Manual Transmission

lostnbronx — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 21:10:14 +0000

Out hiking with the family. Not my thing.

lostnbronx — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:55:47 +0000

MLK Day here in the States, and the Boy has off. Not so, the Missez, so it’s up & at ‘em as usual, then a whole of nothing ’til the evening.

lostnbronx — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:05:32 +0000

First day back to school for the boy – snow day yesterday – and he seems happy enough about being here. He’s not like I was at this age!

lostnbronx — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:24:13 +0000

The Holiday season is over. A bleak winter landscape now awaits. I should be so patient!

lostnbronx — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:02:16 +0000

Playing Nethack on the eeePC while waiting for the Boy to get out of school. I’m a barbarian. My character too!

NaNoWriMo and I

lostnbronx — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:45:39 +0000

Watch Old Bandit Run!

And the winner is...

Well, it was a haul-and-a-half, but it was worth it. Yesterday, I hit my goal of 50,000 words by the deadline of 11:59 pm, November 30, 2008. That’s right, 50,000 words in just three weeks! Starting so late made the whole thing frenetic and worth while only as an exercise, but it’s nice to know I can do it.

The story is a Young Adult novel about a teenage super-hero, who isn’t super. Set in the real world, with absolutely no super powers or impossible gadgetry involved, it examines how a young man might be able to don a secret identity in order to ferret out and combat crime in his small town, and what the likely outcome of it could be.

It became clear sometime last week that I had two stories to tell about this character, so this book is the first one – the ‘origin’ if you will. Maybe next year, if I can summon the energy, I’ll try this again, and do the sequel.

Anyway, that was my November project. It’s time to get back to SSH.

Now that’s really intimidating!

lostnbronx — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 01:32:07 +0000

The more you know, the more you know you DON’T know, right? So the more secure in my knowledge I become, the more ignorant I truly am?

lostnbronx — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:17:51 +0000

Approaching the end of NaNoWriMo & I’m at over 43k words in two & a half weeks. I’ll hit my 50k, which is the goal. Then I re-write. Oy!

lostnbronx — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:09:24 +0000

Hip deep in NaNoWriMo.org. Making my daily word count actually makes my whole day.

lostnbronx — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:54:56 +0000

At the boy’s school, ready to pick him up after his first day of kindergarten. What a long, strange trip it’s been & it ain’t over yet.