The Singularity Matrix

The Singularity Matrix NaNoWriMo seems a little more difficult this year. And by that I don't mean the story. I'm actually on the same pace as last year. It's trying to fit it into my life. It's taken a bit of a toll around here. It's hard to try to handle the End of the World, keep a job and a marriage together. You may have noticed I renamed some things around here. 30 Days is now 30 Days: The Infinity Effect, and the current project is now 30 Days: The Singularity Matrix. Those titles sound esoteric enough to mean anything.  Here's the full chapter update IN ORDER. Black is Alex Ross, Pink is Agent Ellie: I'm Not a Terrorist Hit Girl for Hire Kastle Klingon Misty Announcing a Partnership Betrayal and a Kiss Some Election...Some Danger Partnership Troubles Pirates...and YKW...again... Death Storm The Plot The Meeting The Storm The Singularity Matrix Assault on Kastle Klingon The British Royal Marines Planning our Assault Chit Chat

Blogvel Update 3

Blogvel Update 3 - Here they go Again

I'm a little bit disturbed at what Alex and Ellie are up to, not to mention You Know Who(booo).

The world seems to be in great danger right now. I don't know how they're going to stop what's happening. I don't know if people should be near big cities right now. The next couple weeks are going to be extremely hairy. Stay tuned, and I'll try to keep you updated on the latest. Don't forget you can ping Alex and Ellie at alex_ross@dawnsrise.com and hitgirl524@dawnsrise.com or just comment on their blogs. They'd love to hear from you.

Here are all the posts so far newest first:

Ellie:

• The Meeting
• Death Storm
• Partnership Troubles
• Announcing a Partnership
• Hit Girl for Hire

• ALEX:

• The Plot
• Pirates...and YKW...again...
• Some Election...Some Danger
• Betrayal and a Kiss
• Misty
• Kastle Klingon
• I'm Not a Terrorist

Blogvel Update 2

Blogvel Update 2

They've been at it some more! Alex is trying to survive in the Chinese labor camp while Ellie tries to go-it-alone as an assassin-for hire.

• Alex Ross: Betrayal and a Kiss
• Agent Ellie: Announcing a Partnership
• Alex Ross: Some Election...Some Danger
• Agent Ellie: Partnership Troubles

Blogvel Update 1

Blogvel Update 1 Well Alex Ross and Agent Ellie have been busy blogging away. So far they've made 4 posts (in order): Alex: I'm Not a Terrorist Ellie: Hit Girl for Hire Alex: Kastle Klingon Alex: Misty I'm hoping they move to present activites soon, but I guess so much happened since Alex's last post on November 30, 2007 that he's allowed a little catch-up. Also notice that the NaNoWriMo progress chart ain't working. I added my own progress bar so you can see where I am. BTW I just Googled "Blogvel" and I'm the #1 result!! http://www.google.com/search?q=blogvel

Introducing...

Introducing My Interactive NaNoWriMo Blogvel: "Another 30 Days"! So here's the deal for NaNoWriMo 2008: I've got these guys wanting to blog about their adventures but they would love to hear from you! So I've set up some groundrules: You can comment or email the characters. They may or may not respond online (although they will respond in private if it doesn't add to the story). Comments will be moderated. Every word of every post counts towards my NaNo word count. Any public responses to readers may/may not count depending on whether it adds to the story or whether it's just a clarification. Comments readers make do not count towards the overall word count. I'm going to keep the comment word count separate. The characters may comment on each other's blogs but those fully count towards the overall word count and should be considered part of the story. :) Anything I or they post on this blog doesn't count towards the word count. Only words written between 12:00am Nov. 1, 2008 and 12:00am Dec. 1 2008 count. I'm going to try to not require any knowledge of last year's NaNo writings for people to enjoy this year's work. I'm hoping it will stand on its own. So to start reading the Blogvel, look at the posts over to the right under the NaNoWriMo stats. Enjoy!

If I Were a Writer...

If I Were a Writer...

I'd write in the morning.

I'd write in the evening, all over this land.

I'd write out danger, I'd write out warning!
I'd write out love between my sisters and my brothers
All over this land!

Peter, Paul and Mary 

(Original song "If I had a hammer" by Pete Seeger)

Seriously, though...if I was a writer, I'd spend my days reading lots of books, fiction and non, critiquing other people's work, sending out manuscripts (and receiving rejection letters), editing, working out, and drinking lots of beer.

Now if I could just get paid for all that I'd be set...

Exciting News!

Exciting News! I don't know if you guys remember Alex Ross, the guy who took over my blog last November. He told a story about a bunch of crazy people running around trying to stop some kind of weird mind-altering machine. Well I just heard from him. Apparently he's been "activated" or something on some kind of new mission. He escaped from where ever he's been held the last 11 months and is now able to blog. Right now as I type this he's in transit and unable to communicate, but he thinks he'll be able to start blogging regularly sometime early Saturday morning. He asked me if I could create a login and a blog for him this time. You can email him at alex _ ross at dawns rise dot com (take out spaces and substitute at and dot). He might reply to you or on his blog, but he'd really prefer not to talk about what happened last year. You can see his blog at http://alexross-blog.blogspot.com/   and you can subscribe here: Subscribe I'm sure he'll have an interesting story to tell, but he wants to remind everyone that a lot of what he writes is in code, so that names, places, and events are altered from what's really going on. He'll tell us as much as he can, and maybe when he's in the clear he can reveal a little more. Enjoy! ALEX and ELLIE together again! (actually a cover from A Fighting Man of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs)