If you set your profile at the NaNo website to receive emails, you get pep talks from authors to spur you on throughout November. So far we've had Naomi Novik and Tom Robbins.
I find the NaNo website extraordinarily difficult to navigate, and every time I go back there I forget how to find things.
If you go up to the top right of the home page you'll see two rows of links, on the bottom row in the middle is 'edit profile'. Look down the page, under your name is a set of tabs: 'view', 'edit' and 'subscriptions'. It'll be on 'edit' which is right. Under that are two links, 'account settings' and 'author info'. Click on 'account settings'. Under the password changing options, there is a ticky box with 'No NaNoWriMo Emails' written next to it. This should be unticked. If it is already unticked, you've probably filtered all your emails into deepest space because you are Lobelia.
Anyway, I've forwarded them both to you at your yahoo address. Let me know if you want me to forward the rest as they arrive. :)
Yes, I did finally find Naomi Novik's email but not Tom Robbins which I then did locate on an authors website which listed all the authors. Apparently, we are going to have Mr Gaiman! I don't know whether to like him or be sick of him; I veer. I saw Stardust which was okay but not great.
You should have just received one from Sue Grafton, too. Who is Sue Grafton? I bet she writes crime!
I enjoyed Stardust, although I believe the book is quite different - I haven't read it. And I vote for liking Mr Gaiman, mainly because he seems such a likeable chap, and I've always find his writing advice very encouraging, and I'm sure you'll agree that anyone who encourages me has to be a good thing! Right? Yes. I've even got a quote from him as my desktop wallpaper, to try and shame me into writing - er, not that it's actually working...
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Date: 2007-11-06 11:10 pm (UTC)Unfortunately I can't think of ten words.
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Date: 2007-11-08 10:12 pm (UTC)Google them.
Er, where does Naomi Novik say that?
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Date: 2007-11-08 11:22 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-11-09 06:06 pm (UTC)If I can't find mine, can you forward me yours????
Eeep.
And, um, Naomi Novik? *coughs*
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Date: 2007-11-09 07:47 pm (UTC)If you go up to the top right of the home page you'll see two rows of links, on the bottom row in the middle is 'edit profile'. Look down the page, under your name is a set of tabs: 'view', 'edit' and 'subscriptions'. It'll be on 'edit' which is right. Under that are two links, 'account settings' and 'author info'. Click on 'account settings'. Under the password changing options, there is a ticky box with 'No NaNoWriMo Emails' written next to it. This should be unticked. If it is already unticked, you've probably filtered all your emails into deepest space because you are Lobelia.
Anyway, I've forwarded them both to you at your yahoo address. Let me know if you want me to forward the rest as they arrive. :)
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Date: 2007-11-11 11:14 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-11-11 11:25 pm (UTC)I enjoyed Stardust, although I believe the book is quite different - I haven't read it. And I vote for liking Mr Gaiman, mainly because he seems such a likeable chap, and I've always find his writing advice very encouraging, and I'm sure you'll agree that anyone who encourages me has to be a good thing! Right? Yes. I've even got a quote from him as my desktop wallpaper, to try and shame me into writing - er, not that it's actually working...
Oh, and you share a birthday with him, too. :)