Nov 17, 2008 by Gnorb
Topic(s): Life
August. September. October. November. December. Everything I remember about 1989 took place during these months. As for what happened before then I really don’t remember, so I couldn’t tell you. In any case, it is unimportant to our story, except to say that it wasn’t brown. I was, however, coming out of a dark age, which is a strange thing to say, considering I was nine years old at the time. But after years defined by light and dark, finally the world began to be defined by color. One color.
Brown.
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Nov 9, 2008 by Gnorb
Topic(s): Writing
It’s Sunday. I spent all day yesterday either out, or watching my Stargate SG-1 DVDs. I expected to be writing, catching up on my NaNoWriMo novel, which got set back this week by a few things, but instead decided to–well, I haven’t decided anything yet.
But the story? It’s sucking. Hard. Maybe you can help me out here?
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Nov 3, 2008 by Gnorb
Topic(s): Writing
In case you didn’t know, November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo, for short). It’s when thousands of would-be novelists and actual novelists pledge themselves to constructing and writing a 50,000+ word novel in 30 days. (That, by the way, is about 1650 words a day, every day, for the entire month.) This year, among those thousands of would-be novelists is me. Surprise, surprise.
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Oct 31, 2008 by Gnorb
Topic(s): Life
As I look out my window this morning, I see the conservation area just behind the lot that makes up my back yard. Beside the house is a giant lump of dirt, taking up space where one day another house will be. And I can’t help but think that it doesn’t feel like Halloween anymore. Hasn’t for a long time.
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