Monthly Archive: November 2007

Well I would type 50,000 words,
and I would type 50,000 more
Just to be the man who typed 50,000 words
in November, am I a bore?

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I did it, I not only passed the required 50K words for nanorwrimo (National Novel Writing Month) but I also managed to finish the novel I was writing. This is an achievement for me as in 2005 I sailed past the 50K mark but didn't finish the novel I was writing, it still sits unfinished on my hard drive and 2006 started well with 23K in the first two days of November and then I stopped and totally failed to finish (that story got heavily complex really quickly and is probably going to be 300,000 words if I ever complete it). This year though I finished Nano and I finished the story I was writing for nano, so I feel very pleased and possibly a little smug.

Sorry.

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Ah well, now to edit the entire thing. Blurgh.

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I learned something today, and that is an important statement as you know it is important to learn something new each day. It is only by learning new things that we can ever seek to grow or develop as individuals. What I learned was that glove sizes are the same in all countries. Which considering the different sizes of clothes and shoes is quite surprising and very useful if you are heading somewhere cold.

Though I suppose you would just try them on anyway as they are gloves, it's not like shop-testing your underwear or something.

So I guess the thing I learned is a small bit of pointless trivia that can be filed away in my head next to emergency numbers in the hope that one day my addled brain will recall that rather than the names of the people I love.

"How are you today?"
"Thursday, your glove is the same size in Australia," giggle, gurgle, drool.

You know I really am going to have to give up playing the mandolin, sliced the ends of my fingers to ribbons, whose bloody idea was it to compose songs for kitchen equipment.

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National Novel Writing month is upon us, in fact Nano is already a good 7 days in, the challenge is to write a mere 50 thousand words in a single month in some form of novel format. Many people enter this fine competition, some even finish on the first day. Me I tend to take about a month.

Go here: National Novel Writing Month

This year i seem to have mad ea good start I am already topping 29,000 words and I know roughly where my story is heading, and it isn't the toilet (yet) I have some characters, bit of a plot, and they seem to be wandering into fun and laughter and random silliness (Space Monkeys).

The best thing of all is that I have already written the ending to this and so therefore have a direction to head towards.

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