Category Archives: NaNoWriMo

The Daily Tweets, 2009-11-02: Vai watches me write

My cat watches me write. Continue reading

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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. Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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. Continue reading

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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. Continue reading

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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. Continue reading

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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. Continue reading

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Now I REALLY feel like a writer again

The short story “Cold,” which originated with my writing for NaNoWriMo 2007, will be published in the November 2009 issued of Crossed Genres. It’s about two young women, Boleyn & Bai, on a planet in the late stages of terraformation. Continue reading

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October plans

October. Change of seasons, change of gears: I’ll be resuming my title of occasional political blogger by becoming a far less occasional writer. Plans for October include gearing up for NaNoWriMo in November. Continue reading

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Eating (& breathing & crapping) in outer space

Research notes on closed ecosystems in outer space, for “Long Dark,” a story I’m trying to write in the same story universe as my 2007 NaNoWriMo “novel” Cold. Continue reading

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