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48575 / 50000Of the four events that comprise the climax of the book, the two (relatively) small ones have occurred, and the next scene will be a rather long treatment of the landscape-altering third that is more or less the entire point of the book, with the fourth (or hellish aftershock) occurring two scenes later. ( Read more... )

The Confrontation: I've always liked this song. I saw OKGo perform it opening for TMBG a billion years ago, and that was the first time I heard it (shut up, yes, I still haven't seen the musical!). I've heard various snippets throughout the years and have concluded that this is by far the best:

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BUT... it's not the full thing and there's laughing ( Read more... )

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The Third Man: I'd explain why this film noir classic is awesome, but I'm too out of words to do more than a list: acting, writing, Joseph Cotten, Orson Wells, zither, cinematography.

Wings of Avatars, Part II:

37518 / 50000Three-quarters of the way to the 50,000 word count (also known as goal one of two, number two being the end of the book). I have five and a half more chapters with a total of thirteen more scenes to write in the next ten days, and I can usually only manage a scene a day. I'm trying to keep my perspective ( Read more... )

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1,000 Awesome Things: extemporangle posted this one, and it was too awesome not to share! It's an archive of awesome, simple pleasures. Amélie would approve, as do I.

Wondermark: An anachronistic webcomic pitting nineteenth-century clipart against moderntimes subject material to the result of awesome. If you like ( Read more... )

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Which is good considering that I'm sick and busy. I'm more worried about finishing on time and sane.

Mexican Food: I have no need to expound upon this. Either you know why it's awesome or you don't find it so, in which case no amount of pontificating on my part will change your mind (or tastebuds).

Wings of Avatars, Part II:

23720 / 50000I'm getting that second-week 'Apollo's beard, how am I going to get the entire story finished by November 30th‽' feeling. I have no fear of reaching the word-count goal, I'm more worried about getting through all the rest of the stuff that has to happen before the story wraps up. I don't really feel like I' ( Read more... )

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Yup.

Barney Stinson: Okay, most of 'How I Met Your Mother' is of the incredibly lame flavor of dating sitcom. Even the near-constant New York City references don't rescue it for me and I am an NYC fiend. Television on the whole fails to woo me these days, except for 30 Rock. However, I felt that in my ( Read more... )

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It was a sunny warm day, which did my psyche no end of good. Also I had a lot of fun with the writing today.

Wii Fit Plus: I didn't think I'd like this as much as I do, because it sounded like it brought even more frustrating balance games into the mix and the custom routines don't let you pick aerobics ( ( Read more... )

Wings of Avatars, part II: The sequel to last year's NaNoWriMo win, and looking good so far.

4624 / 50000Unlike last year's, this one is going to have an unhappy ending. I generally don't like to get surprised by unhappy endings, so I'm going ahead and spoiling it for you. What's important is what that ending accomplishes for those who are left ( Read more... )