Writer's Paradise discussion

Sticks head up through trapdoor, looks around, waves at Dee

I thought I heard my ears burning. 'Big' words, eh?

Laughs maniacally, then absconds back down hole with second packet of crisps

Sound of singing echoes up from tunnel...

Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got till it's gone

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.

Busy day at work on Friday; blocking out and constructing the plot, characters etc for new novel - "Revival" for the mock NaNo...

Hangover cure - hmmm, never actually get hangovers, but, hey, can't hurt right?

drinks bottle of hangover cure; opens packet of crisps and begins munching.

File, new, ScriptSmart Prose, novel, title "Revival",
Chapter One..."

Begins typing...

Right, that's 3,015 words of "Revival" done, and the first three chapters are posted here:

Now to do another 2,000 or so on The Symbiont. Never ends, does it

he asks rhetorically

And 2,252 words on Chapter Twenty-one of The Symbiont.

Making a grand total of 5,267 words today - so far!

Wanders by Pauls Study after returning from church. Looks in, checks word count

Hi Paul;

Wow! You are the lean, mean, writing machine today.

Looks at watch

Have to dash-off a few thousand words myself. Chat with you later.

Great job Paul

wanders by on way out.

Hello Paul;

Good Morning to you, I'm coming down with the flu... so it's off to bed with the Nyquil and a box of tissues.

So if I'm not on tomorrow, you'll know why. I've got to get over this as quickly as I can as I'm off to Boston on Friday morning on business. I'll be gone till late Monday.

Hopefully I'll have time to write in the evenings, but I wanted to get as much done as I can before then.... and now this. Lets hope it's only the 24 hour kind that I usually get.

'Night.

... and have a great and productive day.

Gwen

Hi Gwen,

Hope you get better quickly. It's a pain when you have to do things and your metabolism refuses to co-operate :)

OK, todays new offerings:

Chapter 22 of The Symbiont = 2,034 words.

And the Mock Nano... Revival, added Ch 4 and 5 = 1920 words, grand total 3,954 words.

Running total for MNNWM = 4,935

Yippee!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great word count for your the MNNWM :]

Well, hectic work day yesterday (again); managed 1,712 words on The Symbiont, MNNWM 0 words.

Will try to do better today :)

Great word count Paul :)

Yeah, you are such a Slacker Paul...NOT ;]

NMRRM = 2,263

Anything else = 0

MNNWM = 1,263

Running total MNNWM = 6,217

Anything else = 0

I am so pissed off with work demanding time and attention.

Gwen, I bow (humbly) before your time-management skills

*Dances into Paul's Den, plops down on his big comfy chair*

Ello...Yippers, I am trying out my new and improved English accent, cause I have been in Merlin's world today.

Just climbed back through the ancient portal.

Hello! Be careful about bowing before Gwen... last time she said I had to grovel and mentioned something about whips and something else I was too terrified to recall!

Hey UM,

Come on in and have a seat in Paul's other comfy chair.

Oh, and how do you like my new red boots :]

We got to get Paul in shape, he is such a slacker you know!

ROFL on the boots and whips... Gwen had me cowering!

Hey, Dee... Does Tristan know what he is?

And Paul, is your story one of the ones I can read on here?

Hey UM

Yippers, Tristan knows, and I think that Logan suspects. She does have fairy blood remember.

I am going to have to go back and rewrite the part about his parents dying. Geez this is what I mean when I always complain about charcters never giving you their full history.

Oh, I am glad you like the boots. Dyed them blood red. Always wanted a pair of red boots :)

I understand what you mean about that...I had forgotten (if I ever knew) about Logan having fairy blood, but I was going to ask if maybe she had Druid blood in her. Wouldn't that make for interesting offspring?

Oh, most of Paul's stories are posted under his profile. Great work!

Paul, where are you? We came to keep you company!

Geez, and here I wanted to try my whip out...drat, drat, drat.

Try it out on who?

I might be persuaded to play whips with Edward *blushes*

Paul of course, cause he is such a writing slacker. I mean he only wrote...Like 10,000 words today {said in my best valley-girl voice}.

*Smacks gum and smiles*

LOL You're such a task master!

