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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

Back to the Routine

I took a long-neglected, half-knitted sock to the final Sunday NaNoWriMo write-in and chatted with the other winners. The sock came to work with me this week instead of my laptop. The cable isn't as visible as I'd like, but this yarn has been through a

Winding down

It was all drama this weekend, Hubby was right down to the wire. He wrote four thousand words on Saturday at the final St Charles write-in, and over ten thousand words on Sunday night to squeak over the finish line around 10pm. I am so proud of him for hitting

The End

Went to the final St Charles write-in today and finished my NaNoWriMo story at the Crooked Tree Coffee Shop. I can actually type "The End" without feeling guilty. 51,785 words and it ended at a really good point. My December writng project is to write the long-neglected

Green!

I crossed the threshold at lunchtime, my NaNoWriMo 2008 novel is at 50138 words. I'm writing chapter eleven of twelve, so I still have some story to get done, but it's a good feeling to see the icon change from "Participant" to "WINNER&

Novelling Snapshot

Reached 40,000 words on Wednesday 19th and I'm only partway through chapter nine of twelve, looks like I'm writing a 60,000 word story. But it's moving along nicely and I hope to write "The End" by November 30th. The story

The original Doctor Who

BBC News: Doctor Who (before the Tardis). Newly released documents, which reveal the 1960s conception of Doctor Who, show how nervous the BBC was about producing a sci-fi show, writes Tom Geoghegan. The Doctor without his time-travelling police box is difficult to imagine, but its creators initially proposed he journey

Call the cliché police

BBC News: 20 of your most hated clichés. The first ten are: * Basically * To be fair * To be honest * Going forward * The fact of the matter is * Let's face it * Touch base * 110% * In the pipeline * The reason being These are fairly heinous. My personal bugbear is "

NaNoWriMo week three

Crossed the magic 35,000 work mark on Sunday night, it's all downhill from here. The story threads are coming together nicely, though my bad guy did something inexplicable again. He'd demanding a much bigger part than he's supposed to have. Unplanned things are

Nothing original under the sun

BBC News: Dead Parrot sketch ancestor found An ancestor of Monty Python's famous Dead Parrot comedy sketch has been found in a joke book dating back to Greece in the 4th Century. Philogelos: The Laugh Addict, which has been translated from Greek manuscripts, contains a joke where a

What Week Two slump?

Traditionally, week two of NaNoWriMo is where it all goes downhill. Plots fail, word counts flounder, characters flail uselessly. Week Two is where it gets "interesting". Wash: This landing is gonna get pretty interesting. Mal: Define "interesting" Wash: [deadpan] Oh God, oh God, we're

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