Today I mostly wrote ... the word count thread. Showing 851-900 of 4,252

[David]

No 1st draft words today as such. Added a few ideas and notions to the current 1st draft project notes though.

Also added a few project notes to an already completed (as it were) 1st draft currently in the revision queue.

Sometimes I think it may be more sensible to have the good ideas for a book before I write them rather than - as currently - afterwards.

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Jim wrote: "It's a good name and struck me as a little incongruous for a poet. I told Tallis that and he sulked briefly"

Did you cheer him up with wine?

[Jim]

only possible way of doing it to be honest

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Jim wrote: "only possible way of doing it to be honest"

Or money.

[Lexie]

Jim wrote: "It's a good name and struck me as a little incongruous for a poet. I told Tallis that and he sulked briefly"

He is much put-upon.

[Jim]

he's sulking because Benor's story is coming out before his!

[Will]

Give him some merlot. It works with me.

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Yeah but you're cheap and easy Will.

[Jim]

Gingerlily - Mistress Lantern wrote: "Yeah but you're cheap and easy Will."

By that you're just describing any poet ;-)

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Jim wrote: "Gingerlily - Mistress Lantern wrote: "Yeah but you're cheap and easy Will."

By that you're just describing any poet ;-)"

And some who are not worty of the name...

[Jim]

Why be a 'resting actor' or a unemployed telephone sanitiser when you can be a poet?

[Elizabeth]

Because they don't know it?

[Jim]

Elizabeth wrote: "Because they don't know it?"

:-)

[Lexie]

Very little progress on book editing though it has to be done by the end of this week. Instead I'm writing the words to a new folk song!

[Kath]

Oh! exciting. I used to write songs which were sung by my daughter's folk group.

[Jim]

I'm still stunned by the term 'a new folk song' ;-)

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Is it a song about new folk?

[Kath]

Folk music is a style. You can write a new madrigal too.

[Jim]

Kath wrote: "Folk music is a style. You can write a new madrigal too."


alas for me folk music has to be discovered, not written :-)

That said, I like Fairport Convention and Jethro Tull so who's worried about consistency ;-)

[Will]

Lexie wrote: "Very little progress on book editing though it has to be done by the end of this week. Instead I'm writing the words to a new folk song!"

Did you have to keep one finger in your ear while writing it?

[David]

I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing 'em. - Big Bill Broonzy

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

[Will]

How did you find my self portrait?

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

It was in The Big Book of Will.

[Pam]

Another couple of chapters edited but realised yesterday there are a couple of big continuity errors that will need addressing near the end of the book ....

[Will]

Gingerlily - Mistress Lantern wrote: "It was in The Big Book of Will."

Well I never saw no royalties!

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Will wrote: "Gingerlily - Mistress Lantern wrote: "It was in The Big Book of Will."

Well I never saw no royalties!"

Thats because the Royal Family aren't in the book.

[M.T.]

Congratulations everyone on ... Um ... Things. Counting down to our skiing trip and joyous trundle back through France. Mum has a couple of attacks of her weird word finding thing this week so I am hoping she will manage to keep herself out of hospital, at least until I get back. Chances of that might be a bit iffy if past experience is anything to go on. Sigh. So fingers and toes crossed we can keep her calm and rested and side step it this time.

However, I did 600 words yesterday and it now stands at a princely 41.6 k I think. Might get away with only writing another 20 or 30 thousand words to get it done.

[Will]

Demon's Reach is off to BETA, and I've just had an idea for a lovely gothic ghost story about a cellar.

[Kath]

Beta about to report back! Stand by your beds...

[Will]

Actually I'd prefer to hide underneath mine and use the spiders for protection.

[Kath]

Haha! It's scary down there...

[Lexie]

Folk song lyrics complete and sent to composer. No ear-holding required in Scotland, just a beard or two and endless cups of instant coffee drunk in dusty church halls. The tune won a recent traditional music competition for new tunes so I suppose it had to be fairly recent, though I admit 'new folk song' gave me pause for thought, too! Though I also like Tull (well, not the spaced-out seventies stuff, more the Coronach / Jack in the Green / Fires at Midnight stuff). And halfway through editing the WIP - or principal WIP.

[Elizabeth]

Steeleye Span's 'All around my Hat' is one of my all time favourite LPs. (Yes, I still have it on vinyl !)

Progress is slow but (hopefully) sure on the WIP. Inspiration is sadly lacking once again for the short story comp. though. I may try memorising the words just before I go to sleep and see what I wake up with in the morning...

[Tim]

Elizabeth wrote: "Steeleye Span's 'All around my Hat' is one of my all time favourite LPs. (Yes, I still have it on vinyl !)"

'They called her Babylon' is mine (the title song is about the siege of Lathom House in Lancashire, during the first civil war, and the title comes from Jeremiah 50:14, which was invoked during the siege: "Put yourselves in line against Babylon on every side, all ye who bend the bow; Shoot at her, do not spare your arrows, for she has sinned against the Lord.")

Met Maddy Pryor a couple of times too. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzurq...

[M.T.]

I love All Around My Hat!

[Lexie]

Fantastic voice. In my dreams I sing like Maddy Pryor - or the lead singer in Capercaillie.

[M.T.]

I'll be humming it all day now!

[David]

Lexie wrote: "Fantastic voice. In my dreams I sing like Maddy Pryor - or the lead singer in Capercaillie."

Karen Matheson?

I keep getting this stuck in my head: https://youtu.be/Iao0L5YdzoI

[Lexie]

I didn't know that one - but yes, that's the lassie!

[Lexie]

Still editing. Someone said the Great Wall of China was built as a displacement activity by someone with a book to write, but I think it was someone with a book to edit.

And over half my characters seem to have names beginning with S. Anyone reading this book aloud would sound like a dissatisfied snake pit.

[Elizabeth]

Should that be 'disssssssatisfied? ; )

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Does it feature Ssssssssssss Club 7 ?

[Lexie]

Elizabeth wrote: "Should that be 'disssssssatisfied? ; )"

At the very least!

[Lexie]

Gingerlily - Mistress Lantern wrote: "Does it feature Ssssssssssss Club 7 ?"

Not even Ssssssibeliusssssss. But it is set in hisssssstorical Sssssst. Andrewsssssss.

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

And sssssseven ssssissssstersssss with sssssewing sssscisssssssssorsssss

[Elizabeth]

It would be a completely different experience for anyone with a lithp.

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Sister Susie sits and spits?

[Pam]

Wrote a new bit yesterday to change a scene in preparation for fixing a continuity error and edited another chapter today.

[M.T.]

I wrote 900 and something words yesterday, I think. I hope to write some more today and then that'll probably be it for two weeks as I'm off on holiday. That will be grand though.

I've got that annoying thing where there are certain conversations and emotional points that could happen anywhere and to, kind of, work out where thay actually will appear I have them several times. There's a point where a client has to get antsy with the pimp and a conversation the hero needs to have with the heroine. I have to work out where these conversations will finally settle and bin the others. I reckon the whole thing will go up to 80k and then back to 60. Which is quite long for a 20k short. :-)