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almost there
Join Date: Jan 2011
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14601 -- 5k words is about the sized world I can manage, hee hee, for now
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Likes metaphors mixed, not stirred
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Entebbe, Uganda
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14602. Any chance of a peek on SYW when it's ready?
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Short Fiction and Novel in the AW Library Shorts on sub: 10 ![]() Adventures of Duke and Eddie Querying! Resingled Querying! Nyasaland First draft done! Write on, Brother! (blog)
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#14603 |
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almost there
Join Date: Jan 2011
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14603 -- *gulps* we'll see, heh.
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Likes metaphors mixed, not stirred
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Entebbe, Uganda
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14604. We're lovely. Reeeeaallly
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Short Fiction and Novel in the AW Library Shorts on sub: 10 ![]() Adventures of Duke and Eddie Querying! Resingled Querying! Nyasaland First draft done! Write on, Brother! (blog)
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Likes metaphors mixed, not stirred
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Entebbe, Uganda
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14605. 5K words might be a bit much for SYW, but even a snippet will be treated with the loving care it deserves.
*Heh heh! Fresh meat!* Down boy.
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Short Fiction and Novel in the AW Library Shorts on sub: 10 ![]() Adventures of Duke and Eddie Querying! Resingled Querying! Nyasaland First draft done! Write on, Brother! (blog)
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#14606 |
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almost there
Join Date: Jan 2011
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14606 --
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almost there
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: classified
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14607 -- maybe a tidbit, when it's polished, because what I have now is "in the rough" heehee
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The Anti-Magdalene
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: The The Nutcracker Suite
Posts: 33,680
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14608 *Yearns for the day when I can yearn for those days of first-draft innocence *
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[LEFT] What Genre is my writing? Literary & Misfit Writers Group Kelly's Soft Asylum* *social fun thread - title suspect to change Tears are peanut & helplessness. |
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Likes metaphors mixed, not stirred
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Entebbe, Uganda
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14609. KellyA, I'd gladly give you pages to rewrite. I have no enthusiasm for this but it HAS to be done.
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Short Fiction and Novel in the AW Library Shorts on sub: 10 ![]() Adventures of Duke and Eddie Querying! Resingled Querying! Nyasaland First draft done! Write on, Brother! (blog)
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I have a pet snake named Sparky :)
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Under the catapult in a bed of hay
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14610. Editing. I hate this part.
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"Modern Descent" (Watch this guy's life completely fall apart! - Novel): 9000 words "Caleb and Princess Nadine" (fairy tale) - in edits "Overturning Phoenix" Submissions: 3 out there, 1 rejection, 2 still waiting... Last edited by Don Evan Scott; 03-18-2011 at 05:37 AM. |
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The Anti-Magdalene
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: The The Nutcracker Suite
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14611 ...and then there's Don... LOL!
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[LEFT] What Genre is my writing? Literary & Misfit Writers Group Kelly's Soft Asylum* *social fun thread - title suspect to change Tears are peanut & helplessness. |
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Likes metaphors mixed, not stirred
Join Date: Nov 2009
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14612. Their seams two bee know escaping editing.
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Short Fiction and Novel in the AW Library Shorts on sub: 10 ![]() Adventures of Duke and Eddie Querying! Resingled Querying! Nyasaland First draft done! Write on, Brother! (blog)
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I have a pet snake named Sparky :)
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Under the catapult in a bed of hay
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14613. What did I do?
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"Modern Descent" (Watch this guy's life completely fall apart! - Novel): 9000 words "Caleb and Princess Nadine" (fairy tale) - in edits "Overturning Phoenix" Submissions: 3 out there, 1 rejection, 2 still waiting... |
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Likes metaphors mixed, not stirred
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Entebbe, Uganda
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14614. Evening Don
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Short Fiction and Novel in the AW Library Shorts on sub: 10 ![]() Adventures of Duke and Eddie Querying! Resingled Querying! Nyasaland First draft done! Write on, Brother! (blog)
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Say no to this face? Not sure I can
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Sask, CANADA
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14613: Really? Do I have to go there?
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The English language has a wealth of words. Make your words count. Say something. Let your words pull at your readers' emotions.
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The Anti-Magdalene
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: The The Nutcracker Suite
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14616 Don ran off and got published, lol!
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[LEFT] What Genre is my writing? Literary & Misfit Writers Group Kelly's Soft Asylum* *social fun thread - title suspect to change Tears are peanut & helplessness. |
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The Anti-Magdalene
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14617 ...but it's okay, he's still Don! =)
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[LEFT] What Genre is my writing? Literary & Misfit Writers Group Kelly's Soft Asylum* *social fun thread - title suspect to change Tears are peanut & helplessness. |
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Likes metaphors mixed, not stirred
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14618. Put on your hip waders, Storyteller. You will be hip-deep in rewrites at some point. And good evening.
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Short Fiction and Novel in the AW Library Shorts on sub: 10 ![]() Adventures of Duke and Eddie Querying! Resingled Querying! Nyasaland First draft done! Write on, Brother! (blog)
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I have a pet snake named Sparky :)
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Under the catapult in a bed of hay
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14619. You make me blush
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"Modern Descent" (Watch this guy's life completely fall apart! - Novel): 9000 words "Caleb and Princess Nadine" (fairy tale) - in edits "Overturning Phoenix" Submissions: 3 out there, 1 rejection, 2 still waiting... |
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I have a pet snake named Sparky :)
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Under the catapult in a bed of hay
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14620. I do more editing to my posts here than I do to my novella
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"Modern Descent" (Watch this guy's life completely fall apart! - Novel): 9000 words "Caleb and Princess Nadine" (fairy tale) - in edits "Overturning Phoenix" Submissions: 3 out there, 1 rejection, 2 still waiting... |
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The Anti-Magdalene
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: The The Nutcracker Suite
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14621 This is the hardest part ever, I need to weave these two large pieces of this novel together while cutting... and keeping the time line coherent...
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[LEFT] What Genre is my writing? Literary & Misfit Writers Group Kelly's Soft Asylum* *social fun thread - title suspect to change Tears are peanut & helplessness. |
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The Anti-Magdalene
Join Date: Mar 2006
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14722 I swear, there comes a time after edit #six zillion five hundred and two, that nothing you have written looks any good...
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[LEFT] What Genre is my writing? Literary & Misfit Writers Group Kelly's Soft Asylum* *social fun thread - title suspect to change Tears are peanut & helplessness. |
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#14623 |
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I have a pet snake named Sparky :)
Join Date: Oct 2010
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14623 If there is anyone who can do it, it's you.
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"Modern Descent" (Watch this guy's life completely fall apart! - Novel): 9000 words "Caleb and Princess Nadine" (fairy tale) - in edits "Overturning Phoenix" Submissions: 3 out there, 1 rejection, 2 still waiting... |
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seeing sparks
Join Date: Mar 2010
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14624-evening counters
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#14625 |
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seeing sparks
Join Date: Mar 2010
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