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Elle replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 8 months ago
@AlanR — it’s not often but it can happen Meg Hunter’s debut, The End We Start From” was only 17,000 or 18,000 words if I remember correctly.
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Libby replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 8 months ago
I’d guess probably not, Alan! Maybe publishing novellas is something to look forward to once one’s career is established 🙂 Though as they seem mostly to be written by big names such as Hill and Ian McEwan, you probably have to be very established.
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Bella posted an update 7 years, 8 months ago
Saw a post on Facebook that could easily apply to one’s writing (mine, anyway).
“Don’t cling to a mistake just because you spent a long time making it.”
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Philippa East replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 8 months ago
Time to make yourself an outline?
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Giselle replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 8 months ago
Hello all!
I thought about doing NaNoWriMo but I don’t have time to write a sentence these days, let alone 50k!
That being said, I need some motivation so I’d love to do a Denizen’s SloMoWriMo – sounds like perfect motivation, and what great people to do it with! -
KazG replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 8 months ago
Well done on the creative burst @alanr – that must feel good. And I really like that title.
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JaneShuff replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 8 months ago
Yes. Great title. Hope the creative/productive jag lasts.
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Elle replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 8 months ago
@alanr — intriguing title! I like it.
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Elle replied to the topic Short Story Publication/Competition in the forum Podium 7 years, 8 months ago
Thank you everybody! xx
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Raine replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 8 months ago
That’s great, @alanr! Hope the flow keeps going. I am in the process of hauling myself over my 25k wall. Getting there, but oof.
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Kate replied to the topic Short Story Publication/Competition in the forum Podium 7 years, 8 months ago
Well done, Elle. 🙂
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Raine replied to the topic Short Story Publication/Competition in the forum Podium 7 years, 8 months ago
Well done @elle. Such a sad little piece, and the bird image is perfect.
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KazG replied to the topic Setting The Place in the forum Blogs 7 years, 8 months ago
Really interesting, thanks for posting @elle. Place is crucial – for me it’s pretty much as vital as character and sometimes feels like character itself. I can’t write anything half decent without knowing what surrounds us, what the history is, how it has formed and influenced what’s going on ‘onstage’…
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KazG replied to the topic Short Story Publication/Competition in the forum Podium 7 years, 8 months ago
Oh that story is beautiful and awful both, @elle. A well deserved win.
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KazG replied to the topic TV appearance – Quest, 'Wings of War' in the forum Podium 7 years, 8 months ago
I’ve now watched this and it is brilliant. Quality programme, as others have said, and you shine, @daedalus. I was spot on (as @richardb said) when I said I bet you were ‘engaging, knowledgeable and quietly authoritative’, before I had a chance to see it…:-) Really well done! x
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Daedalus posted an update 7 years, 8 months ago
This is just to say
I have finished
The Draft
I was working on since 2014And which you
Probably thought
I’d never finishForgive me. It was indulgent
All 178 thousand
Words of it-
I like it! How were the plums?
Oh, and your news. I like that too.-
Delicious. So sweet, and so cold. Unlike the novel which is bitter and very, very long
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that is bloody amazing @daedalus! Congratulations 🙂 What a lot of plums…
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Yippee Daeds! Hope you are going to take the day off to celebrate.🍒🍾
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Haha I wish
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This is awesomes Daeds. Both the achievement and the plums. I want that meme back, it was the best.
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Congratulations!
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RichardB posted an update 7 years, 8 months ago
Call me weird if you will, but I do love picking a passage apart and putting it back together again, better than before. So satisfying.
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That’s not weird, Richard. I didn’t think I could be the only one who preferred working with an existing draft to creating a new one
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Two different types of adventure, I think. I enjoy both but creating a new draft can be like swimming in very rough seas.
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Definitely. Editing is a craft. Writinf a first draft is an extreme sport
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I like that analogy. If it’s skiing, then I am currently uphill xcountry skiing, stuck in those parallel ruts and not sure whether they are heading in the right direction…
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Libby replied to the topic TV appearance – Quest, 'Wings of War' in the forum Podium 7 years, 8 months ago
Thank you Daeds, I really appreciate it.
I’ve found your nonfic book on the Amberley publishing site and will order a copy forthwith! It’s a while since I read a pilot biog or autobiog and am looking forward to learning about Duncan Menzies.
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