Emily didn’t like the way Richard looked. Current word count: 89,827New words this session: 1,814Percentage of novel completed: 89.8 No, this hasn’t turned into some kind of chicklit novel. See, Richard is injured at this point, and Emily is worried about him. She actually thinks he’s very handsome…well, for a non-genetically modified human. I hope …
How long before something like this becomes de rigeur for symphony orchestras? Wish we’d had it back when I was a French horn player in concert band.
As she waited with Richard for the airlock to cycle and let them through into the Sanctification, Emily slipped her laser pistol from its holster. Current word count: 88,013New words this session: 3,280Percentage of novel completed: 88.0 Another very SFfish sentence to start with today, what with a cycling airlock and a laser pistol, to …
More photos here. P.S. An interesting optical illusion I just discovered. If you stare at this picture, the colored ball will appear to move around slightly against the black background. (Or maybe that’s just me…)
The first Chris Keating knew of the arrival of the Holy Warriors aboard BPS Sanctification was the shrilling of an alarm that woke him from a deep sleep. Current word count: 84,733New words this session: 3,117Percentage of novel completed: 84.7 Two good sessions today. Just a little over 15,000 words to go to 100,000. (Whether …
Two Michigan State University researchers have unlocked the secret invisible-ink formula used by the former East Germany secret police, the Stasi: The Stasi’s technique of transferring top-secret messages worked like a piece of carbon paper. An agent would place a piece of paper impregnated with the chemical cerium oxalate between two pieces of plain paper. …
…but full of errors. I have sympathy for both the author and the proofreaders–Lord knows I make plenty of my own errers…er, errors…but these seem particularly blatant. The proofreaders certainly shouldn’t have missed them, but the author should have caught them himself when he read the galleys.
Scientists have a pop-culture reputation as either a) boring or b) mad. That they are not necessarily the former (although, based on the evidence, the jury is still out on the latter) was proven once again last month with the annual awarding of the Ig Nobel Prizes “for research which first makes you laugh, then …
It looked like all the Holy Warriors on the far side of the shuttle were also dead or wounded…but the snipers had gotten only three of the four machine-gunners inside. Current word count: 81,616New words this session: 2,767Percentage of novel completed: 81.6 Four-fifths done…
I can’t believe I hadn’t come across this until now (but then, the World Wide Web is a rather large place [if it’s a place at all (and how many paranthetical [like this] statements can one put in a single sentence, anyway?)]): Michael C. LaBarbera, a University of Chicago biologist, has taken a scientific look …
Regina’s Davin School at twilight. More photos here.
Cheveldeoff sat in the main briefing room of the Retribution with Grand Deacon Braun, watching the video feeds streaming back from the descending shuttle. Current word count: 78,849New words this session: 1,074Percentage of novel completed: 78.8 Everything today was written in the 45 minutes or so I had to myself in the snack room of …
