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 <title>The Last Thing You Wrote</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Always funny, just give the last sentence of your nano novel. Less context the better.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&quot;Edmund smiled inwardly as the diplomat ate what could probably be compared to shredded hot dogs swimming in garlic and pretended it tasted like gourmet.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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 <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
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 <link>http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/node/3425275</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;Most of you probably know that the first Tim Horton&#039;s store, the home of the double-double (a large coffee with double cream and sugar) was in Hamilton.  That&#039;s right!  We are the home of the Double-Double!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In honour of this, I&#039;d like to challenge you all (and myself as well!) to have a Double-Double Weekend.  What&#039;s a Double-Double Weekend?  It&#039;s a weekend when you aim to double-up on Saturday and then again on Sunday.  This can be done.  There is an official write-in on Saturday and an unofficial one on Sunday.  Lots of support.  Oh, and as an added bonus, if you write more than your quota today, Friday, you can count the extra words as part of the Double-Double.  Cuz I&#039;m nice like that!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So ... who&#039;s in?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;DOUBLE-DOUBLE WEEKEND, Nov 7 and 8&lt;br /&gt;
0,000 / 6,668 - Gale M-N&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To join the challenge, copy the list from the last post, add in your name and repost.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We can do this, folks! &lt;a href=&quot;http://s130.photobucket.com/albums/p267/ThornesQuest/Smilies/?action=view&amp;amp;current=smiley-sport026.gif&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p267/ThornesQuest/Smilies/smiley-sport026.gif&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;Juggler&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Gale  . . .  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ThornesQuest.com&quot; title=&quot;www.ThornesQuest.com&quot;&gt;www.ThornesQuest.com&lt;/a&gt; . . . or . . . &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stringingwords.com&quot; title=&quot;www.stringingwords.com&quot;&gt;www.stringingwords.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>Gale M-N</dc:creator>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Hai, newbies! You&#039;re in for a delectable treat! It&#039;s gunna be fab and you&#039;re going to think we&#039;re all nuts! [GO HAMILTON!]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For those not in the know:&lt;br /&gt;
one year [2 years ago, I believe] Ms Welestra made punch cards for everyone and handed them out at the kick-off. There was a punch for each 10K and then some other milestones like: 10K in one day, 20K in two days, ect ect.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The craziest of us were like, this is pretty wicked! Let&#039;s do a 20K weekend!! And the first weekend was such.&lt;br /&gt;
The next year, nano started on a friday [at midnight, mind] and a couple of us wanted to try and get the 20K before our lives on the Monday. [success was had by a few, and a couple others tried it the following full weekend]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;THIS year, however, unfortunately, the first weekend only consists of 25 hours of Sunday. [Anyone awesome* enough to attempt the 20K this weekend has my congratulations, sympathies, and, of course, company!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So, I&#039;m proposing this year we do it on the first full weekend [next week]. Anyone up for it?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The rules are as followed:&lt;br /&gt;
You can start whenever your life ends on the friday [after work, after school]&lt;br /&gt;
If you have that day off [by golly gosh] you can work from when you wake up that day [but not the Thursday night]&lt;br /&gt;
It ends when your life starts on the Monday [so, if it&#039;s 1 am on the Sunday and you&#039;re, say 1500 words from the end, but cannot possibly stay up, you can go to bed that night, wake up an hour earlier the following morning, and finish]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I think that&#039;s it ... Night shift on the friday? You have the whole day and let&#039;s hope you can write while at work :P&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Good luck everyone!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;00,000/20,000 - Ziggi&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;*crazy&lt;br /&gt;
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I&#039;m from Hamilton, land of hysterical fiction filled with flying monkeys, dancing bananas, and sexy, cozy, violence&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>I feel dirty</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Most of my chapter titles run three to six words long. Somehow this chapter title came out of me:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Chapter 7&lt;br /&gt;
Of the great celebration and a parade and much festivities and the departure of the heroes and a bunch of other things and of the shameless way that the author is padding - and I mean oh so ever shamelessly and vulgarly padding - his word count if you know what I mean and I think that you do, for such are the lengths a desperate man will go to in the course of a NaNoWriMo novel writing contest.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So what is your worst NaNo inspired crime against literature... so far...?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://fantasywriterguy.blogspot.com/&quot; title=&quot;http://fantasywriterguy.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;http://fantasywriterguy.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>FWG</dc:creator>
