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ID #1016
shaping the final structure of the novel
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ID #1014
Pretend to be filming a documentary, find a niche but interesting subject
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ID #1013
Don't go bananas on the piercings front. Aide d'orgasm.
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ID #1005
Talks like an instruction manual, youtube assembly video
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ID #1002
Guy whose ocd pings when furniture is out of whack or misarranged or misassembled
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ID #1001
Giy Ritchie's been sniffing around like a randy bloodhound. All the crimos and gangsters of South of the river.
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ID #1000
Writing as building. "My new build".
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ID #998
Who's the Latino?
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ID #997
But Queenie married the slippery Minhas Suburu who used private equity to fund . When he died in a deck chair of congestive heart failure he left her with . The only things Queenie cared about now were cats and ceramics. She had a gallery in Southwold.
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ID #996
Need a good solid plot
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ID #995
Keep your eye on the doughnut not the hole
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ID #994
Write Text about the completed novella
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ID #993
12 parts portfolio of connected short stories
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ID #992
Use dictation to work out the plot of each chapter
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ID #991
The hero is Nicolas Cage
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ID #985
Side-quest, head to the out-house, there you or one of your friends will be attacked by a hideous beat monster which will turn you into a raving maniac.
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ID #980
Bitten by a radioactive bee
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ID #979
Pomeranian
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ID #977
Naval and military paraphenalia everywhere
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ID #976
Gather characterful paraphenalia
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ID #975
In the shed was a fake alligator. On the landing was a skeleton. What furniture there was had been chosen for comfort, anything else had been an obligation and acquired on the cheap from the 1950s via the British Heart Foundation.
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ID #974
Give reality the slip for the rest of the evening
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ID #973
Or nuttier than peanut brittle
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ID #972
Rum brave
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ID #968
Confabulate as if to Amanda, the empty quarter story
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ID #967
She just would not let an issue go once she had hold of it.
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ID #959
...for a strange and mysterious company. I had just moved back to the UK from Cairo where the souks... I was skint, I was renting a single room in a shared house and I didnt really care where the money came from. I was also done being a hero so my disinterest was of use to them.
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ID #958
I had a boring job doing Excel spreadsheets for a company of research scientists invetigating hibernation. The research went nowhere. The company was not a front.
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ID #957
Fruitloop
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ID #955
Nor can I begin to tell you just how much stuff happens over the eight episodes. You get death, murder, suicide, love affairs, arrests, diseases, broken homes, broken hearts, fires, earthquakes, a few preposterous coincidences and many intimate moments of great delicacy
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ID #951
Westminster, the media, the church are warring corporations who each sell a product and believe themselves beyond reproach. The public is also a querulous child, screaming baby Jesus, corporation, feared alcoholic headmaster.
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ID #950
I do need a writing map. A misshapen plot outline for each 1k to 3k or set piece.
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ID #949
I need to commit to 1000k a day. But directed writing.
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ID #948
Most people dream of writing a novel. Are you willing to put the work in to do it?
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ID #947
Without analgesiacs
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ID #945
The cook, Guzman, whose daughter - for reasons no one knew or were too repressed to ask - hung around him in the kitchen, at the back door, smoking cigarettes, winking at the stable boys.
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ID #943
The religious sites would then be converted to secular places of social support, congregation and even a place to hold memorials for births deaths etc. Marriages would be de-mystified, God would not be invited. The cosmos could come, bearded sky fascists could not. As for Israel, Palestine, Damascus, Jerusalem. Nuke them from orbit.
Except...this would never happen. You could never unpick it just add your voice and actions to slow social change.
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ID #942
3-d scan all churches and cathedrals, temples, mosques in high res, future proofed for Virtual Reality then knock them down.
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ID #941
Make like Linford Christie
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ID #939
The communication was digital, the device irrelevant, and the contents indicated he should make like Linford Christie to a basement eaterie in Mortlake where, on his tab, a ratfink of his acquaintance would be waiting.
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ID #938
Pilates exercises at an open window until one morning he inhaled sharply and swallowed a fly, the coughing fit that followed drawing concern from those in the street.
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ID #937
He had taken a bite from his chocolate brioche and glanced furtively at a pink haired girl reading a tablet two tables away when there were shouts in the street.
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ID #936
Narrate like Wes Anderson
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ID #934
He lived in fear of running out of disposable contact lenses. He brushed, flossed and sluiced his teeth twice daily.
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ID #933
There was a cafe on the way from the station which served hot drinks metal furniture and served omelettes with a cornucopia of tasty fillings which he couls gladly eat every day but he liked to vary his routine because he preferred anonymity to the familiarity of the staff on his umpteenth return.
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ID #932
Writing directionlessly is just vomiting out words and results in nothing useful.
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ID #931
The fiction should sit alongside the blog, an outgrowth of it.
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ID #929
Novel events are those that would go in a diary so you're going to need a lot of stuff happening.
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ID #928
Daughter Autumn in cryogenic suspension, searching the deep for a cure
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ID #927
Captain Nemo, steampunky, what if Elon Musk decided to live beneath the waves, Nemo as an idiot, looking for something.
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ID #925
Notes on writing. We start from a position of pressure but not forgetting the lifestyle of the protagonist. Who is he? Is he some B-grade flunky, sweaty, racing through the crowds. "What's this, Mossie? What piece of God awful modernity have you brought to my door today? Not another bloody start-up"
"Not at all. Dolores wants to see you."
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ID #922
It was a place no one much cared about, under-thought, remaindered, underclassy.
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ID #921
Sydenham was scruffy, shapeless, a jumble of residential streets and shops. The houses were elderly. The expectation of the co-habitees to participate in shopping runs, house meals, socials. Suspicion towards reclusivity.
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ID #920
Diazepam sleeping drug
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ID #919
Crussian acid
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ID #917
Night Manager - there is a lot of local colour, visual description of the lifestyle, clothing prep, breakfast, travel to restaurant before the big inciting incident. How to personalise all this, deliver it novelistically but in character, like KA/AC/Flashman on the cruise etc
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ID #916
Thug full of boiling rage and anger, sat next to Musk at schol muskcopied his homework, cheated, took his girlfriend, killed his cat.
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ID #908
A lover of the lavender passageway
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ID #907
The mixing of different scented bubblebaths summons a devil
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ID #906
Do soldiers from the future blast into existence and try to kill him? Is this Day of the Daleks?
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ID #903
Take the characters visitors Michael Corleone in G2. Troublesome sister, a drunk, a gangster from Hyman Roth, a two-faced politician
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ID #902
Yes Prime Minister Bishop’s Gambit. Humphrey is giving a tempting offer of a new role but the current incumbent isn’t likely to leave or hand it to him so he must be ousted. Only trouble is he’s only likely to be tempted out by a plum role in a sector elsewhere which he will only be a dead cert for if he can be made to look good. So Humphrey has to get involved engineering that opportunity which could be anything sailing, head of intelligence.

