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Raine posted an update in the group
CoronaMo 6 years agoSubmitted a bunch of flash things to various magazines today AND did my monthly comp entry. For day 1 of homeschooling, I’m giving myself a gold star! 🙂
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Jill replied to the topic Positive thoughts in the forum
CoronaMo 6 years agoThank you Jane and Raine. My immediate intention is to revisit/re edit a book for younger children and my Lucy Rainbow ‘opus’ with a view to submitting them again. Also to continue working on something which combines new prose and my past poetry. May never be a market for that but it will give me great satisfaction and may be of interest to fam…[Read more]
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Sounds like a nice range of projects for you to move between when the mood takes you! I struggle with the multi-projecting, which is all I’ve been doing for aaaages, but I’m hoping to actually pick one project and stick for it for a while!
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Oh! How I emphasise . Lovely to have so many ideas, but must focus on one of a time if possible. On the other hand, I suspect we are both skilled multitaskers in many areas!
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I envy you both. I find it very difficult to work on more than one thing at a time.
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Sandra posted an update in the group
CoronaMo 6 years ago“What’s new, Sandra?”
Regrettably, nothing. 42K+ words into my current wip, taking some pains to streamline the process, not make the same mistakes, I realise I am still incapable of identifying, plotting the story until the characters tell me who they are and what is happening.
After a couple of weeks of floundering (necessary, it appears) I…[Read more] -
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JaneShuff posted an update in the group
CoronaMo 6 years agoI saw you’d done it @raine but I can’t look until I have had a go myself. Well done on the new pantser WIP. Enjoy. You can always be like me and spend months trying to get it into some sort of shape afterwards.
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Raine posted an update in the group
CoronaMo 6 years agoI did the decluttering exercise the other day, @janeshuff. But yes @janette, I might try the monthly prompt as a mini-challenge next week. I’ve actually just speed-written 1,300 words of a brand new wip with NO PLANNING WHATSOEVER, which is Very Not Me! I figure in the absence of an ability to concentrate, maybe I should give pantsing a go! 😀
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@Raine, I feel very guilty about this, but my meeting with the agent today has left me with quite a list of ‘to do’s’ she wants done quickly, and I’m not sure I’ll be able to make the comp.
Re the new wip, best of luck, though I feel it is in very capable hands and sometimes no planning comes up with surprising results! -
@Raine – sounds liberating. Long may it continue.
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JaneShuff posted an update in the group
CoronaMo 6 years agoI am going to try @janette to combine the monthly comp and the decluttering exercise somehow. Maybe it will be a mistake!
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Janette posted an update in the group
CoronaMo 6 years agoJust noticed that no-one’s partaken in the monthly comp so far. Might this be a good distraction from that which shall not be mentioned? I’m pretty busy but will try and fit it in.
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Jill started the topic Positive thoughts in the forum
CoronaMo 6 years agoCyprus for holiday and inspiration did not happen and we stay relieved at home. Determined that Inhave enough inspiration to carry on regardless. Stay safe and writing everyone.
Jill
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And you Jill. Sorry about Cyprus!
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Ditto. What are you working on at the moment? If you need a prompt, check out the monthly competition…
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Raine posted an update in the group
CoronaMo 6 years agoSo today I wrote lesson plans for a four week writing course I will hopefully be running at Falkland Palace at some point (thanks to @seagreen). Having only taught primary school kids before, I’ll be slightly going to the other extreme audience-wise, I imagine! Likely to feature fewer zombies and superheroes perhaps! Still, it feels quite exciting. 🙂
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Yay! That sounds fun, and proper writerly work, too. I would do that course in a heartbeat 🙂
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That sounds fab, @raine! Wish I lived closer, but I’m sure it’ll be a great success. This could be a start of a new opportunity …
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What fabulous news. The Den is brimming with it at the moment! You’ll be wonder ful!
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Squidge posted an update in the group
CoronaMo 6 years agoSounds fab, Raine. x
Am feeling overwhelmed today and looking for positive things, so this is great.
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Well done, Raine. I managed a newsletter and 1000 words of current wip but a) I don’f have children so I did not have home schooling to contend with and b) every one of those words felt like I extracted them with pliers!
Gold star is well-deserved!
Well done, Raine.
That’s good going, Raine. Your comp entry is amazing.
Aw fankyoo! I am pantsing everything (writing and life) at the moment, but it was a fun one to write. 🙂
Pantsing seems to be working very well for you 🙂