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The last long day.

November 30th, 2007

Well ladies and gents, this is it. The last day for NaNoWriMo 2007. Perhaps next year I’ll jump in and participate, but I’m honestly glad that I didn’t this year. A weeks worth of being sick would have left me with 50,000 words like “ick”,”ewww”, “sniff” and “ugh!”. When you’re feeling awful, it’s hard to keep a character in good spirits, and nobody wants to read 8,000 words of a story where the main character is down with nasty head cold!

So to those of you who have completed the challenge this year, I applaud you! You’ve done more than I ever have. but I’ll get there one day.

To those who are within 10,00 words as of this writing, I salute you! Damn the torpedoes, Full steam ahead! you can still do this!

Good luck and God Bless!

Jerry Blog Events, Diversions , ,

Thursday Thirteen #2 – 13 quotes from “the Dean of Science Fiction”

June 7th, 2007
For those who visited yesterday and found nothing here, I messed up! that TT is at my personal blog! Enjoy!
Thirteen Quotes from Robert Heinlein, the Dean of Science Fiction

  1. “Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.”
  2. “Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
  3. “Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago”
  4. “Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.”
  5. “The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.”
  6. “Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.”
  7. “I never learned from a man who agreed with me.”
  8. “Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other “sins” are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful – just stupid).”
  9. “The more you love, the more you can love–and the more intensely you love. Nor is there any limit on how many you can love. If a person had time enough, he could love all of that majority who are decent and just.”
  10. “Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.”
  11. “They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.”
  12. “Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.”
  13. “You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.”

There are a hundred more worthy of posting here, but this is TT after all!Links to other Thursday Thirteens!

  1. (leave your link in comments, They’ll automatically be added to the list!)

Get the Thursday Thirteen code here! The purpose of the meme is to get to know everyone who participates a little bit better every Thursday. Visiting fellow Thirteeners is encouraged! If you participate, leave the link to your Thirteen in others comments. It’s easy, and fun! Be sure to update your Thirteen with links that are left for you, as well! I will link to everyone who participates and leaves a link to their 13 things. Trackbacks, pings, comment links accepted!

Jerry Blog Events, Memes

Thursday Thirteen #1

May 2nd, 2007
My Thirteen Favorite Authors of all time

  1. Robert A. Heinlein
  2. Larry Niven
  3. Louis L’Amour
  4. Frederic Pohl
  5. H. G. Wells
  6. Piers Anthony
  7. Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir
  8. Alan Dean Foster
  9. Anne McCaffrey
  10. J. R. R. Tolkien
  11. Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
  12. Jules Verne
  13. Agatha Christie

Links to other Thursday Thirteens!

  1. Ctina
  2. Tink
  3. Mark Caldwell
  4. dew
  5. Wylie Kinson
  6. Missy
  7. Cordia Amant
  8. Janet
  9. Michelle
  10. ravaj
  11. Fence
  12. Di
  13. (leave your link in comments, I’ll add you here!) – By Friday…. I do this manually so that YOU get credit for the links.

Get the Thursday Thirteen code here! The purpose of the meme is to get to know everyone who participates a little bit better every Thursday. Visiting fellow Thirteeners is encouraged! If you participate, leave the link to your Thirteen in others comments. It’s easy, and fun! Be sure to update your Thirteen with links that are left for you, as well! I will link to everyone who participates and leaves a link to their 13 things. Trackbacks, pings, comment links accepted!

Jerry Blog Events, Memes

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