You know the rules..you know how this works..for those newbie players out there who don't the setup is simple...
On the evening of Saturday the 31st of October 2009...you are going to carry out a death sentance.
You have no choice as the jury has already given the answer. You have no choice as it must be done or you will fail....
All you need to do is decide on what the method will be and carry it out. We will all be there with you doing the same for ourselves. The more gruesome or humane route if you like but as those veterans out there will tell you, the more imaginative generally works.
What am I on about? Very easy. You have an enemy....the biggest enemy you will face while writing.
There is a long list of these distasteful evildoers.
Responsibilities, Family, Friends, Fatigue, Work, Children, Noise, Sleepless Nights, Lack of Plot, Lack of Substance......the list goes on forever...but there is one evil greater than all the rest. It MUST die!!!
I am talking about that inner editor people. That crazy little gremlin in the back of your head telling you that what you are doing is not good enough and that you should be doing better. Making you delete pages of writings and redoing scenarios.
They WILL DIE on the above date.....you will post here how you intend to carry out the sentance and on the 31st Oct 2009....you will carry it out and kill them.
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Don't let common sense stop you....
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Oct 14, 2009 - 06 36
Excellent :) Glad someone brought this up.
I'm in dire need of a little silencing.
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Oct 14, 2009 - 07 40
*hides inner editor behind her back*
What inner editor?
----------TygerKatt
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"There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein." ~ Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith
"Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia." ~ E.L. Doctorow
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Oct 15, 2009 - 04 04
Cyanide?
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Oct 15, 2009 - 04 20
Try again..this is Nano....if you have a creative way to feed your inner editor cyanide then sure...just saying cyanide is going to get you a whack on the knuckles...
I have to be a serial killer this year due to Tyger having tried to make friends with her inner enemy...I'm going to have to do the mean thing and take away that comfort blanket -.^
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Oct 15, 2009 - 04 38
I don't know if I approve of all this murder. After all, we might need the bugger soon.
I have discovered that there is enough air in a standard size shoe-box for an IE to survive for 89 days in captivity. I usually lock mine up and put him in the back of my wardrobe. As long as I pull him out before February, I can still use him for the re-write.
It also get useful when I get invaded by too many plot bunnies. I just throw the extras into the box and see who comes out alive in January.
----------"The Magnificent Seven"
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Oct 15, 2009 - 04 44
Try again..this is Nano....if you have a creative way to feed your inner editor cyanide then sure...just saying cyanide is going to get you a whack on the knuckles...
and Happiness?
I hear inner editors despise delirium.
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Oct 15, 2009 - 04 49
Read the original post of mine. There is no choice...they will die!!
But to put your mind at ease....as with every virus, your inner editor will be replaced soon enough and the new one will need to be disposed of as well in a never ending vicious circle.
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Instant Human - Just Add Coffee
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Oct 16, 2009 - 06 02
I have to agree with Bra on this one... murder most foul or nothing. You can always get another editor - they're like weeds.
Also... could we please change the thread title so the spelling is right? :D
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Oct 16, 2009 - 06 10
Teeheeheehee
No!
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Instant Human - Just Add Coffee
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Oct 16, 2009 - 06 11
...because I can't edit a topic only posts ;)
But even if I could it will still be No because it's funny to watch people squirming
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Oct 16, 2009 - 06 13
The English teacher in me wants to reach across the internet and throttle you :)
But it's OK. I can live with it. :D
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Oct 16, 2009 - 06 18
But it's OK. I can live with it. :D
The typist in me does the same thing ;)
After I clicked post I tried to scramble to stop it but alas....murphy decided supreme internet connection was in order -.^
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Oct 16, 2009 - 07 36
You're a typist?
I have to learn these things on a Nano forum. :-P
----------TygerKatt
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"There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein." ~ Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith
"Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia." ~ E.L. Doctorow
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Oct 16, 2009 - 07 43
Brabruski might not be able to change the subject line ... but I can *wink*
As for inner editors ... I am intending to put mine in jail, in a box at the Cape Town Kick-off Party. That way I can take him out again come editing time in December and also throw all his friends/family/compatriots in there with him as the month goes on.
