The Abridged Speculists

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

Thanks for the support guys. I finished the chapter and wrote over 1000 words. if I hadn't gotten so hung up over that color, I'd probably have gotten more, but that's the way I am, I guess. Thanks again!

[Mistress of Darkness]

Cool!  

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

FYI, for those who refuse to install an IRC client, the one on my friend's site works reasonably well for chatting with the Speculists

go to http://www.glug.com/chat/
change the name from ILuvBrian. Unless, of course, you DO luv brian. Feel free to use the nick. Of course, only one person at a time can do so.
Type (without quotes): "/join #speculists"
Type (without quotes): "/part #exhibit-a"
type whatever you want to say and read what we say.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

chat for 4/21/04:
we'll be looking at Norroway chapter 3.
Probably reviewing the rewrites for chapters 1&2 as well
The first person who sends something out by saturday afternoon will get reviewed as well, which may be more outline for MoD or (very slight chance) Peks chapter 12.

[stacer]

Chapter 3 is out. I didn't send the revised versions of 1 & 2 because I'm not done w/ C 2 yet--I still need to add the scene in which the cobbler's wife comes to their booth and offers Maggie shoes.

[Mistress of Darkness]

I'm sorry, but there will be no outline. I spent the weekend packing, and partying, and there is more packing to do tonight and tomorrow.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

ok, then we're just doing chapter 3 of norroway

[stacer]

Next week, chapter 4 of Norroway. There's room for another chapter, which will hopefully be chapter 12 of Peks.

/me nags SE, and encourages EUOL to do the same

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

hey, I *did* finally send that book I told you I'd give you. (no, you haven't seen it, I sent it about 20 minutes ago)

[stacer]

Yay!

And hey, I just think it's cool that I get to nag. Usually I'm the one who needs nagging. Okay, I still do. But I'm doing better! I wrote over 1000 words on Monday. Granted I haven't written anything new since Monday, but I've been spending my lunch hours typing up and refining what I wrote in my writing journal on Mon. And I've been thinking about it a whole lot more, which is progress for me. And I'm about to go to lunch right now and spend another hour working on it.  

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

well, i don't think a chapter 12 by the weekend is terribly realisitic. I have very little of it written, and I just spent my lunch hour running to the post office and then stopping by Peppers (supposedly an authentic Texan BBQ place but all the employees were children of the manager, Kareem Abdul -- now I'm not saying that middle-easterners can't be American, they can and obviously are frequently, I'm just saying that's not terribly authentic traditional Texas)

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

so I lied. YOu should all have chatper 12 with you. However, I think I screwed something up, can one of you forward it to my work address (ehlerse at hunterlab dot com) so I can double check it? Thanksies!

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

oh, i forgot to mention. Lately the sysadm has become a nazi and .doc files have trouble getting through. Rename the file with the ext. xxx instead of the normal .doc. Thanks

[Mistress of Darkness]

Sent.

You'll have to tell me if you get it.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

I got it! thanks! I'll be reviewing it to see I need to change it. If so, I'll email from my home address tonight. We're looking at a few hundred words if anything, so if you've already read it (I know most people haven't by now) you won't have to do a lot to get the whole thing read