Hello folks,
There's not long now until Nanowrimo 2016 is underway. About a week. I'm Municipal Liason once again and a full list of the Events that I've organised for the Milton Keynes Participants this November can be found at the Milton Keynes Regional Forum.
I've updated my Nanowrimo Participant Page with information about the new project I'm starting for this year's Nano. It's an idea I've had rolling around in my head for a few years now. I've tried to write it out as a short story before but it's never quite clicked. I'm hoping I can develop this story enough to be a full fledged novel.
The one line pitch of the novel is: Magic is real, Witches pay taxes, and Bethany has accidentally made herself the prey of The Fairy Queen of Queen's Court in the Milton Keynes Shopping Centre.
I really like the idea of a place as modern as Milton Keynes being filled with old world creatures like fairies in the shopping centre and a dragon in Willen Lake.
Take care,
Victoria
Saturday, 29 October 2016
Friday, 5 February 2016
Roll of the Dice February 2016
Well I actually managed to finish the story in time for the first Sunday in February. I am amazed. Shocked even.
(I'm not so great with deadlines, something I'm working on fixing)
This story has turned out longer than the January 2016 story and a bit more serious. I hope that you enjoy reading it!
I'm putting the text of the story up now and then I will edit this post once I've recorded a reading of the story for my youtube channel.
Edit 8/2/16: You can now view my lovely self reading this story out loud here: https://youtu.be/ooLNNyHXMVs
ttfn
RotD February 2016 Text:
(I'm not so great with deadlines, something I'm working on fixing)
This story has turned out longer than the January 2016 story and a bit more serious. I hope that you enjoy reading it!
I'm putting the text of the story up now and then I will edit this post once I've recorded a reading of the story for my youtube channel.
Edit 8/2/16: You can now view my lovely self reading this story out loud here: https://youtu.be/ooLNNyHXMVs
ttfn
RotD February 2016 Text:
Sunday, 3 January 2016
Roll of the Dice Short Story January 2016 ON YOUTUBE (eek)
Hello all,
I have now created for my lovely self a Youtube channel. Eek. Why eek you may ask? Well, it's mainly because I find it very strange the idea of uploading video of myself to the internet. I can't help but still think back to those school days where you were told to NEVER EVER give out personal information about yourself on the internet, such as your name, address, photos and suchlike. It was thought that the internet was full of strange people who would want to kidnap you. I went to school during the 1990s when the internet was so new and strange that we were to distrust it. Oh well, that obviously didn't happen.
Also, I don't think anyone is going to see these videos of me reading my stories or read these blog posts so it doesn't matter that much. It's a good project for me to keep myself writing.
(It's taking 45 minutes to upload a 10 minute video. Is that the average time for uploads to Youtube or is my laptop/wifi just slow???)
The video is published and live and can be found on my brand new Youtube channel here: https://youtu.be/UTkr_MT1qwg
The text of the story can be found below.
Apart from the Roll of the Dice short story for January I haven't done much writing on my other projects. My excuse was, and still is, that is was December and nothing gets done properly in December. Not only is it my birthday, but it is also those small holidays of Christmas and New Year.
But now that 2016 is upon us I will be making a more concrete effort to write and finish this current novel project. I am still so annoyed with myself that I didn't complete it for Nanowrimo. I've done that for the past few years and even if I didn't like the finished project I still got the certificate that said that I'd won Nanowrimo. I'm going to have a gap in my certificates now -_-;
My Nanowrimo account for my current project is still up online and can be found here: http://nanowrimo.org/participants/quothvictoria/novels/lady-of-smoke-and-mirrors
I'm wondering if I should get up earlier so that I have time before work to write, but I already get up at 6am and getting up before that seems uncivilised. I probably should though. After work my brain feels like boiled cabbage. Oh well.
My other New Year Resolution (dramatic capital letters intended) is to give up drinking alcohol for the month of January and raise money for Alcohol Concern by taking part in Dry January. I've got a Just Giving page so you can donate to Alcohol Concern as well if you so wish. I almost managed it last year, but I forgot once when I went out for lunch and ordered a lager. -_-;; I'm planning to suceed this year!
All is going well with the writing group. The upstairs meeting room at Central Library has been booked each month for 2016 so the meeting dates are all sorted and can be found here: http://nanowrimo.org/forums/europe-england-milton-keynes/threads/280891
I also updated the writing group's facebook group so that the page address is less full of numbers. It's now: https://www.facebook.com/groups/miltonkeynesnanogroup/
There may also be more 'carry on writing' meet ups at Central Library on Sundays, I'll create events on the facebook group is people are interested in that.
ttfn
RotD January 2016 Text:
I have now created for my lovely self a Youtube channel. Eek. Why eek you may ask? Well, it's mainly because I find it very strange the idea of uploading video of myself to the internet. I can't help but still think back to those school days where you were told to NEVER EVER give out personal information about yourself on the internet, such as your name, address, photos and suchlike. It was thought that the internet was full of strange people who would want to kidnap you. I went to school during the 1990s when the internet was so new and strange that we were to distrust it. Oh well, that obviously didn't happen.
Also, I don't think anyone is going to see these videos of me reading my stories or read these blog posts so it doesn't matter that much. It's a good project for me to keep myself writing.
(It's taking 45 minutes to upload a 10 minute video. Is that the average time for uploads to Youtube or is my laptop/wifi just slow???)
The video is published and live and can be found on my brand new Youtube channel here: https://youtu.be/UTkr_MT1qwg
The text of the story can be found below.
Apart from the Roll of the Dice short story for January I haven't done much writing on my other projects. My excuse was, and still is, that is was December and nothing gets done properly in December. Not only is it my birthday, but it is also those small holidays of Christmas and New Year.
But now that 2016 is upon us I will be making a more concrete effort to write and finish this current novel project. I am still so annoyed with myself that I didn't complete it for Nanowrimo. I've done that for the past few years and even if I didn't like the finished project I still got the certificate that said that I'd won Nanowrimo. I'm going to have a gap in my certificates now -_-;
My Nanowrimo account for my current project is still up online and can be found here: http://nanowrimo.org/participants/quothvictoria/novels/lady-of-smoke-and-mirrors
I'm wondering if I should get up earlier so that I have time before work to write, but I already get up at 6am and getting up before that seems uncivilised. I probably should though. After work my brain feels like boiled cabbage. Oh well.
My other New Year Resolution (dramatic capital letters intended) is to give up drinking alcohol for the month of January and raise money for Alcohol Concern by taking part in Dry January. I've got a Just Giving page so you can donate to Alcohol Concern as well if you so wish. I almost managed it last year, but I forgot once when I went out for lunch and ordered a lager. -_-;; I'm planning to suceed this year!
All is going well with the writing group. The upstairs meeting room at Central Library has been booked each month for 2016 so the meeting dates are all sorted and can be found here: http://nanowrimo.org/forums/europe-england-milton-keynes/threads/280891
I also updated the writing group's facebook group so that the page address is less full of numbers. It's now: https://www.facebook.com/groups/miltonkeynesnanogroup/
There may also be more 'carry on writing' meet ups at Central Library on Sundays, I'll create events on the facebook group is people are interested in that.
ttfn
RotD January 2016 Text:
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