Pumpkin Seeds: Kitchen Sink Edition
1. David Twohy, director of The Chronicles of Riddick, told Now Playing Magazine that further installments of the proposed Riddick trilogy of films will depend in part on the performance of the upcoming Riddick director’s-cut DVD, which hits stores next week. The first Chronicles of Riddick film didn’t fare well at the box office in
NaNoWriMo 2004 Word Count, Day 15
Babe in the Woods, NaNoWriMo Word Count, Day 15: 13,297 (-11,708) For the second time in three days, I managed to crank out more than the 1,667 words/day minimum, resulting in a 121-word dent in my overall Word Debt. If not for the whole working and sleeping thing, I’d have made even more progress as
NaNoWriMo 2004 Word Count, Day 14
Like so many things with me, once I get past the hump of actually getting started on something, I tend to jump into it completely and, as much as possible, make the most of the moment. Like spring cleaning, of the sort we did yesterday after continually putting it off for the past few weeks.
NaNoWriMo 2004 Word Count, Day 13
Babe in the Woods, NaNoWriMo Word Count, Day 13: 10,874 (-10,797) Roughly 50 double-spaced pages so far, surpassing the length of my old screenplay’s first draft, many moons ago! (Though that was cranked out over three days, so perhaps it’s not so impressive.) Still deep in the Word Debt hole, though, but the past couple
Pumpkin Seeds: The Week that Was Edition
1. No matter your individual schedule, NaNoWriMo marches on, with or without you. Despite Comic Book Wednesday stealing a night of writing from me, I’m still in the mix. In a deep hole, yes, but in the mix. Yesterday’s unexpected day off as the kids’ day care decided to celebrate Veteran’s Day at the last
Pumpkin Seeds: Final Notes on the Election Edition
1. Bush won 51% of the popular vote, the first majority victory in a presidential election since his father beat Dukakis in 1988. 2. Bush won 31 states to Kerry’s 19. 3. Bush won 11 states with more than 60% of the vote, and another 4 with more than 59% of the vote. 4. Kerry
NaNoWriMo 2004 Word Count, Day 7
With this entry, or my last NaNoWriMo update, I will have written over 200,000 words in this and my couple of other Blogger journals. That’s roughly the equivalent of a 700-page book! It took 22 months of writing a little bit every day about a myriad of topics to get there, and yet I somehow
Pumpkin Seeds: Note From the Editor Editon
1. Anyone that reads this journal and thinks I’m talking specifically to them, or in a more general sense, to anyone in particular, needs to take what they read here with a huge grain of salt. Perhaps a whole tablespoon. This journal is, and always has been, primarily for my own self-interests. It’s my way,
You Must Still Act
Six out of seven nights of getting to bed post-midnight took its toll last night, muddling through another 1,052 words as my brain locked up and I half-assed two short “chapters” that severely tested my ability to keep my Inner Editor at bay. NaNoWriMo Word Count, Day 4: 3,512 (-3,156) The only good thing is
NaNoWriMo 2004: BABE IN THE WOODS
I’ve renamed my NaNoWriMo novel: BABE IN THE WOODS. As in… “The Babe was the original Clark Kent,” he said. He was also the equivalent of Patient Zero, as he soon realized that some of his human suppers would return to “life” as zombies three days later if they weren’t properly interred. Or decapitated. So