NaNoWriMo!
dusty:
Quote from: rohina on 2005 October 04, 05:34:29
Its quite possible to use "their" as a non-gender-specific pronoun, just not a singular non-gender-specific pronoun.
When pedants forget to type their apostrophes, it makes Jesus cry. :'(
Renatus:
Quote from: dusty on 2005 October 04, 06:10:15
When pedants forget to type their apostrophes, it makes Jesus cry. :'(
So contributing to the conversation makes me a pedant, but making a snotty comment about a typo is useful. Yeeeeah.
Since English is a magpie of a language I would be happy if we'd take something from Finnish and adopt their third-person pronoun, although it would require butchering it slightly as we don't have the right vowel.
To bring the topic kicking and screaming back to the orignal, more interesting subject - Myrddin, definitely give the website a look. Even if you don't participate in the event directly, it can be fun to hang around the message boards and participate in the spirit of the thing - it's one of the best kicks in the pants I know of.
rohina:
Quote from: dusty on 2005 October 04, 06:10:15
When pedants forget to type their apostrophes, it makes Jesus cry. :'(
Oh wow. If I believed in him I might be worried that sometimes when I am typing in this web thing, my keyboard misses some key strokes.
Faizah:
I did NaNoWriMo last year, for the first time. I bought an Alphasmart 3000 (sort of like an electronic typewriter thing - cheaper than even a second hand laptop, and only capable of wordprocessing, which reduced distractions slightly) last October specifically for it, as I'd heard them recommended for NaNo in particular.
In the end, I 'only' wrote about 15k words. Admittedly, I'd never written so much on one story, but I still wasn't quite satisfied. This year, I'm going to try writing several stories at once, since I discovered that I tend to jump around a lot, and hopefully have a total of 50k combined.
Of course, if I don't succeed this year, I'll simply try again next year! :)
Unfortunately, last year, there were only two other people in my city doing this, and for three weeks around then I was out of town (one week travelling by car with mild car sickness, and the two weeks in between those trips staying with family and actually doing things instead of writing) so I didn't actually get to 'meet' anyone else face to face to discuss our progress. I think that might've helped around the second and third weeks, when I was beginning to wonder what I'd gotten myself in for.
clem:
Quote from: Hook on 2005 October 03, 23:40:12
What dizzy-two *should* have written was:
"A good writer can do that standing on HIS head."
You can avoid all of this by making the subject plural: "Good writers can do that standing on their heads."
And it's actually a pronoun agreement error.
/pedantry
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