P&P, Facebook Style

Posted by on Dec 11, 2008 in dish | 2 comments Okay, this is just hilarious. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, written as Facebook news feeds. Here’s a sample: Charles Bingley is buying a house! Mrs. Bennet became a fan of Charles Bingley. Kitty Bennet can’t stop coughing!!! Charles Bingley is now friends with Mr. Bennet and Sir William Lucas. 11 of your friends are attending Assembly at Meryton. Fitzwilliam Darcy is...
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Joe the Writer?

Posted by on Dec 6, 2008 in dish | 0 comments We knew it had to happen. Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, aka “Joe the Plumber” from late in the Presidential campaign, has just signed a book deal. In today’s New York Times, Timothy Egan riffs on this in his acidic “Typing Without a Clue” opinion piece. In Egan’s view, celebrity books like Mr. Plumber’s bleed advance money and possibilities from real writers...
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NaNoWriMo Debriefing

Posted by on Dec 1, 2008 in dish | 1 comment Fifty thousand, seven hundred and forty words later, I am a proud 2008 NaNoWriMo winner, which basically means that I can post cool graphics on my blog attesting to that fact and, if I’m jonesing for concrete validation, I can download a certificate to print out. But it’s not like I didn’t know that going in. NaNoWriMo is a personal challenge. It’s also conducted on the...
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w00t! I Did It Again!

Posted by on Nov 30, 2008 in dish | 1 comment The results are in for this year’s NaNoWriMo! I am now officially aw00t! I’ll post more tomorrow on this year’s process, the book itself, and what I discovered over the past 30 days. The Viking boat above suggests smooth sailing. It wasn’t completely smooth, but there were some things I didn’t expect that turned out better than I’d thought they would.Now, off...
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NaNoWriMo Update #4

Posted by on Nov 29, 2008 in dish | 1 comment Just over 24 hours left to go in this year’s NaNoWriMo, and a little more than 8,000 words to write. I’ll have to write fast, though–there’s a lot of book still to cover. I’ve been dwelling more on earlier chapters than in the past, so I have a decent-sized chunk still to sketch out before I can legitimately write “The End.”Okay, back to the book. More...
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