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 <title>The Introduction Thread</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The Introduce Yourself thread is back!  Don’t be shy, step up and say hi.  I’ll start :)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I’m Welestra, one of the regional co-MLs.  This is year seven for me as a ML and eight as a participant.  I’ve lost one year out of those eight (it was a bad year), but I keep going.  This year I’m hoping to restrict myself to two stories with a 100k total between them (yes I’m a glutton for punishment, we’ve established I’m crazy lol) but a third is trying to weasel its way in.  We’ll have to see.  I’m also a chocoholic and I love ice capps.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Nagging Gale</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;When I first joined NaNo in 2006, I was concerned that I would not be able to write 50K.  So I started a thread here in the regional forum called &quot;Nagging Gale&quot;.  I asked the other members of the region to nag me if they did not see my word count go up EVERY day.  In 2007 and 2008, &quot;Nagging Gale&quot; was part of our regional dynamic.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I wasn&#039;t sure if I was going to have Nagging Gale this year.  Not that I don&#039;t need it, of course; I certainly do.  Just ... didn&#039;t know.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Anyway, Ziggi got a jump-start on Nagging Gale and sent me a PM asking where the thread was.  So, here it is.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This thread is not just for nagging Gale.  You can also use it to nag Ziggi ... Laural ... Peter ... Tristan ... Cayte ... FWG ... Welestra ... and everyone else in the region.  New members, along with old members -- this is an equal opoortunity nagging thread!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I think that Ziggi called it the &quot;random chat&quot; thread, which is also a good purpose.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So .... how is everyone doing?  With 13 hours to go, ARE YOU READY?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And, do you realize that November 1 has 25 hours, because of the change in Daylight Savings Time?  How cool is that?!?&lt;br /&gt;
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Gale  . . .  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ThornesQuest.com&quot; title=&quot;www.ThornesQuest.com&quot;&gt;www.ThornesQuest.com&lt;/a&gt; . . . or . . . &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stringingwords.com&quot; title=&quot;www.stringingwords.com&quot;&gt;www.stringingwords.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:05:07 +0000</pubDate>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Hello everyone! &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;ve decided to make a small challenge for anyone who is interested. All you have to do is time yourself for five minutes and write as much as possible and post your outcome. I hope this will be motivational for all!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I wrote 166 words in five minutes and I&#039;m already setting my goal to beat it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Good luck everyone. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-Julie/wonderwoman&lt;br /&gt;
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 <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:22:41 +0000</pubDate>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Last year we did them on the weekends and I think Tuesday and Thursday?  I think that was it.  Anyway, I think three ‘official’ write-ins worked pretty well, everyone seemed to like that idea and it seemed to give everyone enough opportunity to come to a write-in so we can repeat that this year.  Punchcards WILL be back this year, so that’s some extra incentive to come out to events ;)  So let us know roughly what works for you guys so we can start getting some dates on the calendar.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By the way, if people want to hold write-ins on other days that’s fine too, and either Gale or I would be more than happy to throw it up on the calendar for you.&lt;br /&gt;
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 <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:19:44 +0000</pubDate>
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 <link>http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/node/3323897</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;These happen when not scheduled by our lovely MLs.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As for me:&lt;br /&gt;
I have 10-12 off every day that is even [Nov 2, 4, 6, ect ect] from school.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I was wondering if anyone has that time available to meet in the West End somewhere [HPL, Second Cup, what have you]&lt;/p&gt;
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I&#039;m from Hamilton, land of hysterical fiction filled with flying monkeys, dancing bananas, and sexy, cozy, violence&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>Ziggi</dc:creator>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;I was curious how many books have been set in Hamilton, and googling wasn&#039;t turning up too much, so I wrote to the reference desk at the Hamilton Public Library. They responded (really quickly--awesome service) with this. Do you know of any others that aren&#039;t on this (sadly kind of short) list?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PS Interesting: the reference librarian who replied (Robert Oldham) is an author himself. He&#039;s having a book signing/reading at Titles (McMaster bookstore) on Tuesday 17 November from 11:30-:230 PM for Go For a Soldier, his fourth book in my alternative history of W.W. II series (with a Hamilton hero and a Montreal heroine).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;OK, here&#039;s the little list:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There are unfortunately not a lot of books or stories set in Hamilton.  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;These could be helpful:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Novels either set in Hamilton or partly set in Hamilton:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Fic  KIN James King.  Blue Moon.   novel about murderess Evelyn may be set in Hamilton&lt;br /&gt;
