Tag: NaNoWriMo

  • Sounding The Current: Chapter 3 – Worldview

    Sounding The Current: Chapter 3 – Worldview

    Lisa waited until she had finished her second cup of coffee before opening the package. If it wasn’t for Rebecca’s handwritten cards setting the expectation for how thin twenty-two cards could be, Lisa would have thought that she had been scammed with some stiff cardboard. The outer wrapping was a letter size manila envelope that…

  • Sounding The Current: Chapter 2 – Reflection

    Sounding The Current: Chapter 2 – Reflection

    Walking back to her apartment from the coffeehouse was twice as frustrating for Lisa as walking from her interview to the coffeehouse in the first place due to the turbulent wind in her face struggling with her boiling emotions for her attention. She was surprised that Rebecca did not say anything about how tangled her…

  • Sounding The Current: Chapter 1 – Syllabus

    Sounding The Current: Chapter 1 – Syllabus

    “You can put those away now. Halloween was yesterday. Today is Cheap Candy Day. Tomorrow is Christmas.” A brown slouch purse collapsed on the table as the purse bearer slouched into an uncomfortably bare steel chair. Her hands now free of their burden, one sought the pocket of her oversized denim jacket while the other…

  • Sounding The Current – Masterpost

    By popular request (read: the one person who asked), here is the masterpost for the NaNoWriMo 2019 project: “Sounding The Current” chapters. As I update each chapter, this post will be updated in turn. If you do not use an RSS reader, you can check this post for updates. While the draft will always be…

  • What happened to Alexandra Nerien?

    All the NaNoWriMo updates have been taken off the blog. (If you want to read the version that was posted, drop me a line.) Currently in the process of editing, rewriting, banishing, and despairing over the text. Those of you brave enough to follow along as I wrote it can tell the others I had…

  • NaNoWriMo: The End

    This is the last update for NaNoWriMo 2010. The Fucking End. My daughter is cheering me for having done this. I think she has gotten more out of this than I did, but that may be a symptom of my scrambled neurons. So, I’ll just throw this cropped screenshot here and be done with it.…