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NaNoWriMo

A collection of 141 issues

Wednesday round up

This site was down for part of today, and my email with it. If you sent me an email today, please resend it. My iPod has days where it chooses the perfect songs on shuffle. I like almost all of the songs on there, but with 859 to choose from,

13,200

Hoo boy! Over a quarter of the way in. Hubby promised chocolate if I made 10,000 on Friday, which I did. Even got some knitting in today. Worked on the tiger sock for a while after hitting my goal for the day. I'm a little brain-fried, but

Writing tools

I switched to Apple Pages for my novel. Most of my notes were in a handful of HTML files, rather than the database on Jer's NovelWriter. It's a good program, but Pages is working better for me. Right now I'm loving the "page

Off and wandering

Hubby stayed up late and started at midnight. I started at lunchtime. My normal backpack has been traded for the laptop bag and my thumb drive will be a constant companion. Got to feed the wordcount beast. National Novel Writing Month has begun, 50,000 words in 30 days. Found

Bribery

An essential part of NaNoWriMo are the bribes for reaching a certain wordcount. My bribes are thus: * 25,000 words: Stephen King's book On Writing. * 40,000 words: Stargate SG-1 season 8 on DVD * 50,000 words: A skein of Socks that Rock yarn from The Fold in

Shawl, socks, and a novel

Finished the Prairie Shawl last night. I think it will grow when it's washed. Fingering-weight shawls appeal to me, but it's a whole lot of knitting to do with teeny yarn. After the lace scarf of Faina and the Eternal Sweater are done, then I'

Impending doom

Also filed under: What were you thinking?! November 1st to November 30th, fifty thousand words. Sign up when the server is back up, hit the forums, plan the novel, but don't start writing till November 1st!

Ctrl-Alt-Del

I've been having trouble writing my NaNoWriMo plot for this November. It was going to be a sequel to last year's story and nothing would gel. So I've ditched it, the secondary roommate character is now the lead, and it's going to

Good sci-fi

Dr Who praised at TUC conference. Writers have praised BBC One hit sci-fi series Doctor Who at the TUC annual conference in Brighton, in a call for more funding for UK TV productions. It showed there was "still an audience for quality family entertainment", the Writers' Guild

Roundup

Donate something to the Red Cross to help the survivors of Hurricane Katrina, even if it's only a little. Added a new section to the site for yarn reviews. This is my opinion on yarn I've used, including fibre content, who makes it, and whether it&

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