Wouldn’t you love being able to say that? Well, unfortunately, I’m not talking of the world’s destiny but of the publication of Meter Destiny, the latest installment in my case files. It just happened that M. D. was talking about it with her publisher Zumaya Otherworlds, and they’ve decided to delay at least 6 months. [...]
Archive for November, 2007
Destiny’s delayed
Posted in Case files, Mystery, NaNoWriMo, Science Fiction, Writing, publishing, sci-fi on November 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
NaNoWriMo — How it’s going
Posted in Commentary, Life, NaNoWriMo, Writing on November 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve just had a chat with M. D. about her experience with NaNoWriMo this year. She told me she completed, even exceeded the 50K goal last year and expects to do the same this year. There are some differences, however.
Last year was frenetic, with huge numbers of word every day. She missed only one day [...]
NaNoWriMo
Posted in Life, Mystery, NaNoWriMo, Science Fiction, Writing, tagged genetics, land-grab, murder, NaNoWriMo, novel, space western, story, Writing on November 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It’s that time of the year and my collaborator, M. D. Benoit, is doing National Novel Writing Month. To succeed, she must write a 50,000 word novel in one month. So what? I told her. Okay, she says. Think about writing a 200 page novel in one month. And think that less than 10% finish [...]
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Another NaNoWriMo Triumph!
Posted in Commentary, NaNoWriMo, Science Fiction, Writing, publishing, sci-fi, tagged NaNoWriMo, sci-fi, Science Fiction, SF, space, western, work in progress, Writing on November 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This just in from M. D.: she’s completed the NaNoWriMo challenge for another year! I’m very proud of her. She tells me that her work-in-progress, tentatively entitled Noth’Nor, can be loosely called a space western, simply because the story happens on a ranch on another planet. After some doubts about whether she would continue playing [...]
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