Tag Archives: NaNoWriMo 2009

The Daily Tweets, 2009-10-29: NaNoWriMo 2009 kickoff #1

Posted on Thu, 29 October 2009 by Mel Green

RT @yksin: Anchorage @NaNoWriMo kickoff Elim Cafe w/ @Inked_Tigress & a buncha other crazed writers. # Here’s my brief slideshow of picks from the kickoff. We’ll have another kickoff Saturday night/Sunday morning — a midnight write off to begin the … Continue reading →

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Taking life support for granted

Posted on Wed, 14 October 2009 by Mel Green

Pina Chomko: s a story character in my novel-in-progress Cold. She’s not like us: she grew up in outer space. Her dream: to take for granted all the life support services that nature provides for free — just like us.

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Biospherics

Posted on Mon, 12 October 2009 by Mel Green

More on my evolving knowledge about closed ecological life support systems (CELSS) for use in my novels-in-progress projects Long Dark & Cold: biospherics is a handy new term for what it’s really all about.

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My October reading list

Posted on Wed, 7 October 2009 by Mel Green

What I’m reading, or at least looking at, in the rundown to NaNoWriMo 2009: space exploration, growing food in space, consensus government, & more. I’ll be writing Long Dark, about the people making the long journey between the stars to colonize another solar system.

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October plans

Posted on Fri, 2 October 2009 by Mel Green

October. Change of seasons, change of gears: I’ll be resuming my title of occasional political blogger by becoming a far less occasional writer. Plans for October include gearing up for NaNoWriMo in November.

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Eating (& breathing & crapping) in outer space

Posted on Tue, 29 September 2009 by Mel Green

Research notes on closed ecosystems in outer space, for “Long Dark,” a story I’m trying to write in the same story universe as my 2007 NaNoWriMo “novel” Cold.

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