More photos here.
The first sentence I wrote today…
Jack Smith said, “I mean she got so straight, people didn’t like being around her! She was downright dull.” Focusing on Janis Joplin still…
Good news for fighting viral pandemics:
A 60-second test for virus infections. Best bit: “You could actually apply it to a person walking off a plane and know if they’re infected.”
I coulda been a (NaNoWriMo) contender!
All this talk about National Novel Writing Month (for example, this local news story about a participant, one of 72 in Saskatchewan), got me to wondering just how many words I wrote in the final 30 days of working on the first draft of my new novel. I typed THE END on November 14. On …
The long-lost secret of Damascus blades:
Carbon nanotubes?
Photo of the Day: A Bottle of Seagram’s…
…that’s actually a lighter. What I can’t help wondering is…do you really want people to think of your fine Canadian whiskey as the apparent equivalent to lighter fluid? From the “things I found in my mother-in-law’s house” series. More photos here.
The first sentence I wrote today…
…had nothing to do with the new novel. I’m now concentrating on finishing up my children’s biography of Janis Joplin, which is what this is from: She arrived home in Port Arthur in May, 1965, and, wrote her sister Laura, “We welcomed her with open arms.” I should have this out of the way by …
The first sentence I wrote today…
The reinforcements from Hansen’s Harbor arrived two hours after the message went out from the grounded Sanctification. Current word count: 100,184New words this session: 4,210Percentage of novel completed: 100 Yes, that’s right. That’s the first sentence I wrote today, up above, but the last two words I wrote today on the new novel were my …
My Jimi Hendrix biography is out!
It must be, because I got my author’s copies today. Here’s the cover! It’s published by Enslow, the same folks who published the J.R.R. Tolkien and Orson Scott Card biographies I wrote previously, and who will publish the Janis Joplin biography I’m working on now. Like those, Jimi Hendrix: Kiss the Sky is intended for …
Movie monster biology
Not long ago I wrote an article emphasizing that science fiction is, first and foremost, fiction, and that a little fudging of the science for the sake of the story is expected and accepted. Having said that, however, I must also admit that nothing warms the cockles of my heart (what exactly is a cockle, …
Photo of the Day: Argon Gas
It’s everywhere! More photos here.
The first sentence I wrote today…
He didn’t have any problem spotting the remaining Holy Warrior. Current word count: 95,974New words this session: 4,340Percentage of novel completed: 95.9 A record number of words today, partly because I needed to make up for not writing at all on Saturday and Sunday, and partly just because I’m SO close to reaching the end …
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