Just want to send a birthday shout out to my daughter, Karin. She’s 15 today.
Monthly Archives: February 2005
Good Progress
I didn’t get around to putting a post up yesterday, but things are going well. My hero has figured out where the vampires are. His plan to surprise them failed because of the treachery of his vampire cohort. After being captured and brought on board the biggest, baddest vampire’s yacht he managed to find the girl, but their escape plan was foiled. Things seem to have gone from bad to worse. But it’s good for the story. Two more chapters should do it. One to bring this all to a climax and one to wrap things up (not sure if that’ll take a whole chapter or not?).
Doug and Joel think I should add a prologue and an epilogue in a whole other voice and from a different point of view…. I like the idea, but I’ll have to write it and see how it works out.
So the count stands at 3,650 words over the last two nights. Total word count, 112,831.
Stinky Weekend Update
Lets say you’ve lost some weight, your novel is coming to completion, and you’ve just had LASIK done on you eyes. Everything is coming up roses and you’re feeling a little bit cocky, what could possibly bring you crashing back into the cold reality of life. Dog poop. Yes, I said dog poop. Saturday was a perfect day, cold and dry, to pick up dog poop and boy did I end up with a lot of it. Once the snow melted it was everywhere. Good thing I got it picked up on Saturday, because we had a 3-6 inch snow fall on Sunday.
Another day and I could have ignored it for another week. Oh well, it’s done now. Moving on.
Went to the Michigan vs. Notre Dame hockey game on Saturday night with Denis. Got to send him some kudos for passing the ticket along. Michigan won, 6-3. Michigan came out strong, looked weak in the second, and then seemed to get it back together in the third. It was a good time.
George showed me the webservice that he is using to keep track of his RSS feeds, Bloglines. I like it. In particular I like that I can get to it from any machine I might be at. That’s the beauty of a web-based service. It also offers some other features like My Blog, blogrolling, and a blog search, but I’m mainly enammored with the concept of having one page that shows me which of the blogs I read have been updated.
There wasn’t any writing this weekend, but I’m going to get back on the ball and get back to it tonight. The plan is to have the first draft done by the end of the week. The end of the month at the latest.
Words for the Day
My hero, Thane, is beginning to pull it all together. He’s growing and changing, realizing that this is the big one. The one that determines if he’s a man or a monster. If he wants to save Sherice, he’s going to have to go in with a plan. Because if he uses his usual ‘damn the torpedoes’ methods he’s going to get them both killed. And he doesn’t want that to happen. The climax is coming along nicely. I’m in a good position to finish this one by the end of the month. That’ll give me Sunday to polish up my outline for Sitting Duct before starting on it Monday.
Finished writing tonight with 1,069 new words. That brings the total word count up to 109,181.
Comments Working Again
I installed GreymatterAntiSpamHack so unwanted comments should no longer be a problem. Pondering’s now has Comment Throttling, to prevent a user on a given IP from posting too frequently in succession; Link Checking, to eliminate excessive links in a comment; and best of all a Black List, basically MT-Blacklist for Greymatter, to detectd suspect content. We’ll see how this works out. Comment away.
Also, I added some links on the front page that had been requested by a few people, reformated the Writing page a bit (though I still haven’t gone through and made sure those docs were edited prior to posting), and I removed the Forums.