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52,627 and nanomore to come..

http://www.nanowrimo.org/ It has been a fantastic 30 days. I never expected it to turn out the way it has. I started the month with a germ of drug addled inspiration and two paragraphs that i was quite proud of but never thought would lead anywhere. I'

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tick tock

time is running out.. trapped at my desk for rest of the weekend, still with four thousand words of notes to type up and then another 8000 of new ones to invent out of nothing.. by not writing sequentially, I have been filling in the easiest bits first and now

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17,156 and counting..

by and large the book is going very well, pieces of plot keep falling into my lap, have some jokes I rather like and some entertaining set-pieces, i am approximately on target and so far I haven't resorted to the wild desperation of writing any old rubbish, like

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nano onandonandon

back from BENIDORM.. and sad to say there wasn't much in the Spanish sun to inspire my writing, had been expecting to bound ahead but actually fell behind the schedule have 32,000 typed up in total with another couple of thousand of notes to include.. it is

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Low Life

had another go at getting into High Society by Ben Elton but after grinding through another 30 pages or so, this time i'm not going to bother going any further.. seems to be a completely pointless book. it was like trying to eat a whole pack of rice

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prologue

A man stood on a hill. He looked up at the stars and tried to remember what on earth he was doing here. Why had he climbed this hill. This often happened to him when going from the living room to the kitchen, but this was the first time it

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http://nanowrimo.org procrastinating by plotting my progress :)

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46,124

i am already feeling the unrelenting pace of this marathon. was doing okay on day one and two, but i had a few leetle drinks last night and am suddenly 2000 words behind the curve. still, i've done 550 so far today

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one monkey, one keyboard

in the midst of all my current typing of highly derivative fiction, it's probably a good time to refer readers to the famous http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem

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48163 words to go

I am happy enough with my first days nanowriming, i've done 1837 words so far which ahead of the 1666 per diem requirement and i didn't even use those 160 words I had ready and waiting. Of course, at the beginning we all have a lot

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nanowrimo a go go

http://nanowrimo.org/ last night I figured out an ending for my november novel.. this is a double-edged sword, on one side it is a great ending and so I know where the book is going and where i have to get to, On the other, i've less

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nanowrimo

http://www.nanowrimo.org As if I don't have enough to do with my time I've decided to sign up for the National Novel Writing month (aka nanowrimo). The aim is to write a novel of at least 50,000 words in the month of november.

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Nights at the Circus

oh what fools you were to eschew our company on this night of nights.. the others can so easily confirm my story whensoever they should choose to. oh, but that you should have been part of our motley crew. what a night! what goings on . but perhaps i should start

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The Imp of the Perverse

He's the little voice which pleads with you throw yourself off a tall building or take 'passenger action' on the undergrind.  In the Baroque Cycle, Neal Stephenson infects Half-cocked Jack Shaftoe with it, though unlike most of us, he acts on his Impish whims. So far

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August 2004 Reading List

Books I read this month: Le Ton beau de Marot - Douglas HofstadterDH is the worst kind of nerd churned out by the American school system. A pathological need to over-achieve in every field and mistaking cleverness for wisdom. We all know him as a physics/computer science geek but

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Dear Ailsa

Dear Ailsa, Hello there, how's your day going? I'm at work somewhat bored yet mysteriously energetic and fidgety ;-) What better way to occupy my idlenss than writing you a letter. One way would be to do the job that they pay me for but there

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Oblomov? Why bother?

If there was ever a book group book [i]not[/i] to read it is probably Oblomov, Ivan Alexsandrovich Goncharov sums up my experience pretty accurately But the flower of life opened up and bore no fruit. Oblomov sobered down, and only occasionally, on Stolz's advice, read one

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monkey treasures visually

http://wordcount.org There sandwiched between Peterborough and Bolton (where one might normally expect to find Pontefract) are monkey treasures visually. You see Monkey by some reckoning is the 10,278th most common word in the British National Corpus. I found this out at WordCount.org, the laudable(29639th) if

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I've Never Had It Done So Gently Before

For M The sweet juices of your mouth are like castles bathed in honey. I've never had it done so gently before. You have put a circle of castles around my penis and you swirl them like sunlight on the wings of birds. Richard Brautigan - 1968

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When man enters woman

When man, enters woman, like the surf biting the shore, again and again, and the woman opens her mouth with pleasure and her teeth gleam like the alphabet, Logos appears milking a star, and the man inside of woman ties a knot so that they will never again be separate

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July 2004 Reading List

Heres' what I read in July: Quicksilver - Neal StephensonTruly monumental, the first 900 pages of his 3 tome Baroque Cycle. Vagabonds, spys and savants swash & buckle, philosophick & politick their way through the Northern Europe of 1660's & 70's in company of Newton,

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Aloadof Orlando?

This was the Urban 75 book group choice for July Apparently I described it as "The Bluffer's Guide to Bloomsbury" ...   I don't remember saying that but I will gladly take the credit.. It is certainly inline with my opinion & is the sort of

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Warning - When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple

By Jenny Joseph When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple with a red hat that doesn't go, and doesn't suit me. And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves and satin candles, and say we've no money for

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an appalling book but with highlights

i am labouriously working my way through Douglas Hofstadtr's book about translating Marot stanzas, i should quit, it's shit, but occasionally it has fantastic paragraphs, or i find it can pack an odd small fact that smacks my crack.. how about this start to a lipogrammatic

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Adam's Apple, Eve's Bean

Reading The Anatomist by Federico Andahazi in order to learn about the clitoris, I actually found out something new about the male anatomy. Or, at least about it's etymology. Hard though it is to conceive but the biblical significance or origin of Adam's Apple had never