Ethan J. posted an article on Sinister - Nov 29, 2009, 7:57 pm
Well, I did it - 50,000 words in 30 days. Who knew that such things were possible?
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Ethan J. posted an article on Sinister - Nov 29, 2009, 7:57 pm
Well, I did it - 50,000 words in 30 days. Who knew that such things were possible?
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Ethan J. posted an article on Sinister - Nov 28, 2009, 8:42 pm
Home stretch now. I should hit the 50,000 mark tomorrow. Very exciting. The novel won't be done, but I'll have completed the overall task. I will have shown myself that I can write a damne...
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Ethan J. posted an article on Sinister - Nov 28, 2009, 8:42 pm
Home stretch now. I should hit the 50,000 mark tomorrow. Very exciting. The novel won't be done, but I'll have completed the overall task. I will have shown myself that I can write a damne...
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Ethan J. posted an article on Sinister - Nov 24, 2009, 12:30 am
Did a bunch of catch up tonight after totally blowing off my NANO this weekend. Now I'm back on track. Digging where the story is right now - clearly this thing is going to surpass the 50,000 wo...
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Ethan J. posted an article on Sinister - Nov 24, 2009, 12:30 am
Did a bunch of catch up tonight after totally blowing off my NANO this weekend. Now I'm back on track. Digging where the story is right now - clearly this thing is going to surpass the 50,000 wo...
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Ethan J. posted an article on Sinister - Nov 20, 2009, 10:40 am
I committed the cardinal NANO sin of revising last night, because I realized that my timeline made no sense. And since the second part of my book is a retelling of the first part, from a different pe...
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Ethan J. posted an article on Sinister - Nov 20, 2009, 10:40 am
I committed the cardinal NANO sin of revising last night, because I realized that my timeline made no sense. And since the second part of my book is a retelling of the first part, from a different pe...
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Ethan J. posted an article on Sinister - Nov 17, 2009, 10:43 am
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. --Carl Sagan In honor of the space shuttle lifting off. Passed 27,000 words last night. Still on track.
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Ethan J. posted an article on Sinister - Nov 17, 2009, 10:43 am
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. --Carl Sagan In honor of the space shuttle lifting off. Passed 27,000 words last night. Still on track.
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Ethan J. posted an article on Sinister - Nov 16, 2009, 3:02 pm
"In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness that starts to set in about 2:55, when you know you’ve taken all the baths that you can usefully t...
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Ethan J. posted an article on Sinister - Nov 16, 2009, 3:02 pm
"In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness that starts to set in about 2:55, when you know you’ve taken all the baths that you can usefully t...
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Ethan J. posted an article on Sinister - Nov 8, 2009, 6:58 pm
words and still going strong. The only trouble I'm having is that I think I might be telling my story too quickly. I'm going to have to go back and add some bulk into the plot before I get to...
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Ethan J. posted an article on Sinister - Nov 8, 2009, 6:58 pm
words and still going strong. The only trouble I'm having is that I think I might be telling my story too quickly. I'm going to have to go back and add some bulk into the plot before I get to...
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Ethan J. posted an article on Sinister - Nov 3, 2009, 10:52 am
I've got 7282 words now - this story is racing out of my head faster than a metaphor I can't think of right now because all of my words are being sucked out of my head by this novel. I won&...
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Ethan J. posted an article on Sinister - Nov 3, 2009, 10:52 am
I've got 7282 words now - this story is racing out of my head faster than a metaphor I can't think of right now because all of my words are being sucked out of my head by this novel. I won&...
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Ethan J. posted an article on Sinister - Nov 1, 2009, 1:22 pm
National Novel Writing Month. Current word count: 1942. Taking a break. Hoping for at least 3000 words today.
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Ethan J. posted an article on Sinister - Nov 1, 2009, 1:22 pm
National Novel Writing Month. Current word count: 1942. Taking a break. Hoping for at least 3000 words today.
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Ethan J. posted an article on Sinister - Oct 27, 2009, 9:58 am
Bowery Blues by Jack Kerouac The story of man Makes me sick Inside, outside, I don't know why Something so conditional A...
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Ethan J. posted an article on Sinister - Oct 27, 2009, 9:58 am
Bowery Blues by Jack Kerouac The story of man Makes me sick Inside, outside, I don't know why Something so conditional A...
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Ethan J. posted an article on Sinister - Oct 19, 2009, 12:13 pm
I'm rewriting it from scratch (both because it needs it and because doing so will be good prep for Nano). Going back through it, it's pretty clear that much of the story suffers from a dry na...
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Ethan J. posted an article on Sinister - Oct 19, 2009, 12:13 pm
I'm rewriting it from scratch (both because it needs it and because doing so will be good prep for Nano). Going back through it, it's pretty clear that much of the story suffers from a dry na...
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Ethan J. posted an article on Sinister - Oct 18, 2009, 4:02 pm
This is a little something I wrote a few months ago. And yes, I know, I reuse character names, especially the name Mike. I have no idea why. The Nondescript Man I Mike Harris was sitting i...
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Ethan J. posted an article on Sinister - Oct 18, 2009, 4:02 pm
This is a little something I wrote a few months ago. And yes, I know, I reuse character names, especially the name Mike. I have no idea why. The Nondescript Man I Mike Harris was sitting i...
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Ethan J. posted an article on Sinister - Oct 17, 2009, 5:09 pm
Show, don't tell, is one of the cardinal rules of good writing. I've known that for years, kind of in the back of my mind, but somehow I'd kind of forgotten what it meant until I was remi...
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Ethan J. posted an article on Sinister - Oct 17, 2009, 5:09 pm
Show, don't tell, is one of the cardinal rules of good writing. I've known that for years, kind of in the back of my mind, but somehow I'd kind of forgotten what it meant until I was remi...
