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17104, not as good a day, butu I usually have a three or four day cycle during Nano.
I kind of miss the widgets, it takes too many clicks to check on a writing buddy’s progress and compete...
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getting bloodwork twice plus an aide supervisor and groceries. Finished my home alone AU, two drafted now...
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getting bloodwork twice plus an aide supervisor and groceries. Finished my home alone AU, two drafted now...
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48k for Nano. medical issues really nuked me this year. (tooth aches for weeks and usual aide issues. get to ‘celebrate’ end of Nano with biopsy and other stressors, whee!
hope everyone else is fine.
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almost caught up for NaNo…
I reall hate Nano dumped my buddies list. These are people I contact through their boards only and have no other way. the Nano site has lost almost all value if we cannot trust them not to dumps our friends links...
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They did warn us in August that certain things wouldn’t be carried over to the redesigned site, like our buddy lists. It’s unfortunate that the information couldn’t be preserved, but there we are. Technology isn’t as reliable as we’d like.
Sadly, I’m not going to have the time to do NaNo this year, as much as I’d like. I have more than enough WIPs, my day job, and family things to keep me hopping like mad, and unless I give up sleeping altogether, NaNo will just become a source of stress rather than an exciting way to challenge myself. But I will root for everyone doing NaNo, and if you want to buddy up, I’m still MorwenNavarre on NaNo.
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Sadly, their value added doesn’t apply in August for me. I just don’t have contact info for most I was nano buddies with. Friend lists are the big thing for social sites and it’s not worth the effort to redo it if they don’t care.Can yu imagine the real social sites dropping friends lists and thinking they could keep their audience?
I got a story featured in a halloween podcast. my 1st contract…
Sorry you aren’t having time to write. The new systen does facilitate other projects, combining the camps better. You can also set different goals too/ I really need to set a month aside to work on revising my originals. I found my short/flash stories lean strongly to horror and longer happier. Maybe you should try flash as that gives faster results and easier to fit in busy schedule. I usually fit one in in twodays.
I’m yet another Dean of WIPs. My fanfic is all Star Wars, I’m doing the final chapter of a 4 chapter, and have a handful in medium length plus my usual big story blocking nearing the end. I’m in a short writing class, but the required prompts aren’t reall grabbing me. I really wish this teacher would STOP starting classes during NaNo.
this is my free time after midnight so i read and game. I hope to collect all my ideas if i can’t sleep. too. sleep well!
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Decided to finally put an image in my profile banner. but how do you represent cross-genre interests? <u portrait leans fantasy, so the banner went SF and I can’t draw.
Honestly I’m avoiding some paperwork until after the banking day ends...
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5 frame gif with slow frame change rate cycling through 5 different images?
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I really am fine with a sense of wonder starscape… I don’t have any strong ideas for the other genres.
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Lol. All fair points.
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Happy about a SW RotS fic for Nano. Here’s what I’m proud of today: (see if you can guess the other inspiration)
Polli went to help Mirran. The stairs up must be blocked, let the attackers think they were hoping for air rescue. Carting furniture with service droids and the Force clogged the old wide spiral stairs, pulling out or destroying the lynchpins would not solve tons of equipment falling.
Enthan arrived at the desert garden with a grin. “I got the emergency stairs into the Council chamber. Like a ton of compressed fire suppressant foam will expand to cut off air in the shaft. They’ll need days to cut out and remove it if they think to find anyone there running defenses.”
Polli asked her friends, all sweaty and sore, “What else do we have that’s heavy but easy to clog lift shafts?”
“Water or sand from the gardens. I need help finishing the poppers. If we can break the electronics in their armor… it won’t help against the Sith, but he must be a coward to bring an army against the injured and younglings...” Kotton was finally showing anger too. “They have not left, lethalities are necessary now. Can we handle that?”
Polli blinked, this was opposite why she worked so hard to become a Padawan. The Living Force made her weep with interconnected joy in deep meditations. She wasn’t really for the field, but the harsh balance of healing. Every hour they distracted the clones was that many fugitives who might get away. “To save a life, we kill the cancer.”
Adus and Mirran nodded in synch, while Enthan spoke darkly, “We won’t have to handle it long, a few days at most.”
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Happy NewYear!
Hope yours goes better than the poor schlubs who made the float in Pasedena that broke down and prevented the end of the parade…
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I’m actually a few hundred words above my NaNo quota and waiting to see if my work’s going in an Advent promo package again this year. The theme was dragons!!
Hoping to find a kriffing fly strip and see if I can start a batch of Xmas cards with some help today. Weird bio stuff too.
