Archive for November, 2009
How do you like me now? Future Wrote a Novel
Monday, November 30th, 2009November 30 is here. Despite Thanksgiving and a preternatural gift for procrastination, I managed to squeak out 50,000 words in November. The book looks like it will be another 25,000, so I’m nowhere near done, and I don’t think the thing is going to be readable until the third draft, but I couldn’t care less [...]
Future Uses the Internet, Part 50,000,000
Saturday, November 21st, 2009The novel is coming along swimmingly. I can’t believe it took me this long. One of the first things I figured out is that getting to 1000 words a day is cake. Now, it might take a while to make those 1000 words something special, and they have to describe a story that is worth [...]
Conversation as Synecdoche of the Self
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009Teaching students is like putting together a jigsaw puzzle where the finished result is going to be a Monet’s Saint Georges Majeur au Crepuscule. Love Systems gives our instructors the chance to meet thrilling characters and to try to teach those guys the ability to present their best selves to women. Because our students are [...]
Andre Agassi at Sports Illustrated
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009Even if you don’t like sports or care much about tennis (I don’t), this excerpt from Andre Agassi’s autobiography is one Hell of a read, and it’s especially good writing given the usual drivel that passes for sports autobiography. Hell, it’s just good writing. Check it out.