Yes! We are so back! Love the snow scene. Feels pristine. :)

Hello, I'm new over here. I did nanowrimo last year and ended with a 90k word first draft.I have not looked at it since and am a little intimidated about going back in. Any suggestions around how to spend February in preparation?

*waves*

I'm working on my 2007 Nano as well - it's been waiting so patiently for me to fix it up and finish it right, and I am going to do right by it this year. :)

Argh!!!!

How did it get to be February already?!!

Too much to do!!

{{deep breaths, deep breaths}}

Hiya JKM,

Great to see a familiar face again and with such plans too!

I'm also going to be working on something which I I'm going to attempt to get published - it's still a long way off though. This is my 2007 Nanowrimo attempt and it's actually already at the 'half-way through the third draft' phase. So, my main aims for this March are to finish the third draft, double-check for consistency errors, then release into the wonderful world of beta readers - that's going to be the scariest bit of all!

As it's possible I may manage to finish that in March (especially as I'm having a week away in a cottage in Cornwall towards the end of the month simply in order to edit and nothing else) I'll then go back to the first draft of a story that's taken me 5 years to complete. It needs some serious re-writing as you can really see how my writing improved over the intervening years so that should keep me more than occupied.

First though, I have to get an assignment finished for the course I'm on - that's due on the 6th March so I really need to get that done before the end of February so I can concentrate on the important things in life.

In the meantime I'll sit back with a and wait for everyone else to show up.

Good luck everyone!

Lottie

Wondered if it might be. Looking at it from work at the moment (naughty) and we have IE6 (I know! But whaddya gonna do? Not in my contriol.) Or maybe it's a fonts issue. I'll look at it again at home tonight anyway.

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I think it may just be you as it looks fine for me. What set up are you using?

Well, here I am, glutton for punishment, back for EdMo number 4!

The last three years I've edited my NaNoWriMo novel from the previous year during EdMo. But not this time. And not only because even thinking of my NaNo09 novel makes me want to scream and hide under the bed. (It wasn't a good year. I only won through sheer bloody-mindedness in the end.)

This year I'm working on a draft I wrote last summer and scarily, for the first time, it's for publication. Or rather to attempt to get it published. I'm skeered... but it's time and this feels like the right story.

Current word count is 77k, which will likely come down a bit. It's a m/m sci-fi romance. (Stop sniggering at the back! There's a market!) So I'll be hanging out in the sci-fi and romance subforums for sure. (Well. I'm a mod in sci-fi one, so I'd better!)

I'm starting today on the "high level" editing, getting the structure of it sorted, making sure the plot makes sense, etc. So by the time March comes around I should be ready for actual editing type editing. Actually changing words that is.

I know I won't complete the editing of it in March, but the 50 hours of EdMo and the motivation of the challenge will be a great booster for this project.

I noticed that words that include an apostrophe are displaying as, for example, don?t, rather than don't. Is it just me seeing this?

Is it maybe a special character - i.e. a "curly" instead of "straight" one?

Hi there,

Anyone from the Harrisburg or surrounding area around?