It's a Nanowrimo day

I've updated He's Dead, Jim! with my report for Where No Man Has Gone Before. Before the more acute of you (I originally wrote "anal types" but I decided to be more tactful :-) get on my case...yes, I know Frank Poole wasn't the one to say this line to HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey (it was his partner, Dave Bowman), but I figured the reference still worked. Don't forget that you add this feed if you're on LJ (thanks again for setting this up, Rob!).

Big news on the home recording studio front: I have a MOTU 828! Well, almost. "Epi_lj" and I rendezvoused on a street corner yesterday afternoon after LJ-ing and e-mailing about an 828 he was thinking about selling on eBay until he read about my dilemma in Blatherings. I felt so covert, as if we were exchanging contraband; I found myself wishing I owned a trenchcoat. Anyway, I met Epi (not his real name, obviously) at a Toronto Nanowrimo get-together some years ago, and we've been keeping in contact via LJ ever since.

Anyway, Epi is kindly letting me try out the 828 to see if it works with my computer before I pay him. Jeff's going to help me test it out this weekend...please keep your fingers crossed for me! I'm SO excited about this!! If this works, it means I can start recording on my laptop; I'd be using Garageband (which can record up to 8 tracks at once, by the way, not 2). It means I can add a flute track to Seanan's CD. It means I don't have to rely on the tinny little mike built into my laptop. It means possible other recording projects. Lots of potential musical goodness!




The Nanowrimo where I met Epi, by the way, was the one where I also wrote the rough draft of the same novel that is currently out there, hopefully being accepted by a publishing house even as I type.

And while we're on the topic of Nanowrimo, looks like I'll be doing some cartoons during November for the Nanowrimo Web site. Look for an announcement on the site about this next month! I won't be participating in Nanowrimo this year myself; I want to focus on my existing writing projects.

I'm hoping to check out The Word On The Street tomorrow. It's been six years (!) since I had my own booth at Word on the Street, for Inkspot.

Hey, has anyone out there used BookMooch? I found out about this from an Inside The Net podcast. Sounds like a fun to way to get rid of old books and get new ones, so I'm going to try it out. I did try Bookcrossing, but I never heard of any of my books being picked up (at least no one filled out the online form for them) and I kept imagining the books being dumped in the trash at the end of the day. At least with BookMooch, the recipients actively WANT the books. I'll let you know how it goes.




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