For the first time in a long time (maybe since Reykjavik, Iceland?), I will be visiting a previously unvisited town today exclusively via airplane. Not that I expect to get much beyond the airport (which Em would have you believe…
Category: Telling Stories
Life Just Keeps on Getting Better
Holy cow. The Mariners, apparently not satisfied with filling step one of my philosophy on baseball (stock your team with speedsters like Chone Figgins), are apparently a little bit of paperwork away from filling step two, which is to stock…
DONE!
I am pleased to announce that about seven minutes ago, I completed the first draft of American Dream On. Currently clocking in at 145,003 words, it has taken me 7 years, 6 months, and 2 days to write, though over…
Sprinting for the Finish Line
Technically, December just became the most verbose written month of my life. And it’s been here for eight and a half days. I have contributed over 35,000 words (~140 pages) to the novel in the last eight and a half…
First Snow
Today I was reminded why I came to the East Coast. Sure, I may have written 3 chapters in the last 24 hours and be capping the officially most productive writing period of my entire life (the amount written here…
Figgy!
Didn’t write a D&C today because the focus was on catching up on chapter 51, left unwritten yesterday because I was hanging out online with the Meppers all night. But it’s done and now I’m very excited that the number…
Mo Mentum
The sample size is only 41 hours, but December’s been awfully good so far. I wrote another 16 pages last night (early this morning), bringing December to a startling 8,149 word count (~32.5 pages) in just two overnight sessions, or…
Hampered by Illness, Holiday, November Disappoints
After a roaring October that seemed like the most prolific month of my life (though it actually trailed September), November was a struggle that made things close again for meeting my self-imposed December 15th deadline for first-draft completion of American…
Travel Wednesday Round-Up
Have been working furiously to prepare for Thanksgiving, which we’re spending in DC with Fish & Madeleine (think I got that spelling right), starting in just a few hours. Have been terribly remiss in updating things about my life, but…
Does Not Compute (or How I Learned to Start Worrying and Love Task Manager)
I have just leveled up in computer knowledge. Drawbacks include the fact that I wasted most of my night doing this, that the knowledge gained was largely unnecessary, and that my writing session may or may not be shot as…