There is the tempting offer

There is the complication

The plot therefore involves the engineering of the lure away of the mark, trying to get him off the chess board.
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ID #789
Use plot of first john d macdonald
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ID #788
GRRM: Triggering events
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ID #785
I genuienly admire fhose novelist who can shut of he rational sode of their brain and go full on devils, demons, ... Vampires I still find silly, always have done.
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ID #784
Black Notley
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ID #783
Parenthood is the training up of a mobile AI/LLM only for it to rinse you and turn on you.
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ID #782
Your consciousness manifests for 70 years or so, renting reality space before being unceremoniously uninstalled.
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ID #776
My whole life has been but…therefore….
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ID #775
Do the wordcount backwards. So the first 1k is actually the last of the monthly 30k.
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ID #774
A group of renegade time travellers working for the BBC hiding in the 1970s
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ID #773
“Your godson is providentially around,’
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ID #772
“Margaret Drabble’s The Ice Age, an overt ‘condition of England’ novel, described the nation as ‘sliding, sinking, shabby, dirty, lazy, inefficient, dangerous, in its death throes, worn out, clapped out, occasionally lashing out’. Keith Miller, in an excellent account of Jake’s Thing, accompanies this quotation with comparable quotations from John Fowles’s Daniel Martin (1977) and William Golding’s Darkness Visible (1979).
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ID #771
“Jake, too, feels ‘menaced by a falling real income, a decline in status and the emergence into power and affluence of uncouth persons who sneer at what he feels and stands for’.
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ID #767
“a tall thin nondescript man with rusty hair
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ID #766
Ideate myself in these fictional situations. Actor Ant being filmed taking part in the scenes.
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ID #765
Just write. 1k a day.
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ID #763
Once a woman is out of her twenties and stops being randy as all hell its downhill all the way.
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ID #761
All the women looked like Russian peasants.
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ID #759
It is mornimng.
Jesus Christ. What the fuck happened to you? Wherein lies Adonis? The double-chin, the flaps of fat. I'm thinking any twenty-something looking for a little maturity for breakfast will need a shit-tonne of charisma to offset this. The dirty rain trailing workmen's fingers down the defeated pane.
And yet...and yet...there is work to be done here. Certain angles catch that raffish look in the eyes, still not quite hosed down.
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ID #757
It doesnt matter that you build he ai, that will quickly become unglamorous, its what you do with the result. Its the thing that gets you to the thing
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ID #756
It doesnt matter that you build he ai, that will quickly become unglamorous, its what you do with the result. Its the thing that gets you to the thing
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ID #755
OpenGod

