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lil  ·  3696 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: October 15, 2014

Except that I would have spelled "Tell" correctly. (Snicker)

8bit, do the National Novel Writing Month -- but send _refugee_ and me little pieces of it for spelling. I can do little bits at a time for distraction.

Oh speaking of distraction. I have 60 or 70 short essays to mark. That's why I'm so busy on hubski today.





user-inactivated  ·  3696 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I claim no blame because I can only think in numbers right now.

lil  ·  3696 days ago  ·  link  ·  

ahhh -- counting money in the "till"

_refugee_  ·  3696 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ah, NaNoWriMo. An admirable goal. I've participated, but never won I think. If I just wrote 50,000 words during the month of November I would be happy. Maybe I shall make that a personal goal.

user-inactivated  ·  3695 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's a lot of words. Lots of them will probably come out as garbage. But I'm actually excited about this idea, so we'll see how it goes. Who knows, the whole idea might come out as garbage too.

_refugee_  ·  3695 days ago  ·  link  ·  

They all always come out as garbage. It's only in the edit that words gain anything. Let them be garbage. Let the garbage flow through you.

When I write a story I usually have to write 1-2 pages of NONSENSE, drivel, meandering, just plain and simple nothing more than words before I realize what I want to say. I just have to shit or vomit it all out on paper. It's much later that everything becomes good, and cohesive, and maybe says what I want it to say. Just getting it all down in the first place - that's the work.