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Tuesday, November 7th, 2006
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6:06 pm - Are you looking for - Evidence0flife?
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elegant_profile
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Dear NANOWRIMO Warriors:
We are a community dedicated to quality writing critique. We are currently looking for creative work from mature writers:
Interested? Read about us Here
Do you have what it takes? Apply at ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif?v=91.7) evidence0flife - A little something for the passionate intellectual.
PS: Good Luck in 2006!!!
current mood: creative
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| Sunday, October 15th, 2006
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2:07 am - need some inspiration?
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| Monday, October 9th, 2006
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10:11 am - Sign-ups are open
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inalasahl
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Sign-up for 2006 are open! Go here and choose "I have an account from last year and I'd like to get started on NaNoWriMo 2006!"
I'm probably going to move over to 2006nanowrimo. Any other comms I should check out?
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| Thursday, July 6th, 2006
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12:45 pm
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amarthel
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Hey all, Just to let you know that there's a great website which I'm a member of, which is just a general writing forum... it was aor DAAS FIC but now it's just Fictinal works, and we want your stories!!!!
Head on over to http://www.fictionalworks.org and join up!
Ta
Amarthel
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| Thursday, May 11th, 2006
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4:21 pm - Thought you'd all like this...
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tmstanton
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Not sure if anyone uses these communities anymore, but I saw a quote in an old entry of the Achenblog and thought it was appropriate. Enjoy!
"To write a book you have to have a few personality quirks, ranging from, most obviously, masochism (because the process will nearly crush you) to arrogance -- the assumption that you have something to say and are capable of saying it well. This is really true for any profession. Self-doubt is normal, a sign of sanity, but ultimately you have to believe that you're good at what you do.
Of course you feel vulnerable when you finally let the finished book fly off into the real world. Never mind whether it will sell: Will anyone like it? Will it make any sense at all? What if people say, "He whiffed"? No one knows better than the writer how many places a narrative is held together with duct tape." -Joel Achenbach 3/8/2006
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| Tuesday, April 18th, 2006
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2:13 am - YES! yes yes yes!!
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wingedcheetah
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I finally made a plan that made the covering of my plot-crevasses (crevassi?) manageable, and have finished the first part;
REVISION 1 (done) - Go through manuscript and mark desired changes (inserts, strikeouts, grammar, etc)
REVISION 2 - transfer all markings onto computer version
REVISION 3 - Add all major scenes unaccounted for (I've got about nine big sections to stick in places, this should be the toughest part)
REVISION 4 - meticulously proofread
REVISION 5 - print and have bound 4 editions for the following people;
1. to my brother, the writer in the family, for him to Red-Pen
2. to my parents, for their input and Red-Penning
3. to my grammar degree friend, for her intense red-penning
4. for me, to carry around and show my friends and get their opinoins.
After that, we'll see what I have to do before it's marketable.
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| Sunday, April 16th, 2006
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6:46 pm
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vampedvixen
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So, now that Nano is over for the year, what is everyone working on? Still writing, awaiting next November's mad dash to 50,000, or just living a writing-free life and getting back to reality?
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| Thursday, April 13th, 2006
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6:37 pm - Hi
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darkheartwalsh
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Hi im Inimeitiel im not really sure what to do or say so please dont hate me for it. i heard about the community being for writing novels or something like that. I am writing a novel at the mo n i could really do with some friendly help and advice. i have posted an extract on my journal but i dont think it is that good.
Well, since im not really sure what to do, ill j pootle off now. thanx for reading. lol.
current mood:  curious
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| Friday, March 31st, 2006
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8:02 am - Control Group Academy.
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conformer
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Thank you for your participation and patience. Here are the results of yesterday's experiment:
- Ezra: 28
- Harm: 12
- Thierry: 15
- Demo: 20
- Lacey: 23
- Seal: 12
- Appleyard: 13
- Ari: 34
- Chowski: 13
As most of you have concluded by now, these are names, altho not an ordered sequence of Christian, middle, and surnames, as some of you no doubt thot.
Here's the explanation: in addition to this year's NaNoWriMo, I'm also planning another novel, my second. One of my fetishes when it comes to writing is giving the characters unusual and distinctive names, which I believe can help define their personalities and attitudes as the story progresses. Women's names I have no problem with, and I've been told before that I write women fairly well as characters; it's the men I have some trouble with. It's not that I can't write for men, but the men I've written in the past have all had names that reflected a sense of squishiness, softness, of androgyny that I feel failed to make the character believable or likeable. I realize not everyone writes this way, but it happens to me, and this time I would prefer a male character with confidence and depth as well as sensitivity, instead of one who's one-dimensional and paper-thin.