Available at Concession or Turner Park branches.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Fic OLD Robert OIdham.  Saving the King (hope you don’t mind mentioning this alternative history of W.W. II with a Hamilton hero that I wrote, it has mention of Hamilton several times and may even have a chapter called ‘Hamilton’ can’t remember exactly.)  the 2002 edition is out right now with two holds but the 2005 revised edition has five copies being processed for take home you could reserve it and get   &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Short stories set in Hamilton or partly set in Hamilton: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Fic IMA   James Strecker editor.  Image Fiction.  2nd flr. Central Library &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;819.3 WEA  Gerard Dion editor.  Weave and Spin.  4th flr. Central Library&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:36:01 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Twitter?</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;So do you?  The ultimate time waster available for us!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;My username is : Momnibus&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Anyone else on twitter?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.conquercancer.ca/goto/patti.mackenzie&quot;&gt;Support me in the Ride to Conquer Cancer!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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 <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>The Curse of Nanowrimo</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Okay  I show up for the kickoff! I am hyped I am ready I will start writing at midnight do my first 1600 words and i will get up do my errands and do my second 1600 words..yes i will be rolling.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Gods start snickering as I start getting a headache by 10:30 pm Saturday. I surrender take my headache med(I do et migraines) and head off to bed. I can still write 1600 words before I head out at 10 am and another 1600 after dinner.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I get almost 500 words written when phone rings. My friend wants to head out early so we do and the snicker becomes a chuckle. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Off i go and a call to my cell while out from home nd the honey do starts 90 minutes turns into 4 hours and the chuckle deepens.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Home to find laundry is being done and my work surface is gone but I can wait what is 2500 words after dinner and the laundry? &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Do I hear a delight chortle?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dinner and the headache is back and I have a fever and the chortle becomes a laugh of pure amused delight. No appitite by 7 pm I am off to bed feeling like death. No writing done no idea about the story nothing accomplished but three pretty paragraphs written this morning.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Monday morning and I am burning up and sick with the flu very sick with the flu. Everything hurts..even my fingertips can&#039;t type because they hurt, my head is a wash of pain and getting worse and looking at the computer. The delight  and amusement is now out and out laughter and I can hear it as day two vanishes in a trail of gingerale, broth and kleenexes.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tuesday is a bust also still sick still running a fever coughing so hard i can&#039;t type and the laughter reverberates  around me.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Wednesday I am now trying to play catch up and I will but i want all to know that if you are to overconfident the Gods of Writing will make you their plaything and laugh all the time do.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Yes the Curse of Nanowrimo strikes again...and has nothing to do with a flu epidemic here in Hamilton &lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Here&#039;s a great link for getting ready for your nano: This is &#039;The 100 Most Important Things To Know About Your Character&#039; list.&lt;br /&gt;
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 <pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Yeah, I&#039;m looking for you. This is where we can battle between schools, figure out if there&#039;s anyone we really know that comes here, find more people.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So, basically about me:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Name&#039;s Jamie, I /am/ female, and I&#039;m in Grade 9 at Parkside High School. Go Panthers!&lt;br /&gt;
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&quot;A meow massages the heart&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
~~R.I.P. Mater &amp;lt;3&lt;br /&gt;
NaNo Story 2009: Binding Sands&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Well, with less than 1k written so far, I am behind the ball, but I have two days off to try and catch up.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I was just reading a blog post I had saved because I found it inspiring, and so I thought I&#039;d share it with everyone in Hammertown (I&#039;m from Burlington, but I like to consider myself an &quot;East-Hamiltonian).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This post is from a blog by a guy who writes for TV. The blog is called (or was called) Dead Things On Sticks.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Anyway, this was the post, hope you find it useful (here&#039;s a link to a picture of &quot;the cup&quot;, for reference: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wearehappytoserveyou.com/&quot; title=&quot;http://www.wearehappytoserveyou.com/&quot;&gt;http://www.wearehappytoserveyou.com/&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Reprint: This Cup Can Make You a Better Writer&lt;br /&gt;
