Camp NaNo Winner!

Look at those beautiful fireworks! I'm happy to report that I finished June's 50,000-words-in-thirty-days novel today, and this one (unlike last November) actually has a beginning, middle, and end. You might get to read it someday, but I make no promises.

Ira Glass on Storytelling

While procrastinating on my novel, I came across this awesome video. It pretty much sums up what I'm trying to do here with this blog, even though I'm terrible at actually sticking to deadlines. Enjoy, then go create!


Ira Glass on Storytelling from David Shiyang Liu on Vimeo.

Camp NaNo

I'm currently in the middle of Camp NaNoWriMo, so I am writing, and quite a bit, I'm just not posting. Anyhow, Camp NaNo is just like the November event, but occurs this year in June and August. I'm a little behind (supposed to pass 28,000 today; I'm at 22,500), but I'm feeling good going into the last two weeks.

6,907/1,000,000 (0.6907%)

If you're lucky, I'll write up a memoir about recent events.

Identity (100)

(Note: This story arc began in Chef. For more, follow the Snapshots tag.)

I can give you five names, each complete with house, credit card, driver’s license, car, and personality: Louis wears baseball caps, a thick brown moustache, t-shirts, and jeans, and can be seen every Saturday mowing his lawn; Dean is a self-published author, and leaves his studio apartment only to write at the nearby coffee shop—all the baristas know him; Percy wears a suit and lives in a penthouse; Josh volunteers at the pet shelter; Garret is a personal trainer.

Those five men are as close to me as you’re going to get. I’ve stopped asking myself who I am.