Month: November 2005

  • Progressing on ISY

    Made it to 36,337 words on the write-in yesterday before being sick took me out of the game. Running a fever today, feeling like crap, but I have to get this done. So far, my revisions will be minimal — I’m pretty shocked, actually. I know there are a couple of scenes I’ll hit today…

  • Back to the Land of the Living

    I’ve been sick enough since Thursday not to have written at all, which is why you’ve seen no changes on the progress bars, and no posts except for my two Ebay auction notices. I’ve had one of those bugs going around, and I’ve been horizontal except for brief periods to respond to auction questions. The…

  • Manuscript Crit Auction on Ebay

    I’m offering a 60-page partial manuscript crit with extras. Just one for now. Doing them right takes a lot of time. Ask questions on that particular auction through the Ebay mechanism — it makes it easier to keep track of everything, and if your question is of general interest, I can add it and my…

  • I’m Offering Worldbuilding Tutoring on Ebay

    Here’s the deal. My home kidney-removal kit is broken, so I can’t auction a kidney, and in my entire life, I have never successfully fried up a grilled cheese sandwich that looked like the Virgin Mary. Living on your writing is tough, this year has been especially tough, and at the moment I’m in a…

  • First Draft of ISY is Done!

    It came in short — 84,000 words. But I woke up in the middle of the night realizing what I left out, and that will add an extra 6,000 words to the rewrite, easy. I’ll have to be careful not to let it add 12-15,000. I like the ending, though the last line gave me…

  • And Yet MORE on the Google Copyright Grab Mess

    This from discussion on my mailing list: On Wednesday, November 16, 2005, at 10:29 AM, Harald Koch wrote: [ since comments are closed on your weblog >:] You know, Google’s not totally at fault here. They were sent the data by the publisher; they shouldn’t be required to independantly verify that the publisher had the…

  • And the Kid Moves On

    DLI (the Defense Language Institute) is tough, and even basic training was no preparation for what the kid landed in when he got his language. He was informed right up front that washouts were common, that the program would require the best he had, that a lot of people wouldn’t make it through. He figured,…

  • Satisfactory Conclusion to the Google Affair

    And we’re done. My books will be removed from the Google library, and I’m satisfied with that. There is no legitimate reason to have the full texts of works still in print and in copyright available online when corporations will profit but the work creators will not. Don’t misunderstand me. I’m a big fan of…

  • Meant to Put This Up on Veterans’ Day

    “It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier, who salutes the flag, who serves…

  • Done for the Day

    Reprise of the tragicomic opera Headache, with Occasional Light Flares. Going to go flop on a horizontal surface for a while, but I got all the way to 80,367 in I See You, and I’m on the big last conflict. It was going so well I had to make myself stop to work on CCC.…