@raine
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Raine replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 5 months ago
That’s the one, John. 🙂 I exclude writing from that because, well, I’m not sure really. Because it doesn’t involve anyone’s needs but my own, and doesn’t involve money!?
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Raine replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 5 months ago
Yay for plots resolving themselves @alanr! Always a good feeling. 🙂
HOw’re other NaNoers doing? I’m on 36k, struggling a bit with days being taken up with RL, but am hoping to make it early next week – before a family invasion!
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Raine replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 5 months ago
Fever Dream by Samanta Scweblin is a novella too – although I don’t know the wordcount – and it got shortlisted for the Booker!! I wasn’t her debut in Spain, but I think it was her first translated book.
I think there is more scope for novellas with the smaller presses, but yeah, I think a new writer would find it nigh on impossible to get…[Read more]
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Raine posted a new activity comment 7 years, 5 months ago
I think it works like that for some, doesn’t it? Writing the bare bones first and then fleshing out. (I’ve always hated the term ‘fleshing out’ – too many dissection classes and JEkyll and Hyde stories!)
I seem to always end up at roughly the same word count – cutting a lot and feeling all pleased with myself, then realising I need whole new scenes…
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Yes, I know that Debi (for one) works like this. so there’s a published author as an example.
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Raine replied to the topic NaNoWriMo in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 5 months ago
That’s great, @alanr! Hope the flow keeps going. I am in the process of hauling myself over my 25k wall. Getting there, but oof.
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Raine replied to the topic Short Story Publication/Competition in the forum Podium 7 years, 5 months ago
Well done @elle. Such a sad little piece, and the bird image is perfect.
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Raine posted a new activity comment 7 years, 5 months ago
I like that analogy. If it’s skiing, then I am currently uphill xcountry skiing, stuck in those parallel ruts and not sure whether they are heading in the right direction…
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Raine posted a new activity comment 7 years, 5 months ago
This is awesomes Daeds. Both the achievement and the plums. I want that meme back, it was the best.
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Raine posted a new activity comment 7 years, 5 months ago
That’s impressive going. I think my best offer is same day. Will try harder…
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Raine replied to the topic Setting The Place in the forum Blogs 7 years, 5 months ago
Thanks Elle. These are good prompts. I’m very into settings, which I think comes from my previous life as a conservation ecologist – working in some amazing wild places. So I’ve always got to have a strong sense of the natural world that my story takes place in – weather, plants, animals, noises, tides, rock types … yeah maybe I go too far, but…[Read more]
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Raine posted a new activity comment 7 years, 5 months ago
Thank-you for the tea! If you could see your way to sending a patch or two of that sun north, that would be grand!!
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Raine posted an update 7 years, 5 months ago
Happy Monday, Denizens. It’s a dreich one up here, so please send all the tea.
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Tea and biscuits on their way 🙂 Patchy sun here in southern England.
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Thank-you for the tea! If you could see your way to sending a patch or two of that sun north, that would be grand!!
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Raine posted a new activity comment 7 years, 5 months ago
I’m thinking of launching a campaign against the need for books to have to do days of the week at all.
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Or to have any internal coherency whatsoever. Who cares if my MC left the house in trousers and was wearing a skirt by the time she got on the bus
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I recall that Joseph Conrad had to make some rewrites to Under Western Eyes at a very late stage when someone realised that the entire plot took place over one extremely long day
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@janeshuff there’s a possibility of that happening in my current wip – only more likely shorts -> trousers as the MC is a he.
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Raine posted a new activity comment 7 years, 5 months ago
I’ve also completely lost control of the days of the week. I think’s it’s just been both Tuesday and Friday simultaneously.
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Sympathies, Raine. I had to spend the best part of a day retiming my plot because I got the days wrong and ended up with things happening on a Sunday when they couldn’t
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I’m thinking of launching a campaign against the need for books to have to do days of the week at all.
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Or to have any internal coherency whatsoever. Who cares if my MC left the house in trousers and was wearing a skirt by the time she got on the bus
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I recall that Joseph Conrad had to make some rewrites to Under Western Eyes at a very late stage when someone realised that the entire plot took place over one extremely long day
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@janeshuff there’s a possibility of that happening in my current wip – only more likely shorts -> trousers as the MC is a he.
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Raine posted an update 7 years, 5 months ago
Dammit. Just realised the core theme to the wip is not what I thought it was.
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One day you’ll be glad of this. Better sooner than later.
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I’ve also completely lost control of the days of the week. I think’s it’s just been both Tuesday and Friday simultaneously.
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Sympathies, Raine. I had to spend the best part of a day retiming my plot because I got the days wrong and ended up with things happening on a Sunday when they couldn’t
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I’m thinking of launching a campaign against the need for books to have to do days of the week at all.
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Or to have any internal coherency whatsoever. Who cares if my MC left the house in trousers and was wearing a skirt by the time she got on the bus
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I recall that Joseph Conrad had to make some rewrites to Under Western Eyes at a very late stage when someone realised that the entire plot took place over one extremely long day
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@janeshuff there’s a possibility of that happening in my current wip – only more likely shorts -> trousers as the MC is a he.
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@athelstone Hurrah. It’s time we writers broke free from the shackles of continuity.
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@janeshuff this looks like another case where bbpress is hiding replies (for space and tidiness) but not providing a ‘show all replies’ button. So although I can see there were 8 replies, I can’t actually view them.
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Neither can I!
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Raine posted a new activity comment 7 years, 6 months ago
I’ve never been any good at anagrams. I was on redoubt, redraw, redeem…
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Raine replied to the topic Monthly competition – Nov 2018 in the forum Monthly Competition 7 years, 6 months ago
I liked the prompts, Jonathan – their utter randomness and the idea. Stick with it. Nano will be a slow month, but we all might need a little breather mid month to keep ourselves sane!!
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Raine replied to the topic Titles in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 7 years, 6 months ago
Sounds good. Plenty of things said and unsaid in there. Of course, now you’ve spent ages deciding on that, your editor will definitely want to change it again!!
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Raine replied to the topic Some notes on Dara Marks' Transformational Arc in the forum Blogs 7 years, 6 months ago
That’s amazing @Daedalus!! SO exciting! Although not for him, obv. For him that’s the ultimate defeat *sobs offscreen*. And I love it when you realise something, and there’s that ‘well, yes, *obviously*’ feeling to it. Like that facet of your story was there all along, you just hadn’t spotted it. So good.
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Raine replied to the topic TV appearance – Quest, 'Wings of War' in the forum Podium 7 years, 6 months ago
ooh, hark at you, the hotshot expert!! 🙂 Well done, Daeds, this is fabulous. Exciting to be a part of, I imagine?
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