For my new novel, I have five main characters(two of which, the protagonists, tell the story by trading off first person POVs), three of which already have names I'm pleased with. It's the other two, a couple(let's call them #4[M] and #5[F] for clarity), whom I was having trouble with, particularly the guy(#4). This is where the names in the experiment came from:
Group 1 are Christian names for #4.
Group 2 are surnames for #4.
Group 3 is a mixed bag. "Appleyeard" is a possible maiden name for #5(I've already decided on a Christian name for her), "Ari" is another possible Christian name for #4, while "Chowski" could either be a Christian or surname(I met a cashier at Trader Joe's once who's name tag read "Chowski") for an as-yet undetermined sixth character.
Now, a follow-up: what drew everyone to pick "Ari" and "Ezra," as opposed to "Harm," "Seal," or "Chowski?" Other than the fact that you didn't know what you were picking them for at the time, what was your impetus?
Your input is greatly appreciated. I called this an experiment because it was more akin to market research than a poll, seeing what choices the public would select, given their preferences. I'll probably make my own decision in the future(my picks would have been Harm, Lacey, and Appleyard), but this was good insight, especially from a community of other writers.
No one really "won," and I don't have any gifts to give you anyway. Sorry.
See you in November.
=]'
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| Thursday, March 30th, 2006
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5:28 pm - The Five Percent Nation Of Five Percent Nations.
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| Sunday, February 5th, 2006
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1:54 pm - Call for submissions for Thought Hammer, a new zine
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nihilistvlad
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I am currently looking for submissions for the first issue of a socio-cultural art, collage and writing zine with roots in anarchism, nihilism and existentialism. It will be an a4 zine using minimal colour, bound at the side.
What will it be called? Thought Hammer - Serve cold with crushed fragments of society and culture
When's the deadline for the first issue? 13th of feb. (sorry about the late notice)
Interested? I can be contacted by email or msn .. betrayal_of_the_butcher@hotmail.com or by leaving a comment to this.
Anyone's welcome, anything will be considered...
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| Tuesday, January 31st, 2006
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11:26 pm - More Industry Professionals To Go To School On
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dr_pretentious
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I just came across the White List, a periodically updated list of the ljs of various writers, agents, and editors whose musings on the industry you might want to check out.
There are way too many good ones here. Beware--if you aren't picky, you could end up sacrificing all your writing time to reading them. So be picky. Keep writing.
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| Thursday, December 22nd, 2005
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9:41 am
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achinginnards
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Thanks for all the great feedback & wonderful, shared, stories, but I'm afraid my time card in this community is up. You can find me at the Janowrimo community my just searching for that username though. I may not write a novel in Jan, due to work & things, but I like keeping tabs on other writers.
I just wanted to leave on a good note, & thank you all for keeping up with your work & making November pass by so quickly :D.
Happy holidays all.
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| Sunday, December 11th, 2005
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3:38 pm
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| Saturday, December 3rd, 2005
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12:12 pm - How many words is 50,000?
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wayzgoose
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Just thought the following items might be of interest if you are sitting back wondering what you just accomplished. What kind of a book is 50,000 words?
Well, if you insist on comparing yourself to JK Rowling, her very impressive tome Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was a little over a quarter million words. But, on the other hand, the very reasonable works that Diane Duane creates for tweens and teens (High Wizardry, etc.) run around 70-75,000 words. Hey! We're getting close there. I like to read mysteries and spy stuff and one of my favorite mystery writers, Sue Grafton, usually comes in at around 110,000-120,000 words.
I don't know about you, but suddenly I feel like I should spend another month and have a whole book out of this. It's not really that much more!
current mood: accomplished
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2:16 am - Another Miscellany of Secondhand Clues
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dr_pretentious
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Found a way to reconstruct the Post That Got Away without actually having to rewrite it from scratch.
In the interest of not driving myself any crazier, I'm posting it as was.
Disclaimers asserting my fallibility and inviting others to post apply here, as in my other miscellany. There's some duplication of information, but a lot of different stuff, too, so if you're interested in the subject, it's worthwhile to look at both.
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1:24 am - A Miscellany of Second-Hand Clues
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dr_pretentious
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Last night, I spent about three hours trying to put all the stuff I'd found most useful and important into a brief, witty post, a post loaded with humility so nobody would mistake me for an unassailable source of clue (which would be a really big case of mistaken identity). It was a beautiful post, and then lj hiccuped, and the post was gone forever.
