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WebRe-design braindump 2: Ancillary or Primary
What's your primary content?I felt a bit guilty about dissing Jason Kottke's new design yesterday. I didn't mean to be negative, actually I admire that he's put all his content...
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Dirtside to Spaceside – my novel in PDF form
I've released the 0.9 version of my Nanowrimo novel, which I wrote in 27 days during November 2003. Apparently there were 3680 people all over the world crazy enough to...
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Braindump of weblog re-design thoughts
I'm thinking about re-designing my weblog. While I was busy writing my novel in November, others were exploring the boundaries of the weblog form. Dave Winerre-designed his hugely influential blog,...
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Liv Tyler waved at me
The world premiere of the Lord of the Rings was held in Wellington, New Zealand today - my hometown. Peter Jackson, the New Zealand director of the Rings trilogy, is...
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Dirtside to Spaceside – the novel
I've published my Nanowrimo novel on Read/Write Web as an HTML file. The PDF version will have to wait till Monday. I tried to use the Adobe Online Conversion service,...
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Nanowrimo Novel Finished!!!
50,060 words. Completed in 27 days. The new name of my novel is: Dirt-side to Space-side. This is a NASA term for the Interplanetary Internet. I'll post a PDF version...
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Nanowrimo Day 26 – 96% done. One more day to go…
The penultimate day. 48,011 words (ch. 54 onwards). One more night's writing to go. I think I'm bringing together all the threads in time. I can't wait to finish now,...
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Nanowrimo Day 25 – 92% done
46,253 words. Here's the latest (chapter 49 onwards). Two more nights to go and I'll be finished. Yesterday was quite difficult and I wasn't satisfied with my writing. I couldn't...
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Day 23 – building now to an exciting conclusion
42,448 words - nearly 85% done. The end of chapter 46 is here, then I started a new page for chapter 47 onwards.While walking in the local park today, feeding...
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Day 22 (Sat morning)
Saturday morning as I write this. I will have more words to contribute later this weekend, but for now I'm at 39,564 words. Here's the latest (ch. 44 onwards).
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Novel, Day 19
36,119 words. Here's the latest (ch.42 onwards).I'd be interested to know if anyone is reading this and if so, what are your thoughts. I don't have much time to respond...
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Nanowrimo Day 18 – virtual worlds and avatars
34,094 words. The latest is here. Yesterday and today was spent writing a long chapter 41, where the main character Declan is inserted into a virtual world as an avatar....
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Nanowrimo Day 15 – plus some thoughts on categories and topics
27,563 words. Here's the latest (ch. 34 onwards). I'm hoping to reach the 30,000 mark by end of tomorrow. That will give me a nice round figure to aim for...
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Nanowrimo Day 13 – nearly halfway there
24,662 words - virtually 50% finished. Tonight's words are chapter 32 onwards. Today was quite productive. The new storyline has energized me and is taking the overall story in an...
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Day 11 – Exhausted (as the Foo Fighters song goes…)
Man *what* a struggle, 20,059 words - here they are (ch. 28 onwards for today). But I'm not that happy with tonight's words. I think the quality is not great....
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Extraordinary Evidence
It's Day 8 and my word count is 14,778. Here's the latest. I took yesterday off. Have got a bit of flu, but the show must go on. I'm trying...
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Day 5 – and I am updating my novel online now
I've decided to go the whole hog and post my novel online. There are a variety of reasons for this. One is that posting excerpts would mean it would be...