Working on a new post about my &quot;Best of the Year.&quot; But since Boxing Day&#039;s a holiday in Canada too, well... slack. Cut me some.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Originally published 03/01/2006&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[picture] Do you recognize this cup?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you&#039;re a New Yorker, I&#039;m sure you do. In fact, if you&#039;ve spent any time in New York at all any time in say the last forty years, you probably recognize this little sucker right away. And I&#039;m betting that there&#039;s a hint of a smile on your face.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the pre-Starbucks days, this is the coffee cup you would get when you grabbed a coffee at any deli anywhere in Manhattan. I&#039;ve gulped from a cup just like this walking through the East Village. I downed a mouthful of cold coffee out of a cup like this outside CBGB&#039;s (along with a handfull of Advil.) One time, when I was about twenty, I picked a cup like this off the ground and put it in the garbage precisely two seconds before the karmic lightning bolt hit and I caught the impossible- to-find-cab- in-the-middle-of- the- rainstorm- when-you&#039;re-late- for- the-theater-matinee- because- your-girlfriend- took- such-a-long-time-on -her-hair.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In its own weird way, it&#039;s as much an icon of New York City as the Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building, or the Twin Towers.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I got thinking about this little cup the other day when my friend Rob was over at Dead Things HQ. Awhile back, I was checking out the MoMa reno in the City, and found this little cup in the gift shop. It&#039;s a ceramic replica of the famous paper-coffee cup. At ten bucks, it made me smile. (If it does the same for you, you can get info about how to purchase one here.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Anyway, Rob was over and we were trying to break a nettlesome story for his series for, like, the sixth time, and he complimented my coffee-making skills. It was good coffee. (Yes, the entire conversation went like this. Very Grade-three-Gay. And don&#039;t give me shit for describing it thus...Dan Savage says I&#039;m in the clear.) Anyway, more than the coffee itself, Rob really liked the cup. It evoked in him the same feeling it evoked in me, an instant nostalgia for all things New York.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What struck me later was not how he instantly recognized and responded to the cup the same way I did. I found that utterly unsurprising. Of course he&#039;d dig it. It&#039;s yet another case of how our sensibilities are similar.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;See, at that point, that little cup could be considered the objective correlative of both our friendship, and of our separate, warm memories of New York.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It&#039;s been a while since I talked about the Objective Correlative. Even then, I didn&#039;t get into it too much. Danny Stack followed up on the idea with a longer post here.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I guess the reason why I&#039;m returning to the idea again is because lately I&#039;ve been reading a lot of scripts where people talk about things, but where there isn&#039;t a real clear sense of the objective correlative working through the drama. It reads as flat. The simple realization that a tiny object like a coffee cup could make me think of my past, and reaffirm a friendship...well, that&#039;s interesting stuff. It&#039;s not just drama -- it&#039;s life.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;T.S. Eliot came up with the Objective Correlative, in his writings on Hamlet. Here&#039;s what he said:&lt;br /&gt;
The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an &quot;objective correlative&quot;; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula of that particular emotion; such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked.&lt;br /&gt;
That&#039;s exactly what happened with me and the coffee cup.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;My reaction to the cup evoked everything I mythologize about New York. And later, it indicated camaraderie between me and my friend -- so it took on a separate, instant meaning in a different situation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Interestingly enough, this little cup&#039;s gotten quite a workout -- because now that I think about it, I remember that about six months ago I had a woman over and we were chatting. We&#039;d been out a few times, and it was at that point where you&#039;re not sure which way it&#039;s going to go. She asked about the cup. I told her the story, and she was utterly unimpressed. She&#039;d been to New York several times. She vaguely remembered the cup. She just thought it was a little...stupid.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guess what I realized in that moment? &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&quot;Damn You, Objective Correlative! Damn You to Hell!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As I&#039;ve gotten older, I&#039;m fascinated by the fact that I&#039;m much more interested in Sports than I was when I was younger. My Dad and My Uncle used to take me to Yankees and Blue Jays games, and my Grandfather was a huge Mets fan -- some of my earliest memories of him are watching the game with him on an old black and white TV set. He died when I was seven, so that&#039;s a pretty potent memory. But still, I managed to sail through my teenage years and most of my twenties without reading the Sports section daily. Not anymore.&lt;br /&gt;
I think part of it is that as we get older, Sports increasingly becomes the objective correlative of male friendship. The game allows you to express emotion, bond, catharsis, the whole magilla. The Poker Craze, I believe, is part and parcel of the same thing. I read Nick Hornby&#039;s Fever Pitch and laughed my ass off, and I don&#039;t give a fig about Soccer.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By looking and finding the objective correlative of emotions in your life you start to unlock the inner life; the one you don&#039;t express consciously, but imbue to objects or situations. I think that helps you to unlock a trove that can help you weave the objective correlative more successfully into your art.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Understanding and recognizing the objective correlative in life makes you a better writer. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;One totally non-scientific thing I&#039;ve noticed, for instance, is that women who understand men&#039;s attachment to sports, or who appreciate men&#039;s penchant for silly or gross humor, kind of tend to understand men better in general.