@raine
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Raine posted a new activity comment 7 years, 5 months ago
Oh yikes! Hope the blockade lifts soon, although I have to admire their protest power! Good luck for the writing today – and without the OH to interrupt!
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Raine posted an update in the group
December SloMo 7 years, 5 months agoSo my aim for today was to post this month’s challenge and get the shopping done. And I have just done both. So now I am covered in cats and physically unable to get myself more tea. *weeps*
Tmrw, I am hoping for 1000 words…
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Raine started the topic Monthly comp – December 2018 in the forum Monthly Competition 7 years, 5 months ago
Ok, so I’m going all seasonal because how could I not? Below are two lists, one of seasonal events/moments, one of items/beings. Pick one from each and do what you like with them. 400 words. Have at it, my lovelies.
Events:
– Lighting the first menorah candle.
– a Christmas eve midnight church service.
– Longest night.
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Raine replied to the topic Monthly competition – Nov 2018 in the forum Monthly Competition 7 years, 5 months ago
Oh crikey, thank you so much jonathon! I wasn’t expecting that at all! There was so much to love in all the others. I actually, despite your concerns, absolutely loved your list of prompts!
I’m (still) on a train so will mull on a theme and kick off December tmrw. Thank you again. 🙂
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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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Raine replied to the topic Two newses in the forum Podium 7 years, 5 months ago
Thank-you everyone. 🙂 🙂
@Daedalus, it’s due out in Feb, apparently. Quite a quick turn around! -
Raine replied to the topic Two newses in the forum Podium 7 years, 5 months ago
Thank-you @thea. 🙂 Those comps produce some amazing stuff!
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Raine replied to the topic Monthly competition – Nov 2018 in the forum Monthly Competition 7 years, 5 months ago
The Flower and the Bee (370 words)
We watch the open window, falling sunlight, a red flower and an amber bee. This is just the start. Remember that. This is Venus raining diamonds above the black horizon in a damson sky. You have begun to breath the sea and your skin is a map of evenings and the moon will always rise, remember that. When my hand…[Read more]
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Raine started the topic Two newses in the forum Podium 7 years, 5 months ago
Woke up this morning to two bits of good news, and being as today is extremely dreich, I’m sharing them here…
‘This is not forgiveness’, a short from the Now and Then Cloud comp has been accepted into the Disturbing the Beast antho by Boudicca Press.
And Great Weather For Media have nominated my flash piece published with them for a couple of…[Read more] -
Raine posted a new activity comment 7 years, 5 months ago
I think the hard work for me is going to keeping going now the drive of Nano, and false high of ‘winning’ is over!! Might have to create my own bar chart and badges…
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Well done!
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Woo Hoo Waves arms excitedly in air!
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Frightens cat off lap…..finally.
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Yaaas! Go Raine!
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yas yas YAASS 🙂
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Phew!! (But only now does the hard work begin ;-))
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I think the hard work for me is going to keeping going now the drive of Nano, and false high of ‘winning’ is over!! Might have to create my own bar chart and badges…
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Well done!
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Raine replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 5 months ago
Or any kind of mental illness really. It’s always tenuous to believe individual behaviour can be reduced to a binary either/or thing. Especially other people’s behaviour. I guess the dictionary definition gives us an end result of a behaviour, but it tells us nothing about anything leading up to that end.
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Raine replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 5 months ago
Yeah, ‘procrastination’ i think is simply needing a break from the direct *act* of writing to allow the mental part of it to catch up. It isn’t a flaw, or a failure. Given the number of successful, well established authors I see on Twitter telling themselves off for procrastinating, and yet still going on to publish successful books, I think we…[Read more]
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Raine posted an update 7 years, 5 months ago
I killed a hare in latest chapter, and tbh feel way more sad about this than about the dead people.
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Quite right too
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I would, too. I read that one of the agents I have subbed to is a cat person and I felt the need to come clean about the fact that I kill the cat later in the novel. Have probably shot myself in the foot, now.
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Raine posted a new activity comment 7 years, 5 months ago
It’s ok if said cat doesn’t mind being an arm rest, which one of mine doesn’t. He’s a daft bugger. But I have resorted to the cozy cardboard box next to keyboard option at the moment.
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The current lap sitter has allowed me to move the keyboard from under her head and use it – although it’s rather uncomfortable (for me, not her). The other thinks moving fingers are an invitation to play…
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Not without growing your arms a bit longer…
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Speaking of armrests. When I’m in the armchair reading, and puss wants to be stroked/scratched/ generally mauled about, she’ll come and sit on the armrest. If i try to ignore her she’ll stretch out her front leg and put her paw on my face. if that doesn’t work, she’ll do it with her claws out. I told you she was shameless.
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Our Timmy does that sometimes, too, Richard. He’s got a stare you can FEEL…and if you ignore it, he’ll give a little ‘mew’ and stretch out his paw towards my face. Glad to say when his claws come out, he usually saves that for my arm…
The teeth he saves for when he’s hungry, and he always goes for the soft bit of my upper arm.
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Raine replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 5 months ago
Aw fanks @jillybean! But then I couldn’t write horror if you held a gun to my head. Although actually, that might be somewhat inspiring! :-O Histfic either – I don’t think I have the memory capacity anymore *sighs*
Yeah @richardb I guess that’s it! It’s not a part of actual life-that-involves-real-people! That’s aside from the fact that it’s…[Read more]
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Raine replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 5 months ago
@alanr that seems a doable timeline. I usually take about 6 months from starting to plan to end of first draft, although this one might be quicker thanks to NaNo. The six zillion edits are kind of scattered about in between other projects, beta readers etc, so I don’t really know how much actual time I spend on that. Plus it’s bloody endless anyway init?
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Good stuff, @raine! I sometimes refer to those kinds of tasks as “clearing the decks” work. Like, getting that pesky stuff done so that I have a clear run of time in which to get my head down. “Clearing the decks” work is important work, not procrastination, because it’s a means to the end of getting the creative work done successfully. AT least,…[Read more]