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Ethan J. posted an article on Sinister - Oct 17, 2009, 4:56 pm
A financial crisis at home had exacerbated the problem with the Russians. A major celebrity had been found in a compromising situation with a politician. Those two stories, along with a myriad of ju...
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Ethan J. posted an article on Sinister - Oct 17, 2009, 4:56 pm
A financial crisis at home had exacerbated the problem with the Russians. A major celebrity had been found in a compromising situation with a politician. Those two stories, along with a myriad of ju...
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Ethan J. posted an article on Sinister - Oct 15, 2009, 1:06 am
... had organized themselves in communities throughout history. She had a particular affinity for the Kibbutz movement of twentieth century Israel, especially since at least one of her ancestors wh...
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Ethan J. posted an article on Sinister - Oct 15, 2009, 1:06 am
... had organized themselves in communities throughout history. She had a particular affinity for the Kibbutz movement of twentieth century Israel, especially since at least one of her ancestors wh...
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Ethan J. posted an article on Sinister - Oct 12, 2009, 11:30 pm
President Gibson sat by the fireplace in the residence wing of the White House sipping a scotch on the rocks. When Liaison Markey had delivered the news of the ark ship's arrival, Gibson hadn'...
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Ethan J. posted an article on Sinister - Oct 12, 2009, 11:30 pm
President Gibson sat by the fireplace in the residence wing of the White House sipping a scotch on the rocks. When Liaison Markey had delivered the news of the ark ship's arrival, Gibson hadn'...
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Ethan J. posted an article on Sinister - Oct 12, 2009, 10:58 am
To You by Walt Whitman Whoever you are, I fear you are walking the walks of dreams, I fear these supposed realities are to melt from under your feet and ha...
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Ethan J. posted an article on Sinister - Oct 12, 2009, 10:58 am
To You by Walt Whitman Whoever you are, I fear you are walking the walks of dreams, I fear these supposed realities are to melt from under your feet and ha...
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Ethan J. posted an article on Sinister - Oct 11, 2009, 1:27 am
Since I'm not doing regular "happy Friday" videos anymore, here's this, because it's just a great song. They Might Be Giants - Ana Ng from They Might Be Giants on Vimeo.
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Ethan J. posted an article on Sinister - Oct 11, 2009, 1:27 am
Since I'm not doing regular "happy Friday" videos anymore, here's this, because it's just a great song. They Might Be Giants - Ana Ng from They Might Be Giants on Vimeo.
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Ethan J. posted an article on Sinister - Oct 10, 2009, 12:26 pm
The media carried a brief mention of the ship's arrival, along with snippets of the President's prepared statement urging the world to “mark this historic moment and consider it in context w...
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Ethan J. posted an article on Sinister - Oct 10, 2009, 12:26 pm
The media carried a brief mention of the ship's arrival, along with snippets of the President's prepared statement urging the world to “mark this historic moment and consider it in context w...
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Ethan J. posted an article on Sinister - Oct 7, 2009, 1:59 am
The first part of the mission was to survey the landing site. The colonists fanned out across the rocky promontory and used their geological scanners to get a picture of the area. Mike Harris had be...
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Ethan J. posted an article on Sinister - Oct 7, 2009, 1:59 am
The first part of the mission was to survey the landing site. The colonists fanned out across the rocky promontory and used their geological scanners to get a picture of the area. Mike Harris had be...
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Ethan J. posted an article on Sinister - Oct 5, 2009, 2:45 pm
Refrain by Allen Ginsberg The air is dark, the night is sad, I lie sleepless and I groan. Nobody cares when a man goes mad: He is sorry, God is glad. Shadow changes into bone. Every sha...
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Ethan J. posted an article on Sinister - Oct 5, 2009, 2:45 pm
Refrain by Allen Ginsberg The air is dark, the night is sad, I lie sleepless and I groan. Nobody cares when a man goes mad: He is sorry, God is glad. Shadow changes into bone. Every sha...
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Ethan J. posted an article on Sinister - Oct 3, 2009, 4:53 pm
The landing pods were coming down from the orbiting ship. On one of the pods sat young Mike Harris, a descendant of those who had begun the journey to this new colony two hundred fifty years ago. I...
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Ethan J. posted an article on Sinister - Oct 3, 2009, 4:53 pm
The landing pods were coming down from the orbiting ship. On one of the pods sat young Mike Harris, a descendant of those who had begun the journey to this new colony two hundred fifty years ago. I...
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Ethan J. posted an article on Sinister - Oct 3, 2009, 4:25 pm
The left-handed electric mice who run this blog have made a tactical decision to shift its focus from politics to writing. This decision was reached because: 1) The mice have neither the time nor th...
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Ethan J. posted an article on Sinister - Oct 3, 2009, 4:25 pm
The left-handed electric mice who run this blog have made a tactical decision to shift its focus from politics to writing. This decision was reached because: 1) The mice have neither the time nor th...
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Ethan J. posted an article on Sinister - Oct 1, 2009, 10:56 am
This blog is experiencing technical difficulties. We apologize for the inconvenience*. *note: The inconvenience in question is not actually caused by technical difficulties, but rather by the author...
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Ethan J. posted an article on Sinister - Oct 1, 2009, 10:56 am
This blog is experiencing technical difficulties. We apologize for the inconvenience*. *note: The inconvenience in question is not actually caused by technical difficulties, but rather by the author...
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Ethan J. posted an article on Sinister - Sep 10, 2009, 11:26 pm
In honor of the upcoming Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashana, here's this:
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Ethan J. posted an article on Sinister - Sep 10, 2009, 11:26 pm
In honor of the upcoming Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashana, here's this:
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