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Month: November 2008

  • Fribourg Nanowrimo

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI always go to social media events and meet a lot of geeks who love to use new technology such as twitter, seesmic and more. For once it’s a little different. I’m in Fribourg where I’m surrounded by writers. There are a lot of PC rather than Mac computers. The hot…

  • Pompei and Nanowrimo

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’m enjoying the process of writing for Nanowrimo and to get some ideas I’m looking at maps offered up by google. View Larger Map It’s quite funny because until five minutes ago I had not yet looked at the city of Pompei as seen from the sky although I’ve walked the…

  • 20,000 Words for Nanowrimo and still going strong

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteAnd so I reach 20,000 words after 12 days, not quite as good as I had hoped but good nonetheless. The story is developing well and there will be quite a bit of re-writing to be done but I can depend on some friends to help with that.

  • 97 friends changed pictures

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThat’s a lot of people to change look in one day.

  • Nanowrimo progression after nine days at it

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’m not doing too badly. I’m 1000 words ahead of the minimum per day if you take the 1667 word per day rule seriously. Might work up to 20,000 tonight. I’m just 4000 away…

  • I reached 10,000 words for Nanowrimo

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    Reading Time: < 1 minute50,000 words is a nice goal. I’ve already got ten thousand of those words in a document on google docs. My Nanowrimo attempt is exploring social media, new technology and the effect it’s having on human interactions. So far the ideas have been flowing. 5600 words the first day, 8000 the…

  • Nanowrimo

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis month I’m trying something different. It’s Nanowrimo. It’s a strange word for the unitiated but it’s short for National novel writing month. It’s the time of the year when people around the world set themselves the goal of writing 50,000 words without proofreading. The idea is to produce as much…