I've actually tried to write this entry several times since yesterday evening. Every time, I'd get about two paragraphs in and then Jelli would come and sit on my keyboard, both preventing me from writing and rebooting the computer repeatedly (she managed to set the CMOS settings to 'Clear' at one point, which was quite impressive as you're not ( Read more... )

Well, I finally got my plot squeezed into two short paragraphs ( Read more... )

Well, I'm committed... signed up at the NaNo forums for this year's 50k slog.

At least I have a plot, although I don't have a title (although to be fair, when do I ever have a title at this point in the game ( Read more... )

I have just over one month to create a town; build it, populate it and make it come alive... and then promptly rip it to pieces by unleashing hoards of shambling undead in it.

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I've been thinking on this for a couple of weeks now - whether or not I was going to take part in this year's National Novel Writing Month. After all, I've already got a lot of stuff I'm involved in writing, none of which would count for NaNo as it has to be new for November - did I really want to start something else to complicate matters ( Read more... )

My last post. And yes, there was a reason I picked this one to my last review of the Blogathon. It's because I know I can sum it up - plot, why you should see it and everything else - in just one sentence.


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Right, we're entering the final hour here, and I've got some nice films to finish me off...


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Ah, here we have a neat little case of premonition, as this very film was mentioned in the comments of another entry several hours ago now (I have a list of all the films I'm reviewing, so that I don't get confused when the need for sleep overtakes me and accidentally blog something twice or something)...


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Really running out of things to say here... "My gods, I'm tired" is just repetitive, and I don't want to be repetitive...


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You know something I've found really useful during all of this? Firefox's tabbed windows. I normally don't use them, but today I've got so many windows open (12 web windows, plus WinAmp and a Microsoft Word document) that they've just been invaluable. I'd be drowning in desktop windows otherwise.


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