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WHOOP!

1341 words into it so far, and it's flowing!

What a nice change.
 
cloudy said:
WHOOP!

1341 words into it so far, and it's flowing!

What a nice change.
Yay cloudy! :nana:

Now how did you get that meter thing to work?
 
entitled said:
Yay cloudy! :nana:

Now how did you get that meter thing to work?

go here. You'll have to register, but it's free, and they ask zero questions.

It'll make your meter, but the code that they supply doesn't work with vbulletin, so what I did was right-click the image, and save it, then uploaded it to my imagecave account.

As I get more written, and update the meter, I'll just have to keep replacing it at imagecave, but it was the only way I could get it to work. (I'm sure there's another way, but it's just too damn early for me to fool with it right now).
 
got almost 500 words done in a little spurt before heading to work...

every little bit helps, right? only 99% more to go... :rolleyes:
 
cloudy said:
go here. You'll have to register, but it's free, and they ask zero questions.

It'll make your meter, but the code that they supply doesn't work with vbulletin, so what I did was right-click the image, and save it, then uploaded it to my imagecave account.

As I get more written, and update the meter, I'll just have to keep replacing it at imagecave, but it was the only way I could get it to work. (I'm sure there's another way, but it's just too damn early for me to fool with it right now).

I'm relying upon the sledgehammer meter, see below. I've not put anything in yet as nothing is written :rolleyes:
 
I have 710 words of readable prose written.
Plus 3600 words of utter crap. :cool:

Puts me ahead of schedule. Which I'm gonna need, because that's all I'll do til Friday.
 
Liar said:
I have 710 words of readable prose written.
Plus 3600 words of utter crap. :cool:

Puts me ahead of schedule. Which I'm gonna need, because that's all I'll do til Friday.

Slacker :p

I wrote 600 words this morning at 3 and then decided I wasn't being productive so I went to bed. I wonder how well this schedule is going to work out..
 
:rolleyes:
Liar said:
I have 710 words of readable prose written.
Plus 3600 words of utter crap. :cool:

Puts me ahead of schedule. Which I'm gonna need, because that's all I'll do til Friday.


Just keep it coming Liar.

Still working steadily. It's like Carole, Tess and Lynsey have been waiting to tell their story for so long they can't wait to get it down. No sign of any guys yet - one's a crook and the other's a cop who drinks too much :rolleyes:
The music's churning out on the CD player, and the words are doing the same on the laptop. Something's bound to go wrong !!!
 
859 words... pant, pant... off for dinner at a friend's palce. Most likely some fucking, too. Will be back later for more writing and maybe an excerpt.
 
2468 words! :nana:

A tease:

The frail white-haired man seated on the other side of the fire nodded in acknowledgement of her request, but was quiet, gathering his thoughts, and waiting for the children around him to give him the respect due a storyteller. The other children poked each other and gradually settled down to listen to the story of the prophecy that had been handed down, one storyteller to another, as long as the people had existed. The old man cleared his throat once, glanced around at the eager faces watching him, then began with the traditional storyteller’s words, “Listen, listen, listen, listen! My story rattle has sounded. It is time to begin.”
 
cloudy said:
2468 words! :nana:

A tease:

The frail white-haired man seated on the other side of the fire nodded in acknowledgement of her request, but was quiet, gathering his thoughts, and waiting for the children around him to give him the respect due a storyteller. The other children poked each other and gradually settled down to listen to the story of the prophecy that had been handed down, one storyteller to another, as long as the people had existed. The old man cleared his throat once, glanced around at the eager faces watching him, then began with the traditional storyteller’s words, “Listen, listen, listen, listen! My story rattle has sounded. It is time to begin.”


I'm listening, it's what I do best :)
 
326 words written in 30 minutes or so this morning -hoping to get up to my hoped 2000 at least tonight...we'll see as I've got a short custom piece to write in the next few days too.
 
entitled said:
We're doing teasers?

3842


If you like, and please stop ramming that 3842 down my throat, just cos I've done less than half that :) I'm happy with the way things are going, so many damn ideas I'm not sure where to fit them all in.

The music's belting out and I'm rolling along nicely 'Coldplay - Pass it on'

Anyway as for teases, you show me yours lady, and I'll show you mine. :D
 
Somebody make this fucking asshole go away and leave me alone so i can keep working? Please?
 
chris 44 said:
Anyway as for teases, you show me yours lady, and I'll show you mine. :D
How about the opening?

Her head was lowered, one hand rubbing at her right temple. Suddenly there was the shriek of brakes, a bright light, and she jerked her head up just in time to see a headlight come smashing through the driver’s window.

Blackness.

She awoke again to find herself looking up at a bottle of clear solution, tubing, and a stranger looking down at her. Everything was swaying. There was something screaming in her ears, but her head was ringing, so she couldn’t tell if she was imagining it or not.
Oh, and 3956
 
entitled said:
Somebody make this fucking asshole go away and leave me alone so i can keep working? Please?


For a moment there, I thought you were talking about me :eek:(
 
chris 44 said:
For a moment there, I thought you were talking about me :eek:(
*L* No, no, no... The resident asshole has decided that now is the perfect time to clean the house because i 'obviously haven't done anything' for a while. Which we all know is utter crap.

If i wanted you to shut up and go away, i'd tell you to shut up and go away.
 
entitled said:
How about the opening?

Oh, and 3956


3956 grrr!!! Now cloudy's getting in on the act, 3120. God I feel inferior.

Nice opening though Ent 'something screaming in her ears' Like it a lot.

Here's mine, changed a little from last night :-

'Carole Evans had been a career prostitute for longer than she cared to remember. As careers go it hadn’t been a particularly fulfilling experience, nor had it been a very rewarding one. When her life had come down to a choice between prostitution and starvation, she’d been forced to choose the former. Within the next couple of hours however, even the luxury of that choice would be taken out of her hands. '
 
My word count so far? Big fat ZERO


Have a sick kid at home today so that's not very conducive to writing.
 
CrimsonMaiden said:
My word count so far? Big fat ZERO


Have a sick kid at home today so that's not very conducive to writing.
That's OK, Crim.

Drug the kid and start working. You'll catch up soon enough.
 
CrimsonMaiden said:
My word count so far? Big fat ZERO


Have a sick kid at home today so that's not very conducive to writing.

...says one of the most prolific writers here. ;)
 
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