Monthly Archives: October 2008

Nano Blog 10-8-08

Captains log stardate…
Oh wait a minute, wrong channel. Obviously the coffee hasn’t fully kicked in yet. We’re talking Na No Wri Mo here, not Star Trek; which is probably a good thing in hindsight.

Nano Oct. Ch. 3

Ryan Hendrickson scanned the crowd in Piedmont’s cafeteria, searching for his sons, Roger and Ethan.
For a moment, Ryan felt a fleeting sense of vertigo, as he remembered every mess hall he’d ever visited.
He remembered when he was in the military, then the agency and, most recently, when he was at Guantanamo Bay; the sickly smell [...]

Nano October Ch. 2

His nephew had barely exited when there was a slight knock at William Chambers’ office door.
Chambers, who had walked over to the windows behind his desk to watch orange, yellow and red leaves skitter across the grounds outside, turned to see who had dared to infringe upon him. In fact, he was set to bawl [...]

Nano Blog 10-3-08

So I’m writing a book. I began the dry run of my October novel yesterday and eked out an 1,800-word chapter. This, if you’ll recall, is the book about “terror” or at least that was the initial germ that started the idea for this thing back about a year or two ago.

NaNo Oct. Book

Ch. 1
Piedmont Academy seemed as ageless and rustic as the elms and spruces it was nestled in, deep in the rolling hills of New Hampshire. Originally built in the early 1800’s, the design of the main building was in the fashion of the traditional Colonial homes of the New England region.

Na No What??? A writers log…

I’m writing a book - two of them in fact. I’ll be writing one this month, in October and a completely different one for the month of November. Barring a very vague outline that I have semi-stored in the murky depths of my [...]