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As far as I got

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 [...]

Magna Carta Two

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 [...]

Self-Publishing Made Easy

Oy, what a week!
I’m thousands of pages behind on my NaNoWriMo work and massively over worked, so I’m afraid that today’s Friday Fun Link is not very exciting.  But, it is fun, at least to a geek like me.  This week I bring you a simple article, filled with links, on self-publishing on MSN.com. That [...]

Magna Carta One

As I mentioned in a previous post, here’s my Magna Carta I.
Well, just to refresh your memory, 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 into a good novel. (That’s what this one is.) And the second [...]

With a Twist

This is fun, in a literary way.
James Triptree, Jr. has long been thought of as one of the greatest science-fiction authors ever. However, if he’d written under his real name and gender, he most likely would never have gotten published at all.
“He”, of course, is actually “she”. And her real name was Alice B. Sheldon. [...]

Month-long Writing Exercise

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, [...]

Red Herring Friday

Hey’s it’s Friday and I have no theme to my crazy links.
Look I paid all my important bills last night and I’m too tired to come up with any real theme here, but these all are perfect links for a Friday.
First, in honor of Halloween, I bring you a link to the story, via Boing [...]