I’m doing it again. I’m moving the goal posts. This time, it has nothing to do with being distracted by something new and shiny. This time, it has everything to do with being caught up in a lot of stuff every week, and needing a bit more time to breathe than I currently offer myself. […]
Novel progress: week 1
I’m not going to make this a habit because I don’t want to attempt to switch too often between “blog writer” and “fiction writer” hats. It doesn’t hurt, but it kills my motivation. But I had to mark this occasion. Yesterday, I hit 4,300 words, which is just 50 words over my first week goal. […]
Track the progress of my novel
The outline is complete. I’ve now bolted down the first words in my second attempt at writing a novel (first attempt was for NaNoWriMo, and as far as I’m concerned, doesn’t actually count). So now, I need to be held accountable for actually getting this sorry scrap-heap of nonsense into an actual, honest-to-goodness palatable work […]
Back to Song of Ice and Fire
My father-in-law was in town this weekend, and we all stopped by the used bookstore (where I used to work, many years ago). I couldn’t find any scifi that interested me, but they just happened to have book four of the Song of Ice and Fire series: A Feast for Crows. So much for “returning […]
Spook Country added to stack
After reading Cory’s positively glowing recommendation of Spook Country, I’ve added it to my reading stack, ahead of Gibson’s Pattern Recognition. Probably not my best idea, but I yearn to get caught up enough in my reading to actually be reading currently relevant fiction for once. I also added the entire Sprawl trilogy to my […]
My thoughts upon hitting a certain point about two-thirds of the way through ‘Storm of Swords’
OH MY GOD! I CAN’T BELIEVE THEY KILLED THAT PERSON! NOW WHAT ARE THEY GOING TO DO?!?! That is all.
The war continues!
I finished A Clash of Kings last night. I’ll be picking up A Storm of Swords tonight after work. I haven’t touched the Wii in about a week. Is that weird? Yes. Indeed it is.