So he created an LLM from the Bible

So God became an app and then
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ID #754
Plot this hard. 26 cps of 1.5k words so lots of stuff
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ID #753
Does he have a nasty little secret like holodeck ballroom dancing? Is he one of the trek autocrats but robbed of status.
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ID #750
You don't have much time. Set a deadline and stick to it. 2k words a day for 20 days gives you the wordcount
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ID #749
Think Marvel regarding your array of characters, think of the panels.
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ID #747
You need to watch your speed on those roads. Not because they are perilous which they are but familiarity teaches you every but the drivers round here are similarly inclined towards familiarity-based recklessness which, not to put too fine a point on it, is a phenomenon that I have been guilt of in too many a relationship.

Not going to make that mistake again. Not now I have Alicja.
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ID #746
Three plot lines per chapter, the rest colour and fun
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ID #745
Set Godalming in Arabia
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ID #744
All very nice but I could barely concentrate considering the bind I was in. Alicja in the arms of that man, giggling as he drooled into her ear.
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ID #743
My own arrival was lower-key than I was expecting, probably these .pondlife.

Lots of bowing and scraping.

I launched the bottle off and it pranged and rebounded. Ha ha, very funny. Smashed the fellow in the head and he put a twisted step towards the lip of the scaffold, everyone gasping and lunging towards him. Someone behind leant into space to retrive the bottle and was launched off.
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ID #742
Scots girlf3iend bane
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ID #738
Always, always, always start with a problem
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ID #737
Rago judging a beauty contest would be the perfect set-up for his character. Chinn needs a way of demonstrate how he sucks up to the powerful, like that Tory diarist, in charge of a test firing and getting it wrong. Put him on the inner track, making a mess than expelled.
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ID #735
A more noir opening would be him turning up back home dotted with blood and the smashed up car outside.
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ID #734
Cut to an inciting indicent
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ID #732
2 - what would require an ex-MP and what errand would be of use to a Sternwood figure
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ID #731
Otto and the occult bit, plus what will they head off too, plus what is the visitor with Anya all about?
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ID #729
Have lots of fooling around
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ID #728
What reason would someone have to drag Giles out in the middle of the night. Would he go out to visit his sweet church-going school-friend? Choir?
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ID #727
Do this before work, row and write.
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ID #726
Every third day massage days 1 and 2 up to chapter length 2.5k words
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ID #725
Pretend this is your dissertation and you're in a last minute rush to come top of the class.
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ID #724
I need to perform this A LOT
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ID #722
Is this chin or danny dyer?
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ID #720
He was a late replacement for a dead and scandal eidden peter morrison, snoring in the office
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ID #719
Got to be major crisis point where he driven back on own resources
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ID #717
Whats that bastards book?
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ID #716
Build the character as anone-off and deploy
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ID #715
Prover jimself and got into the plot ellroy - jack ruby character, nightclub owner, pimp procurer of girls for cameras everywhere, heaviky into EDM.
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ID #712
The pot-wreathed demons of Sydenham
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ID #711
Kk/JP in a high stakes game of snap, worried his pastor will find out or jis wife will debag him
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ID #708
Backgammon, cars, chill out, note celwbrity interewts, gambon lathe
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ID #706
Alongside all of this should my be version of the bowling aesthetic
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ID #702
Some sort of grima wormtongue charactwr for cp2
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ID #699
He was what the writers I was forced to read at school would describe as "rotund" which in my book meant he wasn't going to be smashing the Iron Man challenge any time soon. He moved from door to table to chair the way cumulonimbi do, without any rush or sense he was running to keep up with the world and his air of all business set my antennae twinging. Here was a man not to be underestimated.
"Drink?"
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ID #698
