Category Archives: NaNoWriMo

Shark (a story for Haiti)

"Shark" is an excerpt from the novel-in-progress Cold, posted online for free as part of Crossed Genres' Post a Story for Haiti project. Please donate to Haiti earthquake relief.
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My story of 2009

Not quite ALL about my 2009, because that would take a year to write. This only took several hours.
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The Daily Tweets, 2009-11-02: Vai watches me write

My cat watches me write.
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The Daily Tweets, 2009-11-01: NaNoWriMo 2009 kickoff #2, the midnight write-in

Kicking off NaNoWriMo 2009 with a midnight write-in at Denny's. I was writing some Long Dark material about a data trader whose arriving, for the first time in her life, on a planet (Earth). I reckon she grew up in the asteroid belt.
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The Daily Tweets, 2009-10-29: NaNoWriMo 2009 kickoff #1

RT @yksin: Anchorage @NaNoWriMo kickoff Elim Cafe w/ @Inked_Tigress & a buncha other crazed writers. # Here’s my brief slideshow of picks from the kickoff. We’ll have another kickoff Saturday night/Sunday morning — a midnight write off to begin the month of headalong hurry writing.
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Taking life support for granted

Pina Chomko: s a story character in my novel-in-progress Cold. She's not like us: she grew up in outer space. Her dream: to take for granted all the life support services that nature provides for free -- just like us.
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Biospherics

More on my evolving knowledge about closed ecological life support systems (CELSS) for use in my novels-in-progress projects Long Dark & Cold: biospherics is a handy new term for what it's really all about.
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My October reading list

What I'm reading, or at least looking at, in the rundown to NaNoWriMo 2009: space exploration, growing food in space, consensus government, & more. I'll be writing Long Dark, about the people making the long journey between the stars to colonize another solar system.
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Despite distance

Chris & Rozz & Jesse & Mel (with Jesse's dog Sweetheart) on a Kenai Peninsula hike in 2006 -- & now, all over the place. But still good friends.
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