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It is a really bad sign when your NaNo crashes and burns on day1. I was using a new (to me) technique that has been stifling my muse.
A total rewrite is just depressing even if it’s only one day.
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Good luck at recovering and re-writing that mofo!
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And keep in mind, this is not a polished draft. This is a rough, dirty, sloppy, total seat-of-the-pants draft, so maybe keep what you did and worry about fixing it later. Move ahead, not backward.
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yeah, but it was so broken it was breaking the story. I wrote enough on friday to make up half the amoutn I was behind. I’ve started NaNo as late as the 7th and finished on time, but i could type faster then. Thanks
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Just posted an excerpt from my original that hit the rocks. This short character intro is totally a result of the class I’m taking, as my villain is way more 3D than the terrible attempt years ago…
https://nanowrimo.org/participants/bucolic-scribe/novels/enlightenment-machine
This is a draft, and I’d like to revise, but I still keep the blank slate. filling in as journal at worst. My revisions add 50-100% for length too.
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My ISP stopped sending me emails at midnight. Seems the upgrades require pwd change. It would not have been a bad thing if they told us instead of watching no email come for at least 12 hours.
Just to make it more fun, upgrading my mail apps password has hit a really, really fun snag. It looks like it is downloading emails dating back a decade and tying itself in knots. At least 5k messages, including a lot of back and forths about my earliest fanfiction that I thought lost when tech issues deleted my archives.
Heading toward 6k emails… oy vey.
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shavit, I wanted to delete a duplicate, sorry about removing responses.
I’m not quite mad enough to delete them all to save time. I’m deleting dupes and doing a cleanout of things I really don’t need like old news and subscriptions I never read. I’m hoping to reduce the inbox unopened at least 1k a day until I’m back at the bad-enough 6k I was at last week. Even my trash bin had 40k...
Sa:6k>43k>36k S:34k
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Tu:31k (I confess I’m losing patience)
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M:28k and now it’s a grind with new ones coming in. down to 28k now and removing a few hundred at a time… goal is 10k
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My mind just boggled when the tags for the first chapter of a mashup story elsewhere was seven hundred words longer than the chapter.
LSS, I decided not to read it as there were dozens of chars and worlds I don’t know nuttin about. The big mashups I’ve tried don’t give enough background and the more famous ones are ooc enough I begin to feel they were included more like clickbait. I already have five stories pending to read for a while, no more.
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I’ve seen some stories like that on here, like every damn tag selected and it’s a drabble about Bobby-Jo getting some cheesecake with “LOL! MORE TO COME!” Like, what’s she gonna do? fuck the cheese cake?
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Lemme guess… AO3? They let you tag as freely as you want, with the end result that the tags become meaningless.
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It was AO3, but stories that are long with large casts in all fairness need more than a handful. I know now I would tag my Choices1 very differently. My current big story has nearly ten viewpoint characters, and they go through all kinds of physical and moral crap.
You know me, I don’t wallow on the physical pain but the moral and strategic when bad stuff happens. How does one deal with the painful crossroads or morality and battlefield tactics, and the emotional aftermaths? What happens when your lover really cannot forgive something done to save lives and shorten a battle? (in this case abandonment and lots of angst)
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Roofers finally making noise overhead. It took NINE months minus a week for the insurance to stop dragging their feet and low-balling ripped roof deck and hail damage. The first month it poured in, later it ‘only’ dripped.
Maybe we’ll all stop having problems sleeping.
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skin of teeth: 50,337 words. not bad as I lost several days to toothache and attempted dentist run. (and missing health aides for family at least half the month)
I will say i don’t like that the competitive widgets on the Nano pages are gone as that helps motivation. Forums really don’t help with wordcount any more than physical write-ins. They pull me out of the stories I wanted to tell.
Last year’s story collection became a new one which may result in nearly 20 stories. I’d hoped to do more originals, but originals require more energy and focus than I had spoons for. I’ll be revising after my hospital stay starting tomorrow… (uggh cubed)
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Congrats!
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Struggling with a chapter since March, RL and block, not unreated. I finally *gasp* wrote out most of an outline, that’s how stuck I was.
And nasty paperwork too.
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Thanksgiving was good, but it did have its stories. An eager helper rubbed a bunch of pepper in the skin of the bird, for a family who don’t use it. (we keep some for guests). Also my brother said an oops! That all the leftover mashed spuds fell on the floor.
I managed not to cry.
Hope everyone had a less challenging meal...
