I was poking through “The Observation Deck” (Naomi Epel) – pick a card at random and look up its description in the book, then use it as a starting point for writing. I pulled “Choose the right name” – which concludes with an interesting exercise: Brainstorm a list of interesting names, or pick one from …
Category Archives: Writing
Writing Challenges & Uncomfortable Questions
A friend at the local St Louis Podcaster’s Meetup group suggested I listen to a nice little podcast called “Writing Challenges“. I had no idea going into it that the podcast comes from a Brit – a delightful surprise – always nice to get a dose of the accent. (especially today, the day when I …
Script Frenzy 2009
Yes, I am doing it. Chronicles of Riddick : Underverse Come Balance is everything to Elementals: Water to Fire – Earth to Air … … ‘Verse to Underverse. “Balance is everything to Elementals. Water to fire, earth to air. We have thirty-three different words for this balance. This foolhardy Necromonger quest has disrupted Balance in …
Turn of the year
Bilbo’s walking song (as he is leaving Bag End, in “Fellowship of the Ring”) seems somehow appropriate: The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger …
Yay me!
50,000 words in a month – and the massive sprint at the end, 10159 words in a single day!
Nano is here…
The “national novel writing month” is coming up fast! The schedule looks a little like this: Day Goal Sat, Nov 1 1667 Sun, Nov 2 3333 Mon, Nov 3 5000 Tue, Nov 4 6667 Wed, Nov 5 8333 Thu, Nov 6 10000 Fri, Nov 7 11667 Sat, Nov 8 13333 Sun, Nov 9 15000 Mon, …
Writing Tools
The author of the “Scrivener” writing tool has a really useful page detailing a bunch of other writing tools for both Mac and Windows. With Nanowrimo just around the corner something like that might just be worth a look. I have a strange process when it comes to writing. I guess it’s a sort of …
WrimoRadio
Every year during the National Novel Writing Month they publish a weekly podcast called “WrimoRadio“. I have been consistently impressed with the quality and have thought to send in a small editorial piece to them but was too busy with other things (like writing a 50,000 word novel in a month). I am very tempted …
Random bits
A couple of news stories on the English “Daily Telegraph” news site caught my eye. First one that said: Legal bid to stop CERN atom smasher from ‘destroying the world’ The world’s biggest and most expensive scientific experiment has been hit by a last minute legal challenge, amid claims that the research could bring about …
BBC Writing Prompt
The BBC Website reported Distinctively odd For the past 30 years, the Bookseller magazine has awarded a prize to the oddest book title it can find. The first ever winner was Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude Mice Mind-boggling as that is, it is far from the strangest. Now the top prize has …