Archive for July, 2004

Whee!

Thursday, July 29th, 2004

After a long radio silence, we interrupt this program with breaking news:
I just found a cool product for archiving websites!
http://www.bluesquirrel.com/products/whacker/
(actually, there are quite a few such products available)
Good for grabbing your favorite porn site and setting it up in an archive (or on CD), so you don’t have to keep subscribing to it. (Or, in [...]

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A book of 300 pages…

Friday, July 16th, 2004

…starts with a single word.
 
Or, more accurately, a single page.
 
I’ve written the first page of the book today, and while that doesn’t sound like a lot, it is.  One of the biggest problems I’ve been having is finding my “voice”–the tone, rhythm, and breathing of the book.  The same story can be written in dozens [...]

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More on book-writing

Tuesday, July 13th, 2004

I spent a good couple hours today laying out the plot of the chapters. It’s quite complex, as I have in-depth interviews with something like 20-30 riders, and six or seven themes I want to cover. My head is spinning.
But I’m making considerable progress…would you like to know my secret? I’m using [...]

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