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Mesg #90845 |
"Finished!" |
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 astropolis     |
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Member since Jun 12th 2002
2052 posts |
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Sat May-12-12 12:54 PM |
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This afternoon I finished the first draft of Thomas Twine's Terrific Time Travelling Toilet.
It's taken me about 8 months to get 61,000 words, a length which is appropriate for a children's story. It will probably grow to about 65,000 in revision.
This is also another first for me. I've written the bulk of it on trains commuting to Bristol, thanks to an HP laptop that I upgraded from Windows 7 to Fedora 14 Linux.
I'll take a break from writing for a day or two, then think of something else to work on. ~~~~~~Signature's Off~~~~~~
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pkurilla,
May 12th 2012, #1
 RE: Finished!,
astropolis,
May 13th 2012, #5
RE: Finished!,
Erin_M_H,
May 12th 2012, #2
RE: Finished!,
magic seeker,
May 12th 2012, #3
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RavenCorbie,
May 12th 2012, #4
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David Bridger,
May 13th 2012, #6
Congrats,
maripat,
May 13th 2012, #7
RE: Finished!,
bonniers,
May 13th 2012, #8
RE: Finished!,
Weird Jim,
May 13th 2012, #9
RE: Finished!,
 MarFisk,
May 14th 2012, #10
RE: Finished!,
crimson_angel,
May 26th 2012, #11
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Mesg #90846 |
"RE: Finished!" |
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pkurilla |
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Member since Jun 14th 2002
985 posts |
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Sat May-12-12 01:20 PM |
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Congratulations on both the story and the laptop! I'm sure the story's as much fun as the title sounds like it is.
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Mesg #90853 |
"RE: Finished!" |
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astropolis |
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Member since Jun 12th 2002
2052 posts |
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Sun May-13-12 05:01 AM |
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Even more fun than that. Our heroes:
Meet Brunel at the Great Exhibition.
Sell Queen Victoria a carrier full of modern chocolates.
Show Eraosthenes how to measure the size of the Earth.
Go drinking with Guy Fawkes.
Get blown up at Trafalgar then repaired by 29th century surgeons.
Help Cranmer write the prayer book.
Lend Bloody Mary a cellphone. Amazingly it works.
Help the monks on Lindisfarne with their manuscripts by bringing some coloured biros.
And that's only the start... ~~~~~~Signature's Off~~~~~~
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Mesg #90847 |
"RE: Finished!" |
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Erin_M_H |
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Member since Nov 01st 2003
31746 posts |
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Sat May-12-12 01:24 PM |
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Congrats on finishing!
-- Erin ~~~~~~Signature's Off~~~~~~
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Mesg #90849 |
"RE: Finished!" |
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magic seeker |
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Member since Feb 24th 2009
2174 posts |
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Sat May-12-12 03:59 PM |
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Hurrah! Congratulations!
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Mesg #90855 |
"Congrats" |
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maripat |
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Member since Jul 11th 2002
16193 posts |
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Sun May-13-12 07:58 AM |
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Sounds like a fun read.
Maripat ~~~~~~Signature's Off~~~~~~
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Mesg #90916 |
"RE: Finished!" |
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crimson_angel |
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Member since Mar 08th 2003
5001 posts |
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Sat May-26-12 05:46 PM |
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Congrats!
CA ~~~~~~Signature's Off~~~~~~
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