Comments on: Imitating Tolkien http://www.dallenrose.com/?p=61 Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:29:43 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Aestril http://www.dallenrose.com/?p=61&cpage=1#comment-305 Aestril Thu, 20 Mar 2008 05:15:08 +0000 http://www.dallenrose.com/blog/?p=61#comment-305 Can I play? =) Can I play? =)

]]> By: Theadra Leilani http://www.dallenrose.com/?p=61&cpage=1#comment-293 Theadra Leilani Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:25:21 +0000 http://www.dallenrose.com/blog/?p=61#comment-293 Okay, I'm in too. I've posted about it today and left comments on other posts too. Sounds like fun! =) Okay, I’m in too. I’ve posted about it today and left comments on other posts too. Sounds like fun! =)

]]> By: BLOG ING » Blog Archive » The first hundred words http://www.dallenrose.com/?p=61&cpage=1#comment-288 BLOG ING » Blog Archive » The first hundred words Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:13:33 +0000 http://www.dallenrose.com/blog/?p=61#comment-288 [...] We’re still working out the specifics, but in the meantime you can find a bit more info on what we’re doing on Real Joined-Up Writing or here on Blog Ing (see the comments in my Imitating Tolkien post). [...] [...] We’re still working out the specifics, but in the meantime you can find a bit more info on what we’re doing on Real Joined-Up Writing or here on Blog Ing (see the comments in my Imitating Tolkien post). [...]

]]> By: Daeruin http://www.dallenrose.com/?p=61&cpage=1#comment-274 Daeruin Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:44:43 +0000 http://www.dallenrose.com/blog/?p=61#comment-274 Nice to meet you too, Liz. Sounds cool. This is actually the reason I started my blog in the first place. I intended it to be a place I could post little snippets of fiction just to keep me writing, no matter the quality, and make myself sort of accountable to my audience. It obviously didn't work out that way. Nice to meet you too, Liz. Sounds cool. This is actually the reason I started my blog in the first place. I intended it to be a place I could post little snippets of fiction just to keep me writing, no matter the quality, and make myself sort of accountable to my audience. It obviously didn’t work out that way.

]]> By: Liz http://www.dallenrose.com/?p=61&cpage=1#comment-273 Liz Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:57:20 +0000 http://www.dallenrose.com/blog/?p=61#comment-273 Sweet! The more the merrier (oops- cliche alert!). Hi Daeruin, nice to meet you. I agree that we need ground rules. How about this for a start. a) The day's word count to be posted by midnight Pacific. I'm in Eastern time mostly. No, I'm not a time-traveller. I wish, but I'm not. I just do a fair amount of business travel. That would give us flexibility for folks across the States. b) NO FUDGING! We're talking first draft here. The words don't have to be poilshed, but they do have to exist in some form other than our minds. Just planning a great piece of dialog in your head doesn't count. I'm great at doing that. It's getting it from the head and onto the page that's the real test. Words written on our blogs don't count. Crits given to other people don't count. Flogging our selves doesn't count. The idea is to write books, not to gazing lovingly at our navels. c) No excuses! Well, okay. Dying is a reasonable excuse. But being too busy isn't. Sickness? Only if you wish you were dying. And no 'banking". If you write 1000 words today you don't get to take ten days off. It's a hundred words MINIMUM per day. If we're going on vacation and can't update daily we say that before we go... and we better have the right number of words competed by the end time we come home. How do you guys want to handle the flogging piece? Sweet! The more the merrier (oops- cliche alert!). Hi Daeruin, nice to meet you.

I agree that we need ground rules. How about this for a start.

a) The day’s word count to be posted by midnight Pacific. I’m in Eastern time mostly. No, I’m not a time-traveller. I wish, but I’m not. I just do a fair amount of business travel. That would give us flexibility for folks across the States.
b) NO FUDGING! We’re talking first draft here. The words don’t have to be poilshed, but they do have to exist in some form other than our minds. Just planning a great piece of dialog in your head doesn’t count. I’m great at doing that. It’s getting it from the head and onto the page that’s the real test. Words written on our blogs don’t count. Crits given to other people don’t count. Flogging our selves doesn’t count. The idea is to write books, not to gazing lovingly at our navels.
c) No excuses! Well, okay. Dying is a reasonable excuse. But being too busy isn’t. Sickness? Only if you wish you were dying. And no ‘banking”. If you write 1000 words today you don’t get to take ten days off. It’s a hundred words MINIMUM per day. If we’re going on vacation and can’t update daily we say that before we go… and we better have the right number of words competed by the end time we come home.

