From the monthly archives:

November 2006

Websites

28 November 2006

And here’s for some surfing fun… Useful sites I’ve encountered recently…

OneWord – a one word writing prompt
World Wonders – a listing of all sorts of different types of world wonders [...]

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More generators

21 November 2006

And no, not the electrical kind. Doesn’t involve lightning. Not for character names or places or potions or the like.
Nope, this is a paper generating site for computer science.
Quite funny, including the little story they give about how they generated one and then [...]

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Best first lines

14 November 2006

100 best first lines of novels. Read ‘em and weep.
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On another note…
Learning how to write a novel
Do you read short fiction?
Matt’s meme on unfinished fiction
Search Phrases That Lead People to My Site

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Flash Fiction Friday 11

10 November 2006

Welcome to Flash Fiction Friday, where everything is possible and the only limitations are the misfirings of your drug-influenced synapses.
It’s another NaNoWriMo-influenced prompt.
While flash fiction is, of course, still welcome, you can also write a scene in your NaNoWriMo Novel and share a [...]

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And we’re off…

7 November 2006

Nope, not to the races. Not off our rockers, either (although that’s debateable). Nope, we’re off to Dubai *dances the jig* for a few days.
So I won’t be here again until Saturday morning to check email. If you’re submitting a blog entry for a Flash Fiction Friday, [...]

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Flash Fiction Friday 10

3 November 2006

Welcome to Flash Fiction Friday, where everything is possible! It’s only limited by your delusions of grandeur!
Given that we’re firmly into NaNoWriMo, we’re doing things a little bit differently this month.
While short stories are, of course, still welcome, you can also write a [...]

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Insanity continues

2 November 2006

Until the end of the month, really.
NaNoWriMo the short version is, for those of you who don’t already know, tens of thousands of people around the world all attempting to write 50,000 words of a novel in 30 days – November.
It’s only a [...]

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Welcome to the Insanity!!!!!

1 November 2006

NaNoWriMo begins today.
I finally got my plot spoon fed to me last night by Fahim, and it’s just a very very basic outline. He’s leaving the rest to me…
He took an idea I had, ditched more than 99% of it, and came up [...]

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