Erik Emery Hanberg - A Lifestream Experiment

A Lifestream Experiment

A downtown Tacoma resident for 7 years and counting, Erik covers the arts, technology, and politics with a smattering of travel blogging thrown in. Email him at erikemery (at) gmail (dot) com.

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November 23, 2009

21,000 words on the cutting room floor ...

After a major edit of my novel, I dropped it down by about 21,000 words. That ends up to be just about 21% of the words.

And the story didn't change a bit.

Like. At all.

That's a good sign I had a problem.

I'm going to go through it again soon. This time for pacing, to make sure I didn't take out anything important or rush anything too badly. It'll probably grow again. But I feel good about the edits I made.

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November 23, 2009

Living and Working in a Virtual World

(with an emphasis on the working part)

After a wonderful weekend away in Portland, I'm starting today off by guest-teaching Andrew Fry's class on Living and Working in a Virtual World. I felt like my Pecha Kucha presentation focused pretty heavily on the "living" side, so for today's class I'm going to talk about the working side of the equation.

I feel like Homer Simpson, when he knocks on Flanders' door and immediately runs away. "Can't talk now, Flanders. I've got a class to teach!" It's even better when he does it at the Drive Thru.

Anyway. Very excited!

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November 22, 2009