We've had a contact from a reporter for this local paper requesting to interview an AL North Wrimo. Would any of you care to respond?
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Amy
readfish_at_mchsi_dot_com
"Something good will come from the unpromising beginning . . .."
-- Soren Kierkegaard
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Nov 11, 2007 - 15 52
I saw the other thread about it ... does it count if we're really struggling this year and don't make a very inspiring story? :)
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Nov 12, 2007 - 10 37
Kristen,
----------Uh, duh, I didn't realize that B had done such a fulsome post. Please go ahead and respond to the email he listed. I'm sure she'd like all she can get as her deadline looms.
Thanks!
Amy
Amy
readfish_at_mchsi_dot_com
"Something good will come from the unpromising beginning . . .."
-- Soren Kierkegaard
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Nov 14, 2007 - 08 41
*eyes your word-count bar*
*snort* Struggling...
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Nov 14, 2007 - 13 36
Oh, I've got words... just not words worth sharing. This is the first year I've utterly hated my story from the very beginning, with no redeeming excerpts whatsoever.
I emailed the lady anyway, since I wasn't sure anyone else had, just to make sure she had something.
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Nov 15, 2007 - 20 37
I too sent something to the woman. She replied and said she appreciated it. I don't know how many of us actually sent her something but I will definitely be searching for a Valley Planet come Tuesday AM.
I feel a lot more ambivalent about what I'm writing this year than I did each of the other two years I did it. I still have almost no idea where I'm going or where I'll end up and I'm already almost to the half way point. So I may very well turn out 50,000 words. Of course, I may feel like burning them after the month is over. I don't know. This one has its moments. They're just rare and special. Maybe I can salvage them from the rest of the wreckage at some point.
All right, back to the word count.
grizzercoon
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“Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.”
Madame Bovary
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Nov 16, 2007 - 07 52
Cool.
I did see that the Valley Planet has a PDF edition online each week, so if we can't find paper copies, at leas we can see that.
I think one reason we do Nano in November is so, if we feel like burning them afterwards, we get the lovely heat from it. :-)
I did auto-summarize on mine for a laugh (that always gets suggested in the forums somewhere) and apparently my entire novel is about people introducing themselves to each other. And I am *not* writing lit fic.