Anyone else doing Nanowrimo?
Oct. 12th, 2011 04:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elingregoryMore in hope than conviction, because madam STILL hasn't shifted her trash out of my work room, I've signed up and got my new Nanowrimo page ready.
This year I'm doing 7th century Romano-Brits battling the Saxons down through Yorkshire - sort of like "300" only without the little leather posing pouches. Obviously this takes some background reading so I'm ploughing through all the different translations of the Gododdin, the source material. Some of it reads like it's been put through Babelfish:
Thou slayest them with blades, without much noise:
Thou, powerful pillar of living right, causest stillness.
But I have to admit that I really like the line:
The son of Bodgad, by the energy of his hand, caused a throbbing.
Of what, it doesn't say but the poem continues "Though they went to church to do penance / The old, the young, and the bold handed, / The inevitable strife of death was to pierce them" so this may be one of the first instances of the old "if you do that you'll go blind, grow hair on your palms and die" canard.
Hmm - now I've thought of that I may have to write it. When I get desperate, about Day 25.
This year I'm doing 7th century Romano-Brits battling the Saxons down through Yorkshire - sort of like "300" only without the little leather posing pouches. Obviously this takes some background reading so I'm ploughing through all the different translations of the Gododdin, the source material. Some of it reads like it's been put through Babelfish:
Thou slayest them with blades, without much noise:
Thou, powerful pillar of living right, causest stillness.
But I have to admit that I really like the line:
The son of Bodgad, by the energy of his hand, caused a throbbing.
Of what, it doesn't say but the poem continues "Though they went to church to do penance / The old, the young, and the bold handed, / The inevitable strife of death was to pierce them" so this may be one of the first instances of the old "if you do that you'll go blind, grow hair on your palms and die" canard.
Hmm - now I've thought of that I may have to write it. When I get desperate, about Day 25.
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Date: 2011-10-12 06:31 pm (UTC)Feel free to buddy me
http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/participants/becky-black
I need some buddies, since I registered a new account for this year and haven't got many on it yet.
My project can be summed up as "The East India Company in space." Or at least as the story of two gorgeous guys in that scenario.
Ooh, better upload some of my NaNo icons.
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Date: 2011-10-12 07:34 pm (UTC)'East India company in space' sounds great fun!
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Date: 2011-10-24 08:01 pm (UTC)I'm not sure how fab it will be. The subject matter demands more graphic violence than graphic sex and I'm a bit edgy about doing either.
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Date: 2011-10-24 08:02 pm (UTC)Baby griffins!! Awwwww.
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Date: 2011-10-24 08:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-24 08:50 pm (UTC)i think its a decision about how much detail you're going to put in. i quite like the less detailed descriptions sometimes, more poetic and significant.
(err... am trying to think of examples now but ive gone blank! XD)
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Date: 2011-10-24 09:18 pm (UTC)I'll look into picowrimo once the November madness is over, or is it the scary Koala that's less scary than I assume? :D
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Date: 2011-10-24 09:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-24 09:26 pm (UTC)hilarious!
i think the hump scenes in old books ive read, by old i mean not that old. like 'the yearning cavern within her welcomed him in'
or something like that
bah thats crap. yeah you know what i mean though.
ROFL
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Date: 2011-10-25 06:51 am (UTC)Not everyone comes close to full points every month. Not sure I will this time.