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NaNoWriMo

A collection of 141 issues

First Frost

Scraped ice off my car this morning, and there was a snow flurry over the weekend. It must be winter. This happens every year, and it's always a surprise. Got a new pair of leather gloves at the weekend, dug my roll-brim Rowan Coccoon hat out of the

Shuffled off

"To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream:

T plus four

The NaNoWriMo website suffered its usual overload and spent much of the last few days lying on its back twitching. My body count so far is three bandits and a lynx, Hubby killed off three drunk Norwegians on day 2, so we're tied. Came into work on Monday

T minus one

NaNoWriMo starts tomorrow! Hubby and I will be at the St Charles write-in at the Crooked Tree Coffee House on First Capitol Drive. The St Louis region on NaNoWriMo has officially challenged Columbia, MO, Manchester, England and the entire country of Wales to a Word War. Last year we had

T minus three

I have a plot! And a cast of characters! I finally feel like I might be ready for NaNoWriMo 2008. There is a nice circular "finish where you started" thread going through the story, and my minor characters have definite things to do that advance the plot. It&

T minus five

Went to the St Louis NaNoWriMo kick-off party on Saturday. Hubby and I are so used to NaNo events taking place on Sunday, we woke up the next day convinced we had to go back to work, and had a second Sunday this weekend. Photos from the party are online,

T minus seven

I'm looking at November with a tinge of panic. My 2008 NaNoWriMo plot isn't as fleshed out as I like, I have only vague idea of how my good guy is going to defeat the bad guy. There are some cool ideas but I need research

Snow on Mars

BBC News: Phoenix detects Red Planet snow. The Phoenix spacecraft on Mars has detected snow above its landing site. The US robot used its lidar instrument to probe the structure of clouds and saw large water ice-crystals falling through the Martian "air". The instrument, which works by scattering

NaNoWriMo planning

It's October now. My novel idea has more shape, my good guy has a face, and a sidekick, and a couple of minor quests to pull off before she faces the bad guy. I have a way to tell a bunch of back story and experiment with writing

Loose threads

I have a misbehaving plot bunny. It arrived all enthusiastic with a NaNoWriMo 2008 t-shirt on, and now it's just loafing around and not contributing to anything. I have a great bad guy with a cool back story and an actor lined up to play him (David Anders

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