PicoWriMo

I did write a bit last night - that counts as today, doesn't it? Managed to integrate the personal background of my newly minted character into the story without it seeming too forced; at least I hope so. These parts always come to me a lot easier because I'm hopelessly obsessed with detail - and then suffer like a dog when I have to omit 80 per cent of it or else my readers would die of boredom. * sigh*

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The opposite of my problems the day I did all my writing after midnight! I decided it counted, since I hadn't been to bed :)

It sounds like you had fun coming up with all the details, at least.

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Too much fun, as usual. I must be very watchful, or every single one of my stories would drown in detail. Tolkien once said that he could write chapter after chapter about Hobbits: about their customs, their way of life, what they ate and how they lived their daily life, he just doubted that anybody but him would be interested. I'm like that with almost everything I write about. *sigh*

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I love that you set your imagination free, to let it all out first, get all those ideas on paper:)

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Let's have our fingers crossed and hope for the best.

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editing is the hardest part. those critical decisions! i always keep a 'dead' file of all the bits i've cut, just because i can't let go of the bits until the whole thing is done. just because they're not in the final piece doesn't devalue the work imo.

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Oh, I agree. I sometimes post these things separately, so that the public could see them.
It's the world-building and background stuff that tends to run away from me. As somebody said in one of the earlier pico sessions, it hurts not to share all that wonderful research. *g*

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your last comment has fired off the ferretbrain - fb is very similar to a turning machine - and it's popped something out.

1. why can't the research be a stand-alone piece in and of itself?
2. have you heard or ever read Tales of Nevèrÿon?

if one is getting that much /inside/ a world and exploring the archeology (for want of a better word) of that world, then it is purely logical imo to be looking at producing supporting documentation - we have maps of these worlds, we have language for these worlds in terms of translations of each characters dialects, therefore why wouldn't we things like what they would read, or enjoy themselves? in exploring that 'other world' culture, we are as writers some strange anthropologists unearthing as we go...

i'll shut up now...

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No, it's all right! I did that for my original fiction: drawing maps and figuring out the history of entire peoples and stuff like that. It's a bit more tricky with fanfic, as most of such stuff is already given and fanon is so determined by big name authors that the majority of readers won't accept/be interested in any other version.

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i hate this type of fandom facism. i don't see why anyone can't create their own little versionette and play inside that. i love reading the au variants.

saying that if one is writing to order, i accept that one must adhere to forms of the requestee.

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Greetings, and belated holiday wishes to those who celebrated Thanksgiving!

Between the holiday and now, I've been steadily going from feeling under the weather with sore throat and headache to a bad cold. I'm just wrung out. Wednesday and Thursday were very busy with all things Thanksgiving, and for three days since, I've been mostly resting, reading, napping, and sleeping.

I wrote a little bit on Friday, only a half-page, but enough to get a complete thought on paper. And this morning I thought of a different spin I could give to a scene that just wasn't sitting well, and got a nice start on that before I ran out of steam. Fingers crossed for energy, and some productive writing days for the remainder of Pico.

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i raise my paw in solidarity with your under-the-weatherness. seems november is the plague month!

sometimes being enforced to rest gives rise to new ideas. if only we could be so disciplined as to see resting as part of the process!

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The random ideas pop out at the most unexpected times! I'm glad I made myself pick up my notebook and write it down:)

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mostly when we least expect them!!!!

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Good luck! Resting is important; and so is reading. It won't help your writing if you're physically and/or mentally exhausted.

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I've been on the go all day, and now I am really exhausted:) Fortunately, the cold is improving!

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780 words on two blog posts - finally finishing the one about the bridges, and writing one about yesterday's wanderings. But the books are feeling a bit neglected...

Steam as a method of power was not at all new by this stage - the first Newcomen pumping engines were nearly 100 years old, and it was more than 20 years since Watt had invented a way for his improved engine to produce rotary motion

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Good going!

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Hey, you cannot sit in two saddles at the same time. The books will have to learn to share!
I love your snippet, it has such a nice sound to it.

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this sounds very productive!

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i have failed yet again to achieve anything of note, my energies are depleted, my dilithium crystals are worn out and i'm listing badly to starboard - fortunately i'm not venting plasma any more but....

where's scotty the miracle worker when you need him?

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She canna take much more, Captain!

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Scotty hasn't been in a good mood since JJ Abrams replaced him with a snotty teenager. *g*

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don't get me started about new!trek! there isn't enough room to ferretrant here about it!

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For shame! I'd just love to help you rant about it.

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after 10 days of something similar to a Norsesaga drinking competition, with bodies laying all around us, empty drinking vessels and broken furniture - is that someone's finger? - we'd just end up realising we agreed. on everything. then we'd have to clean up and apologise to everyone, if there was anyone left with the will to live, and i'm not good at that.

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