Yearly archives: 2012

ASUS S200E 11.6-inch VivoBook Touchscreen Laptop (Intel Core i3 3217U 1.8GHz, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD, LAN, WLAN, Webcam, BT, Integrated Graphics, Windows 8) Until the Vivobook, I’ve been running Windows XP – primarily because I’ve enjoyed using my netbooks, but also because Vista and Windows 7’s bloat meant that I […]

Asus Vivobook S200E

December 19, 2012 in Reviews / Technology tagged Asus / Gadget / Laptop / S200E / Technology / Vivobook by Jonathan Rudderham

NaNoWriMo2012 draws to a close, and I’ve managed to do 15,000+ words over the target. It’s not the first time I’ve exceeded the NaNo target, but it’s the first time I’ve done it without really knowing where the story was going. As luck would have it, I now know where […]

NaNoWrimo 2012, Day Twenty-Nine

November 29, 2012 in NaNoWriMo / Novelling / Word Count tagged Inspiration / NaNoWriMo / Round The Horne / wordcount by Jonathan Rudderham

Still managing to hit my daily word count. It’s now time to validate, to “prove” that I’ve written over 50,000 words. My validation tool of choice is to use yWriter‘s “Nanowrimo Obfuscated Text” tool. This is a feature in yWriter that creates a text file of all your words and […]

NaNoWrimo 2012, Day Twenty-Five

November 25, 2012 in NaNoWriMo / Word Count tagged NaNoWriMo / Spacejock Software / wordcount / yWriter by Jonathan Rudderham

I’ve crossed the 50,000 word line. These last few days have been hectic. Life does that sometimes. I’ve only been able to write in very small chunks at the end of the day, just barely squeezing out my daily target. I wasn’t expecting expecting to cross the line tonight. I […]

NaNoWrimo 2012, Day Twenty-Two

November 22, 2012 in NaNoWriMo / Novelling / Word Count tagged NaNoWriMo / Novelling / wordcount by Jonathan Rudderham

I don’t know where I’m finding the time from or, indeed, the words, but I’ve just limped across the line to 30,000 words. That puts me about five days ahead of schedule now. As far as the story is concerned, certain aspects of it are starting to decide what they […]

NaNoWriMo 2012, Day Thirteen

November 13, 2012 in NaNoWriMo / Novelling / Word Count / Writing tagged NaNoWriMo / wordcount by Jonathan Rudderham

Somehow I managed over 4,000 words today. Don’t ask me how. I guess I should be thankful to Rebecca for, just this once, playing the team game and getting involved in the story. I think she’s been taking lessons from some of my secondary characters of recent stories. I’m aiming […]

NaNoWriMo 2012, Day Eleven

November 12, 2012 in NaNoWriMo / Novelling / Word Count tagged characters / NaNoWriMo / wordcount by Jonathan Rudderham

Okay, maybe I could have done several thousand words today and got myself to the half-way point but, foolishly, I decided to do a 16 mile walk instead. It didn’t exactly get the creativity flowing, but I’m sure it’s done wonders for my recent lack of exercise. I have managed […]

NaNoWriMo 2012, Day Nine

November 10, 2012 in NaNoWriMo / Word Count tagged NaNoWriMo / wordcount by Jonathan Rudderham

Averaging just over 2,000 words a day at the moment so I’m managing to keep almost two days ahead of schedule. Today’s 2,009 words were helped in no small way by writing over 700 words on my Android phone. I’m using Textmaker, part of the Softmaker Office for Android – […]

NaNoWriMo 2012, Day Eight

November 9, 2012 in NaNoWriMo / Word Count / Writing tagged NaNoWriMo / Novelling / wordcount by Jonathan Rudderham

Too little time in the day, but at least the words are flowing a little better now. I only seem to be able to find the last hour of the day in which to get anything written. When the words don’t want to play, the target is difficult to achieve. […]

NaNoWriMo 2012, Day Seven

November 8, 2012 in NaNoWriMo / Novelling / Word Count by Jonathan Rudderham

The first few days have been a bit of a struggle. No time and no real idea how the story is going to hang together. The last couple of thousand words came a little easier, though. Just give someone a little hardship and now I’m a day in front. Yay! […]

NaNoWriMo 2012, Day Six

November 6, 2012 in NaNoWriMo / Word Count by Jonathan Rudderham

1,056 in the first hour of NaNoWriMo. Only 48,944 to go. Those Who Would Die begins as expected with the robbery. The first scene concentrates on introducing the two newest characters while reintroducing Sebastian. This segment is his story from several years ago. I think I’ve been watching too much […]

NaNoWriMo 2012, Day One

November 1, 2012 in NaNoWriMo / Scene Setting / Word Count / Writing tagged characters / NaNoWriMo / novel writing / wordcount by Jonathan Rudderham

Okay, so I don’t really have the time for NaNoWriMo this year, but I’m going to attempt it anyway. It’s been one of those years in which very little has gone the way it should, maybe I can at least get “the words” to cooperate just this once. I should […]

NaNoWriMo 2012

October 28, 2012 in NaNoWriMo tagged characters / NaNoWriMo / Novelling by Jonathan Rudderham

Light At The End…

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