I haven’t seen it yet, but from what I hear, it’s an enjoyable movie even if you haven’t seen the series on TV/DVD. I personally don’t think it makes any sense to see the one without the other, so I’m going to make a blanket recommendation for everyone: Go rent the Firefly series on DVD [...]
I was reading an interview with Seth MacFarlane over at USNews.com about the TV series Family Guy, and I was excited to learn that they would be covering Intelligent Design in one of the upcoming shows this season. ID has become a hot topic lately, and I won’t bore you with a list of links [...]
For anyone not familiar with Konfabulator, it’s a program that allows you to run small helper programs called “widgets” on your desktop. There are hundreds of widgets available at the website to download. The reason I bring this up is because I wrote a simple widget today called WritingScheduler (yeah, very creative I know) that [...]
Well, I finally started writing again after flaking off. Talk Like a Pirate Day just wears me out! Anyway, I’m starting the counter over. I’ll be using my overall total on this novel minus the total from the first challenge. Maybe I’ll redo my book-O-meter at some point to indicate partial and total progress. As [...]
Well shiver me timbers, today be Talk Like a Pirate Day! In honor of that, I’m including a few links to some pirate-themed sites for you all to enjoy: – The original Talk Like a Pirate Day site, which includes an English to Pirate translator! – Here’s a nice site with lots of info on [...]
As many of you may have noticed, there is a logo on the bottom of the right column on my front page that depicts a tentacled beast, with the curious phrase, “WWFSMD?” If you follow the link, you’ll be taken to a site that discusses the Flying Spaghetti Monster. I would like to spread the [...]
Well, that’s my next PeNoWriMo. PeNoWriMo sounds like a Dr. Seuss character or something, doesn’t it? Anyway, I’m going to continue where I left off, and just subtract my current word count. I still have a long way to go in the story. Anyone who would like to do this with me (I know there [...]
Yeah, so I failed my personal writing challenge. In 30 days, I only managed to scare up around 8k words. But, what did I learn from it? 1. You can’t sit there and rewrite and do a “draft 1.5″ while you’re writing. You’ll lose momentum and end up writing very slowly, or you’ll worry every [...]
This weekend the wife and I went to another concert. This one was at the Alltel Pavilion, and there were four bands playing. No Address. Never heard them before. Completely missed their performance. Not that I cared a whit. Alter Bridge. The band formerly known as Creed. It was very heavy metalish (ie, high-pitched screaming), [...]
I’m not sure how much I ended up writing yesterday (not much more than 1,000 words) but I’ve written a couple thousand today so far, and I haven’t been particularly diligent about it. If I don’t reach my goal, at least I know I can write enough words per day if I had enough discipline [...]