…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 …
…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 …
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 …
…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 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 …
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
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.
…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 …
Richard Hansen settled himself into the thick blue upholstery of the chair at the head of the long, oval, gold-colored metal table, and looked around at his senior staff.Words today: 1,435Total thus far: 2,504Percentage completed: 2.09
The stage version of Beauty and the Beast, as presented on Broadway, had a cast of roughly two million (that’s just a guess). At Persephone Theatre here in Saskatoon, we have a cast of 14. This means all of us poor players must play in our time many parts. I, for instance, play the Narrator, …
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, and a journey of 120,000 words began today with the first word of my next novel, Terra Insegura: Bump. That has a period, but it’s not really a sentence. Or maybe it’s a condensed sentence: just like there’s an implied "You" at the beginning …
Download the audio version.Get my science column weekly as a podcast. *** A couple of weeks ago I wrote about research aimed at making robot-human interactions more comfortable for humans. With more and more robots finding more and more uses in society, that kind of research is important. But there’s something else we’re going to …
