I was going to title my link to this New Scientist article, “I wonder if Robert J. Sawyer knows about this?” I should have known better. He blogged it before I did.
The first sentence I wrote today…
“Is that it?” Dahlia asked as Emily tightened the last strap on the last of an inordinate number of bundles in the mini-sub they’d rented for their camping trip. Current word count: 20,214New words this session: 1,527Percentage of novel completed: 20.2 Over a fifth of the way through! (The first draft. With lots and lots …
This is astonishing…
Not long ago, the idea of conducting an experiment on a single strand of DNA seemed far beyond the realm of science. But thanks to rapid advances in microscopy in the last decade, researchers can now watch a single gene being transcribed from DNA–one atom at a time–or observe the activity of a protein molecule …
Interpreting the landscape from above
This week, I finally saw copies of A Safe and Prosperous Future: 100 Years of Engineering and Geoscience Achievements in Saskatchewan, the book I spent a great deal of the last year or so working on for the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan. The book is full of (I hope) interesting stories …
The first sentence I wrote today…
Richard’s cabin aboard the BPS Sanctification had no windows, and though no doubt the bridge crew could view a multiplicity of video feeds showing the ship’s exterior, he didn’t have access to them on his little screen. Current word count: 18,687New words this session: 1,720Percentage of novel completed: 18.6
Um…isn’t this really kind of good news?
I don’t mean to make light (if you’ll pardon the expression) of the healthy problems associated with obesity, but isn’t it really kind of good news that overweight people now outnumber the malnourished?
The first sentence I wrote Friday…
She cast around for some way to keep the conversation going, even though she really would have preferred it to end, and something said on the pier came back to her. Current word count: 16,967New words this session: 1,096Percentage of novel completed: 16.9
The Walrus likes Lost in Translation
I’ve been released from heck: The Walrus likes Lost in Translation!. My favorite quote from her post: You’ve really got to hand it to an author who can make you rather like a creature with tentacles around his beaked face who engages in Realpolitik. I think that should go on the paperback cover. Speaking of …
The first sentence I wrote today (with a segue into a rant on punctuation)
He’d never thought much about the possibility of leaving Earth; had never dared think much about it. Current word count: 15,871New words this session: 1,109Percentage of novel completed: 15.8 Note the semicolon. A writers’ listserver I was on recently had a long discussion about semicolons, with some writers proclaiming that semicolons had no place in …
Good news for science fiction writers…
More than one-third of the giant planet systems recently detected outside Earth’s solar system may harbor Earth-like planets, many covered in deep oceans with potential for life, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder and Pennsylvania State University. Particularly good news for this science fiction writer, who is currently …
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The first sentence I wrote today was…
“You’ve never done any field work, have you, Richard?” he said, studying his fingertips as if he’d never seen them before. Current word count: 14,762New words this session: 1,694Percentage of novel completed: 14.7
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