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KazG posted an update in the group
December SloMo 7 years ago OK I’m doing it! IT being Camp NaNo for April. I have to rewrite the book I did for NaNo anyway, as I’m now condensing what I thought were two more books into one – so this will be the only sequel to the book currently out on submission. I can re-use some of my November words but lots have to be written from scratch, and the structure had changed hugely. So I need a big kick up the bum after a couple of months of big story thinking/plotting/outlining (very necessary, but it’s time to get writing again).
Also – Danielle (agent) told me that Penguin will come back with a final decision about whether they’re taking this to acquisitions or not by the end of the this week. TBH I don’t have a positive feeling about that. They’ve had the edits for over a month now and the wonderful enthusiastic editor who loved it and was really behind it in the first place has left 🙁
BUT Danielle was unfazed and said she was gearing up to take it out on wide submission if Penguin passed on it – and that I should have a synopsis and polished few chapters of book two ready to send out as part of the that process (actually Penguin will also need that if they do by some miracle show interest).
So that’s me! Back to it in April. I’ve put 35,000 as my target so it won’t be as full-on as November, but will still get a good chunk of words down. Anyone else want to join me? There are cabins and things over there :-), looky: http://campnanowrimo.org
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If I manage to get enough planning done (not looking good at the moment but am pants at planning) I will join you @kazg. In fact I’ll go and join anyway…
Done it – how can I join you? Have you set up a private cabin?
Good luck both of you! April = school hols so it’s a no go for me, sadly, as a kick up the arse would be useful. But I’ll be here with the pompoms. And I’m keeping any spare fingers crossed for you @kazg the waiting must be hell, but I have high hopes if not for this editor then definitely for the wider sub.
Hooray for you @janeshuff! But I’m not sure about the cabin thing – i’ll go and have a look…
Thanks @raine!
@janeshuff what are you calling yourself over there? I’ve set up a private cabin called Mini Den and want to invite you 🙂
Should be called Janeshuff. Sorry @kazg I will reply in more detail later. Right up against it with a client who wants something translated into beautiful French in two hours before she gets onto a plane… Beautiful French is not my thing, so need to get it done fast enough to find someone to check it.
I might join you too, if that’s alright? Would be a good chance to get these other historical novellas done.
@kazg I haven’t seen an invite from you. Fabulous @jillybean
@janeshuff I can’t find you! There doesn’t seem to be a Janeshuff coming up. Other Janes, but not you 🙁 Might you come up under another name? Ditto for @daedalus and @jillybean…
Try under my e mail address. I will send it again if you gaven’t got it. Or what is your name?
Nope to the email address. Have you signed up for the Camp? I think you have to sign up specifically for it first – it won’t find you from the old Nano site (which I think is why I can’t find @daedalus and @jillybean at the moment). It’s a private cabin so you won’t see it @janeshuff – if you make it public they fill it for you and I don’t want to open it out until we have us all in there! We can open it out after that, if everyone wants.
I’m over there as Kaz Ginnane
Ok I have just seen this on the Camp NaNo website:
‘Once in your cabin, you can invite your friends by typing their usernames into the invitation field. You can invite up to 19 Campers. A Camper must have created a profile, a novel, and deselected “I don’t want cabin invitations this session” to be eligible.’
So there you are – you need to be signed up for the camp with a profile and your novel, and also have deselected the cabin invitations thingy. THEN I should find you!
(Also you have to select, “I don’t want to be included in a cabin” so you are not sorted into a random cabin)
No invite thus far, Kaz. My NaNo handle is ThrowingCopper. (You did invite me right? Because someone else had already nabbed the name Jillybean 😉)
Aha! Got you 🙂 and yes I did invite Jillybean so I’d better go and uninvite them, if I can…
please do! That would be fab 🙂 (and also your output will keep us on our toes..!)
(This for @jillybean of course 🙂 )
I thought I had. I will be home in an hour and will check and look for you
I think I’ll jump in too
Hooray @daedalus! The more the merrier
Faberoo
I wasn’t signed up to Camp before but I am now – my username is just Matthew Willis
Found you and invited you, Daeds 🙂
@kazg Just found you and sent you a message. Can you invite me now? What am I called?
Found you @janeshuff! You ARE called Janeshuff, but for some reason you don’t come up in the dropdown menu – but I think I still managed to send you a message and an invitation. I’ve think I’ve also invited @jillybean and @daedalus to join Camp – did that come through, you two?
Oh my goodness, @kazg, I am keeping everything crossed for you. But whatever happens with PRH, I’m sure you’re well set up for wider subs, and WELL DONE for already having made progress on Book 2. I will have a look at Camp April. But we can always set up a support forum on the Den (extend December slo. O?). I need to make some inroads (ANY inroads) into book 2 so cheerleaders will be welcomed.
Thanks @philippaeast. There will be poms poms aplenty, wherever you’re writing!
The Camp NaNo search doesn’t seem to be working at the moment so I can’t find you, unfortunately
Hi @daedalusI just invited you to the cabin – can you see the invitation?