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NaNoWriMo Calendar 2010
So for those who don’t know, National Novel Writing Month – NaNoWriMo – is an annual challenge to write 50000 words of fiction in the month of November. It seems like an odd thing to do until you try it, at which point it becomes oddly addictive.
I try to make a calendar wallpaper every year. I think it works best when centred on a white background, and you’re also welcome to print it out and use as you will. In previous years MLs have even been known to hand them round their groups, which is pretty darn awesome.
Good luck to anyone attempting NaNoWriMo this year!
Article – Aloud and Proud
I know it’s an unfashionable subject, but I muse about spoken poetry at FerretBrain. In an incisive bit of scholarship, I also assert that Coleridge was a very good poet. Who knew?
Review – The Hunt for Gollum
This is a review hosted at FerretBrain enthusing about The Hunt for Gollum, a forty minute Lord of the Rings fan-film that’s available for free online. Set pre-LOTR, it’s an impressively well-made film that follows Aragorn’s attempt to bring Gollum back to Gandalf for questioning.
Review – the Neverwhere Graphic Novel
A review of the graphic novel Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere, outlining a couple of problems I had with it. Published at FerretBrain .
Review – Pride of Baghdad
A FerretBrain review of the graphic novel Pride of Baghdad, gushing over the art and questioning the writing.
Review – Last Chance to See
Published at PopMatters, this is a review of Last Chance to See, the conservation book by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine.
Review – Revengers Tragedy
Again, a FerretBrain article, this time a deliriously enthusiastic review of Alex Cox’s film adaptation Revengers Tragedy.
Review – Halting State
You Wonder What the Author was Thinking
Published by FerretBrain, this is a negative review of Charles Stross’s novel Halting State, which is for some inexplicable reason written in the second person.
Review – Nation
Another FerretBrain article, this is a straightforward positive review of Terry Pratchett’s latest novel, Nation.
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