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Philippa East posted an update in the group
December SloMo 7 years, 5 months agoHello Everyone, and thanks so much @raine for setting this group up.
Like Seagreen, I have editing work to do over the next month or so, so I am hoping I can make slow and gentle progress on that. I’m currently grappling The Fear / Resistance, so joining you all in this supportive place will be helpful, I hope.
My main panic is that these…[Read more]
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Jonathan posted an update in the group
December SloMo 7 years, 5 months agoI’ve had a pretty good November writingwise, and have really re-connected with my current WIP which I started in a botched 3 day long Nano attempt a couple of years ago. I’ve also been re-reading my first MS to look for structural issues (found; fixing).
Now if I can just keep on at it without all of these real-life distractions. Work, family,…[Read more]
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I quite like the ‘100 days of writing’ target. It suits my pace – a little every day, or more should inspiration hit – and procudes prose I am more likely to want to stick with.
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Seagreen replied to the topic Monthly competition – Nov 2018 in the forum Monthly Competition 7 years, 5 months ago
Congratulations, Raine! Well-deserved 🙂
And thank you, Jonathan, for dragging me out of my writerly walled garden and dropping me who-knows-where. -
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Daedalus replied to the topic Monthly competition – Nov 2018 in the forum Monthly Competition 7 years, 5 months ago
Well done Raine, fantastic competition Jonathan, many thanks for the feedback
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Jonathan replied to the topic Monthly competition – Nov 2018 in the forum Monthly Competition 7 years, 5 months ago
Happy December 1st Denizens! I have to admit I spent some of November going “They hate me! I’ve ruined the comp (again) with my over-restrictive prompts!” but these stories show me very much otherwise, so thank you. Anyway – comments & results incoming…
Tony Lyttle
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A short, fractured little piece that I interpreted as being – somewhat…[Read more] -
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Managed 500 words this morning on something completed unrelated to anything. *Sigh.
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Well… perhaps it’s related something that is currently in your future? No words are wasted, etc.
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Raine posted an update 7 years, 5 months ago
See new SloMo group? Come join me! I’m on a train so hoping the setting up worked…
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Raine posted an update in the group
December SloMo 7 years, 5 months agoWell hello Denizens. Here’s December already and time to go easy on ourselves in amongst the seasonal madness. Come on in. Tell us what you might try to do today, or what you really don’t want to do, but have to. Get a cheer for dragging yourself out for a walk, or request a kick up the proverbial to hit that (low) word count. The kettle is always…[Read more]
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Ooh, look at this! The chair by the window has my name on it.
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This is brilliant @raine 😊 I mosied into the Den wondering if I should set up a SloMo thread but your brilliant self had already taken care of it. After a frenetic NaNo I’m going to scale my daily word count target back a bit and take more time for actual fun. I now have to schedule fun or I forget! So I’d like to finish my NaNo novel and write a…[Read more]
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I have an editorial read-through booked for the end of January so my Slo-Mo aim is to rewrite a couple of chapters to increase the stakes and generally tighten up.
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Xander Michael replied to the topic Monthly competition – Nov 2018 in the forum Monthly Competition 7 years, 5 months ago
Home
It had always been a struggle, Kristjan’s relationship with Safiya, but it had been worth it. They met when she was studying in Reykjavik from Malaysia and it was love at first sight. It was a difficult courtship because Safiya never appreciated anything about Iceland save for it “having made you,” as she would say.
Kristjan could only…[Read more]
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Athelstone replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 5 months ago
Well done indeed! And (seriously) I am in awe looking at your word count.
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Jules replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 5 months ago
Well done, Ath 🙂
And well done other fellow NaNoers
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Daedalus replied to the topic Monthly competition – Nov 2018 in the forum Monthly Competition 7 years, 5 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, 5 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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Athelstone replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 5 months ago
Well, that’s me done. I really thought I wouldn’t make it this time.
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I know exactly what you mean about The Fear, both in general and in the specific form you mention. Encouragement: a few days ago I fixed a problem in my old revived MS that I’d been shrinking from for, literally, years, si if I can do it you certainly can.
Thanks @richardB. “Shrinking from” – that’s exactly it!! I know I just need to take a deep breath, and step in. Quit worrying about the outcome and just engage with the process.
I have four clear hours tomorrow morning to work, so hopefully I will make some progress. Out of interest, Richard, what was the problem and what was your fix? (if you…[Read more]
The problem was the one I mentioned a couple of days ago: the bloated chapter full of stuff the reader already knew. I was shrinking from it because there were several threads/issues involved and it was going to be hard work keeping track of them and figuring out what I could get away with losing. I solved it by being bloody ruthless – something…[Read more]
Oh well done on the ruthlessness! And that sounds like such an important thing to have fixed. I wonder if part of our Fear can come from the sense that if we try to change tricky elements in the MS, the whole thing will fall apart….