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Books & Literature
200 pages into ‘A Game of Thrones’ and I’m completely hooked
Actually, I was hooked on the first page. I’m not kidding. Talk about translucent prose, this guy is amazing. HBO is creating a show based on the series A Song of Ice and Fire by George R R Martin, A Game of Thrones being the first novel in that series. From what I gather, each [...]
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Books & Literature
Update: Reading, Writing, and Fantasy
We are on Day 7 of National Novel Writing Month and I am just shy of 14,000 words. I hope to be at 15,000 by the end of the day. NaNoWriMo really pushes the idea of quantity over quality in terms of word count and I can assure you, I’ve embraced that philosophy completely. I’ve [...]
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30 Days
Countdown to NaNoWriMo
22,500 words completed in September –the countdown to NaNoWriMo begins. Yesterday I finished my first public 30 day challenge; 750 words a day, everyday, for 30 days. 22,500 words in total. I wrote short stories mostly, but I also did a lot of free writing, which was equal parts comical, enlightening, scary, and intriguing. Now [...]
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30 Days
30 Day Challenge: 750 Words per day
Whilst frantically searching for answers as to where, oh where my Google account had gone (which has since been found, by the way), I happened across Matt Cutts’s website. Matt Cutts is a software engineer at Google, hence the reason for landing on his website. What I saw there, among other things, was a little [...]
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Computers & Technology
Two great Mac programs: Journler and Quicksilver
05.15.07 | Permalink | 2 CommentsTesting Journler’s blogging abilities — If you see this, it worked. Yay! For the last few days I’ve been messing around with a great program for the Mac called Journler. It’s like a journal on steroids. It has all the basic features you would expect from journaling software, but then takes it to a whole [...]
