Novelling Snapshot
Reached 40,000 words on Wednesday 19th and I'm only partway through chapter nine of twelve, looks like I'm writing a 60,000 word story. But it's moving along nicely and I hope to write "The End" by November 30th.
The story
Alison Hawke
The original Doctor Who
BBC News: Doctor Who (before the Tardis).
Newly released documents, which reveal the 1960s conception of Doctor Who, show how nervous the BBC was about producing a sci-fi show, writes Tom Geoghegan. The Doctor without his time-travelling police box is difficult to imagine, but its creators initially proposed
Call the cliché police
BBC News: 20 of your most hated clichés. The first ten are:
* Basically
* To be fair
* To be honest
* Going forward
* The fact of the matter is
* Let's face it
* Touch base
* 110%
* In the pipeline
* The reason being
These are fairly heinous. My personal bugbear is "
NaNoWriMo week three
Crossed the magic 35,000 work mark on Sunday night, it's all downhill from here. The story threads are coming together nicely, though my bad guy did something inexplicable again. He'd demanding a much bigger part than he's supposed to have. Unplanned things are
Nothing original under the sun
BBC News: Dead Parrot sketch ancestor found
An ancestor of Monty Python's famous Dead Parrot comedy sketch has been found in a joke book dating back to Greece in the 4th Century. Philogelos: The Laugh Addict, which has been translated from Greek manuscripts, contains a joke where a
What Week Two slump?
Traditionally, week two of NaNoWriMo is where it all goes downhill. Plots fail, word counts flounder, characters flail uselessly. Week Two is where it gets "interesting".
Wash: This landing is gonna get pretty interesting.
Mal: Define "interesting"
Wash: [deadpan] Oh God, oh God, we're
First Frost
Scraped ice off my car this morning, and there was a snow flurry over the weekend. It must be winter. This happens every year, and it's always a surprise. Got a new pair of leather gloves at the weekend, dug my roll-brim Rowan Coccoon hat out of
Shuffled off
"To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream:
Injustice in 1605?
BBC News: Free the Gunpowder Plot One.
Was one of the Gunpowder Plotters an innocent victim of circumstance? As effigies of Guy Fawkes again go up in flames, is it time to rectify a 400-year-old miscarriage of justice?
After the failed attempt to blow up Parliament in November
T plus four
The NaNoWriMo website suffered its usual overload and spent much of the last few days lying on its back twitching. My body count so far is three bandits and a lynx, Hubby killed off three drunk Norwegians on day 2, so we're tied. Came into work on Monday