Couldn’t make my updates at the nanowrimo site yesterday. Jungle Drive ate my homework. Really. I had wrapped up chapter 2 of the Mia novel in my office at home last night and headed upstairs to continue working, when I started getting Jungle Drive connection errors on my laptop. Attempts to open the virtual directory […]
NaNoWriMo 2009 – Day 1
First, I’m overwhelmed with the sheer volume of communication surrounding NaNoWriMo. There’s a non-stop stream of related tweets with the #nanowrimo tag, my inbox is overflowing from forum updates about write-ins and announcements just for the L.A. area, and that’s before I have a chance to swing through the Fantasy forum. People were putting together […]
NaNoWriMo 2009 (50,000 words + 30 days = 1 novel)
The formula is deceptively simple, and 1,667 words a day seems like a very reasonable target. What could possibly go wrong? I’ll be able to answer that first-hand by December 1st after completing my first venture into NaNoWriMo. My goal is to complete a novel set in Runes of Gallidon, as well as at least […]
Digital Hollywood – Quick Summary
Spent most of last week in Santa Monica at the Digital Hollywood conference. No ground-breaking insights into the future of entertainment, though I did meet some interesting and intelligent people there. Here’s my summary of the DH09 conference: lots of hand-shaking, hand-wringing, and hand-clasping. First, the hand-shaking. This is a networking conference, no two ways […]
Q: What’s the Value of Content?
A: Whatever someone is willing to pay for it. Not what it cost you to produce or acquire it. Not what you feel or believe it is worth. Not what you sold it for yesterday, last week, last month, or last year. After watching a series of comments on a “hey, here’s how to make […]