Novel-in-a-Day 4.0: Live Free or NiaD

[robertdguthrie]

I have two scenes (likely will spawn a 3rd, as they do) planned and ready to go. It's 11pm here, and I need my beauty sleep. Catch you all in a few hours.

[r6d2]

I hope we aren't judged on accuracy

Don't worry. We won't be judged. At least not for this.

[r6d2]

Going to sleep now. See you all tomorrow!

[pigfender]

The questions seem to have tapered off now so I'm going to grab a couple of hours power nap. Hopefully any questions you have can wait for a little while (or be resolved on the forum). Failing that, if really urgent, TYPE REALLY LOUD and I might just wake up.

[matt]

Hmmm. No heckling from Matt yet.

Late work last night, more work this morning, tennis competition in the afternoon...

Back online and ready to write, just too worried about my deadline now to find the time for heckling.

Only one problem -- did you send my brief yet Piggy?

Matt

[matt]

Hmmm. No heckling from Matt yet.

Only one problem -- did you send my brief yet Piggy?

Boom! How's that for heckling?

[matt]

Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

rog@pigfender.com

Technical details of permanent failure:
Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the server for the recipient domain pigfender.com by mailserver.pigfender.com. [213.171.216.114].

The error that the other server returned was:
552 <rog@pigfender.com>: Recipient address rejected: Mailbox message count quota exceeded, please try again later.

I didn't think I had been doing that much heckling!

Still sitting at the blind panic phase I described last year. I have a couple of questions, since my emails aren't getting through, will send them via PM instead.

Matt

[scrapsandsass]

Eek. I think I might be done with my chapter. I'm going to print and have my daughter read it in the morning before she goes to work and then I will send it off.

This has been such fun.

Nighty night, peeps!

[Siren]

Funny to see someone finished before I have even staggered out of bed and started writing. Well done, scrapsandsass!

Got my brief an hour ago (thank you, Pigfender), and have now read it, set up my Scrivener project, created scenes with synopses, split the briefing information into sections, added Scrivener links from scenes to those sections, plucked some word-count targets out of the air, set up some pretty colours for labels... Anything to delay the moment when I need to start writing! I need coffee.

Have fun, everyone.

[Siren]

Quick question, Pigfender... Would you prefer newspaper titles to be in quotation marks or in italics?

[Yellowcake]

Hey Rog. Im getting my emails bounce back, looks like your inbox in full

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Recipient address rejected: Mailbox message count
quota exceeded, please try again later. (in reply to RCPT TO command)

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anyway, looks like this chapter is pretty much at its end (notice I didn't say ready hey). I'm gonna let it fester for a little while and then proof read again. Im flying solo on this one. My wife and wingman who normally spots typos, ill conceived concepts and all the shithouse SPaG errors that I make is working tonight so you've just got me. For that I'm truly sorry.

Cheers
Al

[nom]

Stress levels have reached a new high. I finally got my machine stable this afternoon and after flailing around for a direction and some ideas, managed to create a Scapple. Now I'm all set to go... and have to go to a special family event (arranged after I signed up for NiaD). So, at the time that I had planned to be nearly done, I have zero words and need to be putting on my glad rags for a party.

I think it will be a long time before I see any sleep after I get home tonight...

[tickbite]

Interesting to note that The Daily Echo shares its name with another UK tabloid. This one's a lot older though (1888) and much less interesting than your creation, Rog.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Daily_Echo

[matt]

Stress levels have reached a new high. I finally got my machine stable this afternoon and after flailing around for a direction and some ideas, managed to create a Scapple. Now I'm all set to go... and have to go to a special family event (arranged after I signed up for NiaD). So, at the time that I had planned to be nearly done, I have zero words and need to be putting on my glad rags for a party.

I think it will be a long time before I see any sleep after I get home tonight...

If Piggy gives you his home address, you could write it out long hand and wrap it around a pigeon's leg to get it to him.

[theonlygolux]

or a brick.

That helps solve Windows problems too.