I simply bought a large quantity of powdered caffeine and (this is important!) a milligram-accurate scale for precise measurements.

And after posting this I realize this post is from 2012.

Thunderball gets a bad rap. Its agonizingly long underwater sequences were amazing in 1967. And at least Thunderball didn’t have that goofy video game with the pew pew lasers.

I don’t mind product placement in Bond. The series has always been about selling a lifestyle. It enhances, not detracts, when he name-drops high-end liquors and wears only the fanciest suits and watches and drives only the most awesome cars.

“Stranger Danger” is bullshit for kids and it’s even more bullshit for adults.

Creative destruction is a good thing in a free market. If industries like the hotel industry are too important to put up with new technology and new competition, well, some banks argued they were “too big to fail”, and that sounds awful similar.

I’m skeptical that even some brilliance comes out of a flow of gibberish. As I said, why should I even count sasdfljh as a word?

No one buys books from Amazon? Since when?

Same writer also created the “fuck Uber” tag on Gizmodo.

A.C.E has never, ever been shy of his outright hatred of Uber.

Gizmodo really hates Uber, and has never been shy of showing it. The same author also invented the “fuck Uber” tag.

Wait, are you suggesting a Gizmodo writer, of all institutions, might be a New Yorker asshole who has no idea what anything outside of NYC is like?

Gizmodo has pulled no punches and made no attempt to hide their outright hatred for Uber.

Uber is one of those companies Gizmodo has decided to hate. Seriously, look at pretty much any Gizmodo piece about Uber and tell me you don’t see a pattern.

When I saw this headline, I asked myself, “I wonder if Gizmodo will find a way to turn a drunken assault on an Uber driver into an anti-Uber hit piece?”

I’ve done NaNo three times - not this year though. While I don’t prioritize editing, I have no problems re-writing something I think doesn’t work well, especially if it’s a distracting issue for me. If I want to write 50,000 words of gibberish I don’t intend to keep, I can just copy and paste this: “a a a a a a a a a…

My best advice is shut the hell up and write. Everything that is not putting words on paper is puffery. Open up your text editor of choice and write. Novice wrimos, in my experience, get way too caught up in planning and in organizing notes and having an outline and wondering which scene to write next and counting…

Meh, I find people take this advice too far. Yes, don’t go throwing out entire chapters, but don’t just leave gibberish either. What’s the point of having 50,000 words in you’re going to delete 40,000 of them on Dec. 1st?

Relatedly: Do not open tvtropes in November.

Nope. Pure word editor for me. Microsoft Word in my case but the alternatives are equally good for it. I find I get way too caught up in making my plans look good.