She and her mother were in the second load to be ferried to the shuttle.Words today: 1,406Total thus far: 18,532Percentage completed: 15.4
Photo of the Day: The New Persephone Theatre
We moved into the new Persephone Theatre today. It was certainly an interesting experience, since construction continued unabated while we checked spacing for Beauty and the Beast on stage. Dust hung so thick in the air that, as you can see in the second photo below, many of us were wearing dust masks most of …
The first sentence I wrote today (well, technically, yesterday, since I’m posting this after midnight, so sue me)
With Hansen’s image gone from the vidscreen, Karl Rasmusson turned to the man to whom command of the Holy Warriors had defaulted.Words today: 992Total thus far: 17,126Percentage completed: 14.3 Not too great a total today, either. I expect more tomorrow, though, since I don’t have to be at rehearsal until noon.
Book sites
Here’s this week’s CBC Web column… *** Books make great Christmas presents…at least, the right book does. But with so many books out there, how do you find the good ones? Well, the World Wide Web is a good place to start. There are hundreds of good book sites on the Web. In fact, there …
The first sentence I wrote today
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 …
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 …
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 …

