Zen Ken

Okay so I lied

2009-12-02T21:49:06Z

I didn't write anything last night. I decided to sleep. I wrote the last 40,000 of the 50,000 novel in about... 4 days. Not a lot of good writing, but I think besides being busy as hell at work and weekends being filled (first weekend - NYC ma...

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November - Busy beginning, middle and end

2009-12-01T16:36:21Z

November 1: NYC Marathon November 2-29: Work like crazy November 30: Finish nanowrimo under the gun. I'd say I'm back, but I've been saying that for a few months. Since I'm done writing for a bit, I'll just say 'will write more tonight'.

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Interesting....

2009-10-01T19:03:53Z

A quote from Supreme Court Justice Scalia: "I mean lawyers, after all, don’t produce anything. They enable other people to produce and to go on with their lives efficiently and in an atmosphere of freedom. That’s important, but it doesn’t put fo...

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It's October. Time to rewrite.

2009-10-01T16:19:39Z

Nanowrimo is coming up next month, and my first book has been dormant pretty much since the beginning of December. It's time to dust it off, rework it as much as possible and generate new ideas and directions for the sequel coming up in November....

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Long trips, weddings and anniversaries

2009-09-22T14:23:21Z

Hi Vox. Long time no write. I just got back from a week and a half long set of back to back trips. Attended the wedding of my best friend, celebrated my birthday (which happens to be also the anniversary of joining Vox). I can't say that I'v...

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QotD: My Very First Movie

2009-08-07T15:59:13Z

What is the first movie you saw in the the theater? I was five years old. Star Wars. I don't remember a lot of it at the time, but it was dark, smoky and had lots of lasers. After that it was a pretty steady diet of drive-in movies. I gues...

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Thanks, Mr. Hughes

2009-08-07T13:31:58Z

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A lesson from my life coach

2009-08-07T13:08:45Z

Slightly reminiscent of Network's "I'm mad as hell and I'm not gonna take it anymore!" only more self referential. Okay maybe it's more like Ayn Rand's "Anthem", but who cares. It's funny. [via Boing Boing]

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Books

2009-08-06T12:57:14Z

1. Nemesis 2. Outliers 3. The Name of the Rose 4. Life of Pi 5. Lord Foul's Bane, The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant 6. Altered Carbon 7. Broken Angels 8. Woken Furies 9. Thirteen 10. To Kill a Mockingbird 11. Spin by Robert Charles Wilson An a...

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QotD: "You May Delay, but Time Will Not" - Benjamin Franklin

2009-08-05T19:51:44Z

What have you been putting off doing? Submitted by BeautifullyBroken. Easy. Taking over the world. It's a long term goal.

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