Archive for the 'Books' Category
Summer Plans
Summer’s started, hasn’t been too bad. The worst thing about summer is that you don’t have as structured of a day, so getting stuff done is on your own shoulders. There’s a stack of books I plan to read for the summer, and two weeks in I’ve made an okay dent in it: [...]
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Nuance
This weekend, The Goek and I are going on a road trip to visit McNally Music School in the Twin Cities. It’s going to be a hell of a time going up north and seeing everything to be seen. I need that travel like I need food, man. I think it’s a [...]
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I’m at 17,808 words in my novel right now, with about 7 days to go. That means I have to write (50,000 – 17,808) / 7 days ~= 4600 words every day until the end of the month. I’m thinking that I can do a few power days this week, say Thursday and [...]
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NaNoWriMo
Yeah, I’m doing this NaNoWriMo thing. I don’t know where I’m going to find the time, but I suppose I’ll dedicate a lot of my weekends to doing it. Thanksgiving will be more like Thanks…writing.
To track this, I’m adding a graph widget on the sidebar of this blog to track my progress. [...]
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Book Review: Invisible Monsters
I finished Chuck Palahniuk’s Invisible Monsters late last night; at a time when I thought I’d be passed out in minutes, I instead read about 50 pages to close out this novel. Palahniuk, that fiendish genius he is (writer of Fight Club and all that), did a phenomenal job with this one, and not [...]
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