----------Yvette (2009 ML - CPT Region)
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Oct 16, 2009 - 07 56
I'm beginning to think I have the wrong concept of an inner editor. Mine don't make me delete pages or rewrite things. They just sit there and make me cringe while I hammer away.
Sometimes they give me Tourette Syndrome which makes for interesting or offensive write-ins. You can ask the Grahamstown crowd.
My inner editors aren't evil. Promise.
----------TygerKatt
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"There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein." ~ Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith
"Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia." ~ E.L. Doctorow
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Oct 16, 2009 - 10 25
*ties up IE with extra thick ropes in an almost Celtic configuration before dangling over a cliffside group of sharks... with fricking lasers*
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Oct 17, 2009 - 00 08
Write or Die kills my inner editor! I don't have time for crippling self-doubt if I'm threatened with Hanson every time I stop working. The horror... The horror...
The inner editor doesn't stand a chance! :)
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( O.o ) Beware the deadly donkey, falling slowly from the sky -
( >< ) You can choose the way you live, my friend, but not the way you die.
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Oct 29, 2009 - 23 34
We have an event tomorrow night...I don't see many creative options but a wellington to the back of a head and a coffin made of bread is sufficient.
Tomorrow night people you all become murderers...but it is for the greater good -.^
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Oct 31, 2009 - 03 07
You will be pleased to know, my beloved instigator of inner editor murder, that I won't have a hand in the much required death of any inner editors. Primarily because I don't have one.
Recently I've discovered that I need a plot to have an inner editor. No plot = no editor and vast amounts of panic.
Let the games begin!
----------TygerKatt
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"There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein." ~ Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith
"Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia." ~ E.L. Doctorow
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Oct 31, 2009 - 12 23
I forced the Inner Editor to entertain a raucous six year old hooligan, an equally excitable 3year old (who ADORES me... for untold reasons) and a somewhat quieter two year old. Oh yes, the inner editor is going to sleep.
For a looong, looong time.
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Oct 31, 2009 - 13 44
For a looong, looong time.
:) nice.
My inner editor doesn't know that she will be silenced in about 15 minutes. Frederickson and Elizabeth (my muses) have a rather elaborate plan to kidnap and imprison her. I left it up to them, since at midnight I won't have time to kill or lock her in. However, they will be keeping her comfortable throughout the month (you know, tea time and scones and all that) so that when November ends, she will be ever so happy to help out again.
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Good luck, everyone - ah, sweet November:)
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Oct 31, 2009 - 13 50
Bloody inner editors. I'd rather just tie some heavy, monkey shaped weights to mine before tying him to the back of some large cruiseship and have him dragged around the world. By the time he gets back I should be done and he can be of use again!
----------Nothing like impossible goals, sleepless nights and aching, bleeding fingers.
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Oct 31, 2009 - 18 19
I intend to dismember my IE with speech recognition while my eyes are closed, I shall measure my success by the total illegibility thrown across the page.
----------brilliant, just brilliant
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Oct 31, 2009 - 18 21
But even if I could it will still be No because it's funny to watch people squirming
and here i thought it was a test for our editors.
----------brilliant, just brilliant
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Nov 1, 2009 - 08 22
At the Eastern Cape Kick-Offs we drew representations of our inner editors on cards. And then trapped them inside books. I noticed that fat books, or ones which looked really bad were popular. They can now spend the rest of the month happily editing / proofreading or complaining about the book they are in. Leaving the wrimos to write in peace.
----------moonblue - ML for Grahamstown
"You develop a style from writing a lot" - Kurt Vonnegut
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Nov 2, 2009 - 21 52
lol that is perfect....my editor hasn't been seen this year..think they may be getting the message and sod off for a month a year.
I was looking forward to torturing them :(
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Nov 2, 2009 - 22 20
Not me :P I'm afraid I murdered mine. Or at least his wife did. To be fair he was a resentful old bugger who didn't like his family.
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Nov 3, 2009 - 23 01
I'm a bit worried..my editor hasn't been aroudn this year to be killed...I should send out a search party and kill him :/ Thing is I wouldn't want to search my head...you might find things
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Don't let common sense stop you....
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