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Category Archives: Experimental

Dialect Maker Down for Good

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Well, it seems my antiquated Perl code is just a little too much for my new webhost’s servers to handle.
My web implementation of the Zompist Sound Change Applier almost killed their server this past weekend.  It uses a CPAN library that someone created, based on the Zompist code, and it’s getting a little “long in [...]

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Happy Birthday, Mr. Burroughs!

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Today is William S. Burroughs‘ birthday.
Born in St. Louis, Missouri on this day in 1914, he is best known for having written Naked Lunch, which was later turned into a movie that starred Peter Weller. He started writing while attending Harvard, but when a piece of his was rejected by Esquire magazine, he was so [...]

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Happy Naked Birthday!

Monday, February 5, 2007

Today is William S. Burroughs‘ birthday.
Born in St. Louis, Missouri on this day in 1914, he is best known for having written Naked Lunch, which was later turned into a movie that starred Peter Weller. He started writing while attending Harvard, but when a piece of his was rejected by Esquire magazine, he was so [...]

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As far as I got

Friday, December 1, 2006

Well, I failed at my NaNoWriMo goal, but I did get a fair bit written, so here it is:

(Failed) NaNoWriMo 2006 Work-In-Progress
by
J. K. Hoffman
Chapter 1
“Wherein some brief introductions are made.”
I don’t care how worldly or experienced you think you are, there is nothing quite so unnerving as seeing a dead man walking past you.  The [...]

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Post T-Day Fun Links

Friday, November 24, 2006

Thought I’d forgotten, didn’t you?
Nope, but I was so in a turkey haze that I had a hard time coming up with good links.
Speaking of turkey, if you have enough leftovers, you can try Leftover Turkey Gumbo. It sounds delicious! And, next year, if you’re into killing your own, try Season Shot, [...]

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Magna Carta Two

Tuesday, November 21, 2006

As I mentioned in a previous post, here’s my Magna Carta II.
Okay, again, just in case you jumpped in here at the last minute and haven’t read anything else, Chris Baty talked about two Magna Cartas of noveling in his NaNoWriMo primer No Plot No Problem. The first is all the things I think go [...]

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Month-long Writing Exercise

Wednesday, November 1, 2006

Yes, I’m going to make a feeble attempt at NaNoWriMo.
With my work schedule and the rate at which my friends are having emotional breakdowns, I sincerely doubt that I’ll actually find a way to get 50,000 words out in a single month, but I’m going to give it a go.  I’ll post my personal guidelines, [...]

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Ideas: 10 Cents for a Dozen

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Ideas are easy to come by.
What’s more rare is the ability to shape that idea into an actual story. By way of example and illustration, I regularly come up with interesting settings and characters, sometimes both at the same time, but rarely have a full story to make it all gell.
In fact, to prove to [...]

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