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  • Libby replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 8 years ago

    It’s not my cup of tea but I’m supportive of anyone who does it. I know someone who sets her own word count for the month and that works well for her.

  • Raine replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 8 years ago

    😀 @jd73 Although 1,666 isn’t much less daunting!

    So I am signing up, but making myself no promises. We’ll see. I need to do some serious planning before it kicks off. I think I’m raine_clouds on there.

  • Raine replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 8 years ago

    Tempted. I don’t think I’d hit the target what with, yanno, issues. BUt I do have a new wip that I need to get a move on and actually start, and it would be good to have an excuse not to edit for a while!

    Never done it before – do you post your actual text or do you just input your word count each day?

    Just done the maths – assuming no writing…[Read more]

  • JaneShuff replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 8 years ago

    I might do it. Even if only to get some stuff on paper as I’m nowhere near ready to actually write anything new. Plus I’ve got my sister coming for a long week in the middle of November… When do you have to commit?

  • Athelstone replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 8 years ago

    It seems we are already buddies – I didn’t know it persisted over the years.

  • Daedalus replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 8 years ago

    If you take notes during the interview Squidge you can totally count that towards your totals 😉

    It’s not ideal to miss the first day, but NaNo gives you a running daily target based on what you’ve already done. It’s quite addictive chasing the targets, I find

  • Squidge replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 8 years ago

    PS Discipline…what’s that?

  • Squidge replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 8 years ago

    So does that mean we have to come clean on our daily word count? Oh Lord, I really WILL have to buck my ideas up!
    Am I allowed the 1st November off? Interview day for candidates for the new vicar…and guess who’s one of the interviewers? 😉

  • Daedalus replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 8 years ago

    Haha, recrossed with you Squidge. Yeah, why not? Let’s buddy up

  • Daedalus replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 8 years ago

    @squidge They’re a lot more relaxed these days about what qualifies – it’s pretty much 50k words of anything. I just find the discipline it gives useful over the course of a month

  • Squidge replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 8 years ago

    HA! Just crossed with Daeds – Daeds, shall we form a novel finishing club?!!

  • Squidge replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 8 years ago

    Is there a version for NaNoFiMo? (National Novel Finishing Month) I really must get moving on the WIP, but I’ve stalled with everything else going on and I cannot get motivated to write at all. Keep knitting instead…

  • Daedalus replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 8 years ago

    I might do it but cheat and use it to finish the draft of my WIP plus a novella and some shorts

  • Seagreen replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 8 years ago

    I still haven’t done the challenge you set me on Fb, so the chance of me writing 50,0000000 words in the space of a month is quite slim 🙂

  • Athelstone started the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 8 years ago

    Anybody doing it this year?

  • Also, bumpety bump

  • I know it doesn’t work in quite the same way, but *Bump*

  • Bella replied to the topic Opinion about title in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 8 years ago

    The first and last feel very children’s story to me.

    AngGalina looks as if the capital G is a typo (though oddly, AnGal does not give me that impression).

    An Galina doesn’t give me anything really to go on, though it still feels YA for some reason.

  • Squidge replied to the topic Opinion about title in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 8 years ago

    I wouldn’t have said that any of them give any indication as to the target readership. I’d just assume it was an unusual character name, with possibly a hint of sci-fi, but it doesn’t give anything away about the story.

  • Without any other information I would assume the title was the name of the MC (or just possibly an invented country) and guess that it was YA or children’s fairy story or fantasy

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