October 28th, 2009
Hubris – that is, the first draft of Hubris – is complete. 90,000 words have brought me to the most wonderful words to write in all writingdom: The End. That wordcount, incidentally, makes this book the longest piece of writing I’ve ever done. That’s not interesting to anyone but me, but welcome to the blogosphere.
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October 26th, 2009
Today marks the end of an era. A free, navy-blue-text-on-starfield-background-animated-GIF-sign-my-guestbook era.
Here’s to you, Geocities.
October 25th, 2009
I’ve abandoned my 1000-word-a-day goal, but that’s a good thing. Now I’m sprinting for the finish line. In the last three days I’ve written something like 5,000 words and I’m almost to the big climactic climax of the story. There’s a lot that goes on in the end of this book; it [...]
October 2nd, 2009
Yeah, it would have been cool to be the world’s focus for a couple of weeks. We’d have bragging rights, at least those of us who think that an opportunity to lose tons of money and build a whole bunch of one-use buildings is something to brag about. But does this city really [...]
October 2nd, 2009
I just passed the 200 page mark yesterday. It’s a good feeling, but it’s not as exciting as passing 100 pages or 50,000 words. And nothing is as exciting as getting to the last page and typing the wondrous words “The End.”
This has been pretty consistent for me through the writing of all [...]