I finally managed to get to 10,000 words in my sort-of NanoWriMo. Even if I don’t make the target, it’s been pretty fun doing all this memoiring. The blog spam problem came back. It was just one guy who always left the name “Hi there”. I tried modifying the PHP code to ignore anything from […]
Rianna and Heidi were explaining a play they had done for their brother Peter earlier today. After the play ended, they then went on to do the bonus features, since their play was apparently being released on DVD. They showed how the dragon’s treasure wasn’t real treasure at all, but was actually just plastic jewelry, […]
I’ve added a couple more links to the blog roll. Marla (Marla: I’m really happy you decided to start blogging – hopefully Brian will make a few guest appearances too!) and Rob O’Hara. I met Rob at ECCC 2006, and purchased his book called “Commodork: Sordid Tales from a BBS Junkie”. I just finished reading […]
It seems I never got posting the final bit from my unfinished alternate history of video games novel, so here it is: Another contender for the title of “first computer game†is Professor Bruce MacKenzie’s pioneering “5-Pin Bowling Season Simulator†game, also written in 1946, at the University of Toronto, Canada. Prof. MacKenzie had both […]
I’m just about finished reading the fifth and final book in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy to my oldest two daughters. Talking about HHGTTG to a friend, I mentioned that I think I like Douglas Adams’ other series, about Dirk Gently the detective, better nowadays, even though the Dirk Gently series only has […]
Frederick Sokall, on the other hand, had a different path to his discovery. He was trying to generate a picture on the TV from a discrete circuit he had made. He thought it might be useful to display words for advertising, though due to the very limited resolution his design was capable of, it was […]
From Alex’s blurt on Shroom’s page, I learned about yWriter which is a free word-processor for novel writers. I haven’t really checked it out yet, but it has Alex’s approval. The programmer of yWriter, Simon Haynes, is also a published novelist. His Hal Spacejock series appears to be doing well, at least within the genre. […]
I did well my first day of NaNoWriMo, hitting the daily quota of 1666 words. But I found the subject (or at least my take on it) to be an awful lot of work. Very little easy dialogue, a whole bunch of fictional facts. After a pathetic 300 words on day two, I shelved this […]
Including myself, I know of 7 people who are probably participating in the NaNoWriMo contest this year. I’m really looking forward to it, and my novel should be at least somewhat On-Topic for my blog, so maybe I’ll talk about it here. I just received my copy of Chris Baty’s “No Plot, No Problem”, which […]
Though you might not believe it (I certainly didn’t for quite a while), I am (or at least, have been) a professional writer, if by professional writer I can mean “have been paid to write”, even if it was just $50 an article for a monthly newsletter about 8-bit Commodore computers (and that was pretty […]