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;An acquaintance of mine was having problems in his marriage, at the same time that his old car was constantly breaking down. This went on for a couple of years. One night, like a bolt out of the blue, he realized that he and his wife fought every time there was a problem with the car. Sometimes it was when she had the car -- and he probably blamed her. Sometimes it was when he was driving it, and it made him irritable. It went on and on, and they fought and made up. Then he got a new car. For two months, they didn&#039;t fight. But one night, when they did -- they nearly broke up. Their marriage was at the brink, and it caused them to finally face some of the big, structural, ugly things at the core of their marriage. His wife said a lot of the same stuff she&#039;d said before...but finally, finally, he got it. (They&#039;re still together, by the way.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Now...did that have anything to do with the car? Did the car being there offer a valve, a distraction, a symbol that kept them from getting to the core of things? Did removing it remove that valve and force a confrontation? I don&#039;t know. What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;ll tell you what, though, it&#039;s a damn sight more interesting than any of the other stories I&#039;ve heard from half a dozen guys about how they fight with their wives (or ex-wives, as the case may be.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Writing drama is about coming up with an effective shorthand for life, and putting it down on the page.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Seems to me that old T.S. Eliot gave us a great gift. I knew he did a lot more than come up with those damn singing cats.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I was going to come up with a few more examples from movies and TV -- but maybe that could be the audience participation portion of the post. So come on: what are your favorite filmic examples of the O.C. at work?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Now, I have to go and write a one-pager that basically demonstrates how the O.C. works in my choice of venue for a series pitch I did recently. They bumped on the setting in the meeting, but thanks to a conversation I had last night, I think there may be a way to better explain what I mean. The O.C. is everywhere.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Remember the Cup, Luke. &lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;I&#039;m aiming to write 1,667 words just after midnight, before I go to bed.  And then to write another 1,667 words in the daytime on Nov. 1.  By the time I crash in the evening on Nov 1, therefore, I want my word count to be 3,334!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Anyone care to join me in ...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Double-Up Challenge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;0,000 / 3,334 - Gale&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Copy the list and add in your name.  Let&#039;s start the month with a BANG!&lt;br /&gt;
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Gale  . . .  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ThornesQuest.com&quot; title=&quot;www.ThornesQuest.com&quot;&gt;www.ThornesQuest.com&lt;/a&gt; . . . or . . . &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stringingwords.com&quot; title=&quot;www.stringingwords.com&quot;&gt;www.stringingwords.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Okay, so I came up with this idea this morning as my mind slipped in and out of consciousness, so I can&#039;t guarantee it , will be a GOOD idea.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Okay, so here we go:&lt;br /&gt;
Hamilton is a big place right? And we know every year we go up against Delaware and ... some other place [O.o how do I NOT remember?!]&lt;br /&gt;
So, I was thinking that, in addition to regional wars with those places, we regional war with ourselves.&lt;br /&gt;
Which area of hamilton has the fastest, most dedicated writers? [if you will]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;sound like a nifty idea?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Areas include, but are not limited to:&lt;br /&gt;
East End, Downtown, Westdale, Dundas, Ancaster, Stoney Creek, Mountain [Stoney Creek Mountain, as a separate one?], Burlington [&#039;cause I know a few of those like to hang out with us].&lt;br /&gt;
If you do not see your area on here, please specify.&lt;br /&gt;
Hamilton elsewhere, I think, should also be an option. &#039;cause it&#039;s not fair for someone out in Haldimand [I think we have one of those] to be going against everyone from the East End.&lt;br /&gt;
If, say SC, the mountain, and Burlington only have a few, they will be put into Hamilton Elsewhere, too. Just to even it all out?&lt;br /&gt;
We&#039;ll have to see how the numbers come out.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;ll leave it up to you to decide what area you are from as there is no definite rules.&lt;br /&gt;
Me, for instance, I could be from either the East End or Downtown [which some people have pointed out to me, before]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;m going to go with East End, because I&#039;ve been saying I&#039;m from there since I knew there was more to Hamilton than the park across the street and the 3 blocks to school.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;yey ou nay to the idea?&lt;br /&gt;
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I&#039;m from Hamilton, land of hysterical fiction filled with flying monkeys, dancing bananas, and sexy, cozy, violence&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:40:10 +0000</pubDate>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;We were talking about this at the Kick-Off yesterday.  I think it was Ziggie&#039;s idea.  Or maybe girlwithapearl&#039;s.  Anyway, here&#039;s the challenge:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Include as many of your fellow region members&#039; novel titles as you can somewhere in your own novel.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The way to participate is to add your novel&#039;s working title to the list.  By doing so, you are committing to try to include all the other novel titles somewhere in your own novel.  Yes, you can take them out on the edit if you need to!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;NOVEL TITLE LIST&lt;br /&gt;
