So I just finished the synopsis for Four Shards of Heaven. It’s only 1000 words long, but I have to say it was a difficult 1000 words to write. How do I distill everything that happens in this book, with all the different points of view, into less than one …
I’ve been asked to open the lecture season at the Charleston Library Society with a talk on Robert Jordan and his literary impact. Thus, on 18 September, at 7pm, I’ll be presenting “An American Tolkien: Robert Jordan and the Roots of Fantasy.” Work on writing it will commence today.
… that’s how long the first revised draft of Four Shards of Heaven is in manuscript. 108,819 words. I finished going over it this evening, cleaning up the inserts I made and catching a few errors here and there. I also did a search for a few phrases that I …
Our Sony Vaio laptop imploded in Colorado, and I’ve spent the past couple of weeks taking it apart and putting it back together again in an effort to repair what’s turned out to be a hard drive problem. Alas, ’tis still dead. In their extraordinary vision, Sony included the “Windows …
I spent the last hour upgrading WordPress to 2.6.1. It seems to have worked like a charm, though I continue to be frustrated by the fact that one must manually do so much work to backup the databases, download files, copy only certain ones while modifying others but not touching …