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02-November-2009, 05:22 AM
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They do say that the first week or so the server is incredibly slow.
I abandoned my first idea before the start time, got about 800 words into my second and abandoned it after I figured that there would be no way to drag it out that long without feeling like it was being dragged out that long, so now I'm on to idea three. I'm starting with a suspect pool of 15 people. A big step up from three.
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02-November-2009, 11:42 AM
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Got the first 500 words written in Vienna Airport as I was travelling home from a meeting in Bratislava, and another 150 in the train from Copenhagen, then dropped of tiredness from the trip.
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02-November-2009, 01:31 PM
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I haven't even started yet.
Quote:
Just saying!
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There are few left who Stare at the skies with wonder Wishing to know more; The clouds still drift by above But the eyes below are blind. --Laura Lundberg Check out my writing, maybe.
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02-November-2009, 04:45 PM
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Haha, maybe so, but that passage is not actually in the novel itself, so no worries!
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02-November-2009, 05:58 PM
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I've started. I'm not sure how well it's going.
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Gillian "Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'" "You can't erase icing." "I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"
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06-November-2009, 12:42 PM
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So, I was inspired for a new idea, but still haven't started at all.
Sigh. I don't think I'm cut out for this.
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There are few left who Stare at the skies with wonder Wishing to know more; The clouds still drift by above But the eyes below are blind. --Laura Lundberg Check out my writing, maybe.
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06-November-2009, 03:16 PM
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I've basically stopped.
Looks like the reason I wanted to participate was to get myself to write that one setting.
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‘To those who regard “crime fiction” as some sacred icon which must follow a rigid formula, I will always be the man who writes 18-syllable haiku.’ Andrew Vachss, Autobiographical essay Trying to make sense of computers, The Error Log.
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06-November-2009, 06:28 PM
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I've got about seven pages and have for several days.
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Gillian "Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'" "You can't erase icing." "I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"
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12-November-2009, 08:31 AM
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I'm on my fifth idea now but I can't seem to get out of short story mode. I've got a solid beginning and I know how it will end, I just need 40,000 words of fluff to fill it out.
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19-November-2009, 01:40 AM
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How's everyone doing?
I'm about to break 30,000 words.
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19-November-2009, 01:43 AM
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Nada.
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There are few left who Stare at the skies with wonder Wishing to know more; The clouds still drift by above But the eyes below are blind. --Laura Lundberg Check out my writing, maybe.
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19-November-2009, 02:32 AM
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I've got over a dozen pages. Given my near-total writer's block for fiction that's lasted about five years now, that's not bad.
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Gillian "Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'" "You can't erase icing." "I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"
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19-November-2009, 02:27 PM
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Booo!
Well, to be fair, this is like my fourth time attempting it. But I had an epiphany last winter, and since then, if I want to do something, I do it. Life has turned out to be much more interesting and scary as a result. And I'll get a novel out of the deal! Sweet.
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19-November-2009, 02:34 PM
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Well, I did it once, and proved to myself I could do it, now I don't care so much about attempting it in November any more, I'll instead do it if/when I finally have a good idea.
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Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses. "Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you."
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19-November-2009, 11:41 PM
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I did my novel last year, independently of anything else, and have been working on short material as a change of pace. Frankly, it wore me out.
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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers.
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