As you can probably tell from the rather poorly made banner above (sorry, I had an all-nighter last night), the tentative title of my next novel is The Collapse. I’ve decided to handle NaNoWriMo 2009 much differently than I’ve handled NaNo in the past. This is the first time I will be returning to a world I’ve already created in order to write a story. If you’ve read my NaNo 2008 novel, The Typist, then the cover above should easily explain itself and lend to what this novel is going to be about. But why am I doing this?

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I traveled with family to New York City during July 4th weekend not just to see the fireworks, but to celebrate the life of my father, who passed away from this Earth on July 4th, 2006. I watch the fireworks, now, both to celebrate my freedom as an American citizen and to honor my father. 2009 was a special treat, because I had never before seen the fireworks in New York City. As this was to be the first year Macy’s would launch them over the Hudson River, it was especially imperative that 2009 was to be the year I finally saw them. Armed with my trusty Nikon D80, I watched one of the most brilliant fireworks shows I’ve ever seen.My father would have been 54 this year. I hope these photos show how much I miss him.

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I’ve finally done it. No, I haven’t extracted new tracks – I don’t play the game anymore and have NO way of identifying what songs are where, and now that I’m on a Mac have no way of extracting the tracks. However, I have sorted a HUGE chunk of the existing unknown tracks into their appropriate albums. Finally.

Most likely there will not be another soundtrack update. Seriously, I never touch the game anymore. I’ll always provide it here, though, and hopefully Wizet will never release enough new music to make the soundtrack feel awfully obsolete.

If I get enough petitions and emails and such to extract tracks and seriously update the soundtrack, I’ll do it. Otherwise, I’ve got too much other work to do to continue working on this project. You can find the updated soundtrack by visiting the Projects Page on this site. For a full list of changes made to the soundtrack, please keep reading!

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