Thanksgiving Fail

…was supposed to be my “catch up on NaNoWriMo” day, but due to having had my nose rubbed in the pathetic reality of my family situation today I have not felt at all like doing anything in the slightest bit creative. It’s amazing how fragile that impulse is, for me I think more than most [...]

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Annie… get your gun. Or was it Janie? She’s already *got* one…

So we’re into performances of Annie at Olney Theater Center, and I’m actually feeling in better shape chops-wise than usual. It helps that it’s not all that hard a show. But I hadn’t had that long a break from the last of the Players gigs before we started rehearsals for this, so I hadn’t forgotten [...]

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My Favorite Lines So Far…

…from my NaNoWriMo novel are:   “We don’t tolerate that sort of thing in the state of Kansas, sir.” and:   Ross said, without emotion, “She’s wrapped in a tarp.” That second one is sort of a spoiler. And yes, I am writing the novel in Verdana 15. I have a huge 22″ monitor set [...]

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The Road To Tyuratam

I’m at 16,009 words; which is pretty excellent. The first big event has occurred and all is chaos for our heroes, and it’s beginning to feel like a real novel where things happen and lead to other things that happen and characters have arcs and other good things. Plus there’s been some (offscreen) hot sex. [...]

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NaNoWriMo progress so far

Well, I’m at 7136 words, and nothing has really happened yet. Though, I’ve set some stuff up. I haven’t been writing a lot of description. It’s all dialogue and a little bit of exposition. But I’m about to come to the first real significant plot point… Sandrine’s death. I feel guilty about killing her off, [...]

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NaNoWriMo has begun!

…and I’ve written the first scene. Took three hours. Started on the Windows Beta of Scrivener, which showed (shows?) a lot of promise, except when I was almost done it inexplicably lost several paragraphs. I have no idea how. I immediately panicked and cut-and-pasted over into Open Office Writer and I’m going to play it [...]

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I’m a big nerd.

I’ve been in the midst of a Buffy DVD marathon. Just started season 7. I’ve been tweeting lines… gotten some fun responses from other fans and from non-fans wondering what the hell I’m talking about NI offered a great price on upgrades to Komplete 6, and for the first time since Komplete 4, I (as [...]

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News of the Whirled.

Let’s see, what’s interesting? Well, I’m still blocked from finished my third CD by a seeming inability to get motivated to write music. Though I am collaborating with Erika on her concept album, and we have our own duo project which, if it’s beginnings are any indication, will be wierdly wonderful. I’m trying to produce [...]

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Random Thoughts and Guilty Pleasures

I’m deep in Peter Pan land (that would be Neverland, specifically) at Olney Theater and so I haven’t been doing much in the way of blogging lately. Other than posting a few videos and links. But here are a few thoughts. —————————– I’m not a real big fan of musical theater music, or musical theater [...]

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Nanowrimo update

Well the first thing I should say is that they seem to have gotten their server problems under control. Why it took as long as it did is beyond me, but at least they didn’t just throw up their hands and say, ‘live with it’. The site is responsive and not at all frustrating now. [...]

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