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#18867 The Politics Thread
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I would stay up, but I don't want to get back into a routine of sleeping at seven in the morning and waking up at three. Romney is going to storm it anyway.
#18659 National Novel Writing Month
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Send me your email and I'll add you in.
#18648 National Novel Writing Month
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All in due course. I need the feedback, but I'm not going to touch it until the final words are said. The final words are almost certainly going to be "and it was all a dream."
#18617 National Novel Writing Month
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Actually, I just arranged to travel, by train, from London to Beijing via India. Sometime early next year.

Here's that word count list:

http://commonplacebook.com/culture/literature/books/word-count-for-famous-novels/
#18559 National Novel Writing Month
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The NaNoWriMo target is 50,000 but I'm not just going to stop at 50 and say "I'm out" I'll go on until it fits. There's a list which shows famous novel lengths, I'll link it when I get back. "Seb" is waiting for me outside, I'm going for lunch.
#18553 National Novel Writing Month
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18,922.

I'll easily have 20,000 by the end of the day, possibly up to 21/22 territory.
#18527 Real Oviedo - shares available to fend off liquidation
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By Deano | Permalink | On 06 November 2012 - 12:15 PM
That'd make a decent weekend trip to Spain.

Deano goes to Magaluf. Starring Deano as Deano.
#18526 National Novel Writing Month
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Then you'll be paying for it.
#18514 Real Oviedo - shares available to fend off liquidation
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By Vercoe | Permalink | On 06 November 2012 - 08:46 AM


Now there is value for buying a share. Consider my opinion changed.
#18513 National Novel Writing Month
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Stop putting pressure on me, Franck.
#18357 National Novel Writing Month
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Thinking of changing the title to just Emotional Retard. Thoughts?
#18320 The Night Thread Mk. IX
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Is it anything like the SecureCard machine that HSBC give out?
#18268 The Night Thread Mk. IX
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It must suck being famous, because you'd get slated for sharing an image like that. It is comedy gold.
#18260 National Novel Writing Month
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I haven't read it back myself, on purpose. But there's shit in there I know I need to clean up and rewrite. There's a section where the main character day dreams about being chastised by the Loose Women that I don't remember being particularly funny or interesting.
#18259 The Night Thread Mk. IX
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By Ninja | Permalink | On 05 November 2012 - 19:16 PM
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People on the continent take left wing politics to ridiculous degrees. I read a mental book by a group of French left wing nutters about the "coming insurrection" in France.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coming_Insurrection

If you have a free couple of hours and want to read mentalists hypothesising about how the world should run, I could not give it any more thumbs up.
#18252 National Novel Writing Month
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By RhylFCKiko | Permalink | On 05 November 2012 - 18:56 PM
Read the whole thing. Fucking quality. How have you been writing it? Has it been pre-planned or just whatever bullshit enters your head gets typed like anything I ever do? Either way, it's certainly going places, and it could go a few ways with the story. Look forward to what's to come

I've had an idea in my head for a year, but not in this form. Originally I was going to write a story where the main character sits at night and reflects on what he's done. That's based on the very real thing I have when I try to sleep at night; all the bad shit I've done in my life decides that the most opportune moment to spring back into my consciousness is right when I'm trying to sleep.

Since then I've been telling people for months, "Oh yeah, I'm a writer, blah blah blah". Literally talking the biggest amount of bollocks to girls, trying to get pussy under the pretence of being a creative.

I've actually sat down and started writing, properly and discovered that a) It's as much fun as I pretended it was and b) I have a penchant for the need to be productive consistently (not in quality, but in quantity).

I don't know, I always thought it was bullshit, finding out you could work and have fun. A myth people chase because it makes them sleep better at night. I've been a model train driver, an office junior, an estate agent, a venture capitalist, a PR rep in Malia, a bar tender, a journalist and a meat vendor. I know what I want to do for the rest of my life, even if I end up broke and giving out hand shandies to politicians on Parliament Square.

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#18167 The Night Thread Mk. IX
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#GettinSoOutYerNutYeDunnoWhetherYerNeedAShiteOrAHaircut
#18159 The Night Thread Mk. IX
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#18158 National Novel Writing Month
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By Franck | Permalink | On 05 November 2012 - 16:58 PM
No progress on the story today Fanny?

