I’m planning on entering this year’s NaNoWriMo. This won’t be my first time entering, but I have yet to win; real life keeps getting in the way. This year I will be living in the barracks in Halifax, and apart from my classes I will have nothing but time. With minor distractions (literally minors, they’re [...]
I’m sitting here with my son, and we’re watching Treehouse TV. One of my absolute favorite shows is on. (Insert sarcasm tags here). The issue I have with it isn’t with the contents of the show. Teach the kids to exercise, teach them to share, teach them to learn from the world around them. Not [...]
Like almost everybody else in North America, I have a TV which is almost always turned on. However, with various family members being in different age ranges, sometimes what I like to watch isn't appropriate to be on TV. Because of this, I like to get my shows from other sources. I will be going [...]
This is an oldie, but it was recently forwarded to me from one of my co-workers. Buy a dumpster, paint it gray and live in it for 6 months straight Run all of the piping and wires inside your house on the outside of the walls. Pump 10 inches of nasty, crappy water into your [...]
You may have noticed that my NaNoWriMo counts have stopped increasing. This is due to a few reasons, all of which happened at roughly the same time. I write on the computers at work and at home. I transfer back and forth using email. I spent a day writing to a file that I had [...]
I gave up with handwriting my novel. I spent yesterday’s time typing in what I already had, putting in a bit of padding along the way. I went up by 108, which isn’t bad considering that I took out a 123-word introduction that no longer fit the direction the story was going. My count is [...]
Well, I’ve managed to lose my head start. After a good first day, which gave me a head start of 501 words, my NaNoWriMo project is now sitting at a 1244-word deficit. Which basically means that I’m barely past yesterday’s goal, let alone at today’s. More fun was offered in the form of an H1N1 [...]
I spent the day today in the damage control school, learning how to use our new breathing apparatus. As always when I wear an air pack, my shoulders are now killing me. Anyway, I got a bit of writing done during lunch. 495 words (about a page and a half, handwritten), which brings me up [...]
This Sunday marks the beginning of NaNoWriMo 2009. This gives participants 30 days to write 50,000 words, approximately 1667 words per day. I intend to do this without computer assistance. 50,000 words, by hand, on notebooks. Why would I do this? Because I’m crazy. Actually, because I want to be able to work on it [...]
I didn’t even know you could do this, but a Peter Katz, a researcher in London, has proven that movie suspense is just as terrifying as movie horror. Seems he plugged a movie viewer into an MRI as she watched his new movie, Pop Skull, and watched her fear indicators spike. He claims that this [...]
