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Oct 30 2003, 05:53 PM
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On a mission with a pen
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From: England's Green and Pleasant Land
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Less than 48 hours to go before the insanity starts. How's everyone feeling right now? Personally I'm absolutely terrified. I don't think there's any way at all that I can make 50,000 words in a month. The story has plenty in it to reach the target; I just don't write fast enough to do it. I've finished plotting and replotting and re-replotting, and I've got the whole thing mapped out on A2 (which has got to be the most awkward size ever for carrying around with me I've got my characters, I've got the world and I've come down with the flu and am feeling dreadful. And then Saturday suddenly seems far, far too close. It's Thursday night already... What AM I doing? Imogen
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After her O.W.L.s Hope had managed to persuade her dad to give her a crash course in what he laughingly referred to as “Parseltongue for tourists”. Being in Slytherin, she’d thought it had been the epitome of cool to return to school with such useful snakey phrases as “Can you pass the apple pie, please?” and “Would you be good enough to tell me what time the train to Madrid departs from Platform Two?” . ~ A Pensieve Affair ~ Now being posted...
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Oct 30 2003, 09:12 PM
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Stealing socks
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*starts hyperventilating* How on earth am I going to be able to do this? Shimmer
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"I give myself very good advice...but I very seldom follow it" -Alice in Wonderland Leaving , a novel in progress...(key word, progress.)
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Drie |
Oct 30 2003, 09:57 PM
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It's a Small World After All
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Proud Member of the Red TrioMy sun shall rise in the east So shall my heart be at peace"I think happiness is finding a couple extra fries at the bottom of the bag." - Pig, Pearls Before Swine
Just once, I want to shout, "Bwahahhahahaha!" and really mean it.
"I couldn't decide if I wanted marble fudge, chocolate, rocky road, vanilla or butter pecan...I finally decided to try marble fudge...then I had to choose between a plain cone or a sugar cone...I decided on the sugar cone...so what happened? I went out the door, and dropped the whole thing on the sidewalk! Don't tell me my life isn't a Shakespearean tragedy!" ~ Sally, Charlie Brown's sisterPictures of YouBunnies! Everywhere!
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Drie |
Oct 30 2003, 10:14 PM
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It's a Small World After All
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Well, you've still got my support. Take care of yourself, and I'm glad to hear you rested through the day. Hope you're better soon!
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Proud Member of the Red TrioMy sun shall rise in the east So shall my heart be at peace"I think happiness is finding a couple extra fries at the bottom of the bag." - Pig, Pearls Before Swine
Just once, I want to shout, "Bwahahhahahaha!" and really mean it.
"I couldn't decide if I wanted marble fudge, chocolate, rocky road, vanilla or butter pecan...I finally decided to try marble fudge...then I had to choose between a plain cone or a sugar cone...I decided on the sugar cone...so what happened? I went out the door, and dropped the whole thing on the sidewalk! Don't tell me my life isn't a Shakespearean tragedy!" ~ Sally, Charlie Brown's sisterPictures of YouBunnies! Everywhere!
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nome |
Oct 31 2003, 01:38 AM
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Queen of the Bowling Alley
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From: San Diego, California, USA
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Okay everyone, chant with me: "We WILL hit a brick wall and end up typing gibberish, we WILL hit a brick wall and end--" Oh, wait, that's the unofficial mantra, isn't it? "We WILL write beautiful prose and make our deadline, we WILL write beautiful prose and make our deadline..." I've found myself staring, hyponitized, at the countdown Bart has so graciously installed on my blog. It's an incredible sensation to watch it tick down, second by second... a whole novel, in 2592000 of them. Nome, feeling
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"Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to." - Mark Twain Nome's LJ
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bart |
Oct 31 2003, 08:52 PM
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Who me?
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5 hours! I thought it was November we were doing this..... checks calendar...... ARRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!! bart
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Imogen |
Oct 31 2003, 09:17 PM
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On a mission with a pen
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From: England's Green and Pleasant Land
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This is what I've been doing... My plot notes... Imogen
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After her O.W.L.s Hope had managed to persuade her dad to give her a crash course in what he laughingly referred to as “Parseltongue for tourists”. Being in Slytherin, she’d thought it had been the epitome of cool to return to school with such useful snakey phrases as “Can you pass the apple pie, please?” and “Would you be good enough to tell me what time the train to Madrid departs from Platform Two?” . ~ A Pensieve Affair ~ Now being posted...
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Nov 1 2003, 01:05 AM
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Professor Binns in training
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Ah, what the hey. . . I've thrown both my official "I was going to write this" plotlines out the window and have resurrected a three-year-old plot for a murder mystery. By gum, if I'm going to do this, I'm going to have fun. Fun, you hear me? Fun! (Actually, I really want to do a good job with the fanfic as well as the historical novel, and I'm afraid that the month rush is going to foul the good writing up, so I'm substituting something that can be mucked up at will.) Murder mystery, academe, computers. . . I can do this, no problem. Maybe I should actually test it out on some of my colleagues/students in the name of versimilitude? What do you think?
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