Zero. I woke up at half five this mornng, did some reading and then decided to go for a walk at half nine. Ended up going for lunch and viewing the Black Collection at the Saatchi Gallery. You know, because I have a vagina.

I'm going to do at least 2,500 by the end of tonight, it's not great but I'm still on track.
#17879 Black Ops 2
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I've called the police.
#17853 National Novel Writing Month
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By Nexus | Permalink | On 04 November 2012 - 22:24 PM
I haven't done anything on mine today.

To be honest, mine is bollocks. Really tempted to scrap it and start again. I can get 50,000 done in 25 days....

Don't think, just write. You've done 5,000 odd so far. Just keep going. You don't need to enjoy what's going down, it's about getting it down in the first place. Set aside a couple of hours where you just sit down and write. You don't have to write, but the only thing you're allowed to do is write.

By DB | Permalink | On 05 November 2012 - 06:15 AM
God damn cockblocking midgets.

Based on a woman of similar height who stood in front of my cock for twenty minutes on a crowded tube. It was tremendously awkward.
#17674 The Night Thread Mk. IX
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I preferred you when you ranted about Hungarians being an inferior race.
#17630 National Novel Writing Month
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For anyone interested, I've completed Chapter 11 now, capping me out at 15,500 words. Drop me a line if you want to be added to the read list.
#17568 Technological Moron
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By Phoenix Arrow | Permalink | On 04 November 2012 - 18:10 PM
You clearly haven't been on a rush hour trains to London then.
It's basically the company that most businesses use to provide laptops. I learnt to loathe the sight of them.

I like them because of the fact they are sturdy as shit, they're shock proof and water proof, have excellent security, have trackpoint and the number one thing, for me, is the keyboard. Thinkpads have the best keyboards.

They're not very attractive and you can get better spec pcs (second hand etc) for the price of one, but they're the workhorse when it comes to laptops.
#17495 Technological Moron
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Have a look to see if you can get a Lenovo ThinkPad. They're the absolute best when it comes to work. Great keyboards and matte finish. The higher end ones can get pricey, but you can get some cheap ones.

http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/gbweb/LenovoPortal/en_GB/catalog.workflow:item.detail?GroupID=240&Code=X131eAMDGOOD&category-id=6B63F6E9BB62AED9EA01FED70D085142#.UJagxcV0kko

If you're looking for a strictly work based laptop then a ThinkPad is the way to go. You can find all kinds of other ones like HP Pavillion etc which are similar, but Lenovo are the best for work.
#17478 National Novel Writing Month
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By Franck | Permalink | On 04 November 2012 - 16:42 PM
How's the writing going Max El Hadji?

I had lunch today so aside from some brief wording this morning I'm sitting at 14,000. I want to do 6,000 by the end of play today.

I'm working through a scene now which should open up the rest of the book.

Also, for anyone who's interested, give me your email address. I've just synced up Microsoft Word with google drive so I can add people who would like to view it, instead of having to repost the link each time.
#17472 National Novel Writing Month
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Not a traditional retard. He isn't entitled to govenment handouts because of an impairment. He's just completely disconnected from reality. It started out as me and many of things I say in the book are things I have thought and many of the situations are situations I have been in. But now that I've got the setting established I can start to have the character direct the action.

For example, I have never had a girlfriend. Well I kind of had a girlfriend when I was 14, but I just fingerbanged her for two months and then stopped calling her because she wouldn't let me fuck her. So that doesn't really count.

But the hero of our tale is going to embark on a relationship and I have a few interesting scenarios lined up for him to get involved with.

I haven't done much re-reading, but I know I'm going to need to do extensive editing in December/January.
#17466 International 'I think we're alone now' day
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#17304 The Night Thread Mk. IX
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It's something to do with how willing the Faroes were to get FIFA status. I can't be arsed to do the googling, but the artificial pitch story is not the reason why Greenland do not have FIFA status. It is because they have only recently tried to become a FIFA member and that up until recently were too dependent on Denmark to be considered truly separate in identity.
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