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Richard’s cabin aboard the BPS Sanctification had no windows, and though no doubt the bridge crew could view a multiplicity of video feeds showing the ship’s exterior, he didn’t have access to them on his little screen. Current word count: 18,687New words this session: 1,720Percentage of novel completed: 18.6

I don’t mean to make light (if you’ll pardon the expression) of the healthy problems associated with obesity, but isn’t it really kind of good news that overweight people now outnumber the malnourished?

She cast around for some way to keep the conversation going, even though she really would have preferred it to end, and something said on the pier came back to her. Current word count: 16,967New words this session: 1,096Percentage of novel completed: 16.9

I’ve been released from heck: The Walrus likes Lost in Translation!. My favorite quote from her post: You’ve really got to hand it to an author who can make you rather like a creature with tentacles around his beaked face who engages in Realpolitik. I think that should go on the paperback cover. Speaking of …

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He’d never thought much about the possibility of leaving Earth; had never dared think much about it. Current word count: 15,871New words this session: 1,109Percentage of novel completed: 15.8 Note the semicolon. A writers’ listserver I was on recently had a long discussion about semicolons, with some writers proclaiming that semicolons had no place in …

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More than one-third of the giant planet systems recently detected outside Earth’s solar system may harbor Earth-like planets, many covered in deep oceans with potential for life, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder and Pennsylvania State University. Particularly good news for this science fiction writer, who is currently …

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“You’ve never done any field work, have you, Richard?” he said, studying his fingertips as if he’d never seen them before. Current word count: 14,762New words this session: 1,694Percentage of novel completed: 14.7

U.K. author Neal Asher is not impressed with Canada Post. (Warning: link includes salty language. Those on salt-reduced diets should steer clear.) (Via The Bookblogger.)

Mice, say British researchers, don’t like cheese.

…as this collection of medical antiques proves. (Via MedGadget.)

…assuming I remember to keep doing it periodically. Herewith, the top 10 search terms currently bringing people to my main website: 47 spider goat 1.2% 36 rogue waves 0.9% 21 spider goats 0.5% 18 hygiene hypothesis 0.5% 18 golf technology 0.5% 16 wine glasses 0.4% 14 scientific hoaxes 0.4% 14 physics of football 0.4% 13 …

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