http://www.warbadger.com Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:30:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In the interest of full disclosure, I had never heard of McCarthy before seeing the movie adaption of No Country for Old Men, so you can count me as someone that jumped on the bandwagon after it became popular. But boy, am I glad that I did. As a reader I ... http://www.warbadger.com/2008/08/26/cormac-mccarthys-the-road/ I was surprised recently to find out that only one of my geek friends has ever heard of Cory Doctorow, and he had only heard of him because of an XKCD comic, and even then he only knew that 'he is a blogger or something'. I always thought that anyone ... http://www.warbadger.com/2008/05/03/cory-doctorows-down-and-out-in-the-magic-kingdom/ After the much longer piece I just completed this entry felt almost easy by comparison. I was attempting to match the style of Hills Like White Elephants. Obviously it won't be comparable, but at the very least it was an exercise in trimming away the fat and leaving only the ... http://www.warbadger.com/2008/04/23/how-much-do-you-love-me/ Guess what I just received in the mail? An actual hard copy of Roadside Picnic! I ended up ordering it from Amazon UK, since no American retailer seems to carry new copies and all of the used versions are selling for upwards of sixty dollars each. First, a quote. This ... http://www.warbadger.com/2008/04/08/arkady-and-boris-strugatskys-roadside-picnic/ As I said in the previous post, this is the longest piece of fiction I have ever produced. I finished at around 12,252 words! Insanity! I would love some feedback on how it reads, but I guess that would mean that someone would have to accidentally stumble across the site ... http://www.warbadger.com/2008/03/26/ascending-descending/ Back up and running. I'm still pretty bummed out that I lost all of that work, but shit happens. I'll just pick up where I left off and rewrite the sci-fi story from memory. I think I'll be okay. http://www.warbadger.com/2008/03/03/back-in-action/ Yeah, so....uh, my computer just died. Typing this up on my company laptop. Worst part is, it's the motherboard and my main drive has RAID on it. I have to replace the motherboard and so I'll probably have to format the RAID. And all of my stories are on the ... http://www.warbadger.com/2008/01/28/big-uh-oh/ The sci-fi short story is done, essentially. This is the longest piece of fiction I have ever written, currently clocking in at 10,758 words. I like how it is turning out, but I still don't feel that I am ready to finalize it yet. My current plan is to spend ... http://www.warbadger.com/2008/01/24/neal-stephensons-snow-crash/ I'm working on a science fiction short story, it's about 50% done at this point. My plan is to have it done by the end of this upcoming weekend. We'll see how it goes! http://www.warbadger.com/2008/01/18/sci-fi-fiction-coming/ Alright, all done. Things are looking pretty good. We'll see if I feel like writing in the near future. Who knows? Lately I've been feeling pretty lethargic when it comes to writing or even just reading. http://www.warbadger.com/2007/12/16/relaunch/