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Year-end Recap

January 4th, 2009

Before I go into my year-end statistics overview, a happy announcement. I had two stories go live last month,
“Tumbleweeds and Highways” was published in Clean Sheets.
“Web of Death” was published in MicroHorror.
I also finished the month on 100 Words which you can read at Val Gryphin’s December Batch.
Go check them out and if you have [...] Read more »

Still pluggin’ away

December 22nd, 2008

Holidays and travel have got me a bit behind, but still doing bit by bit. I’m still working on 100 Words, although I missed a day twice so I don’t think it will post. That’s ok though, I am still writing one for every day, and writing almost every day because of it.
Haven’t worked on [...] Read more »

My NaNo LOLCat

December 2nd, 2008

Since it’s not at the top anymore. Read more »

the blogging must go on – particularly as I haven’t been blogging much over NaNo.
I am starting 100 words, and I think it will be a really good thing for me. While I am finishing my NaNo. heh. Here’s today’s.

She thought that the sensation of the migraine was like someone taking tweezers, and slowly pulling [...] Read more »

Well I made it

November 30th, 2008

As evidenced by the LOLCat up there heh.
I didn’t make it to my goal yet, but I did hit my 50k+ which is pretty damn good. I’ve been in Atlanta since the 22nd, so that substantially cut down on my writing time – plus the friend’s house I’m at had no wireless! A travesty! And [...] Read more »

100 words

November 10th, 2008

This is an interesting idea – 100 Words – write exactly 100 words a day for a month, and if you succeed than you get the whole batch posted. Think I shall, but AFTER NaNo!
Back to work. Read more »

I can haz LOLCAT trackerz on mah page!
Almost 22k words. Hot damn! Read more »

It’s gonna be a long month

November 3rd, 2008

Holy shit I am crazy. Just bumped my goal to 80k.

9,080 / 80,000
(11.3%) Read more »

And we’re off!!!!!

November 2nd, 2008

I didn’t get to write on the 1st because I danced my @$$ off at the Halloween ball on Friday and then worked a double on Saturday and spent that night trying to fix a friend’s computer. Busted ass today though – got 4569 words done in three hours, out of the 70k [...] Read more »

Another acceptance

October 29th, 2008

The Houston Literary Review has accepted my long poem, Eulogy for Life.
And in that time period between this and my last acceptance I have also received 1o rejections.
And I have 8 stories out to 15 markets.
AND! NaNoWriMo starts in about 48 hours! I’ll be blogging my progress heh heh heh. I am invoking the Zokutou [...] Read more »