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  Day 10

  18,297 words, here's the latest. I've also added it to the menu. Still on track, but I didn't get much done in the weekend. I was zonked out with the flu on Friday and Sat, watched the rugby on Saterday night (ABs through to semi against aussie), then went to...

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  Extraordinary Evidence

  It's Day 8 and my word count is 14,778. Here's the latest. I took yesterday off. Have got a bit of flu, but the show must go on. I'm trying not to take my novel too seriously, having a bit of fun with it. Today I came up with the...

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  Day 6

  12,288 words. Here it is. btw I accidentally discovered an error in the very first sentence today. How embarrassing. So I fixed it up...I thought about leaving it in there, as proof that I haven't done any revisions yet. But then there are probably plenty of other bits of evidence...

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  Day 5 – and I am updating my novel online now

  I've decided to go the whole hog and post my novel online. There are a variety of reasons for this. One is that posting excerpts would mean it would be read out of context. If I'm prepared to post excerpts, I may as well just tell the whole story. Oh...

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  Day 4

  8,120 words. I'm wondering whether to post excerpts online. Hmmm.

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  Day 3

  6,086 words. Had to struggle to reach this. Started at 8.30pm and finished about 11.10pm. Man this is hard work and I'm only 3 days in. 27 more days to go! The good news is I'm still working at 2,000 words per day, but I suspect I'm going to have...

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  Day 2

  4,062 words, so I'm keeping pace with the 2000 words per day goal I've set myself. I notice I'm currently first amongst the 15 or so Wellington writers :-)Enough writing for today. I'm off to watch the All Blacks hammer Wales in the rugby World Cup.

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  Nanowrimo Day 1

  It's just after 7pm on Saturday 1 November and I've finished my first day's writing in the NaNoWriMo challenge. I managed 2,108 words today, which I'm really pleased with. It took me about 3 hours, a little over 1 hour in the morning straight writing (about 1,000 words) and in...

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  Richard’s 30-day Feat of Endurance

  I've now officially entered NaNoWriMo, which is an annual challenge to write a 50,000 word novel over 30 days. It kicks off on 1 November, which is one day away for me. I checked into the official NaNoWriMo website tonight and I was surprised to see that 14 other people...

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  Writing a novel in 30 days

  I'm one of those people that regularly says: "One day, I'm going to write a novel." Well now may be my chance. NaNoWriMo is a an annual challenge to write a novel in 30 days, over the month of November. The novel must be at least 50,000 words, which is...

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  Will of its own

  I posted this on my linkblog, but I feel like publishing it here too. I heard some of Rautavaara's Symphony Number 7 (Angel of Light) a few weeks ago, for the first time, and I was quite taken by the music. It reminded me of The Matrix. So anyway tonight...

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  Culture of Celebrity and Weblogs

  I judge the quality of a weblog by its IDEAS, but it seems some people equate quality with popularity. Is the 'culture of celebrity' that afflicts Western movies, television and radio creeping in to weblogs as well?These thoughts were prompted by the recent weblog discussion on power laws and how...

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  On Broadcasting

  The Two-Way Web is a very simple concept. It's all about normal everyday people having a publishing platform on the Web. Sounds reasonable to me, but a thread on Many-to-Many this week has complicated the issue. Here's my summary, based on how I first discovered and then tracked the thread...

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  Select Mode: Publisher

  David Weinberger recently wrote a weblog post entitled When blogs get really popular. In it he states that the line between blogging and email will become blurred. He says:"The word "blog" will expand to cover any linkable posting (a place) where a person gets to speak her mind more than...

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  Massaging the Medium

  Thanks to Peter Lindberg, for pointing me and others to a couple of Marshall McLuhan articles. But before I talk about those, here's an overview of Marshall McLuhan from the Wikipedia:"Famous for coining the phrases "The medium is the message" and "the global village," McLuhan was one of the early...

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  The road to XHTML and tableless CSS designs

  I've been threatening to write an article about XHTML for a while now and so here goes. I'll also talk about CSS and table-less web designs, because in the Web world right now XHTML and CSS are as hot a couple as Ashton and Demi (who may've broken up now,...

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  Is this the beginning of the Age of Topic-focused Blogs?

  I read with interest Matt Haughey's essay Blogging for Dollars, where he relates his experiences running Google's Adsense adverts on his TiVo-focused weblog, PVRblog. Matt is making a pretty penny running the Google ads on his TiVo blog and one of the main reasons why is that it is focused...

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  Homage to Hyperlinks

  I've just finished transferring a bunch of links from Outlook to my linkblog. They are links I've been hoarding over the past few months, as ideas for future weblog articles or just for inspiration. I plan to use my linkblog to store all the ideas I harvest from the Web....

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  Linkblog begun

  I've been playing around with some linkblog solutions. Firstly, on Phil Pearson's advice I tried del.icio.us. Once I negotiated my way around the minimalist design and even more minimalist documentation, I liked del.icio.us. However the problem is that it's a 3rd party hosted service and I want to host my...

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  Using the Mark All Read button

  I've just returned from 4 days holiday. I was disconnected from the Web for the entire time. This was a good thing, as I spent lots of quality time with my family. Now I'm back sitting in front of my PC at home. I've spent the last hour reviewing stuff...