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Daedalus replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 9 months ago
NaNo generally works for me because I am patchy about my output the rest of the time, and my biggest challenge is just getting enough words down on paper to work on. That said, I can totally understand why it doesn’t work for some people, and in fairness there have been years when it worked brilliantly for me and other years when I churned out…[Read more]
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Raine replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 9 months 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.
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Raine replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 9 months 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]
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Athelstone replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 9 months ago
It seems we are already buddies – I didn’t know it persisted over the years.
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Daedalus replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 9 months 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
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Jules replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 9 months ago
I’m doing NaNo this year. In process of planning new novel ready to start. I’m on there as ThrowingCopper if anyone wants to buddy up? 😊
(Think I’m already buddies with you, Ath and Daed.)
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Daedalus replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 9 months ago
Haha, recrossed with you Squidge. Yeah, why not? Let’s buddy up
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Daedalus replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 9 months 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
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Daedalus replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 9 months ago
I might do it but cheat and use it to finish the draft of my WIP plus a novella and some shorts
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Athelstone started the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 9 months ago
Anybody doing it this year?
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Athelstone replied to the topic Monthly comp – October 2018 in the forum Monthly Competition 7 years, 9 months ago
Also, bumpety bump
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Athelstone replied to the topic Opinion about title in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 7 years, 9 months ago
Without any other information, I’d probably guess at a YA novel.
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John S Alty posted an update 7 years, 9 months ago
Listening to an old Jimmy Buffett album. Doesn’t have the same impact it did when listening to it lying on the deck of my boat with a glass of rum in my hand, swinging to the anchor in a Caribbean bay.
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Sandra posted an update 7 years, 9 months ago
Off Down Under for a few weeks – back back end of November. Lots of rooms, and a train, with lots of views. All writing longhand.
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Daedalus replied to the topic Controlling Idea / Downsizing in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 9 months ago
Sometimes definitely control! E.g. ‘Suffering a tyrant may be bad but tyrannicide leads to civil war, which is worse’ – see Plutarch via Shakespeare via this morning’s ‘In Our Time’ 😉
As Orwell wrote ‘Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past’ – and to my mind, the past = the historical narrative =…[Read more]
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John S Alty replied to the topic Titles in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 7 years, 9 months ago
Tangled Web (A, The, What a, Weaving a,)
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John S Alty replied to the topic New title needed for 'Snatched' – help! in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 7 years, 9 months ago
Time is sometimes described as a fourth dimension, so:
Fourth Dimension
The Fourth Dimension
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RichardB replied to the topic Titles in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 7 years, 9 months ago
A Cuckoo in the Nest?
Hmm. Possibly a bit of a cliché, but the image seems apt.
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Daedalus replied to the topic New title needed for 'Snatched' – help! in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 7 years, 9 months ago
In the Shadow of the City
The City in Time’s Shadow
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