The Ghost without a Shell

Started with a million, still writing...

Friday, 28 February 2014

Day Fifty Nine - One week, two birthdays, less words done as a result Required 162250, Achieved 158322

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And this is what we find when there's a day job, two not day jobs, and four conventions to organise, one of which is the largest RPG con...
Thursday, 27 February 2014

Day Fifty Eight - Sometimes good to write something different. Required 159500, Achieved 156235

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Like entering short story competitions for Zombie stories... 900 words of random fiction done in an hour on a whim So, improving on the ...
Wednesday, 26 February 2014

Day Fifty Seven - And in the aftermath of the party - Required 156750, Achieved 151719

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Which to be honest is Three Nanowrimo's in two months, I can live with that, even if I have to be doing more to catch up. The party wa...
Tuesday, 25 February 2014

Day Fifty Six - back on catch up tomorrow after birthday party tonight Required - 154000 Achieved - 148272

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Don't anybody think that I'm giving up, I'm just doing very little writing today because when a friend close enough to be my bro...
Monday, 24 February 2014

Day Fifty Five - Enthusiasm in random places

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Sunday/Monday appear to be my dead spots for writing, but being asked to redraft something got me another few thousand words out of the keyb...
Sunday, 23 February 2014

Day Fifty Four - On the subject of dark things within stories, Required 148500 Achieved 145749

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One days worth and one word behind, which is better than where I was last week, I've accepted that there's always going to be some f...
Saturday, 22 February 2014

Day Fifty three - Long shifts again - Required 145750, Achieved 143492

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And long shifts again... Note to self: If doing this again next year, find a different day job... Although there was a refreshing divers...
Friday, 21 February 2014

Day Fifty Two - A good week so far and a boost to a friend. Required wordcount 143000, Achieved wordcount 142444

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Pleased with the week, had a bad start and ended up some 5k behind where I should have been and I've managed to make that up even with a...
Thursday, 20 February 2014

Day Fifty One - So many things, so little time Required 140250 Achieved 138500

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Half the day spent organising one convention, the other quarter organising another, and the rest of it writing, it's been a very product...
Wednesday, 19 February 2014

Day Fifty - Onwards Holmes, the game is afoot! Required 137500, Achieved 135072

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Well, I feel better about today than I did about yesterday, got a lot of writing done and had a number of interesting conversations (that at...
Tuesday, 18 February 2014

Day Forty Nine - And that's my Friday.... Required 134750, Achieved 130560

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Tuesdays are always good, because i'm not tired in the evening as I'm not going to the day job in the morning.  Result being that I ...
Monday, 17 February 2014

Day Forty Eight - My have I got some catching up to do tomorrow.... Required 132000, Achieved 128228

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Because away from the challenge, it's been a very busy few days, and that's not a bad thing, but it is when you're giving your a...
Sunday, 16 February 2014

Day Forty Seven - Stay Healthy... Required 129250, Achieved 126976

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The thought occurs that if I included all the opinion and update pieces I do, the word count would be thousands higher :) Not a bad day to...
Saturday, 15 February 2014

Day Forty Six - Love long shifts.... Required 126500, Achieved 124323

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But actually not... 12 hours, nearly 900 calls, not even time to get a tea break, let alone a lunch break, and knacked when I finally got ...
Friday, 14 February 2014

Day Forty Five - A valentines day spent quiet Required 123750, Achieved 123599

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So, because Jude had to work most of the day and Marks got his new job, I spent most of the day writing, couple of phone calls for Expo, few...
Thursday, 13 February 2014

In the quiet words of William Shatner. There.....is not.....enough.....time.... Required 121000, Achieved 118760

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Sometimes you don't get the breaks, sometimes things like life have to take precedence, valentines day tomorrow and while I have the bes...
Wednesday, 12 February 2014

Day Forty Three, of storms and rebuilding things Required 118250, Achieved 117552

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Hope everyones not getting the wind as bad as we are up here, been out in a field some of the night putting blocks on top of a barn fence so...
Tuesday, 11 February 2014

Day Forty Two - and so my son now drives... Required 115500, Achieved 115001

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Doing fairly well at it too, been a few years since he passed, but with one thing and another, its not been possible for him to get a car.  ...
Monday, 10 February 2014

Day Forty One, I must be on a pitch with all these curveballs flying around - Required 112750 Achieved 111354

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Mark got another job today, which is great, the problem is that he needs to be in work, thirty miles distant from here... At six in the mo...
Sunday, 9 February 2014

Day Forty - Love those long shifts... Required 110000, Achieved 109538

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However, because it's a sunday, I got a lunch break, so the day wasn't a total bust, and as I can always type better when I'm wa...
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