tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38649162011-07-14T17:42:16.756-07:00International *Write Something* Month</FONT></P> <P align=center>November is International "Write Something" Month. It doesn't have to be a novel; join us in banging out 200-250 words a day (average) without any regard for quality or saleability. Anyone can write bad short fiction for fun.<BR><BR><FONT size=4>Remember: IWriSloMo!</FONT></P>Gwyneddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01933018892919088656noreply@blogger.comBlogger761100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-1102093087536186202004-12-03T08:56:00.000-08:002004-12-03T08:59:24.570-08:00IWriSloMo continues to have a LJ community and an active email list. Some of us even successfully completed NANOWRIMO 2004! Gwyneddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01933018892919088656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-1067973393592361302003-11-04T11:16:00.000-08:002003-11-04T11:16:49.670-08:00IWriSloMo now has a LiveJournal community. At the moment it's open membership and unmoderated. I'm inclined to leave it that way unless problems arise. You can find it at: http://www.livejournal.com/community/iwrislomo Gwyneddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01933018892919088656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-1067274919241551732003-10-27T09:15:00.000-08:002003-10-27T09:15:24.716-08:00Remember the rules: Write something. "Bad", "short", and "fiction" are optional. Come to think of it, "Write" is pretty much a guideline, too. oh ell dee ess em ay splat pee oh bee oh ecks dot see oh em Mannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07192586698559474153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-1067265297475263432003-10-27T06:34:00.000-08:002003-10-27T06:35:02.530-08:00In honor of our inspiration, NaNoWriMo, we'll again set specific daily writing goals for the month of November and do our level best to hold to them. BTW, although this blog looks moribund, our email list is thriving. To join, contact one of this list administrators: Manny Olds or Gwynedd. You can find Manny's address in the archived entry from October 21, 2002. Gwynedd's is Gwynedd at aol dotGwyneddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01933018892919088656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-1065756138181036232003-10-09T20:22:00.000-07:002003-10-09T20:22:18.023-07:00Hey look, the blog's still here.Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03868055421520851726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-1065106930939938172003-10-02T08:02:00.000-07:002003-10-02T08:02:11.110-07:00It's October, and the hopeful writer's thoughts turn to NaNoWriMo, but the IWriSloMo list has been soldiering on since last November with little interruption. For anyone brave (or foolish) enough to attempt it, the "November is National Novel Writing Month" people*are ramping up over at www.nanowrimo.org *standard disclaimer/no affilliationGwyneddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01933018892919088656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-854351302002-12-03T09:56:00.000-08:002002-12-03T09:56:50.536-08:00SloMo is a state of mind! We plan to keep up the progress reports, mutual encouragement, nagging and sympathy indefinitely. We also plan to repeat the "set specific numeric goals" month next November.Mannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07192586698559474153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-854308282002-12-03T07:47:00.000-08:002002-12-03T07:47:53.766-08:00Looks like the mail list has decided that December is Also International *Write Something* Month, so if you thought it was too late to join us, think again. (And thanks to our gracious list host for the extension.)Gwyneddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01933018892919088656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-851774382002-11-27T12:28:00.000-08:002002-11-27T12:28:56.440-08:00That is, if you still want to for three days (hey, you can write a thousand-word short in three days!) Irinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08356144375986965002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-851645562002-11-27T07:31:00.000-08:002002-11-27T07:31:27.803-08:00A note for the curious, IWriSloMo is alive and well and carrying on via its mail list. Email Manny to join the list.Gwyneddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01933018892919088656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-842364552002-11-08T08:41:00.000-08:002002-11-08T08:41:54.876-08:00I have to admit that I hadn't even noticed the list was down. I teach evening classes on Wednesdays and Thursday, so I don't have time to give more than a cursory glance at my e-mail. Anyway, I managed to write just over 300 words again yesterday. Not sure whether I'll do any tonight, but it's the weekend tomorrow -- wheee! -- so I'll have more time then. HelenHelenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10368636043402876251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-841938462002-11-07T14:52:00.000-08:002002-11-07T14:52:01.043-08:00The list is up! The list is back down! Apparently they turned the power on and the repair failed the smoke test. Real Soon Now, again.Mannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07192586698559474153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-841826382002-11-07T10:28:00.000-08:002002-11-07T10:28:43.350-08:00Just when I was thinking the blog team had been made pretty much obsolete by the mailing list :-) Thanks for the update. Gwyneddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01933018892919088656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-841799372002-11-07T09:25:00.000-08:002002-11-07T09:25:03.103-08:00The mailing list is down briefly due to a power outage. The Power Company has promised power "Real Soon Now". Just in case anyone was anxious. The upstream provider should be holding your mail for a couple of days more before bouncing it. (Since the server is in the real world, instead of in theory, the pre-arranged mirror for just such situations was already down due to a completely unrelated Mannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07192586698559474153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-840254562002-11-04T14:30:00.000-08:002002-11-04T14:30:28.320-08:00I know it's been mentioned on rasfc, but I've just gotten a copy of Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird, and her concept of the sh*tty first draft is really helpful, particularly in the IWriSloMo/NaNoWriMo context were word count, not quality, matters. From what's been posted here and on the mailing list (If you haven't joined us yet, and would like to, you're still welcome: drop Manny a line if you wantGwyneddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01933018892919088656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-839325802002-11-02T14:01:00.000-08:002002-11-02T14:01:00.550-08:00Today, 456 words in about 45 minutes. Got some nice fuel; Esteemed Spouse made coffee with the magic vacuum pot, and I added real whipped cream. Who needs coffeehouses? Did not allow myself to get derailed by speculations about whether "In later years, Gentile sometimes had occasion to recall this period of his life" kills the tension for the reader.Joannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00116970789498540675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-839176902002-11-02T05:30:00.000-08:002002-11-02T05:30:29.303-08:00Nov 2: First line: "His throat was cut, wasn't it?" Only 107 words so far. Ran into plot questions. But I'll have time this evening since I don't have to be awake in the morning.Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03868055421520851726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-838976722002-11-01T16:11:00.000-08:002002-11-01T16:11:00.220-08:00This system must be in the pacific time zone, because I didn't write that message until well after 9. However, I'd written my 517 words by 7:30 a.m. :) I like to work first thing in the morning -- otherwise, real life gets in the way. (e.g., it's after 7 p.m. here and I'm still at work in Baltimore, an hour from home.) Unfortunately, it's much much easier to get up at 6 a.m. to write in the Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03868055421520851726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-838956372002-11-01T15:09:00.000-08:002002-11-01T15:09:06.773-08:00Oh, yes. In addition to my 842 words, I also read in 16 courier dowble-space pages that had been accumulating. Probably around 3K words there. I think I've put in about 4 book-related hours today. Sigh.Joannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00116970789498540675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-838942082002-11-01T14:30:00.000-08:002002-11-01T14:30:28.230-08:00Sorry if this shows up twice, I think I may have hit "post" instead of "post and publish". I played with the settings a bit, peeved that I couldn't get it to understand that I'm CET (I'll have to mention the local time if it happens to be important) though it does understand that there are time zones outside of the US. I'm surprised that there are only the nine of us; where's Zeborah? She's on Irinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08356144375986965002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-838918762002-11-01T13:29:00.000-08:002002-11-01T13:29:44.180-08:00I won't have a chance to do any writing until late tonight, so I'm green with envy. To change your posting nickname, log into blogger, then click on the "Team" tab in the menu. This will show you the list of all the team members. Click on your name. You should now see a summary of your profile. To the right of this should be [Edit My Profile]. Click on this and edit away. Then save profile, and Gwyneddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01933018892919088656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-838894442002-11-01T12:34:00.000-08:002002-11-01T12:34:01.743-08:00Eek, Elizabeth, 517 words before nine in the morning, even if they're not new ones! Or is that a function of where you are? Mind you, I used to be able to do that at the height of the WIP-now-WIR in the summer holidays (got up at 5 to write), but in *November*? Unless you're down under, of course, I don't remember. I didn't start until after dinner because Real Life was keeping me busy, but I Irinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08356144375986965002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-838802782002-11-01T08:54:00.000-08:002002-11-01T08:54:40.523-08:00Nov 1: 517 words of chapter 11 typed in.Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03868055421520851726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-838729672002-11-01T05:48:00.000-08:002002-11-01T05:48:39.283-08:00On your mark. Get set. Write! Today's the day; we can do it!Gwyneddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01933018892919088656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-838443212002-10-31T14:00:00.000-08:002002-10-31T14:00:08.980-08:00Yikes. It starts tomorrow. Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03868055421520851726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-838129922002-10-30T23:13:00.000-08:002002-10-30T23:13:45.513-08:00My (rough) rules for myself are: 300 words a day (that's *both* sides of a page in my notebook), except on Tuesday when I am excused as long as I do something else arty. Accomplishing major research can count for half the daily word count. Primarily on 'Blood', but if something from another WIP demands to be written that's ok. No new projects. If I'm lucky, that should net me 7000 words, which kesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18205731356853030145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-837848582002-10-30T11:54:00.000-08:002002-10-30T11:54:34.340-08:00I guess I need to post a goal or whatever. I'm using this coming month as a discipline month, more for Butt-in-Chair experience than anything else. I seem to be able to write 500-1000 words everytime I sit down at the coffeehouse, but the coffeehouse doesn't happen every day, nor--and there's a connection here--does the writing, and it probably should. So the goal here is to write at least 250 Joannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00116970789498540675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-837443922002-10-29T17:03:00.000-08:002002-10-29T17:03:58.170-08:00It's beginning to look as if I'll be working on A Winter Out of Time for the next decade, or possibly even the rest of my life. I need at least two pieces to work on because it always takes me at least a week, after I finish one scene in Winter, to figure out how to start the next one (and usually it takes a lot longer than that. Not that there's any certainty I'll finish the current scene in Silveredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09285782945489542091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-837355952002-10-29T13:36:00.000-08:002002-10-29T13:36:52.886-08:00International write something Less Obvious or Less Onerous, I keep thinking.Mannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07192586698559474153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-837352112002-10-29T13:28:00.000-08:002002-10-29T13:28:42.000-08:00It's not like it's "International *Write Something* New Month, right?Jennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07741983183487176442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-837313282002-10-29T11:59:00.000-08:002002-10-29T11:59:32.806-08:00I was just going to ask if it was cheating to start outlining a little, but it seems not :-) (I've been noodling with Zeborah, but I don't count *that* as outlining even though there are large bits of story in it)Irinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08356144375986965002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-837305982002-10-29T11:41:00.000-08:002002-10-29T11:41:10.876-08:00I vote anything goes. I'll be working on the second draft of my novel that I'm already halfway done with.Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03868055421520851726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-837302902002-10-29T11:33:00.000-08:002002-10-29T11:33:34.960-08:00Does it count as having already started if what I wrote was written before IWriSloMo was proposed, even more so before I decided to participate, and I haven't written anything since, and I don't plan to work on it again until Friday?Jennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07741983183487176442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-837286012002-10-29T10:49:00.000-08:002002-10-29T10:49:10.706-08:00You already started? How do we file a protest?Mannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07192586698559474153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-837280172002-10-29T10:34:00.000-08:002002-10-29T10:34:36.816-08:00I just did a quick check, and found I had actually written something in October: one (incomplete) scene, 765 words total. If I write the minimum of 200 words per day for 30 days, I'll have 6000 words for the month of November. If I only manage 200 words per week, I'll still have more words in Nov. than I did in Oct. Even if I only manage 200 words for the entire month, I'll still have Jennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07741983183487176442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-837265252002-10-29T10:01:00.000-08:002002-10-29T10:01:32.450-08:00I just decided that the culture has to be uxorilocal and matrilineal, with strong traditional family cults. And women who marry quite often marry a set of brothers, with their sisters as co-wives. This has to do with the men running caravans and herds and other things away from home for long periods of time. And also of keeping the family businesses in one stable lump. I wonder how much of that Mannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07192586698559474153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-837142092002-10-29T05:03:00.000-08:002002-10-29T05:03:45.280-08:002 days to go before we all have to put down those vaccuums and start writing :-) I was hoping to be able to dedicate my "extra hour" in the morning to writing, but it's only two days into the time change and I've already adjusted :-(Gwyneddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01933018892919088656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-836598662002-10-28T05:25:00.000-08:002002-10-28T05:25:10.240-08:00"Fixed daily writing appointment"? No. Mostly around lunch time, I think (considering my schedule and real-life commitments). I am preparing by making notes on what is supposed to happen so I can try to keep the story and the month more or less synchronized. Mannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07192586698559474153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-835697192002-10-26T15:43:00.000-07:002002-10-26T15:43:00.433-07:00No special preparations. Just glee that maybe I'll be motivated to get some work done on the rewrite. I've done nohting since Tuesday.Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03868055421520851726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-835609232002-10-26T10:56:00.000-07:002002-10-26T10:56:11.510-07:00I haven't done anything special to prepare. Lately I've been writing in the morning and the afternoon because it's quieter.Silveredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09285782945489542091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-835250322002-10-25T14:12:00.000-07:002002-10-25T14:14:34.000-07:00I thought about NaNoWriMo, and I might do it sometime without actually signing up for it officially. But to do it now I'd have to stop working on my work in progress for a month, and I don't want to do that. I only stop when I can't figure out how to keep going (which happens rather too often).Silveredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09285782945489542091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-835249012002-10-25T14:10:00.000-07:002002-10-25T14:10:00.723-07:00Welcome, M. (If you want to use some other name to sign your blogger posts, change your Nickname in your Settings.) 6 days left of October! How is everyone preparing for the Great Work? Buying special notebooks, pens, writing desks? How is everyone planning on meeting goal? Are people planning on scheduling a fixed daily writing appointment?Gwyneddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01933018892919088656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-834961812002-10-24T21:10:00.000-07:002002-10-24T21:10:15.253-07:00Hi. I"m new and intend to play. I lurk on rasfc. I usually write about 200 words a week, so I figure this is much more my speed than NaNoWriMo, which I signed up for last year but did absolutely nothing about.kesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18205731356853030145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-834692382002-10-24T10:41:00.000-07:002002-10-24T10:41:25.466-07:00Gwynedd: Actually, it reminded me of Indiana Jones. ("We named the *dog* Indiana!") I dutifully signed up here, made up a password consisting of two words stuck together, wrote them down in the wrong order, and took forever to figure it out.Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03868055421520851726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-834662582002-10-24T09:30:00.000-07:002002-10-24T09:30:43.000-07:00The mailing list is set up; I subscribed everyone here and a few others. Let me know what needs to be fixed or adjusted. Mannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07192586698559474153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-834534742002-10-24T03:36:00.000-07:002002-10-24T03:38:35.000-07:00Mailing ListOkay, my friend is setting up a list for us. It will be completely private (except that my friend is Root). I will send details in e-mail as soon as I get them.LatecomersE-mail me or Gwynedd to get sign-up information.Mannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07192586698559474153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-834331192002-10-23T17:35:00.000-07:002002-10-23T17:35:16.050-07:00Ah. I don't remember having that problem with Topica. I'm hoping to finish the new third scene of Winter during November. It's promising to be a long one, though, so it might take me longer than that.Silveredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09285782945489542091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-834320952002-10-23T17:10:00.000-07:002002-10-23T17:10:49.000-07:00No, not Topica. I won't make that mistake. I once got auto-subscribed to a list someone moved over there and got junk mail from Topica for years. It wasn't UCE because we had a "relationship". Pfah. They may have changed their policies, but I am holding a grudge. It is much better to have the lists on a private server, anyway. I have asked a friend of mine who hosts stuff on her server, since I Mannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07192586698559474153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-834242192002-10-23T14:15:00.000-07:002002-10-23T15:04:31.000-07:00Manny said: I don't know why, but it doesn't seem right to drop instruments like "scheitholt" into the middle of a place with cool names like Sisomsouk Siphandone. I've had problems like that naming Debroan stuff. Sometimes the word that has the closest meaning to what I want for a physical object is heavily laden with jarring cultural associations. I'm starting to think that I can probably Silveredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09285782945489542091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-834237752002-10-23T14:06:00.000-07:002002-10-24T06:12:36.000-07:00Gwynedd said: When Irina comes back from her choir training, we could probably talk her into administering a mailing list for us, if we want to discuss our projects in greater detail and in a less public forum. I don't mind chattering about the story in public, although I wouldn't post any of the draft that way. By the way -- Topica's a free list hosting service whose terms were acceptable theSilveredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09285782945489542091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-834214792002-10-23T13:21:00.000-07:002002-10-23T13:21:07.986-07:00I have been researching the names of traditional Lao and Albanian folk instruments. I don't know why, but it doesn't seem right to drop instruments like "scheitholt" into the middle of a place with cool names like Sisomsouk Siphandone. This leads to excellent sidetracks into Chinese and Russian folk instruments and the effects of the Silk Road on instrument diffusion. It is remarkable how Mannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07192586698559474153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-834206192002-10-23T13:03:00.000-07:002002-10-23T13:03:03.840-07:00Only 8 days left for cat vaccuming. When Irina comes back from her choir training, we could probably talk her into administering a mailing list for us, if we want to discuss our projuects in greater detail and in a less public forum. (Elizabeth, put that way, it does look funny.)Gwyneddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01933018892919088656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-834164362002-10-23T11:28:00.000-07:002002-10-23T11:28:07.420-07:00I think that "post" shows it in the editing view and "publish" shows in in the iwrislomo.blogspot.com view. Maybe. Hey, I just noticed something about entering HTML code. Let's see if this is centered. Mannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07192586698559474153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-834128912002-10-23T10:09:00.000-07:002002-10-23T10:09:29.283-07:00Hi. Thanks for sending the invite. (You named yourself after your dog?) Hopefully this will inspire me to actually get work done: 250 new words daily to the novel rewrite, or 500 old words typed in. Let's see if the "Post" button does what I think it does.Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03868055421520851726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-833753722002-10-22T16:30:00.000-07:002002-10-22T16:30:55.000-07:00As I make notes, mostly filled with questions, I am put in mind of the drawing of a "colonial house" we were supposed to draw for an elementary-school project. I drew a very nice Mt. Vernon-esque house, and the haha, and the sheep on the lawn, and the outbuildings, and the paddocks, and the fields, and the cattle, and the farm equipment, and the town nearby, and the river, and the port, and the Mannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07192586698559474153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-833691882002-10-22T14:07:00.000-07:002002-10-22T14:07:01.900-07:00Sheila said: >How about a choose-your-own-adventure style of writing? I need to hit an intermediate level of detail to reach the decision point usefully, I think. At outline distance I'm too far away to be able to decide which alternative is more desirable, and when I'm writing actual scenes I tend to put enough effort into the exact words that I can't imagine writing the story three or four Silveredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09285782945489542091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-833688912002-10-22T14:00:00.000-07:002002-10-22T14:01:21.000-07:00(Irina, Sheila is the name my father gave me, a fine one, and what I use in Real Life(tm). Gwynedd is the name I gave my dog - you can see her at http://members.aol.com/Gwynedd/gwyn/gwynport.htm - and nobody else had taken it as a sign-on name when I first got aol, so I tend to use it for most things nettish.)Gwyneddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01933018892919088656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-833660262002-10-22T12:57:00.000-07:002002-10-22T12:58:14.000-07:00I'm keeping something for November, the story that's been scratching at my backbrain ever since Mary said "I like her, are you going to write about her?" about a minor character in the WiR. No, it's not the Frozen North thing, I have bits of that already and I want to start something new and fresh on the first of November. That leaves me six days for the rest of the revision (EEEK!) as I leave Irinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08356144375986965002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-833614952002-10-22T11:15:00.000-07:002002-10-22T11:15:50.810-07:00Oh, glued-on macaroni, since it's an option :-) Either one handwritten page (5x8 notebook) or 200 typed words.Gwyneddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01933018892919088656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-833608952002-10-22T11:00:00.000-07:002002-10-22T11:00:35.433-07:00You could narrow it down a bit--Handwriting? Courier 10 pt? Glued-on macaroni?Mannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07192586698559474153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-833581712002-10-22T09:55:00.000-07:002002-10-22T09:55:49.736-07:00My quota will be a page a day. A page of what, I don't know yet. Gwyneddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01933018892919088656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-833580722002-10-22T09:53:00.000-07:002002-10-22T09:56:58.000-07:00Silvered said: >I've been having trouble with plotting, mostly because I can't decide which of the possible plots I want to follow. How about a choose-your-own-adventure style of writing? Pick a plot, any plot, and follow it, leaving yourself sign posts about where other plots might diverge from the one you are currently following. When you get to the end or get stumped, go back to one of Gwyneddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01933018892919088656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-833577932002-10-22T09:47:00.000-07:002002-10-22T09:47:01.240-07:004 lines or half a page or one questionable plot point resolved.Silveredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09285782945489542091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-833555782002-10-22T08:48:00.000-07:002002-10-22T08:48:36.283-07:00Since we are all working on different pieces, even different kinds of pieces, we should post our daily production quota in advance (in whatever relevant units). I am aiming at averaging 240 words/day over the month. That should come to a tidy 7200 words total, which would be theoretically publishable if they are the right 7200 in more or less the right order.Mannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07192586698559474153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-833552192002-10-22T08:39:00.000-07:002002-10-22T08:39:03.223-07:00I'm planning on varying between the all-devouring verse narrative, A Winter Out of Time; a Night Land short story; or a mystery I haven't even started to think about because I only decided to write one half an hour ago. You've heard about the verse narrative already. The word