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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
Last year I wrote a 50,000 word novel* as part of Nanowrimo, and in the process I met some local writers who were trying to sustain a permanent local writer's group. We critiqued each others manuscripts, talked about writing in general, and if someone had actually accomplished something on the contest or publication ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon is over a thousand pages long. Here's one of the best passages in a very good book, in my opinion. Randy, a computer savant and one of the main characters, is recalling when he had to have his wisdom teeth out (as a bonus, this entire passage, ...
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Friday, July 4th, 2008
I will be playing alto sax on a nice, sunny (i.e. incredibly hot) stage at the park later, and there will be BBQ, a movie, etc., so don't think me a total workaholic.
But right now I'm at the office "making license plates," as I've come to call mundane work that ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
One thing that may have helped is I have started getting out more. We can load up the wheelchair and get in the car and go exciting places. Like to pizza buffets with the kids. Or work. Either way, it's broken the spell a bit, and whereas this morning I ...
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Saturday, December 1st, 2007
I just finished a novel. More like, a novella. I participated in Nanowrimo. No, you can't read it.
And, yeah, another critical update for WP... argh.
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Sunday, October 14th, 2007
I'm reading Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin. It's about Abraham Lincoln and his cabinet. Those he reached out to in hopes of saving the country, some of whom also happened to be his opponents in the 1860 presidential campaign.
Abraham Lincoln was an astute politician, but he probably wouldn't get ...
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Friday, September 7th, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/08/books/07cnd-lengle.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all
Her book A Wrinkle in Time was one of the first books I remember reading. I remember identifying with Meg, and feeling that Camazotz, the place where everyone and everything was exactly alike, had some resonance with the people and places I was growing up with. It did not, and ...
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