Hey, when will SOA and AZK will out?

Hey I was just going to ask if Evan would like a sneak look at the first draft :]

Of SOA that is :]

I KNOW he would! He keeps asking me when the next book is coming out!

Great, I will let him be my test reader if he would like ;]

At least for the first chapter. Of course he has to understand that the story is still raw and needs to go through at least 4 editors. Sigh. I think the editing takes longer than the writing.

*taps the riding crop on Paul's table*

Awesome, I'll let him know...he really will be thrilled! *hugs Dee*

Yo guys, that obviously works!

I complain once about being ignored, then I get 5000 messages.


Right, it's 00:30 here, and I'm off to bed, slacking off yet again.

Sleep for seventeen hours, then write 25 words.

I wish :)

G'night all,

love ya

Paul

Night, Paul! Sleep well! *hugs Paul*

Dee wrote: "Great, I will let him be my test reader if he would like ;]

At least for the first chapter. Of course he has to understand that the story is still raw and needs to go through at least 4 editors...."

Are you going to email it to me so I can send it on to him?

Night Paul, sweet dreams when your head hits the pillow!

*tiptoes out of the cubical, well as tiptoe as one can walk in thigh high red leather boots*

*Pokes head back into Paul's Den*

Yippers UM, I will send it off sometime tonight. Must go over it one last time :)

*whispers* OK, he'll love it and feel special, I know he will.

Sorry I missed you during your awake hours. Wanted to say hi, and let you know you're not being ignored :) It's so hard to keep up with everyone here! But I love it! Sweet dreams. Talk to you tomorrow.

*leaves plate of special brownies for Paul's breakfast*

Dee wrote: "No, no, Noooo, can't wait until tomorrow. What if everyone is eaten by the Swamp-things by then?

More, tonight! Pleaseeeeeee :]

Oh, and I have a fondness for Hobbits, as I live in a Hobbit H..."

Oh now this I've got to see. A real life Hobbit House.

Paul wrote: MNNWM = 1,263

Running total MNNWM = 6,217

Anything else = 0

I am so pissed off with work demanding time and attention.

Gwen, I bow (humbly) before your time-management skills"

Sounds of maniacal laughter echo through the cubi's

Oh... tries to look innocent Is that what you call it?

Hey Dee;

Love the boots. Want a riding crop to match?

Hey thanks Gwen,

*Sits in the big comfy chair and sticks boots in the air to show them off*

They really don't go with my flannel PJ bottoms and raggedy old T-shirt, but damn my feet do look good ;]

OH, and I really, do live in an earth-sheltered Hobbit house!

I will have to dig up a photo. Actually have had deer running on the roof in the winter, and my neighbor's dog jumped off the roof one summer (but that is another long story, for another time).

I am glad you are feeling better.

*Waves hi to Paul*

Ok, must get back to my own cubical and get writing.

*dances into Paul's cubical with Kelly Clarkson playing in earbuds*

Ok, where is a pen and paper? Hmmm, no paper...

*Looks at blank wall*
Shrug, that will do...

*Writes note on wall*

Ok, "writing buddy" here is my March [to date:] write-a-thon word count...Word count to date for our March Write-a-thone:

5203 words for March [which is sucky, but at least its a start:]

Dee Marie

*dances out with Kelly still singing away*

Hey, Paul! You got moved too. At least you have your own spot now.

Have a wonderful Friday! *hugs*

Looks in..

Dang... it's the isolation ward!

Shrugs and leaves a very sharp Excalibur stuck in a lodestone in the middle of the room

Well, at least the blood splatter won't carry too far.

Have a great weekend Paul. See you all sometime Monday.

Hi Paul!

Good morning, or good afternoon for you! I wanted to thank you for the review (From the WWW reviewers workshop - I would have said this there in WWW, but I didn't want it to be considered spam)! I was pleasantly surprised when you gave me so much to consider. You had some wonderful suggestions, and I will consider them while re-working that segment. Thanks again for taking your time to give such a detailed review!

*leaves a pecan pie on the desk, and some Bluebell Ice cream in the freezer - both were really difficult to get past customs!* ;D