Silk

Hey everyone, I'm just noticing that our next two submission dates fall on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve. Are we going to have people wanting to submit on those days, or, alternatively, lots of people who DON'T want to be critiquing those weeks? Do we want to be "closed for the holidays" on one or both of those dates? Let me know your thoughts. Silk

You bet!

Yes, go for it. Sorry for the delayed reply.

Absolutely!

I dunno, I was wondering too! *looks about for Stroniax*

Well, MY answer for "why has it been so dead around here" is that a Master's degree is a jealous mistress. I had hoped to participate in NaNo this year, but never really got started (see above--unless the 7k words of thesis revisions that I wrote counts? No? didn't think so), so I don't have much to contribute. I dunno, maybe I'll attempt to do my own personal NaNo this month. Though that certainly takes some of the fun out of it.

Trizee and Syme (new member) for Monday.

Go ahead--you're the only one up this week as far as I know.

Trizee and Caleb for tomorrow...

Go for it, both of you. Sorry, been marking assignments and not checking the forums...

Afraid not--I didn't know at the time that there were alternate spellings. As much as I like the title, I've been wondering recently if I should change it; it sounds like a genre title, and the story in question is actually literary fiction...

You betcha.

Hmm, tough to say. People are people to the "Character Name and ..." being a part of every title in the series, so doing something different might trip them up. On the other hand, since Oathbound Dragons is the first in the series, you might be able to get away with it there.

I'm horrible with titles and tend not to give my projects titles until after I've written a complete draft (sometimes not even then--I've got at least a couple complete drafts that've been sitting, unnamed, on my hard drive for years). So, here's a list of my projects that actually have titles: Weregild Passage to Zero Neid Just and Only Something Subdued about the Sun Cobwebs and Silhouettes False Positives (the only exception; I haven't written this yet) Fall Stars Fall The Ringing Horn --- I really don't choose books based on titles (most of what I read these days I pick based on recommendations/reviews) so I'm not picking titles that I'd grab off a shelf, really; I'm just picking out ones that I think are aesthetically appealing: Foundation Sentence (though I have to admit, I initially reread it as 'Sequence'), I'm Not a Witch!, Age to Age We Fall, Beyond the Barrier of Mist. I agree with Trizee, by the way--the "Character's Name and the Something Something" formula sounds, well, I wouldn't say childish, but it definitely sounds like children's literature. Which may be something to keep in mind if you don't intend that series to be kidlit. Also, you series writers--I dunno how you do it. Even the idea seems exhausting. I'll stick with my stand-alones, thank you very much.

No problemo.

You're both up for Monday.

Yes, that's correct.

Yes, it's just you two for Monday so far--go ahead.

Unless they've changed it recently, I think that you can continue to update your word count if you re-validate. Which, admittedly, is kind of a pain in the butt.

Shouldn't be a problem, go ahead

Thanks for posting the link, Aminar, and for posting Sanderson's comments, Windrunner. Maybe I need to create a single thread to compile stuff like this, since we've gotten a couple posts like this recently. Though a thread like that should probably go in the Creator's Corner board rather than the RE board... anyone know if there's anything that in that forum already? (A brief scan says "no," but I don't spend much time there.)

Thanks for posting this!

Go for it.

Safe trip! Have a great vacation!

I've done NaNo once so far, and it was great fun (technically, I've participated every year, but the one year I finished was the only year I really got started). I'd definitely like to do it again this year, but whether I do will depend mostly on where I'm at with my MA thesis. And November is typically a big month for grading assignments, so we'll see. I'm tentatively interested in participating, anyway.