Archive for November, 2009

November 30, 2009

NaNoWriMo 2009 Complete

by Josh at 8:59 pm

Late yesterday evening, I passed the 50,000 word mark on my novel.  This is the second time I’ve completed NaNoWriMo.  Apparently, odd years are good for me and novel writing.  I’d like to thank all of those who filled out my survey and helped me to come up with the premise for this novel.  I [...]

November 23, 2009

Can you take 3 Minutes to build the social change movement?

by Josh at 11:36 am

I’m cross posting this from the ifPeople blog.  If you could take a few minutes to help us out, we’d really appreciate it.
ifPeople is honored to be a nominee for the YouTopia grant of $15,000 of branding services from Free Range Studios. To win this, we need your vote! Can you please take 3 minutes [...]

November 14, 2009

The Affinity Bridge review

by Josh at 11:22 am

The Affinity Bridge by George Mann
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
I Picked up The Affinity Bridge by George Mann because I was looking for a fun steampunk adventure, and that’s exactly what it is. The novel follows the adventures of Sir Maurice Newbury and his assistant Miss Veronica Hobbes. The novel begins [...]

November 7, 2009

Weekly Links (weekly)

by Josh at 7:33 pm

Forbes rates Atlanta ‘most toxic city’ in U.S.  | ajc.com
An interesting look at the most toxic metro areas in the country. It’s worth clicking through to the Forbes article to see the full breakdown.
tags: atlanta

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

November 1, 2009

NaNoWriMo 2009

by Josh at 3:22 pm

NaNoWriMo has started and I’ve already passed the 1667 word mark for day one!  Hooray!  I’m going to see if I can get a word count widget up for this site and for Facebook so that any who wants to can follow along with my progress.  I’ll also be posting occasional word count updates to [...]