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365 tomorrows
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2009 NaNoWriMo Winner

2009 Script Frenzy Winner

2008 NaNoWriMo Winner

2007 NaNoWriMo Winner

2007 Script Frenzy Winner

2006 NaNoWriMo Winner: 60,444 words

2005 NaNoWriMo Winner

Stories By Curtis C. Chen

Short Fiction

In Print
"At Long Last Love" (From the Porch Swing, 2010)
"The Stories We Tell Ourselves" (100 Stories for Haiti, 2010)
On the Web
"Restart" (Strangetastic, 2009)
"Love Lucy" (365 Tomorrows, 2007)
"Ghosts of Earth" (365 Tomorrows, 2006)
"Birthdays" (365 Tomorrows, 2006)
"Antique" (365 Tomorrows, 2006)

512 Words or Fewer
Weekly flash fiction from yours truly. A new story and illustration every Friday.  Subscribe in a reader
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FREEFALL
An outer-space military cyberpunk espionage alternate-history romance mystery serial set in the mid-twenty-first century Solar System.

Non-Fiction

On ProgrammableWeb
"Google Now Charging $5 to List Chrome Extensions" (24 Aug 2010)
On Wired How-To Wiki (Fall 2009)
Bake a Potato Without an Oven
Get Rid of Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications
Get Your PC Wires Under Control
Make an Independent Movie on the Cheap
Make a Podcast
Open Docx Files
Read a Barcode
Set Up a Firewall
Skip Commercials on Your DVR
Transfer VHS Tapes to DVD

Blogs

CKL's HotSheet
What Non-Aardvarks are Pondering.  Subscribe in a reader
Travels With Our Cats
Summer, 2008: CKL+D drive across the USA with Jasper and Bayla.
et cetera
Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, LiveJournal, MySpace, ...
We are a race of storytellers.

We can't help it. Everyone writes bad poetry in high school. But after that, you either get better, or you stop.

I like to think I've gotten better...

Unpublished

Novels

Better
Konri Linbitter followed all the rules until the day her brother committed suicide. Then she began questioning everything about her world. (NaNoWriMo 2009; based on "Better" from 512 Words or Fewer)
EndGame
A puzzle hunt thriller. Solving the murder was just the beginning... (NaNoWriMo 2008)
Spaceship Castle
Any sufficiently costumed science fiction is indistinguishable from fantasy. (NaNoWriMo 2007)
Waypoint Kangaroo
Murder and mayhem aboard an interplanetary cruise ship. (NaNoWriMo 2006; same world as "Kangaroo's First Day with the Eye" from 512 Words or Fewer)
By the Light of the Moon
An alternate history: Apollo 8, with atypical werewolves. (NaNoWriMo 2005)

Screenplays/Teleplays

Sweet Valley Heist (feature)
Step One: Get hired.
Step Two: Get sick and tired.
Step Three: Plan to steal the company's $10 million in holiday bonus cash.
Step Four: PROFIT???
(Script Frenzy 2009)
Apartment of Champions (pilot)
In a city full of super-heroes, six young people with not-so-great powers do their best to avoid great responsibility. (FOX-NYTVF Comedy Script Contest 2008)
The Gauntlet (feature)
The NSA has a time machine. But they are afraid to use it. (Script Frenzy 2007)

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