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Tourist postcard showing moonlit beach: “Welcome to sunny Barovia!”
I’m looking forward to my trip! I get sunburn easily.
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In small print on the postcard is a scrawled comment (to the tune of the Bob Hope song) ‘Fangs for the memories...’
The Neverwinter free MMO endgame campaign looks to recreate the essentials of Ravenloft: Vistani, tarokka cards. and gothic mood. It took all my gaining time last night to install the 7gig update so I didn’t start any of the plot...
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It was always one of my favorite tabletop campaigns, but gothic mood is harder than sheer violence.
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Trying to edit my NaNo collection, but a fruitless and draining hospitalization sucked away my holiday card projects and last-minute gifting. Gee, I wish we still had power where the bread machine lives...
Hope everyone’s holidays are better than the rest of this dreary year!
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Twilight Zone realization:
When looking at a fic with psychic characters, and back in June I decided my lead had a peptic ulcer about to burst. Early this month a close family member had a peptic ulcer and emergency surgery, when there is no history in the family. Brother said I was not to write about these things again…
(no more real ailmenta)
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She’s recovering, though anything more than lurching to/from WC is a challenge. Her appetite is still wonky from meds (Ie she hated a recipe that tasted fine)
The problem is more my primary aide called out today and I’m physically miserable... My brother is harried because his car has been broken down since before she got sick and he needs daylight to work on it (and he has a date Sat)
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well, s’not good, I hope you get better soon too. There’s always hope I guess.
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Usual slow start for NaNo: blaming insurance stonewalling, politics, and agencies’ incompetence! 5779 (1k behind) they don’t seem to have the widgits anymore
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yay! I’m still at a deficit, but I should get parity tomorrow. I’m at 13276 and not 13333. brain fried and fighting toothache.
glad you found her a regab! is it close for visiting?
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Eh. Thanks to the pandemic, there’s no visiting in person. I can do video visits, and had one scheduled for today. It did not happen, however, so tomorrow will be devoted to finding out why, and getting a clearer update of how she’s doing. I am unamused...
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Wonderful way to enjoy a heat wave: spend 8 hours trying to figure out why email took a powder 8pm last night. settings are fine, but cannot connect. whee!
(even the eweb inteface was down for 6 hours) maybe proxy settings? or I forgot to sacrifice a chicken on Bill Gates’ birhtday) email spotty until further notice
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the servers are up. My email client cannot connect, it looks like 50% chance either my AV or firewall is blocking the login popup and the email client doesn’t have the login anymore. Pop3:por110 was supposed to go byby, but I’ve been using recommended port995 for a good while. or 2)I can’t help but think port 995 isn’t accepting connections at all, and my client never puts up the login window without the connection.
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My ISP email ( POP) uses port 110, while my IMAP email uses port 993. Might be worth a try...
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took 48 hours of pain, but it looks like proxy server settings that affected ONLY the email program, a BFE service, and new AV.
My ISP is discontining thePOP3 110 port and switching to 995. I spent WWednesdayon the phone with comcast. but late afternoon my mom’s comp was fine. so it was not the modem/router/sever settings. the authentication wasn’t happening and there was not way to manually change it in the settings. the popup was the only way and the popup never appeared as it didn’t make a connection… ALL other programs/updates/sites seemed fine.
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Yeesh, I got sucked in by a special offer betty crocker sent me… how could that be bad? She’s a wonderful baker!
It was for a free 11oz custom mug from shutterfly. My cost was S&H, which was like 10$. I made the mug with my four favorite book cover images I made.
The shutterfly app said the imaages weren’t detailed enough. but they didn’t tell me the WxH so I could reduce the full image to boost the pixel density but forced clipping. But I still like it: The covers for 3 fanfics and placegolder from an original from an earlier NaNo. As I was finalizing I could rotate and look inside the mug, but the image on the recept was more crude. We’ll have to see how it turned out. If I had more credit, I’d order a few more and send as a ‘so there’ gift.
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It only took two days to get here, which I did not expect. It looks really nice. I’m not sure whether an scanner or camera would get better image.
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Nothing starts your day off much better than a warm and fuzzy review of a story that has been out for a while and that the reader gets the core concept...
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I already review almost every story I read. The only ones I don’t, are the abusive and/or creepy OOC ones. My profiles on sites and many chapter notes I include pay it forward requests for people to review all the stories they like. A fair percent of my days I spend more time doing reviews than writing my own. It ’s a good/bad habit.
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I’m less of a reader, more of a writer, so that’s why I don’t review often, simply because I’m not reading that often.
