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[vaneramos]

100words.com has used one of my October entries for its feature today, but you'll have to visit the website on November 1 to see it.

Or you can view my entire October block.

Warning! I can't explain the warning without giving away the theme, but I chose a difficult one for October, and it makes difficult reading. If you're in the mood to slog through, I will as usual mail a card to the first person who identifies the theme. Hint: the theme is one word, and this time I did not, even once in the entire month, use the actual word.

Okay, it's time for me to start working on the novel. I will not be doing 100words in November, so I can concentrate on NaNoWriMo.

Comments

[rsc.livejournal.com]

Hoo boy. Not an easy month, as you say. The anger comes through pretty strongly.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

My my! Anger it is. You are the winner, two times in a row. The last card went into the mail only yesterday. I'll find something entirely different to mail this time.

I just finished writing the first 3,232 words of my novel this afternoon. Yay!

[rsc.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I'm glad you don't have a rule like those radio-station contests, where you're ineligible if you've won anything from them in the past six months.

I just finished writing the first 3,232 words of my novel this afternoon. Yay!

Congratulations. I can't wait to read it.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

You can, of course. :-) It's all in blind_king. Some of the material will seem familiar from the exercise I did in September, but it will start to diverge soon.

[poetbear.livejournal.com]

you may have misentered your location on ljmap.
it shows you to be in Alaska!~paul

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I couldn't get the pages to load properly this morning, and didn't realized I had entered a location at all. My location is fixed now.

[poetbear.livejournal.com]

k~p

[ghostsandrobots.livejournal.com]

I guessed your theme, too.

Intense, sure -- but a truly compelling read. I've read one or two other month-blocks; not sure if I told you before how much I admire your 100 Words writing.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Those blocks are some of my favourite work from the past few months. Something about the format, a small commitment and discipline, produces spare, focused, vivid writing. It's intuitively obvious that this should be so. Too bad I don't have the patience to write a novel this way, 100 words a day.

I didn't have a chance to read much of your work yesterday, but it looks like you had a productive day, as I did. Good going! I'm trying to write blocks of about 3,200 words so I don't have to work on it every day. Taking today off. Then working Monday and Tuesday. Using Danny's space worked really well yesterday.