Book number four of nine ready to go!
My stretch goal is to get them all ready by Monday, but there’s football this afternoon, so I may not quite get there…
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The Other Nebo
In the rolls of the families that first returned to Judah from Babylon, Nehemiah lists “the men of the other Nebo” (v33) and “the sons of the other Elam” (v34).
The weird part is that there is no first Nebo or first Elam in …
It took more time than I wanted tonight, but book 3 is edited and ready to go. Even has a fun cover image made from a photograph I took in Montserrat, Spain.
Six more books to go in this first batch.
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Five more chapters tonight; progress meter up from 25.2% to 25.7%.
I’m working on Judges, one of the most frustrating—and yet relatable—books. Every time Israel descends again into apostasy, you want to scream, “Not again!” And then …
Meera and I were talking about the definition of ska on the last trip to the lake, and today I randomly had a brief clip of a Mighty Mighty Bosstones song jump into my head.
I couldn’t quite place it, but I searched my library for likely songs and …
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“Remember for my good, O my God, all that I have done for this people.” Nehemiah 5:19 ESV
Nehemiah could not have known how spectacularly God would answer his prayer. The good he did is remembered in his own words throughout time and …
Today is the first time I’ve been on top of the leaderboard for any of the Lex.games, however briefly. I’m not signed in so you have to trust me, but I’m the “Undisclosed Strategist” with a time of 26 seconds.
Which will inevitably be beaten, and …
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That was an exhausting study/writing session, but I’ve completed chapter 300 of 1189 (25.2%).
Only 54 more sessions that hard to go, and I’ll be done!
(Writing. I’ll be done writing. Editing and publishing are another matter.)
Since I now have an actual chapter-count target (1,189), I feel like I should build a Brandon Sanderson-esque completion meter somewhere. But that would entail more procrastination and less writing, and I’m trying to write more.
So I’ll …
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Things I never noticed: the night of the transfiguration is the first time we see Moses in the Promised Land. He finally made it!
(Via a post on r/Bible this morning)
After a hard weekend of drinking beer at the lakewriting and editing, I’m reasonably confident I have two books ready to go, of the nine whose contents are done.
But every little step makes the next one easier.
Writing an About the Author page is surprisingly challenging. How do you distill yourself into a hundred words that simultaneously introduce you, provide bona fides, amuse the reader, and point them toward your other works?
I’m pretty sure I …
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I am editing a series of books I am writing, and despite the fact that I typed every word of it, it’s helping me see and understand new things in the Bible.
Tonight’s example: the repetition of the Abrahamic covenant (Genesis 12) to his …
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Finished reading: Royal Assassin (The Illustrated Edition) by Robin Hobb
The world continues to intrigue me, and Fitz continues to be a great conflicted character. I do think Hobb delights just a bit too much in hurting him, and the ending was even …
Could hardly ask for a more perfect Saturday: football and beer with Meera at the lake.
Headed up to the lake today for some big weekend plans: food and football. And pumpkin beers.
Meera and I also finished the Harry Potter series, pretty much entirely this week. It’s part of the ritual of oncoming fall, which will continue this weekend with the first of the pumpkin beers (this year, they are Sam Adams and Dogfish Head).
Feel very accomplished tonight after wrestling with Python, pandoc, and make. I can now produce Jekyll posts and well-formatted PDF ebooks from the same source.
A Friday night well spent?
Tuck has found a new spot to sit while I’m working from home or writing for myself.
Tried to go out to dinner with Meera tonight. Unfortunately, San Antonio.
This ramen—from JY Ramen—was nearly inedible; Meera’s actually was, and therefore remains unphotographed.
Experiment failed.
Anybody have suggestions for actually good ramen in …
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Finished writing chapter notes on Deuteronomy last night, completing the Torah.
Today’s goal: editing. Then I can get them cleaned up for publishing.
Unfortunately, I had to change my YAML scheme recently to make Pandoc happy, so it’s no longer as …
The mornings have been blessedly cooler the past few days (although the humidity has remained in the high 80s) so I’ve been more willing to walk the whole neighborhood with the dog.
I’m amused daily by the variation in tempo he chooses, whether I …
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Finished reading: 2k to 10k by Rachel Aaron.
Picked this up off a Reddit thread. Good thing it was cheap, because it contains little advice a thinking writer doesn’t know (you should do some planning before you start writing!), and it needs editing …
I now have a new category, VerseNotes, to hold microblog-sized comments on the Bible.
I used to do this all the time on Twitter, but I don’t have a public place for it anymore. One day I’ll figure out how to get them all to appear on VerseNotes …
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My Bible reading plan today started three new books: 1 Timothy, Proverbs, and Ezra. It feels like they should be more connected, but I think that’s just how the timing worked out.
One observation is that they’re from three very different eras: Rome, …