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NaNoWriMo 2015, Day Nineteen
That dreaded “just after the middle of the month” point, where the initial thrill is gone, the “big push to the finish line at the end of the month” is still over the horizon, and even that little...
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NaNoWriMo 2015, Day Twenty
Two-thirds of the way through the month – am I two-thirds of the way to 50,000 words? Well… At least I’m not that far behind. It could be much worse. All crisis management is relative. Once again,...
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NaNoWriMo 2015, Day Twenty-One
There’s a big push coming, a big writing day, 3,000 words, maybe 4,000. It will get me back on track. The words will flow like wine and taste like honey. Today will not be that day. Today was this day....
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NaNoWriMo 2015, Day Twenty-Two
Aaaaaahhh!!!! That is all. While I normally put in a lot of internal links to previous, related posts here, I won’t be doing that for what I hope will be this year’s thirty NaNoWriMo posts. If you...
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NaNoWriMo 2015, Day Twenty-Three
Now that the cat’s out of the bag about one of my major distractions this month, let’s see if I can hit 50K words despite that, not use it as an excuse to fall short. Hoo-RAH! On the other hand, just...
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NaNoWriMo 2015, Day Twenty-Four
Some days, writing another 2,000 words on NaNoWriMo just doesn’t matter that much. On the other hand, the darkest days are the ones that need some light the most, and “light” in this context would most...
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NaNoWriMo 2015, Day Twenty-Five
Two nights ago I mentioned my new job, ID’d the “four-hundred pound gorilla,” and said, “…let’s see if I can hit 50K words despite that, not use it as an excuse to fall short.” Then yesterday happened....
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NaNoWriMo 2015, Day Twenty-Six
Yeah, yeah, yeah, turkey and football. And writing! The muse has been kind today. At approximately 3,000 words a day for today and the next four days, I can make the 50,000 word goal. While I normally...
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NaNoWriMo 2015, Day Twenty-Seven
Okay, this is new. While putting up Christmas lights today, my brain not always being a necessary part of the process, my muse started sending little gems. I took notes. The good news is that I know...
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NaNoWriMo 2015, Day Twenty-Eight
There have been many, many words today. In fact, not only is Chapter Thirteen done, but Chapter Fourteen is about 95% done. Because I think it would be confusing to post 95% of Chapter Fourteen tonight...
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A Time Of Changes — Again
944 days and 1,043 articles ago, I scribbled out 532 words about some changes happening in my life, how I should try to do more writing, what I was thinking of writing about, why my brand new website...
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NaNoWriMo 2015, Day Twenty-Nine
So, so close. Here’s Chapter 14. The word count totals for today include over half of Chapter 15, which I will publish here when the chapter is completed. I hope that is tomorrow, since in less than 25...
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NaNoWriMo 2015, Day Thirty
Thus ends NaNoWriMo 2015. The story’s not done yet, but the month’s contest has been “won.” There are five or six chapters left, but I know how it ends, which is curiously refreshing. I’ll get the...
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1096 Days
Happy Third Birthday to “We Love The Stars Too Fondly!” 1096 days. 1197 posts. 22,607 views. 13,354 visitors. Cthulu alone knows how many words – probably 650K+, maybe 700K. So, like half of a “Game of...
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NaNoWriMo 2016
Not gonna happen, folks. Nope. NOpe. NOPe. NOPE! NOPE!! NOPE!!! I remember the joy and occasional exhilaration of creation without any self censorship, no worrying about whether or not it was good,...
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Scalzi & Doctrow
If you have a favorite author and they’re doing a book tour, take the opportunity to go see them. Tonight at Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadena we saw John Scalzi (center) with Cory Doctrow (right), hosted...
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A Belated Birthday
Yesterday was this website’s fourth birthday. None of you need to feel guilty about not bringing cake and/or ice cream (that new Byers/Dryers double chocolate with peanut butter cups in it is...
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Appropriate Slang And Acronyms
The failure of yesterday’s article to actually show up and look like it hadn’t published (maybe it did, maybe it didn’t – wait for it…) had me thinking about some of the appropriate slag and acronyms...
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Halloween 2017
When possible we celebrate Halloween by bringing out the telescopes and binoculars and throwing a star party on the front sidewalk while handing out candy. It has on occasion been spectacular. After a...
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Well, here we are at the end of 2017. In a year where it felt like my head was spinning 24/7, my year-end thoughts aren’t any more organized, but I would like to take the opportunity to throw out a...
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