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All fingers and thumbs

A blog on my personal writing process. Just random thoughts, notes, and other stuff. Don’t know yet what that will be like. Am exploring possibilities and pulse towards an unknown future. Let’s find out! Here are challenges and activities stored.

"Invalid Item"

2017
"The Soundtrack of Your Life"

2020
"Resurrection Jukebox"

2020
"NaNoWriMo Write-A-Thon"

2020/21
"The Fiction Writer's Toolbox"

2020
"October Novel Prep Challenge"

2021(The Shanhaijing Prophecy)
Neil Gaiman's Masterclass 2019

"a very Wodehouse challenge"

2024
Template Worldbuilding

2024
"Barrel of Monkeys"

[E] 2024

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Waltz en France

about 21 hours ago
In response to "Take This Waltz"

One of my favorites, and not just for the obvious reason.

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Waltz en France

a day ago
In response to "I'm Your Man"

There's a collection of Cohen covers out there called I'm Your Fan.

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D Spirit writer 🎶😺

Sep 22, 2024 at 12:09pm
In response to "Suzanne"

Always loved this song and his amazing way of writing about life, love and beyond.

I heard him in the early '70s in Brooklyn the first time.

Going to listen to this later 😃❤️.
What a beautiful share for today.
Nothing like lighting up souls!

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Waltz en France

Sep 21, 2024 at 6:22pm
In response to "Suzanne"

I knew this one as a poem before I heard the song, and even without the music, I always thought it was amazing. Religious or not.

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Kåre Enga in Montana

Sep 21, 2024 at 6:00pm
In response to "Suzanne"

I remember this song from the late 60s. loved it. My first crush when I was 10 was Suzanne Elaine...

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Kåre Enga in Montana

Oct 27, 2021 at 4:21pm
In response to "Oct 29 Plot revision"

How long have you lived in Beijing and Los Angeles? Are there better choices? There are China Towns everywhere. I think of two I've visited: Toronto and Lima. Ancient books are portable; ancient knowledge even more so.

Regardless, can you make the setting detailed enough so that it feels authentic?

Just thoughts.

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Kåre Enga in Montana

Oct 21, 2021 at 5:49pm
In response to "Oct 21 Outline revision"

Coming along nicely.

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Kåre Enga in Montana

Oct 19, 2021 at 1:03pm
In response to "Oct 19 Plot complications"

Will China come to Wolf? Is the riddle worth solving? Is LA worth saving? Are the monsters the true heroes?

Just being contrary but turning things on their heads can be helpful.

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Kåre Enga in Montana

Oct 17, 2021 at 1:34pm
In response to "Oct 18 Cultural setting"

The idea that old myths can be relived in modern times is so ... Chinese! Or Korean. Gumiho = nine-tailed fox. This kdrama is highly rated (8.4):

"My roommate is a fairy fox" isn't as well done, but... it made me watch BL genre drama:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_LWcgh44F0

You'll find the opening similar to what you describe in that history and reality meet. It's worth watching if you have the time. The music is a bit of an earworm, just so you know.

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Schnujo's in Alabama

Oct 11, 2021 at 7:03pm
In response to "Who is Wolf Meyer, main character?"

That is a great pic! But I have a question about his weakness. Is he too "thrusting" or too "trusting"? I mean, there's a little bit of a difference.

September 10, 2021 at 5:03pm

#1017198

Shanhaijing Now, prepping for a novel

I signed in for

FORUM

October Novel Prep Challenge

(13+)
A month-long novel-planning challenge with prizes galore. Prep 2024 signups now open!
#1474311 by Brandiwyn🎶

to plan my NaNoWriMo novel in October before writing it in November. An ambitious plan this year. Especially since I haven't done much writing, not even in my blog.

But I want to be prepared.

Last year I just wrote a novel in 30 days flying by the seat of my pants, this year I want to do more research in advance. I am very curious about what that will bring me. Which take will work the best for me?

I've got a working title: Shanhaijing Now. Reference to a very famous Asian book from decades ago. The Shanhaijing, The Book of Mountains and Seas may be more than 2,000 years old. It's an extraordinary encyclopedia containing strange and terrifying creatures that the Ancient Chinese believed existed on Earth. (The Mythology Bible by Sarah Bartlett, p. 292-293}
https://karkadann.fandom.com/wiki/Classic_of_Mountains_and_Seas

Why this title?

It just sounds good.

I don't know. I may change it during these two months.

It can be an action novel, a cultural and mysterious story. That's all I got so far.

worldbuilding template

"Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragons intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon." ― G.K. Chesterton, Tremendous Trifles

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