count will be low on days when I work on that, naturally. Half a dozen lines is a decent day's work, in that case. Silveredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09285782945489542091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-833534302002-10-22T07:55:00.000-07:002002-10-22T07:55:17.736-07:00I have decided to steal names from Lao, Cambodian, Thai, and Albanian legislators. With a bit of serial-number filing. I think it would be a good idea to figure out which are M and which are F names, though. Just in case someone ever reads it. And the topography is going to be "What if China was spliced in where Canada is and the mountains are exaggerated a lot?" That seems to be about the Mannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07192586698559474153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-833531632002-10-22T07:48:00.000-07:002002-10-22T07:48:36.200-07:009 days? Eek! I want to finish chapter 11 by then so that I can make chaps 12 and 13 my goal for IWriSloMo. I have to kill a king and get Mark and Huw transferred to the new light cavarly squadron. It's even an Exciting Bit[TM], so why can't I write the blessed thing? Helen (Hoping that a bit of friendly support will help. Either that or the envy as you all post your glorious word counts will Helenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10368636043402876251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-833495952002-10-22T06:18:00.000-07:002002-10-22T06:19:31.000-07:00Only 9 more days?!? And I still have to devise 3 or 4 languages in at least two unrelated language groups. And a religion. And a whole system of trade routes based on several kinds of as-yet-undetermined local economies. Better get cracking. Oh well, at least I won't be letting myself hone the results down to selectively ambiguous 50-word suggestions.Mannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07192586698559474153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-833492312002-10-22T06:09:00.000-07:002002-10-22T06:09:02.723-07:00I like the idea of posting progress reports here, and also of letting IWriSloMo be much less formal than NaNo. Only 9 more days until November! -- Gwynedd (and the usual four cats) Gwyneddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01933018892919088656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-833483312002-10-22T05:41:00.000-07:002002-10-22T05:41:48.693-07:00The next two chapters it is then. :-) It's not that the novel's stuck, in and of itself, just that I don't seem to be making the time to actually get on and write it. I have a wonderful spreadsheet with target word counts and a graph, but that's the long term goal. I've joined IWriSloMo in the hope that I'll be able to improve on my pitiful average of about 5 words a day. Perhaps a short term Helenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10368636043402876251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-833473412002-10-22T05:08:00.000-07:002002-10-22T05:08:28.433-07:00The NaNos have specific rules; do we want to be bound by those? The only rules I see here so far are "write something", "without regard for quality or saleability" and "fun". IMO "bad" is optional. I am supposing we all commit to posting our progress and pumping each other up. I think the spirit is to commit idea into medium, to press yourself past self-imposed obstacles, stop worrying about Mannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07192586698559474153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-833131962002-10-21T13:14:00.000-07:002002-10-21T13:14:06.246-07:00Manny, what does the Rules book say? -- Gwynedd (and the usual four cats) Gwyneddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01933018892919088656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-833113842002-10-21T12:33:00.000-07:002002-10-21T12:33:35.636-07:00Hi People! I don't think it was mentioned on rasfc, so I'll ask here. As it's *Write Something*, are ongoing works in progress acceptable? I was thinking of setting my target as "The next two chapters of the WIP", but if it's supposed to be something new, I have another novel jumping up and down in the wings that I could start. Or I could do the short about the escape to faerie, or the other Helenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10368636043402876251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-833012332002-10-21T08:40:00.000-07:002002-10-21T08:41:20.000-07:00Manny, you're at least one up on me - I don't yet have a something, let alone geography. -- Gwynedd (and the usual four cats) Gwyneddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01933018892919088656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-832907602002-10-21T03:33:00.000-07:002002-10-21T03:33:16.216-07:00I have been making notes. Just last night, I decided that I need to flip the geography east-to-west so that it makes more sense. This will probably drive me crazy. I still have no idea how I will make it interesting. -- Manny Olds, (oldsma@pobox.com) of Riverdale Park, Maryland, USA "And there is always the zen pleasure of the project that no one in their right mind would ever undertake... " Mannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07192586698559474153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864916.post-831335702002-10-17T13:26:00.000-07:002002-10-17T13:33:58.000-07:00Because the ObWebPresense http://members.aol.com/Gwynedd/IWriSloMo/ looked a little sparse and had not much in the way of interactive features, I've made us this blog spot. Anyone who is planning on trying IWriSloMo is welcome to be part of the IWriSloMo blog team. Just drop a note with "IWriSloMo" in the subject to me at Gwynedd at aol dot com and I'll give you posting privilleges. -- Gwyneddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01933018892919088656noreply@blogger.com