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[hellison]

Read this - http://rebecca.hitherby.com/archives/000675.php (thanks to mirrorshard for the link). It is a delight to read. This is how I wish I could write. Just the ... wordiness of it (see, I can't even find the words to describe the words) and the way it flows - and thats before you get down to the ideas behind the actual story.
I'm almost afraid to look at the archive cos I'll just get lost in there and not resurface til they kick me out of here this evening, and I really do have to do SOME work.

On the subject of writing, is anyone doing the nanowrimo this year? http://www.nanowrimo.com/
I am uncertain. I enjoyed it last year, it was fun to just sit down and babble onto a page and I'm sad I never got it finished (just as the pirates were about to come get the sexelves too!), tho still impresssed I managed over 30,000 words. Even if they weren't particularly good words.
Can't think of anything to write *about* this year tho, and I was hoping to go into it a little more prepared if I did it this time round. Hmm.

Anyway, registration for this year starts Saturday, if anyone else is going to play ;)

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[malvino.livejournal.com]

I will give that nanowrimo a go if you like, although I have no idea what it is and have only read the quick blurb, looks fun!

(I wll need reminding, probably tomorrow [No school on Fridays, woohoo!], I go straight from Uni to the club today and will be home to crash steekink drunk at about 11).

[hellison.livejournal.com]

It is fun! The name stands for National Novel Writing Month.

The idea is people use 'i have no time' to put off writing so they take away the excuse.
Starting on 1st nov. you have til midnight on 30th nov. to write a 50,000 word novel. Or More. Basic rules are no editing, no re-writes (that can all be done late). Just sit down and write 50000 words and see what comes out ;)

There are funky charts to show your progress and you can upload bits for people to read, lots of forums to help with details (or waste time), but basically it's about stop making excuses, sit down and write.

Sign up is anytime between sat. and 1st of nov. then off you go ;)

[hellison.livejournal.com]

ps how'd the first week go?

[malvino.livejournal.com]

Fine and funky, I'll write all about it and spam my journal tomorrow, very relieved to have made the right choice basically, really very happy and content and looking forward to the whole thing with gay abandon :)

[hellison.livejournal.com]

Woo, that's excellent, look forward to hearing (well reading) all about it ;)

re gay abandon - pix plz?

[malvino.livejournal.com]

Looking forward to it, will try to get photographic record as and when it happens

[hellison.livejournal.com]

I'll look forward to that as well then ;p

[kanaalzahir.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking of doing NaNo this year actually, but the sign-up is teh b0rken. It'd be great to be a few so we could kick each other around and so on!

[hellison.livejournal.com]

Woo, that would be cool, I still have no idea what to write *about* tho, hopefully once they fix the sign up, I can trawl the boards and think of something!