Nanowrimo - Stupid characters!

Bloody characters. Broke 25K and they're STILL not off the planet. Though at least they're out of the boring bit now, and probably going to be off planet as soon as I finish writing their phone call, but still. Sheesh. There's a whole bloody universe of neat and weird stuff out there, and now I have to shove it all into half the novel, rather than making it the point of things. On the other hand, it's probably good on some levels that the plot's taken on a life of its own, I just really hope they do manage to get off the planet some time, it'd be much more interesting. I'll edit this if I write more tonight.

Update: No, still not off the planet yet.

( Sample of their daring escape. )

Netrunners 1, Evil Bastards.. well, lots of money from stupid people, but.

An ambitious LJer tracked down the trail from a spyware/virus vendor and the ads it sent, a nice little virtual trip around the world. Read it here.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/tacit/125748.html?view=660788

Yet more reason to not use IE. If you're using IE, don't click on the links, like he warns you. Otherwise you'll end up with the same virii, duh.

A question for the audience.

So, do you think attempts to be objective in journalism make for better journalism, or worse? Reasons would be nice.