In honour of National Novel Editing Month, there will be an edit-in / write-in / meeting at Nina's on March 15, (Saturday) from 1 to 3 pm. We picked 1-3 hoping for less lunch crowd traffic.
Bring something to write, bring blank pages, bring an open mind, if people want to talk shop on editing, we'll be there for it, if they want to huddle in the corner, fetal-ball style, there's coffee/chocolate/food to assist your prompt recovery (or assist in the mindful wallowing), bring your November novel printed out so you can read through it, or just so you can whap others with it when they make dumb jokes (please, no 20 lb bond 600 page manuscripts for hitting me, there have to be some reasonable limits).
Anyway, I'm hoping to discuss rewriting, revising, editing, and so on. Having completed one round of light editing on my 07 JanNo, I have at least some comments to make, and others are welcome to contribute if they wish. The try-it for the next two weeks is to pretend you lost something you wrote and rewrite it from scratch, preferably a short piece, print out original and complete rewrite and compare the two.
See you there.
Brian.
Unelected, self-appointed "leader-for-life" of the MnNanNo writer's group, a non-profit organization of at least one.
Andy - Try out the tantric yoga line you overheard on your ninja master! You were gone by the time we got to the writing suggestion, try rewriting your chapter 3,6, or 9 completely from scratch, without referring to the original. Let us know if you find something useful or break into editing the original chapter 3 that way.
Next idea - now that Thorin brought us some purple prose examples, (THANK YOU!) go get a nice, short, adjective and adverb-free Hemingway story and 'pollute it' with purple prose.
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JanNoWriMo07 - Still Waters Run Deep - >70,000 won (didn't know there was a group!)
AugNoWriMo07 - The Wreck of the Day ->50,000 won (over on Proboards)
NaNoWriMo08 - Fever.
67,548 / 50,000
Mär 10, 2008 - 19 35
Yeah, I'll be there. How can I resist an invitation to spend a Saturday at Nina's? Might even get there a little early so I can hit the breakfast and lunch menus!
Not sure about the tantric business, but I'll keep it in mind. All I can think of is Sensei Funky Gibbon doing his impersonation of Geddy Watanabe in the movie "UHF" and hitting the guy upside the head and saying, "You so stoopod!" ('Red snapper! Very tasty!' "Come on, kids! We're going to SPATULA CITY!" "...A drink from Mr. Fire Hose!")
Enough movie quotes. For now. At least I'm pretty sure all of that is from "UHF"...
"You'll see. Someday I'll get my v****a and I'll be the prettiest little English girl since Orlando Bloom!"
Okay. That one, I know isn't "UHF"...
Rewriting the errant chapters like you've suggested sounds like a great idea, but I'll probably write up a short summary on an index card for each one before I can do that. I'm losing track of enough major events in the story, so I'd like to get keep some control on it.
So, yeah. Saturday. Nina's. Don't bring The Mascot. They might charge you for it again.