Richard Hansen looked at the man who had appeared on the vidscreen in response to his request to speak to The Avatar.Words today, plus a few from Sunday I didn’t blog: 2,139Total thus far: 15,630Percentage completed: 13 So here I am back in Saskatoon for the last week of rehearsals for Beauty and the Beast …
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Cars that drive themselves
This evening in the car my six-year-old daughter, Alice, commented out of the blue that she wished our car could drive itself. “I’d like that, too,” I said, and explained that scientists were, in fact, working on cars that could do exactly that, thinking of the Grand Challenges for driverless cars held by the Defense …
The first sentence I wrote today…
Unlike his predecessors, Karl Rasmusson, Third Avatar of the Body Purified, did not claim to talk to God directly.Words today: 1,403Total thus far: 13,491Percentage completed: 11.2
Aurora Award nominations open
This year’s Aurora Awards were just barely handed out, but nominations are already open for next year’s, to be presented at KeyCon, the annual SF convention in Winnipeg (which I hope to attend for the first time ever next year!). Also note that the Auroras have a new website, a considerable step up from the …
The first sentence I wrote…
…well, yesterday, actually, since I’m writing this after midnight (just got back a little while ago from seeing Enchanted; can’t wait to take my daughter to see it. I loved it, and judging by all the laughter in the theatre, so did everyone else. It had particular resonance since I’m currently in the middle of …
The first sentence I wrote today…
…more or less…was: Richard exchanged a glance with Andy King, who had to be thinking exactly what he was: if any of those twelve ships were hostile warships, their mission of mercy might be short-lived indeed.Words today: 2,270Total thus far: 11,036Percentage completed: 9.2 Another two-session day, another 2,000-word-plus day, and we’ve broken the 10,000 word …
The first sentence I wrote today…
Chris Keating crouched in the empty garbage bin and listened to the wild dogs howling in the streets of the City of God. Words today: 2,670Total thus far: 8,766Percentage completed: 7.3 A good day today, since I got in two fiction writing sections, thanks to a rehearsal schedule that kept me busy first thing in …
The first sentence I wrote…
…Sunday. See, when you’re working on a professional theatrical production (I’m in Saskatoon working on Beauty and the Beast at Persephone Theatre, if you’re joining this blog already in in progress), Monday is your day off. So after I worked on Terra Insegura at Starbucks on Sunday morning, I rehearsed until 3 p.m., when I …
Acoustics
Acoustics have been on my mind recently, and not just because of (as some might suggest) the echoing empty space between my ears. First came the CFL Western semi-final game at Mosaic Stadium, where noise, reflected and focused by the stands, played at least some role in the Riders’ victory—and utterly failed to carry from …
The first sentence I wrote today…
We move on to Chapter 2: Emily woke in the dark to confusion and a pounding headache.Words today: 1,330Total thus far: 4,930Percentage completed: 4.1
Biggest bug ever!
I’m a bit late with this, but just for record, “Ick!”: A giant fossilized claw discovered in Germany belonged to an ancient sea scorpion that was much bigger than the average man, an international team of geologists and archaeologists reported Tuesday.
The first sentence I wrote today…
…is not the sentence I’m going to post here, because I didn’t keep it. In fact, the sentence I wrote yesterday is already gone. See, I’d started this scene where my protagonist, Richard, looks around the briefing table and starts describing all his senior officers and…yawn…remembering all the…ho-hum…plot points from the previous…zzzzzz. Yeah, it even …
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