While I was working on a draft of my novel Codex Nekromantia, one of my characters said, in a line long-since deleted, “don’t feel envy for those who don’t make mistakes, for they have never tried.”

That line, and thousands of its friends, were cut from Codex Nekromantia for good reasons, but the sentiment has always stuck with me, and the thought has been necessary on the long process of making very thorough mistakes on the novel. And now, in the month of October, when I swore that I’d always release it, I’m releasing it.

Mondays will no longer be Moral, at least for the run of the book. I’ll instead be updating A Path Fantastic with sections of the novel.

Starting right now. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I’ve enjoyed writing it!

So it begins.

Woke up this morning at an early-for-Greg hour of 6, hit the computer starting at 6:30.

I wrote six words in Codex and Word sprouted an error about how I had too many grammar and spelling mistakes and it had to shut off autocorrect.

I felt judged and also great for having enough raw material to break a word processor.

The Minnesota recount has revealed a stunning sea change in electoral politics within America: http://minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2008/11/19_challenged_ballots/  I, for one, am surprised that our new reptile overlords are humoring us with the vote, when they could easily enforce our slavery via nuclear-powered ray guns.

Being tired of doom-and-gloom news that is anathema to resolving the problem, I wrote a greasemonkey script that changes all instances of “economy” or “economic” on a page to “doughnuts” and “doughnuty,” respectively.  And then I saw that “the doughnut is shrinking” and nearly wept.