You know what that means, kids.
I'll post up the bits of my novel as I write them, and each post will stay open for three days, at which point it becomes friends-locked.

The kickoff part was good... though I thought the swing dance was even better. I Lindy'ed to a 230 bpm polka!

 Dear Ewan,
Thanks for piping up! You're a peach, and yes, I recognize that isn't the slang where you come from. So, your name, your educational history, your sister, your cat, all good. Can we get a little deeper? Maybe start with the coffee thing? And just for the time being I've said your parents live in Edinburgh. Really, though? Come on.
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 Duck and cover!

No, not really. But it is novel-plannng time now, so I bring character letters. These are from the 15th.

Dear Protagonist,
Let me begin by saying how glad I am that you exist. It's really quite lovely. Now, I know you're not shy, so if you could move on to telling me about yourself, that would be great. Your name, for example, and ( Read more... )

Tomorrow's the 15th, and that means I can start thinking about what to write for NaNo. Come on, Thursday!

Between now and then I have an awful lot of research to do. Maybe I'll watch the season 1 finale of Robin Hood instead.

 I finally finished the Scarlet Pimpernel earlier, and I'm feeling calmer about the new logo. I still don't like the police box part, but it isn't exploding.

So, NaNo's coming up. I'm not allowed to think about my novel for another six days, but it's coming. So now I'm in a writing mood without a story, and I should be doing work in any case. ( Read more... )

1. SAVE ________
2. My day, very briefly.
3. BFS
4. Babysitting
5. Music on the 'tubes

I think I've seen this before. It's " Save Castle" this time. Anyway, I voted--you should too!--and found these results pretty amusing. Hopefully it will continue in the same way:


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Yup yup yuppers.

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( Letters again )

You can tell this is going bad when the letter posts come with no actual story in between. Taking time off is never a good idea as far as NaNo goes; still trying to get back into it.

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Rough night. However, there may be something there that wasn't there before.
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