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Owning NaNoWriMo Failure

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A favourite Douglas Adams anecdote

Our WIP can feel a little like THIS...

This actually did happen to a real person, and the real person is me. I had gone to catch a train. This was April 1976, in Cambridge, U.K. I was a bit early for the train. I’d gotten the time of the train wrong. I went to get myself a newspaper to do the crossword, and a cup of coffee and a packet of cookies. I went and sat at a table. I want you to picture the scene. It’s very important that you…

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A first time Nanowrimo adventure!

A first time #Nanowrimo adventure!

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It’s that time of year, thoughts must be collated and the sensual mind spiel that follows ejected into prose. November is NAtional NOvel WRIting MOnth, a virtual get together of writers who aim to write 50,000 of a new novel by the end of the month. At 1,667 words a day it acts as a means of sacrificing shallow or short time gains to create something more long lasting and meaningful.

In a joint…

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8 Elements to NAILING Your Plot & Owning NaNo

8 Elements to NAILING Your Plot & Owning NaNo

Originally posted on Kristen Lamb’s Blog:

Attack of the Killer Plot Bunny. That rabbit is DYNAMITE!

Attack of the Killer Plot Bunny. That rabbit is DYNAMITE!

I promised not to leave you guys hanging with my last post. Now that I have a lot of you beating your shields ready for NaNo, I’m going to give you battle tactics to come out victorious (or maybe at least alive).

Sure, NaNo is great to just learn to turn off the Inner Editor and get those…

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Ponderings on the Oxford Comma

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You may have heard the term “Oxford Comma” and thought to yourself, what is that crap all about? Here it is.

The Oxford Comma is the last comma in a list and is placed right before the conjunction. Consider the following sentence: Tom went to Austria, Poland, and Belgium. The common after “Poland” is the Oxford, also called serial, comma.

Why should we use it? Hipsters never do and that’s…

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Imagine if politics mattered…

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went to an American restaurant today!!!! ‘ello mate!!!!!! put forks in my hair to show my love for these Westerners’ food!!! Haha!!!!! Ha!!!! Ha!!! Ha!!! Ha  !

(via cognitivedissonance)

This Is The Kind Of Competition Publishers Want

This Is The Kind Of Competition Publishers Want

Originally posted on David Gaughran:

Source: Flickr

Source: Flickr

Since the huge shift to online purchasing and e-books, a common meme is that there is some kind of “discoverability” problem in publishing.

The funny thing is readers don’t seem to have any problem finding books they love. Any readers I talk to have a timeproblem – reading lists a mile long and never enough hours in the day to read all…

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Open letter on stealing FE reserve places

Open letter on stealing FE reserve places

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FE is a place of extremes, both within the classroom and out of it. Take any stats on how bad things are in HE and I would put a solid wager that no matter what it is, funding, support or even good democratic practices that the situation in a comparable Further Education Institution (FEI) is worse; not that this is a contest by any measure.

There have been many glacial changes in NUS, the…

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Block Grant Fairness in Small & Specialist Unions

How much unions have to spend on their students can have a direct relation to higher retention and better support for that individual.

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