Giles is under pressure, running low on tin, his mistress is strongly indicating she's a lot less interested in him and he has superhero fantasies, wet dream of every ex-politician not to have to slum it in reality TV but to be inducted into a secret cabal of monied lizard VIPs. It's also strongly hinted that he did a deal with the devil to get where he's gone. Chinn-esque, hugely demoted in status, consumed by his petty obsessions, minor royalty, his competitor. Obsequious to those in power.
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ID #695
"What are you doing here?"
He scowled and looked at me from under caterpillar eyebrows. "I got a mortgage, I needed the dough."
"But you hate this place."
"It's a vortex of venality and posturing mediocrities. Let it burn."
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ID #694
Lovely stout and maybe some herring from the fish-mongers for Pixel.
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ID #693
That mad woman, just out for enough tin for the next pint of stout.
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ID #690
I think I know what's going to happen here - I'll come up with thousands of words of unrelated story fragments and then never complete the damn thing. I must push towards completion.
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ID #687
Lean into the detail
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ID #686
That's the reason it's called Godalming, it's pathetic. Where are you this week? In some godforsaken sink estate playing the joanna for a bunch of sentimental types
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ID #685
Is Godalming about Matt? Skipping out on a cruise ship gig, picking up the pieces afterwards. Could channel that.
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ID #684
Make it more stephen king esque
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ID #682
He escapes from Mitzy
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ID #680
Progressing with short story
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ID #676
What is preoccupying this guy? What forces are out to get him or take advantage of him?
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ID #675
Godalming is the sort of title which should have a high concept idea behind it
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ID #674
Haven't really found the tune yet for Godalming
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ID #673
The novel is the real Great Endeavour
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ID #671
I love writing
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ID #669
The stories came out of me fooling around, having fun. It's meant to be just a lot of nonsense really.
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ID #668
The endless iniquities served on me
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ID #667
Alacrity
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ID #665
We are trapped in our own yearning
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ID #664
All old men want to call back yesterday
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ID #663
An Unhealthy Marriage
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ID #662
People who have had a narcissist parent are really good at going into the room and taking care of someone else’s feelings or just reading them very closely.
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ID #661
Corum was only interested in his work and after the unfortjnate murser of his h
Assuatant he wantwd to see out his days in as quite a fashion as possible
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ID #660
Herr Kretzschmar
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ID #659
I spent it all on cards, Tequila and seniorettas
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ID #657
Consciously look away from the word count/chapters. Think of the material.
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ID #655
This the song of my self
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ID #654
Completely devoted to his craft, it is his life
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ID #652
Baksheesh
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ID #651
The world is better in fiction
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ID #648
A la mode
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ID #647
Garrulous
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ID #646
The writing of the notes is a project itself.
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ID #641
Wes Anderson, Angelica Huston
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ID #640
If this were Coen Bros the damily wod have made something boring
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ID #639
Is he Nic Cage, dri king, approached by someone and claiming ignorance
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ID #638
Presumably there had to be some wider issue in play, some election. Pay off the girl incase sge blabs. Been done. Clooney etc.
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ID #637
Fairly well off family to have paid for those skills.
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ID #636
What's he doing sti working if he has some big bad. Does the info mean potential innocence and freedom?
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ID #635
She's got to be important and someone has to ve pissed that she has gone awol. He doesn't give a hoot about her, he's done a lot of these, but something happens, something personal that puts her at the top of his list of persons of interest.
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