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Posted on 08/07/2007 7:52:15 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
Um...that’s not what causes it...
Then how do you explain Junior?
I thought it’d be pretty clear by now that there’s no explainin’ Jr...
IMHO, Hewlett Packard pretty much owns the printer game. Hard to go wrong there. The only decisions are about how much you want it to do... whether you want color, and then whether you want to go up to a laser or just get an inkjet.
Printers are a place where you really do get what you pay for. Super cheap ones may work OK, but likely will provide many hours of entertaining aggravation in the form of paper feed jams, network drops and stuff like that there.
A week before or after birth?
;-p
Color, fax, scanner, wireless
oh, and thanks. I shoulda pinged you to that as well...
Well, just to be on the safe side, I hope I don’t get this flu.
If you go to hp.com, they’ve got a little dealy to “help me choose” and they’ve got a set of selections and checkboxes that you can work through until something comes up that’s in your price range.
cool thanks
In my nano, one of the main characters was a ward of the state, taken from her family because they ignored government mandates for child rearing and did what they thought best. In that storyverse, the children are housed and educated by the state but the cost of it is carried by the kids themselves as debt that must be repaid. Indentured servitude, iow. Companies who might like to hire the wards could buy the debt from the government. The really competitive firms shop the kids while they are very young, looking for talent. The character was "sponsored" at a young age and went on to repay her debt very quickly because of a series of breakthrough technologies she developed for the company. Unfortunately, those breakthroughs doomed all of mankind, but that's the rest of the story.
Fascinating and frightening at the same time.
My story is nowhere near that deep. But it may be heading that way. Everytime I spend lunch time doing research, I’m finding out new things about the history of the region and the culture I’ve chosen for the setting.
The story itself could fit anywhere, but this gives it the flavor I want. But each little fact takes me off on a different tangent.
That’s why it is good to start early. I settled on Scrivener as my organizing/outlining/writing software. It’s cheaper than some of the big packages but allows me to keep my many notes organized. This year’s plot is like ‘05: big and complex and requires lots of research.
I haven’t thought about using writing software. Maybe I should.
After reading yesterday about the Sea Islands Hurricane of 1893, I dedided that would 1) destroy the plantation land for rice farming (factual) and 2) destroy the Antebellum mansion.
So I was looking to see if the type of house I want the MC to live in would have been built in the late 1800s/early 1900s (think Big Chill House) and I went off on a tangent about DuBose Heyward who wrote “Porgy” and presumably much of the libretto for Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess.”
NaNo may well be the best way to learn about the world and history. It would be a book in and of itself to write down the things I know now but wouldn’t have if not for Nano.
And I still need a plot. I’m just not inspired yet.
Agreed. I thought about (and Not Valerie suggested) setting my story in SW Virginia, but it just didn’t seem to fit. I just read a book based on my hometown (and written by the brother of a classmate) and I hated it.
That said, the house I was looking for was indeed Antebellum. But I think I can get the porch I want in a Victorian home...
I tried to help.
I’d suggest the Adopt-a-plot thread but the suggestions are extremely sophomoric this year. Mostly variations of: “So, there’s like, this goth girl? Who, like, hates her parents, and like doesn’t have any friends? And then she meets this guy....”
I have one plot germ that I might just force to become a full blown plot. Thing is, the best setting for it seems to be Ye Old Generic Medieval-esque Fantasy Setting and I don’t want that...
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