Mythomania May 500 words/day--all genres welcome!
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I've been researching my little brains out, and that's always a great way for me to get ideas. I can see the broader structure of the thing and have that written down. Three characters have come alive in my head, and this last one told me he was the one to start with. I got an opening scene of 420 words written, all action and dialog, and it was dead easy. Felt like it all happened in about the time it took me to breathe twice. Please, oh please, muse, give me more days like this.
2 300 words done last night and early this morning. Plugging away.
That research sounds very focused and helpful Lorna -- so often with research I get carried away and go off on tangents.
That research sounds very focused and helpful Lorna -- so often with research I get carried away and go off on tangents.
Good morning all...
867 words in this morning's early writing session. I have my characters scrabbling around in a cave. No wonder I'm starting to feel claustrophobic.
867 words in this morning's early writing session. I have my characters scrabbling around in a cave. No wonder I'm starting to feel claustrophobic.
Late start today - but it's my birthday 
and it's raining, so I get excused. 
: But I'm going to be writing up a storm after my coffee... aiming for 600 words. Wish me luck!
ETA: Ok. Starting. Ready - Set -
and it's raining, so I get excused. : But I'm going to be writing up a storm after my coffee... aiming for 600 words. Wish me luck!ETA: Ok. Starting. Ready - Set -
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Happy birthday mccardey! Bonne anniversaire! Go out with a chic little umbrella or raincoat and eat galettes and chocolat. Or asparagus and strawberries, drink some champagne. Flirt with the waiter.
The writing will benefit from your happiness and frivolity.
The writing will benefit from your happiness and frivolity.
Happy Birthday mccardey. May those 600 words flow from your pen/fingers...
400 words for me today. I also rewrote the last paragraph of a short story (98 words) fifteen times. Does that count?
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Happy Birthday mccardey! In honor of your birthday, which I didn't know about when I wrote it, I've finished a n 876-word scene about getting a gift--the wrong gift. Such a wrong gift that it makes you suspect the giver of ill intent. So your birthday present is
a mystery. Wishing you a pinata laced with chocolate!
Lucie
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Happy birthday McCardy!
Wish I could send real cake...
There we go, getting hungry again now..
Shara x
Wish I could send real cake...
There we go, getting hungry again now..
Shara x
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Happy Birthday mccardey, hope your 600 is going well.
I squeezed out 372 earlier (although most of it is rubbish but that doesn't matter) and am going to try and do a couple of hundred more now. Stomach is rumbling though at all the cake...
I squeezed out 372 earlier (although most of it is rubbish but that doesn't matter) and am going to try and do a couple of hundred more now. Stomach is rumbling though at all the cake...
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Final total for the day is 539. There have been worse days. Now to reward myself with cake!*
*: not really. Pasta instead. Probably healthier.
*: not really. Pasta instead. Probably healthier.