I just don't have it in me to reconstruct that tonight, so as a placeholder, you get a compilation of annotated links. They're useful links. You'll like them. Pretend that, instead of having been written for a grad school friend trying to break into young adult science fiction, this list was written just for you.
The most important thing I will try to salvage from the Post That Got Away is this:
If I'm the best source of clue you currently have about the publishing industry, your first order of business is to replace me immediately with a source whose clues are firsthand and field-tested. Although I've managed to get a full manuscript requested by an agent, I have not achieved the Holy Grail of publication. Only people who have attained the Grail are to be believed. And even then, you need to do your due diligence. Confirm stuff with multiple sources when you can.
I hope that other people in the community who have clues about the publishing industry will post, too, especially if I'm in error about something.
The occasion for my putting together this collection of links was that my friend had decided to try the conference I've found most useful, Writer's Weekend. Of all the things I've done, aside from the writing itself, going to Writer's Weekend is probably the one thing that has been most useful in laying the groundwork for an actual writing career. Whatever your levels of skill and experience, you should go if you can. It's a conference for genre fiction writers that aims to be inclusive across all the genre boundaries. The program is full of brass-tacks stuff, presented by established agents, editors, and authors, and the atmosphere is friendly and casual. It's because I've gone twice to this conference that an agent requested my manuscript--considering how unmarketably long the ms is, I don't think I'd have got past the slush pile into the realms of requested material any other way.
Anyhow, here's a slice of what I thought was useful and important back in June.
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| Thursday, December 1st, 2005
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9:43 pm - NaNo 2005 ::sigh::
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vireoibis
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NaNoWriMo 2005 is over.
i should say, alas, because i only reached 4179 words.
But i'd rather say, Yay! i did 4179 words! On a story that doesn't even have a title, but does have two characters we've met so far, a third we can cry for, a sleepwalking detective, the abduction of small children, etc. Can't go wrong with that!
So i'm going to keep at it. i'm going to do some more of the work i should have done before November. Flesh out some characters, some locations, some of the organizations, what the dickens are being done to those little boys, where exactly the detective walks to, ect., ect.
And, i've been invited to a brand new writer's group; we met on the 22nd at a buns-n-noodles quite close to home, actually, where i found a Mythos inspired horror magazine called Dark Wisdom, which amazingly enough, has a contact address in Lake Orion! (For those who are confused; i grew up in Oxford/Leonard, north of and high school rivals of Lake Orion).
In any case, writing seems to be becoming fun again.
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2:58 pm - Getting Your NaNoWriMo Novel Published (if it's good enough :P)
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anthonyjaycee
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Though I'm still looking forward to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=91.7) dr_pretentious's upcoming list of helpful resources, I've been doing some research myself as well, in working to figure out how to get a novel published.
In terms of what I myself am currently looking for, two things:
#1. I need to figure out what genre (or genres) my novel fits into. (i.e., maybe there's some description somewhere that explains the subtle differences between various similar genres in detail.)
#2. I need to network with some literary agents who represent fiction in the appropriate genre(s). (Probably through online networking.)
Now, here's what I _do_ have already, which _other_ people might be looking for:
#1. I picked up this guide to publishers, editors, and literary agents. I've used a couple earlier editions of it in years past. This is the current version, which was just released in October.
#2. In terms of online communities, this seems to be the one that follows naturally from NaNoWriMo into the publishing realm:
http://www.nanopubye.org/
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11:51 am - National Novel Finishing Month
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incendiarymind
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Hey everyone. Welcome to NaNoFiMo 2005. :)
Well, of course not everyone is going to participate in this second month of noveling where the goal is not 50,000 words but to take that 50,000 words (or whatever you have) and write to the finish. But, there are at least 100 intrepid NaNo Novelers who have taken up the challenge to write either 30,000 words or finish their novel in December.
I did it last year, wrote 27,000 words and finished.
Last year "Is Anybody Else NaNoFiMoing?" was just a thread I started on the forums but I'm sure someone else did the same in 2003 and before.
This year it's official (an vaguely endorsed by Chris Baty, though not completely - basically he said, "the staff of NaNoWriMo isn't going to stop you from doing it, but we're not going to promote it). It's not my brain child but pookel's and she's done a great job organizing it.
If you're interested, the official site is www.nanofimo.org.
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