MGUWC Update

Never fear, I really am I working on some specifics for the challenge. In the next week or two expect to see some tools pop up and some final details on the challenge itself. Keep an eye here for more info and watch for, at the very least, a short cast tomorrow night.

Jeff on Dead Robots Societ

Jeff was a guest on this weeks Dead Robots Society. Check it out. http://deadrobotssociety.com/2009/11/10/epsiode-107-two-interviews-for-the-price-of-one/

Maximum Geek Ultimate Writing Challenge

OK, so I posted the basics, now let’s get a little more specific. Basically this is like a 300 day NaNoWriMo but less organized. Since 2,000 words a day is pretty hardcore we’ll be breaking it up into tiers and over the next month I’ll be putting together a page for tracking your word count and all that. Who knows how fancy I’ll get, it all depends on how much time I have.

The point of this is to build a writing habit. I used to set aside an hour of every day to write, then I stopped. If I can get back to writing an hour a day I can actually produce something. So I figure with a little competition and encouragement from other writers I can get back to that habit and actually finish some things.

Now even at only 500 words a day you can easily write more than one novel in 300 days. We’re not all Jeff and sitting on 7 novels. So I’m open to suggestions on how we count editing and revising once we get to that point. In the mean time, we’re quite a way from that so we don’t need to worry about it. The goal is to write everyday.

We’re starting with just doing the standard NaNoWriMo deal. That gives me time to figure out some guidelines and put together some tools for us to use to track everything. So, if you’re interested and not already registered for NaNoWriMo had on over to http://www.NaNoWriMo.org we’ll use their tools to track everyone for a month. Once you’re signed up email us at challenge@maximumgeek.org with your NaNo username and we’ll get buddied up.

That’s it in a nutshell. As we decide on the details of the tiers and how to handle editing once a first draft is done I’ll post those. Hoping to get a lot of emails on this. Come on and take the challenge.

Maximum Geek Vol. 3 Ep. 1

That’s right, we’re back. Who missed us? Come on, don’t be shy, you can tell us if you missed us. Well here is the latest installement after a 10 month hiatus we’re back. We talk tech, movies and TV but mostly writing. Sit back, take your shoes off and prepare for 1 hour and 21 minutes of Maximum Geek. Or as I like to call it, 1.21 gigawatts. There’s a bit of wonkiness with the audio, Jeff cuts out a bit (we blame his netbook) and while our volume levels are pretty close, I  am a bit louder, just loud enough to cause a bit of distortion if I really get up there. Anyway (notice the lack of an s, there is no such word as anyways) here’s the topic list.

• Windows 7
• The Nook
• Random stuff
• NaNoWriMo
• Maximum Geek’s Ultimate Writing Challenge

More info on that last bit is coming soon. If you’re interested in the challenge give us a yell, @maxgeek on twitter or email challenge@maximumgeek.org. The more people who join us the more fun it will be.

On the topic of future episodes, there will be some, a schedule has yet to be decided though, we’ll keep you informed. If you’re not following us on twitter, you should. We actually post there once in a while.

 

 Maximum Geek vol 3 episode 1 [81:15m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

A Writing Challenge

This challenge is not for the faint of heart my friends. First of all, blame Jeff, he started it. The challenge is 300 days of writing. 2,000 words a day. Once he told me what he was doing I decided to join in. So here’s the deal, I’m putting together a sort of word war page, it’ll list my word count and Jeff’s. If anyone wants to join us we’ll be happy to add you too.

There isn’t really any winning or losing here. The real point of this is to get yourself writing everyday. More details coming on this particular challenge (once we know what those details are).

Podcast incoming

Jeff and I have scheduled a time and put together a topic list for the next episode of Max Geek. That’s right, we’re actually going to post a new podcast. It will be up by the end of the week. Get ready to get your geek on.

Still Working On The Site

Still working on the new look of the site, so hang in there while I finish things up and make it look all pretty like.

Vol 3. is Here

Alright, we’re rolling out Vol. 3 as we speak. The new format is mini-casts. Most of our casts from now on will be ongoing conversations between Jeff and I which take place as mini-casts, about 1 to 5 minutes a piece. They’ll post first to twitter for people who want to follow it live and then as a compilation here at the end of each day for the more traditional podcast types. Feel free to get into the conversation in real time with audio or text responses via twitter. The great thing is we can respond to listeners quickly and get everyone involved in the conversation.
So head over to @MaxGeek on twitter and check out the our first few mini-casts.

Excuse the mess

I’m doing a fairly extensive redesign as part of Max Geek Vol. 3. So don’t expect much going on here for a bit. Definitely follow us on twitter though. Twitter.com/maxgeek.

YAY!!

OK, something I messed with the last two days actually fixed the download links. Sorry that took so long, there’s a shiny new Max Geek sitting on my hard drive to be uploaded later today or tomorrow.