Global Spin

Not much to report today.  Writing is proceeding apace, and I’ve just completed Chapter 6.  I added a bit of it to my WriMo profile excerpt thingy, because it didn’t seem completely stinky.  Both that and my word count from the past two days were surprising, because I managed to clock myself on the head [...]

Posted by Chris in Books, NaNoWriMo, Writing on November 13th, 2006 | 4 Comments »

If you’re paying close attention, you might have noticed that up until today I was blogging my NaNoWriMo progress once every two days. That was no coincidence; my evil plan had me finishing a chapter every second day, with 15 chapters in all. That worked until yesterday, a day when my productivity crashed so hard [...]

Posted by Chris in Books, NaNoWriMo, Writing on November 12th, 2006 | 3 Comments »

It’s late and I’m tired, but I just wanted to let you know that I posted an excerpt over on my WriMo author page. It’s probably horrid, but I was particularly proud of it just after having written it, which was about five minutes ago. …and that’s the real problem with the excerpt thing. I’m [...]

Posted by Chris in Books, NaNoWriMo, Writing on November 8th, 2006 | 1 Comment »

I just finished Chapter 3, and my main characters have finally had a chance to catch their breath.  The space monkeys are no longer chasing them, so they got to introduce themselves a bit and get through some exposition.  Writing that was pretty easy, I just chugged along filling their mouths with dialogue. And if [...]

Posted by Chris in Books, NaNoWriMo, Writing on November 6th, 2006 | 2 Comments »

So this is when it gets hard.  That didn’t take long. I just finished the second chapter, and boy was it a tough one.  My main character gets put on trial for something she didn’t do, and things have to get really bad in order to get her in the right place to make the [...]

Posted by Chris in Books, NaNoWriMo, Writing on November 4th, 2006 | 2 Comments »