The subs from Jumpoff Station hadn’t yet arrived when Emily and Farley and their unexpectedly still-living prisoner reached the shattered pier.Current word count: 66,153New words this session: 1,413Percentage of novel completed: 66.1 Got in an hour today after the wine and food festival wrapped up. It was a fabulous time as always, but a bit …
No blogging today, and no writing, because we’ve been tasting wine and eating great food at the International Wine and Food Festival at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel. Here’s where we had lunch: Mt. Stephen’s Hall. Not bad, eh? (There’s currently a wedding dance going on down there–our room is right above it, alas, and …
“Maybe you do,” said the girl behind Richard, and pushed him forward.Current word count: 64,740New words this session: 776Percentage of novel completed: 64.7 A short session today (and none yesterday). We spent yesterday on the road to Calgary, and today we went on to Banff for the International Wine and Food Festival at the Banff …
…by Kent Pollard is up at the McNally-Robinson Booksellers site. Here’s the central paragraph: Strong characters and well designed aliens serve to make (Edward Willett’s) first adult novel a success. The S’sinn of Lost in Translation are believable and comprehensible, while providing a welcome change from humans in monster suits. The characters are focussed and …
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In what had once been the administrator’s office, surrounded by vidscreens glowing the pale green that indicated no signal, they found the man who must have been commander of the Holy Warriors, dead in his chair, head thrown back, red eyes staring at the ceiling, the front of his once-white uniform stiff with dried blood …
Robotic powered exoskeletons for soldiers will be delivered to the U.S. Army for testing in 2008. What’s it like to wear one? Main tried it out himself recently. “It makes you feel really, really strong. You get the sensation that you have a lot of strength. I sort of felt like The Hulk and I’m …
The first in an occasional series I’m calling “Things I Found in My Mother-in-Law’s House.” This is the head of a brass elephant, obviously. It’s one of two, on marble stands, obviously intended as book ends. The question is, why is there a matching candlestick holder? Would you put it in the middle of a …
…was technically: “Have you checked the basement?” Which is not only a very boring sentence, but one that will not appear in the finished book–because shortly after I wrote it, I realized I had taken a seriously wrong turn in my plot about four scenes back. So instead of writing new material today, I was …
The Selkies descended into the streets of Hansen’s Harbor at first light.Current word count: 62, 556New words this session: 984Percentage of novel completed: 62.5
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Bob McDonald, director of membership and legal services for the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan,, recently tipped me to the strange case of a Dr. Carefoot, disciplined by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the Province of Saskatchewan in the 1920s for diagnosing and treating patients using an Abrams Machine. “A …