How do you guys want to handle the flogging piece?

]]> By: Ing http://www.dallenrose.com/?p=61&cpage=1#comment-266 Ing Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:52:34 +0000 http://www.dallenrose.com/blog/?p=61#comment-266 <p>Dang, my readers are ganging up on me. Pretty soon I won't have any excuses left. Guess that's what I get for whining in public. :)</p> <p>Actually, I kind of like the idea. I think I kind of need a threat hanging over my head.</p> <p>That's what National Novel Writing Month was supposed to do for me the last two years -- and to some extent it did. Two years ago I wrote about 8,000 words during NaNoWriMo (I'll never use them, but at least they got written). This year it got deep-sixed by a bigger threat -- traveling to see doctors, having medical tests, and surgery. :(</p> <p>I'm open to the idea, just as long as I get to verbally abuse Daeruin (assuming he joins in...heck, even if he doesn't join in). I've seen how good he can be, and it's a crime the guy isn't writing more.</p> <p>So should we work up some ground rules and begin berating one another?</p> Dang, my readers are ganging up on me. Pretty soon I won’t have any excuses left. Guess that’s what I get for whining in public. :)

Actually, I kind of like the idea. I think I kind of need a threat hanging over my head.

That’s what National Novel Writing Month was supposed to do for me the last two years — and to some extent it did. Two years ago I wrote about 8,000 words during NaNoWriMo (I’ll never use them, but at least they got written). This year it got deep-sixed by a bigger threat — traveling to see doctors, having medical tests, and surgery. :(

I’m open to the idea, just as long as I get to verbally abuse Daeruin (assuming he joins in…heck, even if he doesn’t join in). I’ve seen how good he can be, and it’s a crime the guy isn’t writing more.

So should we work up some ground rules and begin berating one another?

]]> By: Daeruin http://www.dallenrose.com/?p=61&cpage=1#comment-264 Daeruin Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:29:13 +0000 http://www.dallenrose.com/blog/?p=61#comment-264 Liz, that sounds like an excellent idea. I'll volunteer to publicly flog Ing, as well. Liz, that sounds like an excellent idea. I’ll volunteer to publicly flog Ing, as well.

]]> By: Liz http://www.dallenrose.com/?p=61&cpage=1#comment-262 Liz Sat, 15 Mar 2008 13:12:04 +0000 http://www.dallenrose.com/blog/?p=61#comment-262 Hi Ing! I as a fellow gold medal procrastinator I feel for you. BUT... sympathy isn't going to help get that novel written. I'll be happy to help get your a** in gear, if you like. How about this? We both commit to writting 100 words a day on either our WIP or on a new project and then email or update our blogs with the news that we've made our goal? And if we don't we'll berate each other in public. I can't speak for Theadra but I have a sneaking suspicion she'd come on board too. Heck, we could each get one of those word count meters of Holly Lisle's shop and put the info out there for all to see. Want to give it a try? At worst you'll get a regular beating from me if you don't make your words. At best, you'll end up with that novel you aren't writing. I'll check back here to see if you're up for it. Or you can email me, my email address is on my blog. Hi Ing! I as a fellow gold medal procrastinator I feel for you. BUT… sympathy isn’t going to help get that novel written. I’ll be happy to help get your a** in gear, if you like. How about this? We both commit to writting 100 words a day on either our WIP or on a new project and then email or update our blogs with the news that we’ve made our goal? And if we don’t we’ll berate each other in public. I can’t speak for Theadra but I have a sneaking suspicion she’d come on board too. Heck, we could each get one of those word count meters of Holly Lisle’s shop and put the info out there for all to see.

Want to give it a try? At worst you’ll get a regular beating from me if you don’t make your words. At best, you’ll end up with that novel you aren’t writing. I’ll check back here to see if you’re up for it. Or you can email me, my email address is on my blog.

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