I'm more than a little late with this, but I managed to make my 400k Wri Ye goal for 2011 and ended with 423,321 words ( Read more... )

The past few days have been a bit of a mixed bag for me. On both Friday and Sunday I was quite bad and didn't actually start writing until about 11 at night despite not having anything else to do, so I only got 1,595 and 2,073 words done respectively. Saturday and today were totally different though, thanks to the write-ins as a result of which I ( Read more... )

Okay, so this year my distraction mode has kicked in extra early, hitting me on the 2nd day of NaNo! Yep, that's right, yesterday the only writing I got done was at work between the official end of the work day and the start of the experiment set-up for which I stayed late (we have to wait until a certain before we can start). Beyond that (1,001 ( Read more... )

This is the first year where I didn't start writing around midnight, but I hadn't managed to read all of what I'd written for this idea last year before being distracted, so I decided to focus on that first to prevent myself from accidentally re-writing a scene I'd already done (I absolutely hate it when I do that!). I continued that first thing ( Read more... )

It's just under T - 2 hours until midnight and the start of NaNo 2011 ( Read more... )

Just got back from a C.W.I.L. meeting (my local writer's meeting for all things not mainstream with a heavy focus on sci-fi & fantasy) where I got my recent microfiction critiqued. On the bright side I now have a title for it, namely Virtual Strangers. On the other hand it's become quite clear that it still needs a lot of work...

A little random perhaps, but my youngest sister, JT Vancollie, wants to become an actress. Towards this end she did various internships this summer in LA and is spending the semester studying there. During one of the internships, she was working at a music video company who had a ton of interns. As part of their project, they each had to make a ( Read more... )

*looks about sheepishly and waves*

Hey guys, I know that I've been gone a really long time from here, but I'm still alive! Sorry about the absence, I've got no real excuse only that I did what I really tried not to do and not only got swallowed up by watching and reading fic in the Supernatural fandom, but also by writing fic for a totally new ( Read more... )

No lj-cut this time as I only have one book to review for April. It's not that I wasn't reading, but rather that the non-fiction book I chose (The Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil) was both long and definitely not an easy read. I'll say more on that one later as I didn't finish it until May ( Read more... )

What can I say? I've been swallowed up by a new fandom, but I'll definitely try and do better from now on ( Read more... )