Novel-in-a-Day 3: With a Vengeance
I suspect Pig may be asleep, so I will jump in and say...
Unless your email had a very different package than everyone else's, I expect the next thing you do is write like hell for a few hours until you hit your minimum word count and get your section done! :-)
Matt
Unless your email had a very different package than everyone else's, I expect the next thing you do is write like hell for a few hours until you hit your minimum word count and get your section done! :-)
Matt
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RollerdivaRo
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It appears that my 'writing tools', (very large cup of coffee and box of Quality Street) are more of a distraction than an aid. Will stick to uniform chocolate in the future.
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RollerdivaRo
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pigfender wrote:ASLEEP!?!?!
HAHAHAHAHA!
Foxtrot wrote:It sounds easy when you put it like that.
I've done it enough times that I would never suggest it was easy. In fact, for me, this one was harder than the others.
But what I can say is that it usually gets easier after the first two or three paragraphs once the panic has worn off.
Matt
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pigfender
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matt wrote:pigfender wrote:ASLEEP!?!?!
No sleep yet, or had your two hours and back awake ready to begin collating?
Sleep is for wimps. Or intelligent people. I'm not sure. I'm pretty tired.
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FredInChinaFr
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Checking in & glad to see everyone is going well :)
Enjoy it while it lasts people :p
Enjoy it while it lasts people :p
pigfender wrote:matt wrote:In fact, for me, this one was harder than the others.
P'ah, you say that every year!
Last year was set on a space mission. Anyone can write about that, because there aren't any space missions like that, so there's nothing much you can get wrong. Your guess is as good as anyone else's.
This one was set in a real city I've never been to, in a real country I've never been to, at a real time before I was born. I don't know what they talk like, how they sounded. I got my entire knowledge of Vegas from the original CSI and a few Casino movies, and my entire knowledge of 1960s America by trying to stay awake during Mad Men.
What I am trying to say is, I think my characters say "G'day" a little too often!
Matt
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I found this mafia lingo site. I'm sure it's well researched; I spent a whole 10 seconds scrolling through the list of words. I could add color to your dialogue if nothing else.
http://www.netplaces.com/mafia/mafia-lingo/
That's what passes for research when I've been asleep for 3 hours out of 25. Don't know how you do it. I'm getting too old/lazy for this.
Back to editing. Should be done in a couple of hours. I hope.
http://www.netplaces.com/mafia/mafia-lingo/
That's what passes for research when I've been asleep for 3 hours out of 25. Don't know how you do it. I'm getting too old/lazy for this.
Back to editing. Should be done in a couple of hours. I hope.