@daedalus
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Daedalus posted a new activity comment 7 years, 4 months ago
Sounds like excellent progress, good work
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Daedalus posted a new activity comment 7 years, 4 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.
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Daedalus posted an update in the group
December SloMo 7 years, 4 months agoTrue 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.
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Daedalus replied to the topic Monthly competition – Nov 2018 in the forum Monthly Competition 7 years, 4 months ago
Well done Raine, fantastic competition Jonathan, many thanks for the feedback
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Daedalus replied to the topic Monthly competition – Nov 2018 in the forum Monthly Competition 7 years, 4 months ago
(Sorry, 500 words not inc title)
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Daedalus replied to the topic Monthly competition – Nov 2018 in the forum Monthly Competition 7 years, 4 months ago
Stairway
In the church in my village was a staircase that went nowhere. It was not such a very rare thing. Lots of mediaeval churches in my part of the world have a little alcove near the pulpit that used to lead to the rood gallery – an actual gallery, often beautifully decorated, high above the congregation from where the priest would deliver t…[Read more]
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Daedalus replied to the topic Two newses in the forum Podium 7 years, 5 months ago
Superb Raine, I love that story. Any idea when the antho will be out?
And that’s a real endorsement about the flash piece. I’m sure they wouldn’t have nominated it if they didn’t think it had a shot at winning.
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Daedalus replied to the topic Twitter thread on literary agents in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 7 years, 5 months ago
Thanks @philippaeast, there’s some good stuff in there isn’t there? Considering printing out a copy for when I start to query (a while away yet)
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Daedalus replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 5 months ago
I think what writers commonly refer to as procrastination is not quite the same as that definition, anyway. Sometimes forcing yourself to write can be the worst thing for your writing, and doing something else can be what you need to get your head into the right place.
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Daedalus replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 5 months ago
You ever meet anyone with any kind of attention deficit disorder Alan?
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Daedalus replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 5 months ago
That’s a very sweeping statement.
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Daedalus started the topic Twitter thread on literary agents in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 7 years, 5 months ago
The following is a long and detailed twitter thread from the writer Delilah S Dawson on everything to do with literary agents. Well worth a read
Hello, writers! How about a thread on LITERARY AGENTS? How to get one, how to talk to one, how to keep one happy. Spoiler alert: I am 100% pro agent and can't imagine not having one on my side. 1/
— Delilah S. Dawson (@DelilahSDawson) November 20, 2018
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Daedalus posted a new activity comment 7 years, 5 months ago
Definitely. Editing is a craft. Writinf a first draft is an extreme sport
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Daedalus posted a new activity comment 7 years, 5 months ago
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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Daedalus posted an update 7 years, 5 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
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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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Daedalus posted a new activity comment 7 years, 5 months ago
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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Oh wow, @daedalus, that’s a HUGE achievement. Congratulations on getting that whole draft done. SlowMo editing. I like it. And the shorts too.
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.