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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

Tweets for the week of November 13th

* My novel got visited by the Travelling Shovel of Death, it killed an annoying blonde from the coffee shop and moved on to the next novel. * Think the Week 2 blues just arrived on my novel. Or maybe it's 8am and my brain's not in gear

Novelling away

There's a point in NaNoWriMo where you're trucking along writing your story, and one of the characters does something unexpected. You don't know where the words came from but you just typed them and they weren't in the plot, or even in

RIP Dorking's white squirrel

BBC News: Squirrel's accident 'ends magic' Residents of a Surrey town have set up a shrine and an online tribute page after a "celebrity" albino squirrel was run over. The squirrel had lived in St Martin's churchyard off Dorking High Street for

NaNoWriMo Week 1

The Word count widgets are back! My favourites are My Month and the Progress report. Just slot your NaNoWriMo user number into the URLs and you're away. Hubby wrote these to help me keep track of my novel, and they went global. It's awesome to see

Tweets for the week of November 6th

* That bright thing in the sky, what do you call it, the sun? It's been so long I'd forgotten. First dry sunny day in forever! * Paint should have RGB codes, and the web safe palette, papayawhip and cornsilk would make great paint colours! * The first day

Proper pronounciation

It's NaNo WRY Mo, not NaNo REE Mo. Not that Snooch would care... 7101 words and counting. Busy and awful day today.

Lift Off!

Full moon in the sky, and thousands of people have transformed into writers. The first day of NaNowriMo was a 25 hour day, thanks to the end of Daylight Savings Time. Hubby went to the midnight write-in at our Municipal Liason's house and came back with 1700

Lift off in T Minus One

There is a midnight write-in tonight, which I will not be attending because I just can't do midnights. But I will be up bright and early at 5:30am tomorrow to start my novel. I'm sure Hubby will have already written 5000 words on his

Tweets for the week of October 30th

* National Novel Writing Month starts in 8 days. I have 8 days to fill in the holes in my plot and dig out the Pointy Stick for Word Warring. * Cannot believe that thumb drive made it through 2 wash cycles and 1 dryer cycle intact. Centon DataStick Sport really IS

Lift off in T Minus Three

What do you mean it's November in three days, I'm not ready! Seriously, I'm not ready. I should have reams of plot by now and I've got what? Four measly pages and some thoughts about charm and strange quarks. I have never

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