Finished NaNoWriMo after several stretches of getting behind in word count, but sorta sprinting to catch up. Then did 5,000 words the last day as a kind of tip of the hat.
Doing 1,667 words at day for 30 days didn't seem too much of a challenge. I started amateur journalistic tendencies in Junior High, so putting words in a row has been automatic for years now.
Still, it's hard to imagine getting together several of my friends who may or may not be working part time or not at all, attempting to get one post per week from them, and slap 'em up on a communal wiki/forum/etc in the semi-public webspace.
I can run these scenarios in my fiction all I like, but try and bundle my connections into an opinion hub or a writing site, hell nobody gets along on frakking facespace, why would they bother slapping even a link a week up on a communal place?
I can't keep from imagining our own private subnet, bbs on the web-ternet, whatever. Several friends have done their own version of the same over the years. I remember them testing dial-up bbs setups over the landlines in the dorms, before Halo and Quake when it was Doom blowing minds.
Finally got wireless printing working in the house. Stupid little details kept me from getting it going before. Read up on it today in spite of a monster headache and finally got the pages to spit out from across the room. These days we take the feeling of triumph wherever it comes from.
Whether it's writing 5-7k words in a day, and few in-between the longer ones, 55k words in a month, or finally getting the danged thing to print the way it's supposed to.
Finished the first Jack Reacher novel, obtained the second. Reading the first posthumous Michael Crichton novel, and after the involved and convoluted plot of the former, a different kind of gritty realism amuses in the Crichton title Pirate Latitudes.
It's been amusing reading commentary about him being a right-wing tool for having written a novel ostensibly 'against' global warming. I read that one, too, and fail to have seen overwhelming evidence it was positioned any particular way on the issue.
Looking forward to Tron Legacy, confused by disney's refusal to reissue the original movie on dvd before the sequel comes out. That's just stupid, the special brand known as corporate dumbth. Nothing would've kept them from giving it a "Tron Legacy collectable slipcover" or something with updated graphics, the frakking n00bs.
Also in December comes the new double-album from "Ryan Adams and the Cardinals" who from what I understand/understood actually preferred to just be called "The Cardinals" and they call the new album "III/IV", which by virtue of the players on it alone should kick all kinds of ass.
