It gets earlier every year... (Secret Santa)

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Fuck it its way too early but I can't get the ideas out of my head.

So who wants to take part in the third annual Secret Santa snapshot swap? We all in stick in our names, they get randomised and we all write a short snap shot for who ever we get.

As ever, I want to point out that at least some of last years are still unfinished and therefore ask every one to aim for a reasonably short completable length say 3-5 pages. Deadline would be christmas Day or Boxing Day. (25th/26th of December) So depending on how long we're take to organise ourselves that's three months writing time. (or procrastinating time.)

Any takers?
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What the heck, toss my name in there!
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I didn't participate last year around but I've been slowly getting my groove back these last few months, so you can count me in as well.
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Not to be overly pedantic but you did participate. You wrote (some of) 'Jurgen Baccarra steals christmas' and received an OF snappy shot form Magistum millitum
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Naturally, you can count me in. Maybe this will give me the impetus finish my new 'verse concept and get out the first chapter of my Project Sentinel story for Comix! You know, to give others an idea.
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Count me in, as I probably won't be doing NaNoWrimo this year with all the Advanced Placement homework I will potentially get.
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I might not be able to join since the comprehensive exams for my Master's is coming up in January and most of my December, and some of the November for that matter, will be spent studying. Plus, y'know, I still have to finish Booted's snap from last time. :oops:

Unless, of course, it's okay for individuals to get their SecSan out before those months
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Malchus wrote:I might not be able to join since the comprehensive exams for my Master's is coming up in January and most of my December, and some of the November for that matter, will be spent studying. Plus, y'know, I still have to finish Booted's snap from last time. :oops:
That reminds me: Anyone who gets me. Please Don't Collaborate With Mobius :P It sounds cool but it don't work so well as hoped/

Unless, of course, it's okay for individuals to get their SecSan out before those months
Well I'd have no complaints about it being out early. Or you could simply write it early and hold off posting it till Christmas.
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I'll put my name forward, it seems that my schedule will not be as full as I thought it would be and this should be enough time for even me to get something done ;)
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Ok, so we have...

Artemis
Booted Vulture
Heretic
Magister Militum
Malchus (?)
Shroomz
Siege
Speaker

Anyone else interested? Also does anyone want to volunteer to randomise this up for us? Or am I going to have to venture into the dangerous waters of doing it myself?
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I return from the dead for a moment! Does it really matter if the one who randomizes is also participating? If not, then I can do it.
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Well sometimes we get a non-participant to do the randomising. I'll give it another twenty four hours for last minute sign ups then I'll pull names out of a hat.
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Ding, Ding Ding! New Challenger comes! Mobius 1 has also thrown in to the super randomising glasses case of doom.

EDIT: Right I got the randomising done. PMs will go out now.


EDIT2: Messages Sent! You have three months. Starting.... NOW!
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We're about a month or so into the game, so just out of curiosity: how far along is everyone? Still staring at that blank first page? Or already churning out the thirtieth page in a hundred-thousand-word epic?
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I, naturally, have already completed by 600 page literary epic. :D

Actually, I've been too busy to write in general, though I already have the outline down for my SS. It's just a matter of writing it.
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Uh, nada for me. Grrrs. SDNW4 is absorbing me. Nooo!

God I gotta kick my own ass and start writing for O1 again!
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I'm still at the conceptualisation stage, concepts keep dying in development when I have time to think about them due to unforeseen complications.
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I myself am sitting comfortably at 3700 words so far. Amusingly, the story is going in a radically different direction than I had originally envisioned, but it appears to be better for it.
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I am still in character analysis, and being an impulsive knucklehead joined NaNoWriMo (got my first 1700 words down!) But I'm sure I'll use my newfounded resources and experience to smash out an epic tale of craziness.
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I've got more notes than pages written, but I know exactly what I'm writing about. Shouldn't be more than twenty pages.
Heretic wrote:I am still in character analysis, and being an impulsive knucklehead joined NaNoWriMo (got my first 1700 words down!) But I'm sure I'll use my newfounded resources and experience to smash out an epic tale of craziness.
Does this mean you're using SecSan as your NaNoWriMo subject?
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i've done shit all except for having ideas for random snippets bounce around inside my head.
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Does this mean you're using SecSan as your NaNoWriMo subject?
Of course not! SecSan is too intimate of a thing to use for NaNoWriMo. But I discovered things like "motivation" and Dr. Wicked's Write or Die program, so I'm hoping to be a type monkey by December.
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just a quick reminder. As Organiser, I already know who you're writing for. So if you have question for your giftee about their stuff, PM Me and I'll pass it on. Similarly I can relay requests to Siege to dig through his archive of the old OZ forums. Though I can't say he won't just tell me to naff off :P
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Less than a month to go folks! How y'all doing?

I'm such a failure. Still not got anything down.
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