http://mojowriter.com The Writing Adventures of Jerry J. Davis Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:45:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Let's see if this works: http://mojowriter.com/archives/191 Today ends a week of dental hell, but it finds me off the pain meds and back on the novel. I am still buzzing from the chapter I just wrote -- it's the turning point of the story and it all starts rumbling toward the end like an avalanche from here ... http://mojowriter.com/archives/188 Not only was a chupacabra caught on tape by a police officer in Texas... But it also appears we have a real bigfoot specimen to be unveiled this coming Friday at a news conference... Next I suppose a monster will wash up on the shores of Loch Ness? http://mojowriter.com/archives/179 How 1984 is this? Decades after his death, George Orwell now has a blog. Starting tomorrow, the organization who runs The Orwell Prize will begin publishing Orwell's diaries, each diary entry to be published exactly seventy years after it was written. Now that's some serious network lag. http://mojowriter.com/archives/172 Lord help me, I would never, ever want to get slapdashed upon the foul. - From William Gibson's Blog http://mojowriter.com/archives/170 I'm publically challenging myself to finish the first draft of this novel I'm working on in two weeks.  That's about 45,000 words I'll need to write by mid August.  My own mini NaNoWriMo. I'm putting this out in public so as to make myself accountable to the world, at large.  Hopefully ... http://mojowriter.com/archives/167 Overheard during lunch today:  "No matter how much I eat, I'm still thirsty." http://mojowriter.com/archives/165 Well, maybe not the Titanic. But this website (actually all my websites) were moved to a new server yesterday, and this one had some major problems. I actually had to delete the whole thing and reload it from scratch. New code, new database, new version of WordPress, everything. ... http://mojowriter.com/archives/163 This video wasn't "long enough" so they "made it double spaced."  This is like Monty Python for writers and publishers ... or anyone who works a lot with documents and fonts.   Good stuff! See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor. http://mojowriter.com/archives/160 I'm really moving right along with progress on my current novel, and have discovered a wonderful feature on Google Maps that is an ultimate writing research tool:  Google Maps StreetView.  I can actually zoom in on some of the places I've set my novel, and see everything from the street ... http://mojowriter.com/archives/159