Category Archives: NaNoWriMo

Getting wrangled

Back to writing, in collaboration with my Brisbane friend Sian and the assistance of author wrangler Rachel & author wrangler assistant Cuinn Cattledog. And, oh yeah, I’m blogging again too, did you notice? Continue reading

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Growing up Green

This was my halfway prize from my municipal liaisons for passing 25K words for NaNoWriMo last night.

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An Americano in Australia

The difference between interstellar space and a good cup of joe.

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Reading (& writing) spacy

Writing science fiction (as opposed to science fantasy) requires research & reading. Here’s some of the spacy stuff I read, so that I can write spacy too.

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Hallowe’en: The night my writing is raised from the dead

In which I celebrate the imminent start of NaNoWriMo 2012 — & the resurrection of my writing life.

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“Pushaway” published in the anthology Subversion

My story “Pushaway,” which tells the story of how my character Esti Gusev grew up in a toxic religious community on Mars, has now been published in the anthology Subversion: Science Fiction & Fantasy Tales of Challenging the Norm, edited by Bart Leib.

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Whatever in hell I’ve been doing…

I haven’t been writing many posts on Henkimaa lately, but I have been (1) writing on Bent Alaska; (2) organizing my writing; (3) writing; (4) thinking about writing posts on Henkimaa.

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The Daily Tweets 2010-11-13: NaNoWriMo halfway point

Today: 4665 #NaNoWriMo words; total now 25,239 – more than halfway there, & 2 days ahead of the game. #fb # Now packing up to go see “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest” at the Bear Tooth with my … Continue reading

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The Daily Tweets 2010-11-11: NaNoWriMo write-in

Twitter Tools (a WordPress plugin) keeps on malfunctioning and posting the days tweets with the wrong date and several hours later than they’re supposed to be posted.  So I keep on having to come in & change the date, post … Continue reading

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The Daily Tweets 2010-11-06: A lovely NaNovember day (7.5K words)

Saturdays are writing days for me. But in November, every day’s a writing day, thanks to NaNoWriMo  — National Novel Writing Month.  We’re now a week into NaNovember, as I call it, & I started it way behind. But by … Continue reading

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