“Neutral Zone” Sees The Light of Day
November 30 marked the two year birthday of Neutral Zone. It was on that day that I finished the first draft of the novel as part of the 2006 National Novel Writing Month. In July of this year, the third draft came to a close as I’d finally written the story I wanted to tell.
The [...]
No NaNoWriMo This Year, Writing Projects Roll On
I opted out of NaNoWriMo this year so I could focus on my 2006 NaNo project, Neutral Zone, along with a short story that’s due this week.
The short story is for Nerdvana, an anthology that hits stores in Fall 2009. The collection focuses on nerds and geeks. To quote part of the call for submissions: [...]
Friday Geek Out: “A Way Back to Then” from [title of show]
Category: Geek Out, Theatre | tagged Broadway, musical, NaNoWriMo, Neutral Zone, [title of show]
Yes, I know I write about [title of show] a lot lately. But it’s a favorite thing and when I found this awesome clip of Heidi Blickenstaff singing my favorite song from the show it had to become a Geek Out. This song is the crux of the show for me as it distills the [...]
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200 Pages, 107,000 Words
I started working on Neutral Zone in November 2006 for National Novel Writing Month. During that month I churned out a bit more than 50,000 words and had the foundation for the story. During 2007 I consistently wrote a couple mornings a week and by the time 2008 started I was on to draft number [...]
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Meg Cabot - My new favorite Diva!
Category: Writing | tagged fiction, Meg Cabot, NaNoWriMo, pop culture
As some of you may (or may not) have noticed, I’ve been particularly quiet about the whole NaNoWriMo experience. The reason I haven’t mentioned it is that I totally bailed on it around day 10. People, I’m a realist, I know when there’s no way in hell I’m gonna finish something. I don’t feel bad [...]
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Wintry Saturday
Category: New York, Theatre, Writing | tagged Broadway, High School Musical, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Music, NaNoWriMo, weather, Xanadu
Brrrr… We’ve gone from near 70 on Thanksgiving day (which, of course, was great weather for the parade) to the current temperature of 26 with a wind chill of 19. I like the cold just fine, but I’m not a fan of the harsh wind chill. At least the sun is out though. It’s been [...]
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Friday Geek Out: On Vacation
As I work diligently on NaNoWriMo (so far I’m a bit ahead of word count, and the plot keeps forming in my head at a good rate), Geek Out is going on hiatus for the rest of the month with the exception of the Friday after Thanksgiving. Geek Out will return full time December 7 [...]
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This Writer’s Life - The B-Day Edition
Category: LGBT Issues, Life in General, Writing | tagged friends, NaNoWriMo
Thanks to everyone who sent Birthday wishes. The big day was relatively low-key, Jeff did surprise me though with some books from Oscar Wilde. He’s such a sweetie.
I just started reading Suzanne Brockman’s All Through the Night. I’ve never read any of her stuff before, but I picked up her recent Christmas novella because her [...]
National Novel Writing Month, Here I Go Again
I officially signed up this morning to do the National Novel Writing Month challenge for this year. So, during the month of November, I’m going to churn out a 50,000 word (minimum) novel.
Last year I succeeded and created the first draft of Neutral Zone, a story about two high school hockey players who fall in [...]
This Writer’s Life - Updates
Okay, it’s been forever since I’ve talked about what’s going on with my writing. Truthfully, there hasn’t been a whole lot going on, but here are a few updates anyway. My story Partners, which was to appear in the anthology Superqueeroes, has been put on hold indefinitely. The publisher was sold and the fate of [...]
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