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The Hobbit Hole XXXI - Mawwage is what bwings us togethew today!
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| Sept 7 2006
Posted on 09/07/2006 10:11:42 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Mawwage is what bwings us togethew today!
New verse:
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Upon the hearth the fire is red,
Beneath the roof there is a bed;
But not yet weary are our feet,
Still round the corner we may meet
A sudden tree or standing stone
That none have seen but we alone.
Tree and flower and leaf and grass,
Let them pass! Let them pass!
Hill and water under sky,
Pass them by! Pass them by! |
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Still round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate,
And though we pass them by today,
Tomorrow we may come this way
And take the hidden paths that run
Towards the Moon or to the Sun.
Apple, thorn, and nut and sloe,
Let them go! Let them go!
Sand and stone and pool and dell,
Fare you well! Fare you well! |
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Home is behind, the world ahead,
And there are many paths to tread
Through shadows to the edge of night,
Until the stars are all alight.
Then world behind and home ahead,
We’ll wander back to home and bed.
Mist and twilight, cloud and shade,
Away shall fade! Away shall fade!
Fire and lamp, and meat and bread,
And then to bed! And then to bed! |
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To: g'nad
My - he sure has grown up fast. Good lookin' deer, for bein' dead and all :~)
To: Sam Cree
thanks Sam... you and the Missus have been in our prayers...
5,502
posted on
11/12/2006 7:04:12 PM PST
by
g'nad
To: RosieCotton
I need tuh check those guys out...
5,503
posted on
11/12/2006 7:09:46 PM PST
by
g'nad
To: Overtaxed
Just checked the radar, where the heck did THAT come from. In othernews, the weather weenies now say we may get some precipitation.
To: osagebowman; HairOfTheDog
nite folks... I be 'zausted...
5,505
posted on
11/12/2006 7:11:15 PM PST
by
g'nad
To: osagebowman
There's that noise again...
To: g'nad
Lookin' good! Congratulations to theboy and to his Dad as well! ;)
To: RosieCotton
Can you include something like the write-in in your story? Make it an ongoing thing.
5,508
posted on
11/12/2006 7:25:45 PM PST
by
SuziQ
To: SuziQ
Nah...doesn't fit. But at least I met a few people...guess that's good.
5,509
posted on
11/12/2006 7:28:16 PM PST
by
RosieCotton
(NaNoWriMo: 23908/50,000)
To: g'nad
Wow!! theboy has gotten SO big!! Tell him congrats!!
My Daddy was in his late 50's before he shot his first deer with a carbine. He'd killed a few before, but with a bow and arrow, or a muzzleloader. My brothers all got him the gun one Christmas, and he went out hunting shortly afterwards. My second oldest brother was with him that morning, and he said Daddy was about dancing, he was so excited. He was mighty proud of himself.
5,510
posted on
11/12/2006 7:29:02 PM PST
by
SuziQ
To: g'nad
Way to go! Wish I could help consume the bounty...
5,511
posted on
11/12/2006 7:29:18 PM PST
by
RosieCotton
(NaNoWriMo: 23908/50,000)
To: RosieCotton
Maybe include some of the new folks in your story, in a peripheral way. The words add up!
5,512
posted on
11/12/2006 7:30:59 PM PST
by
SuziQ
To: SuziQ
Eh...I'm at least a day or so ahead of schedule. So I don't need the word count. I'm just frustrated because what I *like* in a write-in is just to sit and write and maybe bounce ideas off of other writers. Not play games.
5,513
posted on
11/12/2006 7:34:09 PM PST
by
RosieCotton
(NaNoWriMo: 23908/50,000)
To: RosieCotton
That would annoy me as well. I've always HATED forced games like that. I never planned games for our kids at their birthday parties for the same reason. Some kid always gets in a snit cause they didn't win, or whatever. Not worth the hassle.
5,514
posted on
11/12/2006 8:08:48 PM PST
by
SuziQ
To: g'nad
I appreciate the prayers, g'nad. I'm hoping for the best.
5,515
posted on
11/12/2006 8:12:44 PM PST
by
Sam Cree
(don't mix alcopops and ufo's - absolute reality)
To: SuziQ
I would have been kind of OK with the first game - the continue the story one. It was awkward, especially as I don't like team projects, antisocial being that I is...but it was OK as a warm up exercise, I guess.
But to continue making us write by theme, five or six minutes at a time - that was just ridiculous, and I didn't play along.
< /stubborn brat>
Aw...I feel loved - I haven't been making it to the Byzantine parish and I just had someone call to see how I was. *snif* I guess I should stop skipping out. ;-) It's a longer drive than the other parish and I guess I've just been lazy.
5,516
posted on
11/12/2006 8:17:08 PM PST
by
RosieCotton
(NaNoWriMo: 23908/50,000)
To: RosieCotton
Well, 481 is the actual page number in Word. When I figure out how big my book is, I counted the words on a page of just a normal paperback and came up with 350, so I divide my word count by that and come up with the number of pages the book would be, which would be 391. I never thought I could write so much. I am half way through Book 2 in the Eastern theater. I have not written a word about the Western theater, and I still have to pull my stories together in Book 3. I know I have a long way to go and years left of writing.
And the funny thing is at the beginning of the summer, (pg 116), I almost quit altogether.
I've always wanted to be a writer but lacked the nerve to try. So, I think this time, I may try to see if it or I am good enough to get published.
I am taking the advice of the main character of the book - Stonewall Jackson, who said "never take counsel of your fears."
5,517
posted on
11/12/2006 8:26:47 PM PST
by
James Ewell Brown Stuart
(Sorry, we don't want to stick around to see if we win; we'd rather vote ourselves off the island.)
To: James Ewell Brown Stuart; RosieCotton
Standard word count is 250 words per page. That's totally variable based on your writing style. I used to write in 12 point Times New Roman, single spaced, and it came out to approx. 500 words per page. I do 11 point TNR, line and a half spacing, these days, and the word count varies...
5,518
posted on
11/13/2006 5:28:52 AM PST
by
JenB
(18,800/50,000 - www.nanowrimo.org)
To: RosieCotton; SuziQ
Wish I could help consume the bounty... we do too..
thegirl's piano playin' has really improved, as is her fiddlin'... she's takin' lessons from a 17 y/o local homeschooled boy who won the MO state fiddlin' competition... that has made a HUGH difference...
5,519
posted on
11/13/2006 5:35:33 AM PST
by
g'nad
To: JenB
Right. I do Times New Roman double spaced and let Word determine my pages. But, I was trying to see how many pages 140,000 words would be if it were published, so I counted the words on a couple of pages in a popular novel. (Paperback - Hardback might be more words on a page) It averaged about 350 words. So, while Word tells me that I have 488 pages, if I divide 140,000 (my grand total) by 350, (average words in a Clancy novel) I would get 400 pages.
Of course, this totally unscientific. But, I just like to know. It boosts my confidence.
5,520
posted on
11/13/2006 5:46:03 AM PST
by
James Ewell Brown Stuart
(Sorry, we don't want to stick around to see if we win; we'd rather vote ourselves off the island.)
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