So I need to work out a list of my sponsors to be Tuckerized into my story, and names to use. Some are very easy, some less so, since my story is set in Korea and most (but not all) of the characters will be Koreans, followed by Chinese and Japanese, with a few Americans thrown in. So if there’s an Asiatic-sounding name you prefer, feel free to specify it. (I’m also working on short stories as I go, so I could always work some of you westerner-types into one of those.) You don’t need to leave a comment here, …
Tag: Clarion West Write-A-Thon 2007
Write-a-thon Update
I did some conversation exam midterms — the air conditioner in my office was broken, and it was HOT until it was fixed in the afternoon — and when I got home, I suddenly slept until darkness fell. I am still exhausted, but besides grocery shopping, I got in 1,403 words (426 on “McWar,” with a nasty, gross breakthrough, and 977 on To the Happy Country…). I was hoping to do some reading tonight — more on North Korea and all that — but I’m exhausted still, and I can’t complain, since I did finish Cormac McCarthy’s depressing/beautiful/horrible/damned-good novel The …
Write-a-thon Day 2
Things are proceeding nicely. I’m at 2900 words for today, and I may or may not get more done tonight, but Lime and I have a dinner meeting, and I think I’ll go climb the mountain and grade a little in the three hours until then. As for the breakdown, it’s pretty round in terms of numbers: I put in 2300 words on To the Happy Country… and 600 words on what I’m currently calling “McWar” (though I suspect it’ll have a new name when I finish it). I’m not sure why, but working on both things — something very …
Write-a-thon, Day 1 (Wordcount total: 3400)
Well, I’ve reached the end of my writing day, Day 1 of the write-a-thon. I churned out about 2900 words of the novel I’ll be writing this summer, which is an expansion of my Korean superheroes novella “Jjangguk and the Madman of Pyongyang.” That’s good time: I’ve committed to 15,000 words a week, and at this pace I should be able to do it in five days a week, with two days off. However, it’s good for me to bank some words in, since I have midterm exams for much of the day on Tuesday and Thursday, and on Wednesday …
Pushing Hell and Sponsor-Fishing
I wasn’t going to post the Postcards from Hell schedule, but I see that some others have, so what the hell, right? Get it, hell? August 4 – Wilted Lily by Henry Gee August 11 – One Thumb Up by Nick Mamatas August 18 – Dickey Size It by RJ Sevin August 25 – Dyscrasia by Gord Sellar Sept 1 – Footprints by Ann Leckie Sept 8 – Fitness is Its Own Reward by John Platt Sept 15 – One Step at a Time by Billy O’Calaghan Sept 22 – Ten by Kathryn Eason Sept 29 – The Cabinet of …