Day 5 Wednesday, December 2, 2009 I’m not sure how to briefly write about today, and it will have to be brief because it’s very late and tomorrow is our last day. In some respects, today actually felt like two days, one a trip down the Danube to tiny medieval villages and a vast BaroqueContinue reading “Vienna: Day 5”
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Vienna: Day 4
Day 4 Tuesday, December 1, 2009 Tonight might be short because it’s nearly midnight already and we’ve had another exhaustive day of heavy walking and are looking forward to an early morning. Fortunately(?), full as our day was it contained relatively few individual activities—we stayed focused today. When we woke up we found it raining,Continue reading “Vienna: Day 4”
Vienna: Day 3
Day 3 Monday, November 30, 2009 Today has felt longer than it has been, partly because despite all our hopping on and off trains and buses today, Jennifer and I have put in more than our share of kilometers on foot and partly because it has been a day of adventurous misdirection. We started offContinue reading “Vienna: Day 3”
Vienna: Day 2
Day 2 Sunday, November 29, 2009 Jennifer figured out this evening that she’s been to the cinema in six different countries. She saw a film in San Miguel de Allende, in Mexico, while I was in Turkey, and I didn’t go to any theaters in Istanbul or Ankara or Izmir, so she’s one up onContinue reading “Vienna: Day 2”
Vienna: Intro and Day 1
I like to keep a travel journal whenever I go anywhere far from home — it’s a habit I was assigned on a college winter-term trip to Turkey eleven years ago, but one I’ve enjoyed keeping since then — and so I kept one last week while Jennifer and I jaunted around Vienna. But I’veContinue reading “Vienna: Intro and Day 1”
Acknowledgments: NaNoWriMo update #4
One of the reasons I decided to participate in NaNoWriMo this year was the pressure. I don’t mean just write a bunch in November. I mean sign up at the site, with a profile and picture and everything; I mean post regular updates and excepts on the site and in Facebook and here in myContinue reading “Acknowledgments: NaNoWriMo update #4”
It was a dark and stormy writer’s block….
A long time ago, when I was a nerd in high school, I hung out with a bunch of other nerds in high school and we played role playing games. You know the bit Mike Myers did on his 2001 appearance on Inside the Actors Studio, with one eye crossed and speaking in a lisp asContinue reading “It was a dark and stormy writer’s block….”
Researching fiction (NaNoWriMo update #3)
For more on researching for fiction, go to the main research page. Here I am at the end of day 8 of NaNoWriMo. My current total word count is 25,504. I know that makes it seem I’ve spent every waking moment of the past week writing, but really, I’ve managed to work in more thanContinue reading “Researching fiction (NaNoWriMo update #3)”
Writing in the middle (NaNoWriMo update #2)
When I was doing doctoral work at UNT, my writing professor Barb Rodman once commented that I could write more story in to less space than anyone she’d seen in a long while. “I’m always surprised when I finish a story and I look at the page count to see how short it is. YourContinue reading “Writing in the middle (NaNoWriMo update #2)”
NaNoWriMo update #1: So it begins.
I’m now two days into November and so two days into my new novel for National Novel Writing Month. So far I’m off to a strange but delicious start: I’ve had a very clear vision for this novel for about four years now, so at the outset of this project I set myself up a relativelyContinue reading “NaNoWriMo update #1: So it begins.”
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