Writer's Block: You can't take that away from me!

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Any of them, all of them, I couldn't give a hoot. But you'll have to prise my laptop from my cold dead fingers.

2 more minutes and himself leaves for work and THEN I can nip upstairs and start my Nano attempt.

Three [put sammich in his hand], two ["Have a good day dear"], one [whooosh]

And they're off ...

Good luck to fellow Nanoers and it might amuse you to know that Today, BBC Radio 4's flagship news programme, had a feature on Nanowrimo this morning.

They had even got Ian Rankin [UK's no. 1 crime writer] and Frederick Forsyth [Day of the Jackal] to discuss it. It's no real surprise that Fred was very dismissive of the whole idea and hurrumphed away about standards and quality but Ian Rankin thinks it's a class idea and a brilliant way to get first drafts done.

Any how - so far so good:



And because all kinds of pirates are fun: