Writer from Cambridgeshire (Aspiring). Acerbic assesor of Counterfeit Culture. Occasional Twit. Habitual user of NaNoWriMo. A lover of Nonsense Correspondence . Noter of Notes. Creator ofThe Short Stupid Existence of Prose Darling: A Modern Fable for The Fashionably Late. Please feel free to Correspond.

How I am Preparing for #NaNoWriMo

     How I am Preparing for #NaNoWriMo



1. One line a day for every day of writing. A reasonably popular tweet by myself here put it like this: http://twitter.com/CjEggett/status/26452036043

@dirtywhitecandy Good #NaNoWriMo tip: Plan ahead with one line for each day. 30 lines today is a giant ladder in November!less than a minute ago C J Eggett


All these lines aren’t the same kind of lines. Some are key phrases, some are first lines, some are merely descriptions of what I hope will happen in that day’s writing.

I can now see the points of contraction and release across the whole story arc - albeit very roughly.

2. Boxing off other projects. The process of “boxing up” out standing work consists of me collecting together something similar to a “report” or “assessment”. I look at the current work critically and gather the measure of the problems. I write these down. I then collect together ideas for each text and put them and add them to the “report”.

I then put it somewhere safe and out the way of my eyeline (certainly not within a few clicks of the desktop!) - the equivalent of getting a persona taller than you to put something on a high shelf (and taking away your ladder, and making sure you’re blacklisted at the ladder shop).

Currently I have the following which needs boxing up:

  • a short film script about two old men following a fridge into the German mountains
  • Novel currently called “The Correspondence of Philip Turnbuckle” (old, at about 30,00 words)
  • Novel currently titled “Mossy Treacles” (Newish, at about 20,000 words)
  • Poems (Scraps and drafts)



3. Stop Drinking So Much.

4.Procrastination. Write a blog post about how you’re going to prepare for #NaNoWriMo, maybe make a twitter list - and definitely get involved with hashtags on twitter like #litchat. Make sure your procrastinations look like real work, and if you must, make time for it instead of actually doing any preparation. After a nearly lethal does of procrastination you might start trying to justify it to yourself with irony and humor. Stop and listen to this:



Then forget about step 3 and return to step one.

Christopher John Eggett

RT @unfortunatalie: Someone has scrawled “ennui” on the back of the train seat in front of me, in pencil.

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Anonymous asked: Why are you quoting me in your posts? Don't you know how powerful I think I am?
Hugs,
GQ

PS You misspelt my name

Oh, I am sorry Geoffery - Philip Turnbuckle said you were definitely dead this time?

I also changed the names in my new screenplay “People Talk About Geoffrey Quintice & Philip Turnbuckle Sometimes” - to keep your identity a secret. I suppose I could change your name to something ridiculous?

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Doing some more #nanowrimo ground-work. Complete lack of names so far. Where do you pull “real” names from?

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Imagine If There Were No Street Lights

  • 2. Street lights are an abomination. Imagine if there were no street lights
  • 1. I can…
  • 2. Wouldn't the streets feel better walking though, wouldn't town and cities feel like the real spaces they are - rather than everything painted in a florescence.
  • 1. Don't you think there might be problems with this?
  • 2. I don't see how. I think people would be happier if the was light in the way we expect - I think lights during the evening always make me feel odd - off - it is not something natural.
  • 1. I think you're getting confused here. You're saying people feel crazy because, deep down, they can't handle light when it is supposed to be dark?
  • 2. Yeah -
  • 1. -Well don't you think more nasty things would happen to people at night, in the dark, than they might in lit areas?
  • 2. I think that is quite unfair. Roads wouldn't be completely pitch black - some people's houses would be lit-up a little.
  • 1. There would be a glow...
  • 2. And on a clear night people would be able to navigate by moon-light.
  • 1. I really think that there are more stabbing and muggings in dark places than in well lit places
  • 2. I just don't think this is true - I think you only think that because you've been told to be scared of the dark.
  • 1. - Wait - you think that it is unnatural to have lit streets because it is unnatural - and it is also unnatural to be scared of the dark.
  • 2. I think it is unnatural for the modern man to be scared of the dark. Your eyes adjust. If everyone's eyes adjusted we wouldn't need street-lights
  • 1. So people should be encouraged to just learn how to see in the dark?
  • 2. Yeah.
  • 1. What about cars?
  • 2. What do you mean?
  • 1. What about when you're driving your car back form work at night, and you don't have a lights and you really can't see that far in front of you.
  • 2. Well, firstly my car would cost less when replacing bulbs.
  • 1. I think it would cost more in the long run – you know, after you’ve run a few people down, knocked a few kerbs…
  • 2. Okay, so maybe cars keep their lights –
  • 1. So now we have a situation where cars have lights and no one else does. So what about a mugger who hangs out on a junction waiting for victims to get dazzled by some headlights -
  • 2. Maybe everyone should be trained in kung-fu…
  • 1. Except the muggers?
  • 2. Yeah.
  • 1. When do you teach them?
  • 2. At school, obviously.
  • 1. How do you know which ones are going to be muggers when they grow up?
  • 2. Do you mean you could never tell?
  • 1. Could you?!
  • 2. Of course!
  • 1. Like who?
  • 2. Do you remember Geoffrey Quintice?
  • 1. No.
  • 2. Well, he was one of those kids who always used to throw stuff and nick stuff and generally be a pain to teachers.
  • 1. Riigght?
  • 2. Well, I knew that he was always going to turn to a life of crime.
  • 1. Quintice was the one who stole your pencil-case in art and wrapped it in clay wasn't he?
  • 2. I really don't feel this is relevant.
  • 1. No, he was wasn't he? Do you remember the noise that the explosion mad in the kiln? That really went bang.
  • 2. I do not think this affects my assertions however. I knew from that age he would always turn to a life of crime. A low and behold last month he got banned from driving.
  • 1. Seriously?
  • 2. Yeah he was going waaaay too fast-
  • 1. - no I mean, seriously, that's what you call a life of crime?
  • 2. I bet he has parking tickets too.
  • 1. I think we ought to speed up if we want to catch this thing.
  • 2. Yeah, okay.
  • *slight jog*
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I have just heard a BBC News person say “luckily the chilean miners only have minor ailments” of course!

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