Purple Belt!

I took the test for my karate purple belt at Tracy's Karate in Kirkwood on Wednesday 25th November.  The test was at 8pm, which gave me all day to get nervous. Today just didn't seem right without a quick run through of my Long Two kata

NaNoWriMo week 4

Had a few off days, then stayed at home while Paul went to the St Louis Night of Writing Dangerously, from 5pm to 11pm at MoKaBees.  I can't do late nights, but I did get 4165 words done and hauled myself back on track for my 60k story.

Fireflies

I heard this song on the radio last week and loved it.  Loved it! Fireflies by Owl City You would not believe your eyes if ten million fireflies lit up the world as I fell asleep, 'cause they fill the open air and leave teardrops everywhere you'd

Tweets for the week of November 20th

* Hit 25k on the novel and didn't realise! Stopping when you know what happens next is good. Still haven't hit the halfway crisis though.. * Fixing machine-generated HTML is like using chopsticks by remote control. Chocolate helps. Lots and lots of chocolate... * Small camera got lost in

NaNoWriMo week 3

This is a longer story than I expected.  Normally I plan out a 50k novel, broken into twelve 4200 word chapters.  My chapters are anywhere from 4700 to 5300 and I haven't resorted to adding poems, song lyrics, or other obvious padding to the story. Sorted out the

Word wars

If you're logged in to the NaNoWriMo site when you look at the Word count Widgets page, it displays your personalised widgets.  One of those is a Word War widget that pits you against Fatebringer.  He's a real guy, part of the St Louis region, ridiculously

NaNoWriMo Week 2

Crossed the 25k mark this week, but I haven't quite got to the halfway point of the story, that's another few thousand words away.  I have a nasty suspicion this one wants to be quite a bit longer than 50k.  Characters are turning out a lot

Tweets for the week of November 13th

* My novel got visited by the Travelling Shovel of Death, it killed an annoying blonde from the coffee shop and moved on to the next novel. * Think the Week 2 blues just arrived on my novel. Or maybe it's 8am and my brain's not in gear

Novelling away

There's a point in NaNoWriMo where you're trucking along writing your story, and one of the characters does something unexpected.  You don't know where the words came from but you just typed them and they weren't in the plot, or even in

RIP Dorking's white squirrel

BBC News: Squirrel's accident 'ends magic' Residents of a Surrey town have set up a shrine and an online tribute page after a "celebrity" albino squirrel was run over.  The squirrel had lived in St Martin's churchyard off Dorking High Street for