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#NaNoWriMo Liza
This month, I’ve been trying to write a novel for National Novel Writing Month, which I’m currently calling Liza’s Party. It is a twenty first century remake of Pygmalion, where two guys attempt to create the ‘perfect woman’ online via sit...
The Road to Virginia (Another Personal and #NaNoWriMo Post)
I spent about eight hours on the road driving down to Virginia yesterday. It was a grey day, with brief periods of rains along the way. For the first couple hours, I listened to the news. Then, I switched over to a book on tape. Kim had picked up...
Follow Friday #NaNoWriMo Author @renegadegenius
The sound of heavy wind outside only adds to my desire to stay warm and comfortable under the bed covers. It is five in the morning and dark outside. Is the wind and rain are the remnant of Hurricane Ida? I’m not sure but it may make the ride a ...
#NaNoWriMo Scamming the Nigerian Scammers
Today, I received an email from Flora Abed, a twenty year old girl living with her younger brother alone for fear of being found by the people that killed her father. There is $9.5 million dollars in a trunk in Sierra Leone that she needs me to help...
#NaNoWriMo Update, November 3rd
I remember years ago someone talking about how their teeth were never as clean as when they work trying to write something. I know what they mean. I pace, I try to find other things to do, while I’m trying to conjure words for whatever I’m writ...
Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit
#NaNoWriMo, Google Voice, StatusNet, Karmic Koala, Matlab in Joomla, Portfolio Analytics, Ad:Tech, Citizen Journalism conference, Trip to Virginia and to Cape Cod, proceedings in the Cablevision request, CEP, Doninger Case, making cider. The list se...
Random Updates, #DPAC4, Balloon Boy, Swine Flu, the Coast Guard, Google Wave
In case anyone didn’t notice, yesterday, I attended DPAC 4. I sent out about 140 tweets from the conference. I received around 30 replies, many of them retweets of what I had sent out. A lot of the people were old friends from other conferences,...
#NaNoWriMo - Liza’s Party
Next Sunday brings the beginning of National Novel Writing Month, (NaNoWriMo). Two years ago, I wrote my first novel as part of NaNoWriMo. Last year, I gave it another try, but got off track. This year, I’m gearing up for another novel. My daug...
Confronting the Blank Page
Thursday evening. The digital display on the front of the dust covered cable box reads 9:11. The house is empty and quiet. Kim had to work late and Fiona, my youngest daughter, the only one that has not headed off to college yet, is out at a conce...
NaNoWriMo Publishing
Over on Communication Exchange is a blog post entitled Fiction Writers: Find a Publisher? Self-Publish? Or Is There a Third Option?. It explores options for publishing works of fiction. I posted a comment there (which appears to still be waiting m...
Julie, Julia and I
Last night, Kim and I went to see the movie Julie Julia. It is about cooking, and blogging, and this is my review of it. Well, not exactly. It is my chance to use someone's famous name to talk about myself in hopes that someday, I will get discove...
#NANOWRIMO – Subtle Differences, The Silent Serian, To The Clubhouse and Liza’s Party
National Novel Writing Month, commonly referred to as NaNoWriMo, is still a few months away but ideas are fighting in my mind for their chance to be written. I’ve been interested in NaNoWriMo for several years. Back in 2006, my daughter Miranda Hy...
Words and Music
In a couple hours, we will be in the car on our way to Cape Cod. We spent yesterday packing, and doing all the odds and ends that need to be handled before we could leave. The house sitter will arrive soon to make sure the pets are properly cared f...
