Snow and Thunder, Life Couldn't Be Funner

A crack of lightning a few feet from my window followed by a huge crack of thunder. And it's snowing. Truly a remarkable Christmas evening. All the kiddies are asleep in their beds surrounded by their Christmas haul (socks and towels, eh?) and the year is coming to a close. What shall next year bring? Here's what I'm hoping it will bring me - and I realize for me to get all these things in the coming year require me to work harder at everything. Oh well, here's my list anyway:

More and better movies 

(YouTube The Bed Oracle )

More and better audio drama 

(Check out Detectives and Drama in audio noir at DinoSoarPix. 

In English and sometimes Chinese (Mandarin); sometimes both Mandarin and English)

More and better books 

(Check out Tedorigawa Bookmakers and Tedorigawa Bookmakers - The Blog)

More fun! 

(Check out life!)

More and better podcasts 

(Check out Hokudai/Cast - Trilingual fun in Japanese, Chinese, and English)

Have yourself a very merry new year and I'll see you real soon. Enjoy yourself!

Down in Flames

As you can tell from the date, I've been busy and it hasn't been with writing a 50,000-word novel in one month. I could blame it on the dog: the dog ate my computer. Crashed. Big time. Spent a few weeks getting up the courage to buy a new one and by then I was busy with some video production and, well, NaNoWriMo fell by the wayside, along with the dog and I didn't complete the Ruggles thing. Although I did get about 8,000 words into it by the time my computer crashed. Died. Gave up the ghost. And the re-write improved it. Much. So I gave it my best shot but the writing gods and goddesses were... Ah, the goddesses. Ah well, there may well be next year. 

As you can tell from the date, I've been busy and it hasn't been with writing a 50,000-word novel in one month. I could blame it on the dog: the dog ate my computer. Crashed. Big time. Spent a few weeks getting up the courage to buy a new one and by then I was busy with some video production and, well, NaNoWriMo fell by the wayside, along with the dog and I didn't complete the Ruggles thing. Although I did get about 8,000 words into it by the time my computer crashed. Died. Gave up the ghost. And the re-write improved it. Much. So I gave it my best shot but the writing gods and goddesses were... Ah, the goddesses.

Ah well, there may well be next year.