I have to admit that #2 has become #1. And does that matter? OK, when I do Nano, I have my main story, the one I focus on during the preceding months, the one I tell people I’m writing when they ask, the one I do research for or whatever, and when it comes to…
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Tonight was our first regional Nano-prep session. The topic was Plotting. Fortunately we just talked about what we were doing and no plotting. So I was thinking earlier, how do you make story without planning it out beforehand? There are some questions I use consciously or unconsciously. Starting with the basic: What’s stopping them from…
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I don’t outline. Anything resembling an outline invariably turns out to be a bad idea (presents as evidence, Evil Fantasy Novel). Last year reminded me that even having plot points can be problematic. I am happily writing along when I remember Something Has To Happen at this point. It makes things harder, slower, ploddinger. (Is…
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Walked down to Tailrace Park, about twenty minutes walk away, to do some reading. Had a thought about names & secondary fantasy worlds. To make they’re believable and sound like they’re from the same culture, I like to find lists from actual times & places. Ideally, a list from a census or something. So you…
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I have two stories/ideas that I’m developing for Nano this year. One is a secondary world fantasy that has opening scenes (they’re from something I wrote years ago) and then some sort of vague ideas for later things & a general direction for the plot. This is good. It’s about where I want it to…
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As November comes along again, I am thinking of doing a Nanowrimo Journal. Where I can put thoughts about preparing, grumble out uncooperative characters and, in November, record progress. So I’ll be posting things here (which is this blog, but that category).
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So this is the Flower & Garden Festival at the Albert Hall. I don’t know why they call them festivals, they’d do better with show or something. Anyway, whatever you want to call it, it has… lots of flowers and displays about native flora ( Pterostylis pedunculata, a native orchid) and fauna (Wedge-tailed eagle). and…
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Launceston Advertiser, 5 June 1834 MUSIC AND DRAMA Launceston As far back as the thirties there was a “theatre” in an upper room of the British Hotel, Launceston, but of it no traces are left, and there were other similar places where barn-stormers and embryo tragedians fretted their hour. The Mercury, 12 September 1903 The…
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The first telegraphic connection was opened in September 1859. INTER-COLONIAL SUBMARINE AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH. The following are the messages which have been interchanged by the Governors of the colonies on the opening of the line :— Sir Henry Young to Sir Henry Barkly. Government House. September, 1859. Sir Henry Young uses the telegraph across Bass’s…
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This rather cool thing is at the Pioneer Settlement at Swan Hill. Panel at entrance says: The Pioneer Settlement’s Kaiser Stereoscopic Theatre is one of only two [three or four maybe] in the world, and the only one which operates all day, every day. The theatre can be seen as an early version of cinema,…
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