Too long away from the sun

She was gone.  The window was open, and she was gone.  I looked stupidly outside at the tree in bloom and the blue sky behind it.  She was gone.
It wasn’t unexpected, of course.  She had been getting restless for a while.  I wasn’t even sad, particularly, just deeply, humbly, unbelievably, sure.  Final things, you know, [...]

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Complaining with Kay, Episode 17: The Exodus.

Encouraged by some positive feedback on last week’s dramatic monologue reading (OK, one nice comment on Facebook…), I offer a reading of the story I posted yesterday.  I would have used a Dweezil Zappa sort of accent for the narrator, but…I can’t do accents.  Except for Ranier Wolfcastle.
Also in this episode: why on earth do [...]

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Two-page story: The Exodus

This is an idea for a short story that I had a while ago, but never actually wrote.  Somewhat NSFW for swearing and blasphemy.
Two-page story: The Exodus
Some people dislike leaving.  I’ve always found it rather a relief, personally; that moment when all the goodbyes are said and you can turn around, sling your bag over [...]

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Aha!

I “found” about 2000 words that I hadn’t included in my word count total. Serves me right for writing on two different computers and making each day a separate file. So I’m over 42000 words now. Getting to 50000 by Sunday? Piece of cake.
* Here is a massive installment – yesterday [...]

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Writer’s block? Mahler helps.

So does Shostakovitch. I listened to some symphonies today when I was writing, and it came much more easily than it did yesterday. Weird.
* It’s all coming together now – I will shortly return to my usual aimless blogging style, but bear with me until Sunday*
Interlude: A detective story
It was a cold night, [...]

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28036 and counting

It’s like I’m gouging the words out with a pickaxe. Time for Nyquil and bed, I think.
*It’s starting to ramp up for the climax. Hopefully tomorrow morning I’ll get to the really fun part.*
I could see at once that the kid needed watching – the little dark-haired one, the one I’d watched go [...]

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Next installment

I have about 10,000 words to go before the climax…I now know how I’m going to draw the whole thing together and make it a devastating ending. It’s tempting to just skip to the end now, but I should make sure it’s fully fleshed out.
There may be another installment later tonight. I’m feeling [...]

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Another vampire update

Another installment – this is from last night. See if you can tell when I took Nyquil.

*I don’t know what’s up with the fonts, but I can’t seem to change them*
“Well, you know best, I guess,” Justin said. He sounded unconvinced. “They’re not, like Christian vampires or something, are they?”
“You are [...]

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New music: Wordcount goal MET!

Finally.  5003 words today!
And I’ve taken some Nyquil, so I’m out.
*Only 30000 to go!*
“That,” I said coldly, “Is the worst story ever,”
“What?” Justin said as he put down his manuscript and looked at me, hurt. “But it’s about you!”
“I know,” I said. “And it’s the stupidest possible reading of the situation.”
“But it’s the [...]

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New music: Word count goal exceeded!

Instead of 1500 words in an hour, I did 2769 in an hour and a half!
* Warning: this is really different from the rest of the book so far. If you haven’t read anything else of it yet, I suggest you click on the “Nanowrimo08″ category and start at the beginning. Or at [...]

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