My server on which I hosted my email, websites, code repositories and so much more crashed back in June. I didn’t even notice until much later, because the emails that were supposed to tell me that one of the hard drives had died went into the spam folders both on my mail server and on… Continue reading My Blog is back
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Status Update November
Since I never finished a draft for last year’s NaNoWriMo, I am not doing NaNoWriMo this year. It turned out that my lack of preparation really messed up the story. I am still working on it. So far I’ve written more than 220.000 words for the project less than half of which are in the… Continue reading Status Update November
Heading towards an Ending
//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js My novel got stuck for nearly a month due to reasons – a wonderful vacation in Scotland among them. But now I am back on track. As suggested by an early reader, I’ve added a short prologue detailing a few of the events just before the plot starts, hopefully clearing up a few confusing… Continue reading Heading towards an Ending
Cylon Writing
Like the Cylons I finally have a plan. The project I am working on which was originally titled “Mind Bleed” and was started in October/November 2014 for the NaNoWriMo is still not finished. I had too little time to plan and that fact has come back twice to bite me. The original November draft came… Continue reading Cylon Writing
State of Writing
I just noticed that I didn’t update since finishing NaNoWriMo. Well, besides a six week trip to South-East Asia, I haven’t been idling. I spent a bit of time writing a few flash pieces on WriteOn. But for some reason I dropped out of that community. I let myself get too involved, and it started… Continue reading State of Writing
NaNoWriMo: the final stretch
I finished the 50k on Friday. It was a back-breaking – quite nearly literally – day of writing. I wrote about 4k words that day. I just wanted to be able to take a break on Saturday. Here are my final diary entries from the writing marathon that is NaNoWriMo. I expect to have to… Continue reading NaNoWriMo: the final stretch
Flash Fiction: Sweet Sixteen
Every week-end there’s a writing prompt called “Week-end write in” on WriteOn. This week-end it was “imagine a dinner-party where a secret is revealed”. The challenge is to do this in 500 words. So here’s my entry for this week-end. It’s Cathy’s birthday and there is a surprise waiting for her.
NaNoWriMo Diary Continued
The ship’s journey diary of my NaNoWriMo Adventures (originally written on the WriteOn forums). Part One to be found here. I am currently at nearly 31k words and nearing the completion of Act 1 (of 3) Update: I managed to finish Act 1 today, stopping just short of 34k words. My average is back at… Continue reading NaNoWriMo Diary Continued
Favorite Online Writing Resources
While doing Nanowrimo, one does need to spend some time procrastinating. So I am finally polishing my list of writing resources. TV Tropes is the best inspiration, it also warns you of the worst pitfalls and clichés. I write in English, I often have to look up words in the dictionary. English has all these… Continue reading Favorite Online Writing Resources
NaNoWriMo – The First 6 Days
As I noted before, this year I am doing NaNoWriMo. After some time of brooding about a title I finally found one I liked: “Mind Bleed” – of course if something better turns up, I will change the title again. For now it’s still quite fitting. Here’s the novel’s blurb (although I have to update… Continue reading NaNoWriMo – The First 6 Days