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Writing

As eclectic a reading list as you’re ever going to find

December 8, 2008

In a recent team meeting in Oregon, my team of Software Developers and Community Managers each shared a book we were planning to read. The intent was to learn a little about each other and some of the great books out there we may not have heard about.
The singular Josh Bancroft is on my team, [...]

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Blogaholism… a dangerous disease

June 8, 2008

I think I’ve finally started enough blogs to fill my drunken, insatiable need for the things.
This blog was morphing into a writing blog, but now I’ve spun up Writing Is Cake with some folks from my writing group, so all my writing nonsense is now over there.
I’m also in the process of kicking off Ignite [...]

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Another new screenplay? My brain a’splodes.

January 30, 2008

My Screenwriting III class starts tonight for me (I missed the REAL first class last week due to work related travel), and they want me to start a brand new screenplay for it.¬†¬† Let’s see… I have the “competition screenplay” that I worked on with two friends that I still want to rewrite, the screenplay [...]

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The Road

December 15, 2007

I just finished reading Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, and I’m mentally exhausted.¬† I’d had the book for months, picking it up in an airport bookstore and then never quite getting to it.
The Coen Bros’ movie “No Country For Old Men” led me to read McCarthy’s book of the same name, and I was, I guess [...]

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NaNoCan’TWriteNoMo!

November 25, 2007

I think I’m going to need finger replacement surgery after this month.¬† I’m in the home stretch on NaNoWriMo, which I think I’ll complete okay with an extra effort this coming week.¬† The story is starting to flow a bit better, which of course helps the word count.
I’m also wrapping up the final revision on [...]

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Your eeka!

November 4, 2007

What about my eeka, you may ask?  Not much, really.  But I did manage to get the dust off and upgrade this site software.  Will work on some plug ins and fancification later.
Just one small step for moi.  Next up Рa stogie, a margarita, and some more (BLEEPING) NaNoWriMo.

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Status Whoa

October 28, 2007

As I sit here on my patio, chillin’ with a stogie and some most delicious Stone Arrogant Bastard Ale, I get the most delightful feeling of returning to center.¬† It’s a Zen meditation of sorts for me.¬† Relaxed, focused, content, with a clarity that will be shattered by 8:01am tomorrow morning as the fuzzy gray [...]

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Unexpected boost

October 16, 2007

Writing is a lonely hobby.¬† Just me and my evil foe, the Blinking Cursor Of Despair, slugging it out day after day.¬† So I’ll take any encouragement I can get along the way.¬† I’m not picky, but I find the unexpected nuggets are the sweetest.
Last night in my Screenwriting class we were taking turns reading [...]

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Doin’ the Frenzy

May 31, 2007

I’ve been spending some time working on screenwriting over the past few years, and I’ve recently started to take it more seriously. As such, I’ve been looking for goals to help me challenge myself. One of these is participating in Script Frenzy.
Short version – it is a challenge to write a full, feature-length [...]

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