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Busy times

Kit — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 03:12:44 +0000

It’s been a busy and exciting week. I spent a long extended weekend in the Austin area with my girlfriend Tea and her network. It was a wonderfully loving, blissful, creative and fun weekend. She’s just gotten great news that her sculptures have been accepted by a Houston gallery, with a Halloween-ish opening. I’ll be sure to post her gallery opening info here and on my other blogs when I get it, so I can let people know. It’s worth seeing.

I spent the rest of the week home alone, cleaning up around the house and working hard on our ongoing project. The number of people who have discovered it is growing every day — soon we’re going to have Steve drop some hints about it, which should really bring people in. I’ve also made a lot of progress planning for the project’s main public portal, as well as the “tourism bureau” website.

Reesa & Steve are due back soon, home from their long trip to Israel. It sounds like a full and fun trip. Steve read from his short story, “Bluff”, which is part of our project, the first public reading of any project-related fiction. Further, Reesa gave a variation of the Arse Elektronika presentation which also included photos of otherworldly artifacts — we’ll have the slides up soon.

I finally upgraded this site to WP 2.6.2. If you see anything weird, let me know. I’m going to poke around and see if there is anything broken, otherwise I’ll be upgrading the other WP sites I operate soon.

Thanks Megan!

Kit — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:09:05 +0000

Megan gave me an awesome complement on the new design of this website.

I was up pretty late(/early) tweaking this site so it is really rewarding to get good feedback. Though I will continue to make changes, I’m really happy with how this looks so far — I has a pretty blog!

Manuscript format

Kit — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:35:40 +0000

I am designing this website to mimic the standard short story manuscript format which professional writers use to submit their work. I still have some tweaks to make, but so far I am pleased with its appearance.

8,000 words is the length of my short story “Borrowed Time,” which was the first I finished in my current incarnation as a writer and therefore the first to begin circulating to publishers. It is currently unpublished.

Welcome to Approximately 8,000 Words

Kit — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 12:17:21 +0000

Welcome to Kit O’Connell’s new homepage. I’ve been using my LiveJournal for all my writing posts up until now, but it is about time to start a real writer homepage and blog. I’m still tweaking the appearance of the site to make it look prettier and more ‘manuscript-like’, but it is close enough to bring this site live.

I currently have 10 short stories and poems being evaluated by publishers, and many more in the pipeline. I am also going to be getting back into writing book reviews, so keep an eye on this page for my latest publications. I’ll also be posting the occasional writerly thoughts and updates on my activities.

Feedback and suggestions on the new site are welcome.