General Chat

I've been VERY QUIET for a while. I don't think I've posted here in months, but I'm back now and I promise to do better.

The reason for the hiatus was deliberately trying not to think of writerly stuff pre-Nano. And I'm infernally lazy. And I was arguing with people about the Police raids in the Urewera's, but that's a topic likely to provoke disharmony, so lets not go there ... But yes, if you hang out in the right parts of the internet, I am THAT lurgee. Try not to hold it against me here.

Having got through nano, I'm really intent on finishing off my story. By the time I got to 50K, I was no where near completion - tens of thousands of words still to go! So I'm approaching Decemebr as a mini-Nano, with a target of 30K and a daily word count of about a thousand.

Previously, when I completed nano, I flopped down dead when I hit 50K. I'd always plan to return to my narrative, once I'd recharged. Of course, I never did, until this year when I discovered SOCNOC, which got abck infornt of the PC long enough to finish my 2006 nano - or a variation there of, as various plot strands needed to be seperated, Siamese twin style.

I'll keep you posted on how I go this time, but my goal is to carry on writing until I finish the story - and then start a new one from scratch. For some reason, I'm itching to write a ghost story.

Great to see you back lurgee. :)

heh, my nano story is about the police raids, but mine was set in Whanganui National Park.

Got a plot and Title for Socnoc 2008.
"To Be Or Not To Be: That Is The Question."

Books are Humanity in Print!

I think nanofimo is 30K? That could help with the motivation to finish the rest of the novel off this month! There is another thread about it around somewhere lol.
Glad to see you back tho!!

http://vyanae.blogspot.com/

Coincidentally, I was turning over the idea of a murder mystery where the main characters are a group of radical environmentalists / animal rights campaigners. Then the raids happened and I figured my idea had been trumped by reality. Wicked, bad, reality!

Hey lurgee, glad to have you back. Well done on doing your 50k - I think we had a good success rate amongst our KiwiWriters (though I don't know the actual figures).

Andrew Chilton - http://kapiti.geek.nz/
SoCNoC 2008 - Unknown and Untitled

4 nights in, just short of 5K new stuff added, but I DESPERATELY NEED PLOT SURGERY.

I was planning ondoing that today, only Lurgee Jnr is in the process of acclimatizing to a real bed instead of a cot. Today he worked out that he can get out of bed whenever he wants. He decided this meant he didn't need an afternoon nap, so I didn't get any relaxing / thinking time.

Tommorrow, hopefully. I can tell I'm in trouble, plotwise, because my story is starting to get smutty. This is always a bad sign with me.

Ah you naughty boy. Mine has the 'f' word, but 'NZ terrorists' would speak that way, right!

Got a plot and Title for Socnoc 2008.
"To Be Or Not To Be: That Is The Question."

Books are Humanity in Print!

As my story is set in 1920s Mississippi and racial strife is a major theme, I've been throwing around a lot of language I'd normally steer clear of. But that's okay, my books are full of the sort of people I'd normally run screaming from.

Hmmm think I know what you mean.
Just finishing Stephen King's book "Desperation." Ugh! the imagination that man has. Creeeeepy!!!

Got a plot and Title for Socnoc 2008.
"To Be Or Not To Be: That Is The Question."

Books are Humanity in Print!