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Bites upon request
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Inside my head
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Tackled another chapter. Tired. Going to roam through AW
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standing on head, typing one-handed...
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Ireland
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Haven't had a chance to write today, busy, busy day, and now my brain is on go-slow.
But it sounds like everyone else is right on track. Way to go, guys!
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Back in Oz. Missing France :(
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Australia.
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In search of distractions
Join Date: Sep 2010
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Loved this! Perhaps Marya the bordello boob might collapse of a 'heroine' overdose, all that rescuing and trudging around in sensible shoes humming old show tunes from Running Babes in Boas. 650 words this morning and nary an adjective or adjectival adverb in sight (onesecondglance).
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Bow before the laser screwdriver
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: The land of the rising sun.
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Lorna, you crack me up.
About 600 for me today. About halfway through the scene, but need to contemplate on where exactly it goes from here.
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pretending to be awake
Join Date: May 2012
Location: Berkshire, UK
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Λrchangel: near-future SF noir | 85,259 / 100,000 (second draft underway) I write music. | I gave in and joined twitter. | And I have a blog too. |
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#232 |
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Making my own sunshine
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Gulf coast of FL
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::groan::
No words here, I was beta reading. Should finish today and get back to my ms. |
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Back in Oz. Missing France :(
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Australia.
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move along, nothing to see here
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Great Plains
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Mr Mitchell, go with that pain. It speaks to all of us--so it sells.
I'm off to work out, shake up those brain connections, and then to write. Nothing to report yet, but I have 3 days off work so I'm planning a lock-in for myself. Have a fabulous write!
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Going home!
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Prague now, Glasgow in November
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Well, I'm about to go into minus words again. Yet again this book is not working so I'm back to Plot B again. Though I actually think I know what's wrong. I kept changing the plot without changing the characters as well, so after a while everything started to clash and it all just seemed very random. Last night I figured how the character's story has changed as well as the overall plot. I think. Eugh, this book will be the death of me. Someone better publish it after all this...
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Hopes to one day write for food.
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: In the foothills of nowhere...
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Nothing yet today, but I do have to stay up all day, so I may force myself to sit down and write crappy words rather than waste time.
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grump
Join Date: Aug 2011
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you guys are so great to wake up to. Seriously, I'm gonna name all my characters after you in the next novel.
mccardey gets some nice words, whoohoo. Zelenka's "Someone better publish it after all this..." makes me smile--tough broad alert, and so cool! And Marya, gotta say, Marya-the-former-showgirl isn't a boob--she's smart and tough and wisecracking and dropped out of a PhD program in cultural anthropology only when her foray into tame exotic dancing, which she did to write a kickass paper about stripper culture, told her that there was far less money in anthro than in dance. Like you, she rocks! Doc cleverly plans for crappy words, so inner critic won't even come around for his dastardly deeds--clever boy, doc! |
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Opinionated Wannabe
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Western NY
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Mccardey, you beat me by two words. 1018 here today. Maybe I should go back and add a couple of adjectives, huh?
Actually, I'm just happy with progress. |
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grump
Join Date: Aug 2011
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1000, but must go and think again for an hour or so about this plot line. More in editing later.
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Querying novel #5, revising novel #2 I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning. - Peter de Vries Last edited by lorna_w; 06-19-2012 at 08:25 PM. Reason: wrote some more |
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move along, nothing to see here
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Great Plains
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She Took It Off...: The fact that Courtney Love didn't end up dead in a ditch is testament to her fate as an artist. She spent a fair amount of time stripping, even after having a brief gig as the lead singer of freakin' Faith No More. She worked naked in Oregon and Alaska, and was quoted as saying, "I just stripped and shut up, simplified everything in my life, got rid of everything I owned, and just wrote."Might make an interesting bit of research to find out more. Talk about the edge. Off to obliterate a plot hole.
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standing on head, typing one-handed...
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Ireland
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Well, I got the butt in chair bit down pat. Managed a miserly 225 words. Great wordage everyone else. Quote:
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practical experience, FTW
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Wokingham
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It's been a good day of writing, got bit of the novel sorted and rewritten a short story.
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Back in Oz. Missing France :(
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Australia.
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In search of distractions
Join Date: Sep 2010
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Go, mccardey and BfloGal! New Chapter, new dawn, new day.
Thanks for that wonderactivist, Courtney Love rocks BUT Lorna ...'tame exotic dancing'???? Marya channeling Bad Romance backwards in high heels with nipple tassels and belly wobble was not tame. Absurd maybe, not tame Another 1300 words done this morning but my Zurich is too travelogue, always the problem when you love a place and want to rave about almond pastries and the glassy surfaces of Lake Zurich reflecting the Alps while the victim is marooned off in some hotel room waiting to be murdered
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Jack: That, my dear Algy, is the whole truth pure and simple. Algernon: The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility! |
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Sink or Swim? How about float...
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Come find me, MO.
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My goal for June is to find a critic/writing buddy, learn all this writers website lingo so I do not look stupid and write the first ten chapters of my book while also working with someone to decide where it's heading. I'm ready to discover my characters
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Back in Oz. Missing France :(
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Australia.
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502 words this morning - very interrupted morning, but those are the words that took me to the end of the chapter, so that's good. I'll edit them down this afternoon.
Difficult day.
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Making my own sunshine
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Gulf coast of FL
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grump
Join Date: Aug 2011
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Ahh, remember last week when I was young and carefree? Oh, I laugh, looking back at that sweet naive creature and her ideas about how she was only three chapters from done. ha ha ha, what a silly young thing! But now that I'm much older and wiser, I can see that it's really more like eight chapters to play out the climax. Eight long chapters. If WIP is drafted by July 1, I'll be lucky. Good news: it should definitely be over 70K words. Good news 2: the once-revised parts are now 43K, and that bit is in decent enough shape for public consumption.
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Querying novel #5, revising novel #2 I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning. - Peter de Vries Last edited by lorna_w; 06-20-2012 at 08:43 PM. Reason: more words. |
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move along, nothing to see here
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Great Plains
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In the edit of my first five chapters, I netted 319 words. I'll count 'em.
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Bites upon request
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Inside my head
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Yesterday I went nowhere near my WIP. We each needed me-time. Today, tampered with the flow and voice of another chapter. Added 100 words.
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Under construction until further notice. Thank you for your patience.
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