Archive for October, 2009
Writing fiction is mentally exhausting
I worked a bit more on my novelette this weekend, The Cliffs of Oakenrah. The wordcount is now up to 5,600. I’m still on scene 5 of 21 though, but it’s a rather long scene. Perhaps it is because I am out of practice, and I haven’t been forcing myself to write everyday whether I [...]
Posted: October 25th, 2009 under Writing.
Tags: The Cliffs of Oakenrah
Comments: none
Ten thousand hours might mean nothing
At this point I’m fairly sure I will indeed do NaNoWriMo … sort of. I’m going to start writing, that is, but I’m not really going to try to win, I’m not going to strive for 50,000 words in a month. I’m just going to see how much I can get done, but I’m not [...]
Posted: October 22nd, 2009 under Philosophy, Writing.
Tags: experience, NaNoWriMo, The Cliffs of Oakenrah
Comments: 2
Read a book, write a book
READ A BOOK The other day I finished reading the book Why Don’t Students Like School: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom and I put up some quotes from the book on my Book Quotes blog. It was a short read, only 165 pages. [...]
Posted: October 17th, 2009 under Non-fiction books, Writing.
Tags: Daniel T. Willingham, NaNoWriMo, Why Don't Students Like School?
Comments: none
Deadline failure and other such things
I was hoping to compose 5 minutes of music a week, starting last Tuesday, but unfortunately I was only able to compose 2 minutes and 46 seconds by this past Sunday. So I fail! Shocking, no? I blame a few things: 1) My job. It’s a part-time job, so I can’t blame it for taking [...]
Posted: October 10th, 2009 under Fiction books, Music composition.
Tags: Federations, John Joseph Adams, my first album
Comments: none