Write-a-thon Week 6: An Early Start!

Well, to date I’ve been giving myself Sunday off for each week of the write-a-thon, and being sadly unproductive on Monday, at least during the last few weeks, but today, my mind was still deep into the question of geomantic warfare from where I left off last night, so I continued on today, and actually [...]

Week 5 — Completed!

Well, that’s five weeks down and one more to go!
As of dinnertime today (which was 9pm), my writing stats for the day were:
“The Broken Path?: 3600 words (by 9:00pm)
Weekly Total: 13,664 words
Write-a-thon Total: 77,761 words
I added another chunk of writing to “The Broken Path,” in what seems to be my pattern for the story [...]

“Pure Korean… Technology” on Wikipedia

I took a look around Wikipedia to see whether I could find a date for the introduction of the first train in Korea — and it turns out that this article on railway service in Korea furnishes a date that unfortunately does not work for the story I’m drafting now. I need to get some [...]

Go Read… (Classmates Plug)

Go check out Ben Burgis’s pre-Clarion West story “Three Perspectives on the Role of the Anarchists in the Zombie Apocalypse” (ahem) over at Afterburn SF. (It has Ben’s fingerprints all over it.) Then go read Meghan Sinoff’s award-winning “Shift,” currently online at Asimov’s. Both tales are worth your while.
Just a year ago — was it [...]

Write-a-thon, Week 5

Another slow-starting week. Monday, I had an appointment in Seoul, and then some things to do. After a tiring day of errand-running in Seoul, I returned home and slept for a incredible 13 hours, though I was woken by Lime for a short while so I could eat something. Needless to say, I got no [...]

Read & Watched & Listened

This list spans June and the first half of July 2007.
READ:

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs.
Fascinating, disturbing, and surprising. It has the usual disclaimers from locals, but what I found unusual and particularly inspiring was her continuous reminders of the kind of horrific objectification that was forced on female slaves [...]

Write-a-thon Week 4, Completed

Saturday Update:
The Innsmouth Fatwa: 895 words (draft complete at 5,515 words)
The Truth About Mughals: 5,340 words
Weekly Total: 15,076 words
Write-a-thon Total: 64,146 words
I’m not sure how far I’m going to get with To the Happy Country. I’m beginning to think it’d work better to draft the thing as five or six separate novellas and then [...]

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