General Chat

Hi there Jill , I am not too well today although better than yesterday, so would you please let anyone who is in the writers club know?
I have had a headache for 3 days, got too bad to do anything yesterday

It is still there and I am useless just now.
Will get back to all of you perhaps tomorrow.
Thank you.
Deanna XX

Just got back after a strange experience...see chat... a bit shaky lol...

xx

Jen did I have the second instalment? I just had one e mail with 1 and 2 on it. was that both instalments in one? Don't want to miss anything.

OK TW will send it to you.

Afternoon all. have just sent you an email re your 2nd instalment, Jen, thank you:-) Just got in and no time to write today as yet. I think I shall occasionally need a gentle kick up the bottom to get me going again! I run out of steam so fast...lol... hope you are all scribbling happily and productively:-) BCXX

Ooo Jen, I read it last night, I'll send you my thoughts later on.

Ann, do send it, I'd love to read it. Mine's a bit 'People's Friend', but that was intentional.

I'll look forward to reading it.

Go on Ann be tempted, I like gentle, can be very poignant. I'd love to read it.

I always fancied writing a historical type novel but to be honest that sort of story involves a lot of research because you have to have the background historical and geographical facts righ. If you read the foreward in many novels you will see thanks to all sorts of people who have helped with that sort of background so I wonder if it is something you do when you are more established.

I do have a short (about 3000 words I think) story that I have written but it is a bit Woman's weekly. I like it but it is a very gentle story. I will maybe pluck up courage and send it out but not sure.

Love that idea Rose, we want plenty of variety. I'm waiting for some good old critisim on my two installments. I need to know if you think it's getting bogged down in any way or going off track too much, I know one or two of you seem happy with it so far but I do have a tendancy to meander a little. Bad, bad habit! lol!

Good idea Rose, and different genre's within fiction too, from romance, historical, supernatural, crime etc. eventually. Who knows? we might all discover something about ourselves by giving it a go.

have done that Rose on my course last year and Poetry won every time...lol

it would be nice if we can alternate a little between fiction and non-fiction and poetry , just try our hand at each and see if we have hidden talent for something we've not tried before :)

It's not productive for my course-work, I'm supposed to be doing non-fiction LOL.

That's a lot of words ! the most I have done was 10, 000 for my 'long study', but that was factual so much easier than building plot and characters.

I did the NaNoWriMo in November Rose, only for myself as an exercise, to see if I could be disciplined and dedicated enough. The idea being to write 50k in 30 days, which, when you break it down is just 1700 a day. Couple of hours and I had it done.

BUT....you just let your imagination flow, almost in a childlike way, and see what happens. I did have a plan, I had an idea where the story was going to go, but I left it to my characters to get there step by step. It was fun. No editing, no going back, just keep going until the 50k are done. Well I almost got there LOL Good start for a first draft though.

nice one Rose - love it!!!!

blimey Teresa you've got 46,000 words ! I think I may walk out into the snow and be gone some time >>>>>>>>>>...

lol

I have a few short stories I have written over the last couple of years, and two incomplete novels, one reached 46,000 words before it faltered and ground to a halt, but that's because I brought in some other characters I didn't need, and now I've got to delete 10,000 words to be rid of the nosey busybodies LOL. Now that's hard, because I've got to kill them and send then back to the void of non-existence from whence they came, and give the jobs they did to the existing characters. This also means I have to get rid of the graveside punch-up which I was pleased with, and was totally 'in the zone' when I wrote it. Damn!

Anyway, I may send one of the shorts around soon, to see what you all think, once we get going on the second wave, which will give me a little more time for my latest one to be polished.

Know that feeling well Rose, I started this one at least 2 years ago, have about five or six pages and know where I want to go with it, it's just finding the time to get me there lol!

I believe I drafted three totally different beginnings of stories before Miriam took me over, Rose, I suppose you have to keep plowing on until something grabs you, no matter how trivial:-) BCXX

Jen, only because I am sat here surrounded by 'beginnings' ! and reading them (some of which I wrote 20 years ago) I can see where i intended to go with them ...but never went lol.
Not short stories , the first pages of 'novels'....