NaNoWriMo
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Nov 2022
7:42pm, 2 Nov 2022
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Totriornottotri
"Why do triangle sandwiches taste different to rectangles or squares? Maybe it's the filling to bread ratio. Maybe it's the depth that the triangle point can enter your mouth and so it hits different taste buds? It's funny how a sarnie can say so much about you. My mum made me rectangles, normally filled with peanut butter or chocolate spread; an aspirational lower middle class Midlander." Is anyone else doing (starting NaNoWriMo)? nanowrimo.org |
Nov 2022
7:58pm, 2 Nov 2022
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EuanB
I did it once a few years ago. My conclusion was that I need to make a regular practice of writing before trying something that ambitious. In the end it was like the marathon, good to get it done (and good to know I could do it) but the last few thousand words, like the last 3 miles or so of the marathon, were a bit of a slog. Good to get them done rather than good doing them, if you know what I mean! Good luck with it anyway and hope you get something from it.
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Nov 2022
8:08pm, 2 Nov 2022
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GordonG
not heard of this before, it looks a good scheme. as someone who has two novels that are 80% complete and any number of stories at various stage of completion, I should benefit from a focus like this. But I happen to be in the middle of a decluttering-of-the-house drive and that's taking my focus at the moment - couldn't possibly do both! |
Nov 2022
8:10pm, 2 Nov 2022
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fetcheveryone
Had we been moving house a fortnight earlier, I might have given this a try.
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Nov 2022
8:14pm, 2 Nov 2022
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Velociraptor
Have a plot, had a little practice at the end of October, was reminded that I am one of those people whose books should remain inside them.
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Nov 2022
8:15pm, 2 Nov 2022
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EvilPixie
I went through a phase of signing up but never got started! GordonG was it your book I bought the other week? |
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Nov 2022
8:20pm, 2 Nov 2022
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Totriornottotri
Ha ha! It's quite funny, I have no plot but I am enjoying just putting things in the page (see the first post lol)!
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Nov 2022
8:22pm, 2 Nov 2022
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Night-owl
Same here EP wrong time of year for me when work gets hectic GordonG ooh intrigued tell us more |
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Nov 2022
8:40pm, 2 Nov 2022
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Totriornottotri
amazon.co.uk
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Nov 2022
9:13pm, 2 Nov 2022
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GordonG
It was EP. Lol thanks for posting the link TTONTT N-O: it was a book I'd been working on literally for years. I went through a period of about a month where I couldn't sleep at night because there was a story of unrequited love going through my mind that was so vivid it was like I'd seen it in a film. A chauffeur in Los Angeles with a crush on an actress, desperate to ask her out but becoming totally tongue-tied as he did so. I decided to write it down really just as a cathartic exercise, but then i moved on to what happened the next day, and the day after that... After 10,000 words I found it necessary to introduce a detective into the story and he was so much fun to write he soon became the main character and suddenly it was a detective story! I self published it, mainly so that I could tell myself it was finished, otherwise I'd be tinkering with it forever. I've got a story almost finished about two people who meet one night on holiday in Alicante, and then six months later in London. The other story is about a private detective looking for a missing person and it's written as if it was "the book of the podcast", but I'm a bit stuck on how to tie up a couple of loose ends. My issue, as i've mentioned elsewhere, is that I'm a starter and not a finisher in my job, but also in my writing. I've got endless ideas but get too excited about shiny new stories to finish them. That's why the only other thing I've self published is a book of short stories - they all started out as long stories but I couldn't turn any of them into 80,000+ words 
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