The Chronicles of Charlie: The Assassin Who’s Not Very Good At His Job
Dan | May 30, 2007
So, if you read this website, you’re probably aware that I don’t post here as much as I used to. It’s not my fault, really. It’s just that my energy is elsewhere. I used to laugh when people wrote things like this (it’s just writing stuff online, dude, come on, right?), but…well, there are limits. [...]
Dan | May 27, 2007
That’s the number of words in the first draft of the story I’ve been working on for just over a year. It’s titled New Story 2006 on my hard drive, and I just wrote the last words. The last words are:
She sighed. “What am I getting myself into?”
“Good question,” I said. “Why don’t we go [...]
Dan | May 21, 2007
Why do I dislike them? For the normal reasons (massive annoying company, idiotic name, etc.), but up until today I only mildly disliked them, mainly because the last time my cell phone broke the guy at the Verizon store went way above and beyond at replacing it. (Note: this is partially because everyone else he [...]
Dan | May 21, 2007
Maya was nice enough to send me this article by the incomparable Walter Mosely. I really like his approach, probably because it’s very similar to the way I do things. Of course, he’s much better than I am, but…well, dude. He’s Walter Mosely.
Dan | May 15, 2007
As it says, I’ve been busy with several different things, so not much is going on in this space. I’m writing away right now at one in the morning while listening to the Moonbabies, and I feel vaguely literary while doing so. But man, it’s late to be up writing. I’m glad I have a [...]
Dan | May 10, 2007
I followed Maya’s link to the EPA’s admissions calculator, and was pleased to find out that I’m green as hell. Seriously, I’m about 1/3 the American average. But…it’s still making assumptions about how much paper, tin, and aluminum we use. I bet we use less than the average, mainly because we’re guys and none of [...]
Dan | May 10, 2007
When I wrote the vast majority of Guy Stuff (still unpublished! Funny lad lit! You know you want to give me a massive advance on a text that’s been available for free on the Web for two years, Random House!), it was the early part of the 2000s. One of the final scenes originally took [...]
Dan | May 8, 2007
I was working and writing last night, and I got to the end of the scene I was working on, and…
All I have to do is write the climax and wrap everything up. That’s it. It’s first-drafty and there are a million holes and characters have changed, and wrapping everything up is going to be [...]
Dan | May 3, 2007
I just read this post over at Maya’s place(thanks for the full RSS feeds, Maya!), and I think I agree with much of her linkage. The idea of working like a dog, until 11 pm, for a salary job is totally insane in this day and age. Case in point - I had lunch today [...]
Dan | May 1, 2007
In yet another example if weird American iconoclasticism, we don’t celebrate May Day (at work, some guys we work with in India have the day off b/c it’s a national holiday there). We have Labor Day instead. Why?
Oh, Wikipedia to the rescue:
With the Chicago Haymarket riots in early May of 1886, President Grover Cleveland believed [...]
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