July 24th, 2009

Killing Your Darlings

My current project is a 130,000-word fantasy novel that has basically been complete, in some form, for a few years.  I’m currently plowing through the third fairly major rewrite.  The first constituted rewriting about 25% of the material and adding another 20% or so to the original draft.  The second time, I rewrote a good [...]

July 24th, 2009

Great job as always, Microsoft…

/facepalm @microsoft

I had planned to spend a couple hours this evening working on the final draft of my novel.  Shortly after I began, up popped my friendly Microsoft Autoupdater, informing me of an available update.  Which I installed.  At which point Microsoft informed me that it had determined my Office CD Key was invalid, [...]