Respect SMS

Posted in: Frustrations, Technology | Posted by: rcornish | Comments: 0 | Date: 03 November, 2008

Message in a BottleFirst, a quick lesson or two here about what I am talking about.  SMS is short for Short Message Service and is indeed the process by which cell phones and a few 1000 other technological wonders send those little one line messages that in range of 140 to about a maximum of 160 characters in length.  So along with SMS, notes on social networks, and even tag lines, I got a few peeves I am going to, ahem, talk about. Read more…

NaNoWriMo

Posted in: Frustrations, Life, Literature | Posted by: rcornish | Comments: 0 | Date: 03 November, 2008

NaNoWriMoQuick update on my efforts with NaNoWriMo, especially given what it seems to be showing as a status on over there to the right and down just a little bit here on the mephistos blog.  I did kick off with some major kick butt writing on Saturday afternoon.  I was not feeling well from the head cold that I have had, but spent some major effort in into things.  Between huge coffee consumption, taking some pills, and drinking that icky thera-flu stuff, I managed to write  a blog or two, put together some additional notes about the novel and keyed in 2019 words.   I was very pleased with that amount of wordage for my starting point, especially given that I was not feeling the greatest during the time. Read more…