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  1. It’s just over two weeks until this year’s NaNo (National Novel Writing Month) The goal is to finish the first draft of a story, without any prewritten prose, starting Nov 1st and finishing Nov 30th. There are a bunch of coupon and promos for participants and winner, but the prezzies vary year to year. Createspace used to offer physical printings if you published through them, but they were completely absorbed by Kindle this year. The idea is that a little friendly competition helps a lot pf new writers to finish a story. outlines, character studies, prep is fine. Just no story. Register before Halloween because the servers are usually hit hard on the start and end days. They added a fanfic category for stories last year. I started writing during 2007 NaNo and hit the total eight times. (you submit a file, that you can scrqmbleif you think sojmeone would steak it) A lot of my big fics started during NaNo. It’s fun to see your progress graph inch up every day and see how your friends or town are doing. They also sponsor a couple Camp NaNo sessions earlier in the year, but those can be writing, revising or some other task. I’m restarting my prison ship story after several years in a trunk. I could not figure out why it just withered away when I tried to figure out how to revise it. To keep me insanely busy I’m taking a ‘how to write a novel’ class, and hoping it will provide enough insight to strengthen the story. It’s a 32 lesson self-paced package, but this is the beta and it’s not finished. So I will have to use the later lessons more for future novels… I’m goign to try to fit a chapter of my current big fic in November too. I also hear there is some holiday that month and I’m wondering if a frozen dinner will help. If you want to writing buddy, I’m bucolic-scribe on that site. I use this challenge like a booster shot for my dilligence and organization, because my output drops below 500 words a day every summer and the 2k boost usually lasts me until spring. Give it a try!
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  2. The only one that I can think of, that GeorgeGlass hasn’t already mentioned is “Fixer”. It’s a bit clichéd, I’ll grant you, but I’ve seen it used in both movies and TV shows, and it could fit. Although there might be a bit of implication that the person “fixes” uncomfortable situations, as in might have someone killed if you need them to be killed, etc. English is my second language, so I don’t always realise implications like that. On a different note, I kind of like that word GeorgeGlass suggested, “acquirer”, I might steal it one day
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  3. Not doing it this year, but I’d been wondering who here was. Thumbs up to y’all!
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  4. I skipped last year, and I’ve been miserable about it all year, so come the hells or high water, I will be doing NaNo this year. And for anyone else wanting to buddy up, I am MorwenNavarre over there, and I will be writing a Ghost and Gerry novel, for anyone who reads my Witch’s Apprentice series. I’m still thinking about the title, but I have a half-assed plot in mind, involving… well, I have to write the thing first, before I write a blurb!
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  5. Question! Okay so there’s this place. Let’s just call it the ghetto. It’s pretty dangerous and filled with abject poverty and crime. And there’s a dude who gets paid by various rich people to go into this place and do various things for them. Usually just buying things for them on the black market or something that they can’t get elsewhere. So what would you call him? What would his job title be? Errand boy seems too… I guess less specific? Like he’s not picking up dry cleaning or taking dogs for a walk. He gets paid a lot of money to go into this place no one else wants to go, to do somewhat menial things, but things that are important enough for someone to pay a fair amount for. I’ve had him call himself a glorified errand boy, but that just doesn’t really hit the mark. And I’ve had other people call him a mercenary, but he’s not hired muscle. He doesn’t rough people up or intimidate anyone.
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  6. I like broker or fixer myself. Nicely ambiguous, and doesn’t always imply mayhem for hire. Although factotum appeals to my love of extraordinary words…
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  7. Gopher (As in “Go for this/go for that”) as well as a more slangy term.
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  8. Yeah, good luck to all taking part!
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  9. Off the top of my head: fetcher, acquirer, obtainer, go-between, broker, “personal shopper”
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  10. 5 more days until the Halloween Anthology will be up and running! Everyone is welcome to add a story! If you haven’t started yours yet, there are some Halloween story ideas in the Original Challenges forum. And don’t worry if you don’t get your story done by the 20th, you can still submit an entry up to Halloween and beyond.
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  11. Never try to out dumb idiots. They’ll only beat you through experience.
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  12. JayDee

    Character's job title

    Factotum as well, maybe?
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  13. Zodorus

    Ranma Smut...

    Not the best writer in the world, but I can use spellcheck. This bit of fictional tawdriness has been kicking about in my head for a while, so finally getting around to getting it out. Do feel free to give feedback if you wish. Constructive Crit always welcome. At least let me know if you are enjoying it. Three Chapters up so far. Slow build so stay tuned. Author: Zodorus Title: Lies of the Heart Summary: It's been over three years since the marriage of Akane and Ranma. The fiance squad have gone their separate ways, and the future seems bright. All seems well in Nerima, but that is a mere facade, masking resentment and betrayals. A secret exposed is about to irrevocably shatter and alter everyone's lives. Can their marriage survive? Can the Tendo's carry on? Only time, and a strong, steady hand may save the day. Feedback: Certainly Fandom: Ranma 1/2 Pairing: A lot, hard to pin down Warnings: 3Plus Anal Angst BDSM Bi CBT DP FF HC HJ Oral Peg Rim Solo Spank Toys WIP Solo story or chaptered story: Chaptered URL: http://anime.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600056152
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  14. Update on An Actor Abducted: I spent a few hours in two batches today re-writing this part, including the bits I’d already three-quarters re-written. I took out a good 700 words of the original ending completely, and wrote around 2000 new words both in the ending and throughout. It’s now got the shape and the ending that I feel works and is pretty different to the original. I want to leave it a few days and look again as there’s likely introduced types/grammar errors I’ll hopefully pick up, but my hope now is to have it finally finished and polished by next Saturday or Sunday. I’ll leave it in the Darkfic > General section, as the only actual threesome – which will need tagging – is towards the end of the final part so just a 3Plus tag will be more accurate, than moving to threesomes/moresomes and I’ll probably put it at the top of Part 4 only rather than the main page summary so as to not mislead on the majority of content. There’s another tag which only applies to part 4, which didn’t apply to the original, that I will put on the main page summary because it’s a bit of a trigger/extreme content tag. Someone gon’ die.
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  15. My new mission in life is to one day start a scene, maybe even a story, with the word ‘Penis’. Thanks guys. We classy.
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