Read more... ) -
And It's Away!
Plowed my way through the pituitaries article at long last. I was surprised to find out that this article, which felt long, was a whole seven words longer than my other article, which felt short. Strange that. It may be the information density. Both articles are medical/history, but the pituitary article has a huge amount of information stuffed ( Read more... ) -
Damn Interesting
The writing task of the week is final edit of my articles for the Damn Interesting book. Or more accurately, the final edit of one article and the complete rewrite of the other. I'm having to overcome a lot of personal resistance to wanting to rewrite the second article. Back when I first wrote it, I really liked it - but it was hard to write ( Read more... ) -
Testing
Haven't been able to post the last several times. Trying again. -
Icony Goodness
Since the last time I posted, I've written just over another thousand words - and then gotten completely stuck over how to have someone witness an argument over homework, when said person spends as much time as possible NOT doing things publicly, and has complete access to materials in private areas. I'm vaguely leaning towards an argument that ( Read more... )
