Astounding Kids' Book On iPad

Wowza. Like I needed another reason to covet the iPad. Here's a HUGE one.



Here's the whole story on this Pixar animator's new interactive children's book, designed exclusively for iPad.

Project 365 Update: Excuses

Project 365: 95/365 - Life as a Vlogger

Project 365: Photo Edition - Coming Back to Life



The rain and snow has been bringing up the green grass. Spring is back!

Project 365: Video Edition - Video Obsession



This is a vlog for vloggers.

Project 365: 24/365

Project 365: Photo Edition - Thanksgiving Leftovers



My daughter made this decoration for Thanksgiving, and I still haven't taken it down because it cracks me up.

Project 365: Video Edition - Airwave Surfing



For some reason, I enjoy the sound of flipping through radio stations. You never know what snippets will come up.

Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger by Daft Hands

Viral videos are sometimes so fun. I heard this song on another video first, but my dear friend Midget showed me this one last night. The song is amazingly energizing in itself, so it's worth a listen. But the skill involved in coordinating this hand choreography is rather dizzying. (It doesn't seem like it at first, but the real "dance" comes after 0:45.)

CP Vlogging Project, Video #4

Ah, me. It is time for final farewells...

You can see all the videos here.

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On a side note: I apologize for posting merely once a week for the last few weeks! I need to get back on a regular updating schedule.

CP Vlogging Project, Video #3

You can see all the videos here.

CP Vlogging Project, Video #2

You can see the first one I made here.

CP Vlogging Project, Video #1

On my teen writers forum, we are having a vlogging project this month, wherein five of us will post one video per week on our forum blog, making it a daily vlog (M-F). I'll be doing Mondays. This is the first vlog for this project.



I think my video editing skills are improving!

4th Year Wrimo

I started participating in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) back in 2005 and have done it (and won it) every year since. To "win" NaNo, one must write a 50,000-word novel during the 30 days in November.

In 2005, it was a spiritual thriller called Imaginary about a girl who finds out her imaginary childhood friend is actually a spiritual being. But is he an angel or a demon?

In 2006, I switched over to contemporary fiction with a tale called Tag about how the effects of one act of rudeness can cause a ripple effect and how kindness can send the ripple backward with a blessing.

Last year, in 2007, I wrote a novel that seemed like a good idea but was rather like pulling out my hairs very slowly, one-by-one. It was about a girl named Dali who could paint the dreams of others, and who runs off to join the secret life of performers on the Airship Circus.

I almost didn't commit this year because I had yet to do a NaNo when I didn't have another writing project looming. However, I recently finished the YA sci-fi novel I have been working on for the last 20 months. So that frees me to do NaNoWriMo in 2008. Huzzah!

This year's novel is one inspired by some random plot ideas I wrote down in 2006. Short synopsis:

This is a science fiction story about a creature named Mighty who is an independent, interstellar freight ship pilot. He is struggling along with all the other indie freighters because there's a war going on, and no one trusts indie pilots to carry their precious loads across the galaxy.

Mighty comes to the end of his rope as the novel begins. He's at a space station, ready to part out his beloved space ship and settle for a career of mediocrity--at least he'd be able to eat. While there, he is offered a rare, high paying contract to move mysterious cargo to a remote planet. He's so desperate for the work that he doesn't question what the cargo is.

While en route, Mighty realizes that this mysterious cargo is not something he wants to get involved with, but the clock is in motion, and there's no going back.

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I plan on posting some of my favorite excerpts from any given writing session, so stay tuned for those. I'm really excited about this story because the potential is so great for success. After the hate-hate affair with my '07 novel, I'm looking forward to writing something I will most definitely love.

At least, at first.