Month: November 2005

  • Yesterday, and On to Today

    Yesterday was a family holiday, and we decided to start celebrating it Monday afternoon, so I never made it back to CCC. I didn’t even look at a computer yesterday — no words. S’alright. I’ll do words today. The day off was good for me; while I wasn’t writing, I realized that there was legitimate…

  • ISY Down

    64,160 on ISY. Going to take a break and come back later on CCC. Download as PDFPrint Page

  • Continuing With 5100 WPD

    Still on the hard push to finish both I See You and Create A Character Clinic this month. Today’s ISY goal: from 60,853 words to 63,953. Today’s CCC goal: from 6331 to 8331. Comments on posts will be off until the end of the month. This is a focus issue for me; I got sidetracked…

  • So … That Went Well

    Had the most amazing time writing I See You today. I had this evil idea partway through, and horrible, horrible things happened as a result. And things kept piling on. Someone I liked died badly, things just went all to pieces — it was great. Unplanned, but it takes the story where I needed it…

  • Pursuit of the Sunday Words

    After yesterday, I’m back on track with ISY and CCC. Jean and I are going to be on the timer and doing words. My wordcount goals for today are: ISY — 57,773 to 60,873 CCC — 3732 to 5732 For a total of 5100 words for the day. Because while, yes, finishing two books in…

  • Heard from My Daughter

    Post-Wilma, her job finally re-opened. She now has running water at home. She still doesn’t have electricity, though, and FPL told her that she probably won’t until Nov. 22nd. Fun, huh? Download as PDFPrint Page

  • Done With the Writing

    Did 3100 words on ISY, and 2000+ words on CCC. Good writing day. Jean and I worked in ten-minute intervals and knocked out quite a lot of work. The story surprised me in good ways, the Character Clinic is coming along nicely. Download as PDFPrint Page

  • Doing the Math

    Had a couple of bad days, and can’t afford to have those right now. At the moment, I have 54,672 words on ISY. I need to have between 90,000 and 100,000 first-draft words by November 20th, and the same number of final-draft words by November 30th. I have fifteen writing days to create between 35,328…

  • Recommending a Search Engine

    I’ve discovered Clusty — very fast, does not track you as you use it, is not plagued by endless advertising, seems to have respect for copyright, returns good results. Clean interface, some nice add-on features. I’m comfortable recommending it in place of search engines that do not have those features or that do not respect…

  • Sony Root Kit Warning

    This is passed on from Jerry Pournelle, who is as unimpeachable as sources get. Does not affect me — I work on a Mac. Could very well affect you. This is a Chaos Manor Warning. I would be shouting if I were not concerned that it would trigger your spam filters. You may or may…