From the Vault: The True Story of a Bench, Data, and Cheese Popcorn

[Original version posted on my defunct Live Journal, April 25, 2008] So this just popped back into my head. Sometime around 1990 or so I was waiting to meet a friend in Calhoun Square in Uptown Minneapolis, sitting in the middle of a bench. Two employees from different shops come out of their respective places of employment, one from …

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Writing/Editing Update: May Edition

Steampunk Novel. I've cracked 30,000 words on the manuscript and I'm about a third of the way through my outline, so the first draft will likely weigh in at about 100,000 words. Although these first five or so chapters—I'm starting to think the chapter breaks won't always match the outline, so neither will the final chapter …

From the Vault: Arthur C. Clarke Memorial Readathon

[Original version posted on my defunct Live Journal, April 25, 2008] After Sir Arthur recently passed [March 19, 2008], I got to thinking about all his famous books I own that I haven't read yet. So I just read Earthlight, Childhood's End, and Imperial Earth in rapid succession (although I had to take a break to read The Science of Sherlock Holmes, which …

Writing/Editing Update: April Edition

Steampunk Novel. Finally forward progress! Slower than I'd like, but I'm about two-thirds of the way through chapter four, the most new writing this project has seen in more years than I'd care to remember. But I do need to up my game on daily pages so that I have a complete manuscript before year's end. …

Writing/Editing Update: March Edition

Steampunk Novel. Plot hole tweaks in the first three chapters have been finished. A little rough spot in the full synopsis has been buffed more or less smooth. April will finally see new writing in the fourth chapter. Novella #1. I've taken the hard copy off my desk and put it back in a drawer. This is …

This Earth, This Realm, This England

That's me (above) in the Greenwich Foot Tunnel, a pedestrian tunnel under the River Thames which takes you from the north bank in East London into Greenwich right by the Cutty Sark, at left. I highly recommend using the tunnel if you're in London, it's amazing. As mentioned in previous posts, we spent a couple …

Writing/Editing Update: February Edition

Steampunk Novel. A long time ago I vowed I would do no more revising of the first three chapters of the manuscript until I had a complete draft. I decided to cheat on that vow a little, fixing a plot hole before I continue into chapter four. But only the plot hole. I fear I've got …