The first week, I finished slightly ahead. The second week, I finished slightly behind, like a thousand words or so. The third week... Well,...

I've finished the first act of my NaNoWriMo project. I'm slightly ahead on word count, but I expect to fall behind again tomorrow be...

I thought I would get worked way ahead over the weekend, but instead I actually dropped behind on saturday and had to scramble to catch up y...

This is a trifle worrying. I'm between 5,000 and 6,000 words in, basically right on schedule, and it's mostly talking heads. I just ...

So here it is, the commencement of this thing I've spent three weeks fantasizing about. I went to a book signing last night by some frie...

The weirdest thing about the whole Astounding deal is that I was online, with comments from the board being sent to my email. So I received...

Okay, I got up this morning and got the previous post's potential good news, and then I heard about a new magazine from Baen, called Ast...

Just got a piece of potentially good news. I can't share it yet, but I really hope it comes to pass. I've slowed down on development...

I've been debating a couple of approaches for turning my excitement over NaNoWriMo into productive work without actually beginning to wr...

Used to be, I'd get two or three months into a project before flagging and doubting it. Now it's just been a couple of days since I ...

So I've tried to write novels before. And I mean, like at least eight or nine times before. I've only ever finished one of those att...

I went and registered for NaNoWriMo . I've had an idea for a story nagging at me for something like 15 years now. I'd originally tho...

Well, the contest results are in, and not only did I not win, I did not place among the top thirteen (out of 92). This with a story that peo...

Okay, so the results were pushed back to Oct. 5, except it's now Oct. 11 and still no results. This is maddening. In other news, I may b...

I entered "Frame by Frame" in this contest in July. At that time, the contest had been open for a couple of months and they only h...

After Gillette came out with the Mach 3 (three-bladed razor) and Schick responded with the Quattro (four-bladed razor), I predicted that it ...

I've been watching Fox's new show Prison Break for three weeks now, and I'm ambivalent. For those of you who don't know wha...

I've been playing with Google Earth for a couple of days now, and I think it's totally revolutionary. Basically, it allows you to e...

Got the contract for DaiKaiju! and sent it back, so now things are more or less official. Now I just have to wait for that humongo check to...

I've been reading Shonen Jump magazine since it began publishing in the U.S. and I enjoy every strip in there, which surprises me, beca...