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The kids and I went on Saturday to see New Moon, mainly to avoid all the crazed Twilight fans who packed the theaters for the Thursday midnight and Friday shows. Still, the show we planned to see was sold out when we arrived (15 minutes before start time; traffic on the way there was really ...
Gaming
Moon
I'm hoping by the time this post shows up on the blog that I've completed 50K and made my NaNoWriMo goal. But if I haven't, I'm sure you'll forgive me; we've still got nine days left. This past week for me has been all about striking back. I got over a major disruption and took back my writing ...
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Ten Things You Can Have for Nothing Freeware caution: always scan free downloads of anything for bugs and other threats before dumping the programs into your hard drive. ALEX Personal Knowledge Base is "a very simple tool to organize your knowledge, notes, ideas and other information" (OS: ...
Film
NY Time bestselling author Bob Mayer has joined the line-up over at my group blog, Genreality , and his first post is already up. Google has this image search thing called Image Swirl that is currently in demo stage, but looks pretty neat; evidently it's set up to operate a bit like ThinkMap's ...
Gaming
Moon
We've passed the mid-way mark of NaNoWriMo, and I really felt the burn this past week. The words were not interested in me or my novel and tried to avoid me. All the fun went out of town. I got mired down in scene after scene and slogged, slogged, slogged. If there was an Olympic slogging ...
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In addition to my NaNoNovel, I'm working on the third Kyndred book, and one major obstacle I have with this one is the setting for one of the early chapters of the novel: snow and trees, trees and snow. There are mountains (background) a road (lost early on) and one cargo truck (ditto) but ...
TV
Ten Things to Help with NaNoWriMo Customize your anagrams with Wordsmith.org's Advanced Anagrams generator. Over at the forums on the NaNoWriMo site I found the quite excellent Big Scary Character Quiz '09 , which gives you a long list of questions to answer in character. Another detailed ...
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Create a sticky note online for your blog at Wigflip.com's sticky note generator, Superstickies (link swiped from Gerard over at The Generator Blog .)
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Since the midweek NaNoPost I've been dealing with things that don't belong in my writing space that I let get into my writing space. Why? Well, I had the best of intentions. It was important. I thought I could sort it out quickly and get back to work. And I didn't, not for two days, and it ...
Other
Ten Free RPG Generators I Played with over at Dimensions Game Software Sight: A thickening fog Sound: A whistle Taste: Bland Touch: Springy Smell: Inviting ( The Ambience Generator ) "You hear rattling sounds." ( The Automated GM ) The Catacomb Generator Rhapsodomancy: Divination by using ...
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I followed a link over on Gerard's Presurfer blog and found a new and very interesting online generator, described on the site as: "Feng-GUI simulates human vision during the first 5 seconds of exposure to visuals, and creates heatmaps based on an algorithm that predicts what a real human would ...
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I followed a link over on Gerard's Presurfer blog and found a new and very interesting online generator, described on the site as: "Feng-GUI simulates human vision during the first 5 seconds of exposure to visuals, and creates heatmaps based on an algorithm that predicts what a real human would ...
Other
It's a little more than a third of the way toward the NaNoWriMo deadline of November 30th, and if life hasn't interfered in some fashion, I imagine most of you have kept at it. You've probably encountered a few bumps over the last ten days, so it may not feel as exciting or fun as it did when ...
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It was fun to see the many different types of inspiration you all draw on to create in comments to the Blogging Inspiration giveaway. Photography has been such a strong, new creative force in my life this year that I have to put in a good word for giving a new skill or hobby a try. We cranked up ...
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Ten Things That Appear in Your Novel, and What They Tell Me Cats > 4: You don't own cats, because if you did you'd know that your heroine will have to run a lint roller over every article of clothing and furniture she owns at least three times a day to keep them as immaculate as you describe ...
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During a quick stop at BAM today I found the latest issue of Artful Blogging magazine, which includes in the buzz section a quote from Yours Truly (is there anything cooler for online art junkie than being quoted in online art magazine? Probably not.) Naturally I bought up all the available ...
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We've hit the one-week mark for National Novel Writing Month, which is a good time to stop and take a look at how the work is going. With my normal work schedule I tend to work six days straight and use the seventh to look back, decide if I need to adjust something, and then take care of the ...
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I'm bailing on you guys today to take my vehicle in for some maintenance, deal with a contract and ship off some packages. I'll also try to catch up on comments I've missed later today (I've been so busy NaNo'ing I hardly plugged in at all this week.) In the morning I'll have the follow-up post ...
Film
Twilight
Ten New Terms for Writer Woes Agentnesia: Your agent gives a long, detailed interview at the world's most popular website, during which he mentions every author he represents along with the title of their latest release -- except you and yours. Copywronged: After find an error made by the ...
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If you're participating in NaNoWriMo this year, you've probably already gotten started with writing your novel. If you haven't and you want to, no worries, there's still 26 days left to write. If you start today. Which means, you should start today. You're starting today, right? Don't make me ...
