I am doing under-the-hood work on murlafferty.com right now, hence me not blogging much. I wanted to ping and say I’m here, I’m alive, I’m writing.
WASTELAND is at 21000 words now, and in the home stretch. I did 2100 words today, but there’s still more in me. I’m hoping to finish it tonight or more »
One of my favorite new podcasts is SciFi Surplus, a humorous scifi show. It’s very sharp and well-written, and I was thrilled when they emailed me for an interview. That interview went live this weekend, so check it out, and be sure to subscribe, it’s an excellent show!
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Well, the week sucked, more »
Podcaster, actor and writer Dan Klass wrote an article about podfiction in theFeb/March. It featured JC Hutchins and Scott Sigler, but listed me as “The Next Breakout Author?” Wow.
If you’re here from the awesome article, welcome!
Sick. Whiny. Jim just left for the Game Developer’s conference and I’m trying not to let the Pink Tornado eat crap (I think she already ate all the Pocky I got her for Valentine’s) and watch TV the whole time. But with zero energy…
PT is in the other room now, being very good and more »
Progress:
I’ve lost count of daily wordcount this week because frankly it hasn’t been that impressive. I think I did about 4K this week. 115 today so far. Sigh. I’m going to post the total wordcounts here and figure out how much more time I have left and how many words left to write:
WASTELAND: more »
So the migraine returned with a vengeance around 3:30 Monday morning, and in my pain-filled daze, I took a prescription pain med. Bad idea. I was zonked for the rest of the day. Could not think straight. Tuesday morning the pain had returned, but not too bad, so I beat it back with Tylenol and more »
Words:
Project Underground: 1068 (total unknown, ~20k maybe?) Wasteland: – Cowgirl Secret Space Detective Superhero: 2390 (total 7100 — it’s DONE)
Other details:
Tea: Bangkok (yeah, green tea, pulling out the big caffeine guns) Music: Hawksley Workman, Mountain Goat station on Pandora, then Sisters of Mercy station when Mountain Goat station made me want to more »
Words:
Project Underground: – Wasteland: 752 (total 7041) Cowgirl Secret Space Detective Superhero: 310 (total 4710)
Other details:
Tea: Darjeeling Silver Music: – Time started: 7:32 am Time finished: 9:18 am Breakfast?: cereal, tea Katie Holmes influences: See Roadblocks. Cookie: The circus! Roadblocks: Woke up cranky. And the house has people in it, making writing more »
Words:
Project Underground: – Wasteland: – Cowgirl Secret Space Detective Superhero: 2363 (total 4400)
Other details:
Tea: Silver Needle Music: (Pandora) SNMNMNM radio, Cruxshadows radio Time started: 9:34 am Time finished: 11:15 am Breakfast?: yogurt , cheese toast, OJ and tea Katie Holmes influences: None. Dreams were dominated by Nathan Lowell’s more »
Words:
Project Underground: – Wasteland: 1017 Cowgirl Secret Space Detective Superhero: 1019
Other details:
Tea: White Jasmine Music: Paper Bird, Say Hi To Your Mom Time started: 10:46am Time finished: 1:53 Breakfast?: Cereal and tea Katie Holmes influences: None. I’m not taking her calls. Bitch. Cookie: boot shopping this afternoon Roadblocks: Playing For Keeps kerfuffles more »
Categories
The Latest from I Should Be Writing- Scrivener review! February 3, 2012
- Fun website stuff February 1, 2012
- A different writing challenge January 31, 2012
- ISBW Special #46 – Stonecoast Writer’s Residency January 30, 2012
- Notice- No interviews for a while January 30, 2012
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