One more thing for my to-do list: learning the dvorak keyboard layout. This post may be a bit short, as I've been on this layout for barely an hour. My first impressions are that all of the key placements seem very natural, except for the 'L' key, which is located under the right pinkee, where the 'P' is on a QWERTY keyboard, and that overall I expect this to be far more efficient. Wish me luck!

I'm not sure whether it is insane or brilliant, but I've decided to do NaNoWriMo again this year.  The break-neck, seat of my pants pace and the comaraderie of this lunatic event are not to be missed.

As if undertaking the frantic journey to 50,000 words weren't enough, I've also launched wrimos.net: a resource site for NaNoWriMo participants and writers in general. Wrimos.net currently features SVN repos for novelists, a weekly "Ask the ML" column, Links Library, planet page, atd a downloads section with issue tracking. Coming soon are a writing prompts database, content rating system, and story elements (character, setting, and plot point) generator.

Twenty more minutes until NaNoWriMo. I am exhausted after my long day, but I want to kick off at midnight with my pals, so here I am sitting at the computer playing with my new ergonomic keyboard. So far, said keyboard doesn't seem easier on my wrists and hands, but I suspect that once I get my 'B' key issue under control, I will type faster on the ergo than on my normal keyboard. I have a plot... sort of. No characters yet. That's what I get for changing concepts in the eleventh hour.