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Squidge joined the group December SloMo 7 years, 9 months ago

JaneShuff posted an update in the group December SloMo 7 years, 9 months ago

I am loving redaing what you’re all planning to do in December.

Having spent yesterday and today running and manning the local twinning committee’s ‘sell English products to the French’ Christmas stall in between dodging the Gilets Jaunes to take my OH to the airport, my aim tonight is to do enough RL work to free up tomorrow morning for a bit…[Read more]

JaneShuff replied 7 years, 9 months ago

*reading
- KazG replied 7 years, 9 months ago
  
  That would be a very good end of year @janeshuff. I hope you are all ok over there. Awful to read about all the anger and destruction x
  - JaneShuff replied 7 years, 9 months ago
    
    Thanks @kazg. Luckily we are far from the mayhem of Paris and the gilets jaunes here were peacable enough. However they’ve started blockading the Port du Commerce which means no petrol deliveries and there was a spate of panic buying over the weekend which means the pumps have run dry!
    - Raine replied 7 years, 9 months ago
      
      Oh yikes! Hope the blockade lifts soon, although I have to admire their protest power! Good luck for the writing today – and without the OH to interrupt!
    - KazG replied 7 years, 8 months ago
      
      Oh no, hope you don’t get stuck! yes, the French know how to get protesting, don’t they? Phlegmatic they are not. Good luck with the writing @janeshuff

RichardB posted an update in the group December SloMo 7 years, 9 months ago

A good last few days. This weekend I have sorted two probs with my revived MS, the ghost story A Record of Sin.

The first was the paragraph formatting. which was in a mess inherited from the days when I didn’t know how to do it properly. I’ve been through the whole MS and put it right.

The second was a last, rather tricky POV change. Tricky…[Read more]

Raine replied 7 years, 9 months ago

Well deserved G&T, I reckon!

Daedalus posted an update in the group December SloMo 7 years, 9 months ago

True to form I am late to the party with this. I had a very good start to NaNo and a terrible end – but the good start enabled me to finish the first draft of a novel I’d been working on since 2013. It’s currently a 178,000 word monster, but I will use SloMo to start the long editing process, and also to write a couple of shorts.

Philippa East replied 7 years, 9 months ago

Oh wow, @daedalus, that’s a HUGE achievement. Congratulations on getting that whole draft done. SlowMo editing. I like it. And the shorts too.
- Daedalus replied 7 years, 9 months ago
  
  Thanks @philippaeast – I don’t think I will set a target for the amount to edit, as I’ve no idea what’s realistic. I’ll just try to do some every day. Like yours, my editing will be pretty structural, looking at character arcs, in their own right and in relation to others. As well as seeing if it’s possible to lose about 50,000 words.