&quot;Intentions&quot; - Gale M-N&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Copy and paste the list and add your own title in!  It&#039;ll be fun!&lt;br /&gt;
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Gale  . . .  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ThornesQuest.com&quot; title=&quot;www.ThornesQuest.com&quot;&gt;www.ThornesQuest.com&lt;/a&gt; . . . or . . . &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stringingwords.com&quot; title=&quot;www.stringingwords.com&quot;&gt;www.stringingwords.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;We need some convo to stir up some excitement!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This year I&#039;m working on a few stories.  The first one is Redemption, which is a story I wrote last year that&#039;s undergone a complete change, so I&#039;m basically starting from scratch but keeping the same concept.  The second one is Chasing Dreams, a fantasy romance that is a lot simpler in concept than I&#039;m used to.  Usually I&#039;ve got epic storylines going on, but this one focuses more on the two main characters and their angsty relationship.  And the third (because the muse wouldn&#039;t leave me alone) is The Dragon King.  It&#039;s fantasy, it&#039;s romance, and I have no idea what&#039;s going to happen in it.  Yay!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So what are you writing?&lt;br /&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;ok, I was up, I had my trusty Macbook handy. I knew that at midnight I could start writing my Nano novel and I did.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I am a thousand words in by 1am.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Wahoo!&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Okay, usually we have this as close to the end of the month as possible.  Halloween’s on a Saturday this year, and I know many people make plans for Halloween so unless there’s an overwhelming majority vote we can meet the week before.  I’m not opposed to Halloween, by the way, in case you guys did want to do something.  Just remember we will have our Midnight Chat on Halloween evening, and Daylight Savings Time happens on November 1st so we’ll even gain an hour!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So.  When, where, what time?&lt;br /&gt;
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 <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:21:04 +0000</pubDate>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Yay, Nanowrimo warmup season has officially begun!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Does anybody want to have a meet at Williams or some other congenial spot to prepare and socialize?&lt;br /&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Welcome to yet another year of NaNoWriMo in Hammertown!  We’re looking forward to having another great year in our region and hope you are too.  Please just take a moment to read the guidelines below if you’re not already familiar with them or need a little refresher.  This is in no way a reflection of any downside to our group. We&#039;re a great bunch of folks, with a great mix of people who all get along. These guidelines were created and put together by Gale, and helps to avoid any problems in our group. Just remember, if you have any questions or concerns please contact either Gale or myself privately :)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HammerWriMo Group Norms&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1. We are a group of writers, and we aim first of all to support one another in our writing endeavours.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;2. We commit to treating all members of the group with respect. Specifically, we refrain from put-downs of other members, and we respect their right to have their own beliefs, lifestyle, cultural preferences (music, literature, genre for writing, etc.).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;3. We remain aware that we are an &quot;all ages&quot; group, and we do not introduce &quot;adult&quot; material or topics, either on line or in meetings.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;4. We commit to participate positively, so that everyone present may have a safe, productive and pleasant time.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;5. We aim to stay on topic during general discussions.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;6. During writing exercises, we aim to refrain from chatting.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;7. We take responsibility for clearly stating our preferences for locations of gatherings, social events, etc., and we do not expect anyone else to guess what would work for us.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;8. We are free to discuss or reflect on our own NaNo experience with family and friends, but we refrain from discussing other members. We do not share other members&#039; personal information, our assessment of other members’ successes, failures, group participation, etc.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;9. We have the utmost respect for intellectual copyright and we understand that all excerpts, snippits and novel ideas (except for dares and suggestions to another writer) remain the property of their creators. Therefore we aim never to take direct words from anyone else.&lt;br /&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Hi everybody. If there&#039;s anything you want to refer back to from last year, I downloaded the chronicles of Hamilton Nanowrimo 2008, tweaked it a bit so it looks nice without the home page&#039;s graphics magic, and put it online as a reference here:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://home.cogeco.ca/~ckenworthy1/hamwrimo/lounge0.html&quot; title=&quot;http://home.cogeco.ca/~ckenworthy1/hamwrimo/lounge0.html&quot;&gt;http://home.cogeco.ca/~ckenworthy1/hamwrimo/lounge0.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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 <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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