Yearly Archives: 2009

NaNoWriMo is eating my soul

NaNoWriMo couldn’t have picked a worse month for me.  I’m sure that’s what I would say if it was in October, or January, or June.  But this month is still a bad month.  For instance, October was extremely sparse.  I had nothing on the calendar, and I was playing World of Warcraft much more than [...]

Watching: White Zombie

I’ve been watching White Zombie in snippets via Cult of UHF Podcast.  Don’t be afraid, it’s not as scary as you might think.  However, it certainly has a lot going for it.  I can only imagine that back in 1932, it had quite a few people on the edge of their seat.  That unibrow would [...]

Working Title: Addicted to VHS

Less than a week away from NaNoWriMo, and I’m very ready to get started.  As a matter of fact, I jumped the gun along with a bunch of other NaNos and wrote a small excerpt.  Don’t worry, it’s not really against the rules.  It’s just an exercise to get your juices flowing.  But now that [...]

October Jitters

Hello, folks. As November approaches, I am getting excited about participating in NaNoWriMo. You might say I have the October jitters. I am certainly getting the bug to write more, even if I can’t seem to make myself sit down and write anything. I guess we’ll see how this all goes. I’m sure I can [...]

Dvorak's Wonderous Layout

Friend, I come to you today with a proposition.  Apparently, there are all sorts of life changing things going on in my life, and I want to share one with you that could change yours.  Imagine yourself back in the era of typewriters, where hitting a key actually caused a metal stamp to fly out [...]