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[elvispelt]

Good luck on the I-NaNoWriMo. You can never have too much writing laying about!

[Eliseharris]

Thanks! And thanks for subscribing.

[littlelogic92]

too lazy to watch the whole thing (American)

but I think Halloween actually comes from Ireland.

[itsallartdarlin]

Are you doing NaNoWriMo which begins on Sunday?

I have not done this before, but from looking into it, seems quite good.

Can other people read your novel?  I'm thinking 'copyright', not just embarrassment!!!

I'm asking you as you seem quite an advanced NaNo!

[Eliseharris]

I am probably going to work on some of my old novels rather than doing a new one this year - I did it about five and a half times so there is a lot I should really sort out (Got to 50,000 five times and 18,000 another year but they all need rewrites.)

[kpratt360]

OMG.. you look like micheal jackson!

[repunzel4eva]

"he tried to blow up parliament. okay" haha. you are so funny today =]

[Urgelt]

I suppose fiction has been commoditized - sold by bulk. Ah, for the good old days when quality drove sales instead of marketing decisions and ads. Though I always wondered a bit at Dickens. Wordy bloke. Paid by the column inch. Ask for a ghost and you'd get three. Perhaps commoditization isn't such a new thing for fiction after all.

Frequent use of retracted declaratives ought to pad out a narrative nicely.

[whippedcreamshampoo]

As if there aren't enough frustrated unpublished scribblers with file cabinets full of manuscripts no one will ever read. Why don't you create a computer program that randomly spews out a million words a day, starting with "It was a darky and stormy Guy Fawkes night ..."

In America we could burn a big dummy, but then they just swear in the vice-president, so it's more of the same.

[jimmysjimjams]

yeah, dressing up on Halloween is an old celtic pagan tradition of scaring away the undead. Not just an american thing but being commercialised to the max so many people think that it started in the states when in fact it didn't. Gosh - something remembered from Primary school.

[YUPchannel]

well this is different,.. Livewire- :P

[stringquartet]

- In London, England, wife beating is legal just as long as it is not after 9pm and it doesn't disturb the neighbours.

- In London, England, it is illegal to impersonate a Chelsea pensioner which once carried the death sentence in the 19th century.

hehe. crazy stuff!

~Eric

[yourcamden]

myths

[stringquartet]

- In the UK, a man who feels compelled to urinate in public can do so only if he aims for his rear wheel and keeps his right hand on his vehicle.

- In London, it is illegal to flag down a taxi if you have the plague

- In London, England, it is illegal to use a camera tripod, throw a stick for your dog or use an offensive powder like pepper on your jacket potato in any park.

[Eliseharris]

There are some mighty strange laws. Nobody round here takes any notice of the urination thing - unless the Catholic school wall and my door count as their vehicle.

[UbiquitousGeek]

Seriously? People urinate on your door? That's twisted.

[whippedcreamshampoo]

Set up a motion-sensor floodlight at your door. That might discourage them. And meanwhile purchase a new doorknob.

[yourcamden]

Parra 1 is correct the others are myths.

[selfreflectionII]

Peckham

lit. translation piss on someone's front doorstep

origin:

peck - 'to piss'

ham - 'the home of another'

FACT: Southwark was the first borough in London to be made illegal

[stringquartet]

Elise,

maybe you can use some of this in your stand-up act. hehe.

- In England, it is illegal for a cab in the City of London to carry rabid dogs or corpses.

- It England, it is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament.

- It England, it is an act of treason to place a postage stamp bearing the British monarch upside down.

- In the UK, a pregnant woman can legally relieve herself anywhere she wants -- even, if she so requests, in a policeman's helmet.

[New2UToob]

YOU GO GIRL!!! YOU CAN DO IT - if for no other reason than your Wonder Woman t-shirt!

Good luck! Can't wait to hear about your progress.

[Shyaporn]

Cool, I'm doing NaNoWriMo too!

And by "doing," I mean I'm failing miserably. 1,667 words a day... ARRGGGHGHHH!!

[Eliseharris]

Stick at it. Good luck.

[aegidian]

I'd still love to munch an apple dipped in your accent. Sweet, warm, crisp toffee-love to you!

[lapislazuline]

of course dd,we,d probably get Canada back as well.

[wintersday]

have a good day too ^^ and goodluck! :D

[Hekhan]

Halloween eh :D

[stringquartet]

oh my! I never knew people burned effigies of Guy Fawkes (or modern day 'terrorists') on Nov 5th. That's SO Orwellian (Guy Fawkes = Goldstein).

Why did Guy Fawkes (allegedly) wish to blow up parliment? Was parliment as corrupt as say... America's current governing system?

[whippedcreamshampoo]

I think he somehow sensed what a pain the James bible would become and wished to prevent that. (Goldstein = Been Ladle)

[Thoughtland]

Religion and politics used to be the same thing.

Guy Fawkes wanted to keep the royalty Catholic and because the government wasn't he planned to blow it all up and King James with it.

[whippedcreamshampoo]

We once was English, until we stopped after effigy-burning a half-wit royal lunatic named George. Why not try reversing the process by the same means. Never too late.

[FroGhandi]

good video. never celebrate halloween much, fireworks were cool though.

[lapislazuline]

well dd if you,d just give up that daft independence idea you could be :)

[jonob66]

In Scotland we call trick or treat guising.

[whippedcreamshampoo]

In America we call guising trick or treating

[quantumdriven]

i've got some extra commas fer ya ,,,,,,,,

[selfreflectionII]

ne naw ne naw ne naw ne naw

that's better :)

We did halloween but not trick or treating - does that make sense?

oh I always think of the poor hedgehogs ... crawling into the bonfires .... very upsetting (more for them though)

It's awful in the old days terrorists were gutsy anti heroes who's bomb lots we celebrated with fireworks and games .... now the terrorists are all fake and we 'celebrate' by having all our liberties and freedoms taken away!

[selfreflectionII]

lots = plots

bomb plots

:)

[whippedcreamshampoo]

No, it all makes more sense than you realise. You see, it's the bloody hedgehogs who are plotting to destroy our modern way of life. Spikey little communist agents. So the bonfires are actually the main thing defending your freedom and the principles of the Free World!

DINSDALE!!!!!!!!!

[selfreflectionII]

It all fits now.....

.... you have put things in perspective

Hedgehogs .. who'd have thought?

- yet so obvious!

[TamHickey67]

Well, I grew up in Scotland (west coast) and we always went out for Halloween, but it wasn't trick or treat, it was just "can you give me some chocolate treats, or failing that, some fruit for all the hard work I went to to look silly" type of thing. Poor Guy fawkes was set up by the secret service of 400 years ago so that the revolutionary ideas of the French didn't take root here.

[whippedcreamshampoo]

Poor Guy was A. ahead of his time and B. too universal. He was 44 years too soon in trying to bump off the king, and 55 years too soon in trying knock down the parliament. Should have been everyone's hero and instead became everyone's villain.

[Larkvall]

ooohhhhh keep writing Elise....

[monicavm]

That was fun. Hallowe'en and Guy Fawkes, woo hoo! Actually, I have a GF mask myself. V for Vendetta and all that.

[Thoughtland]

Here in Scotland when I was an arugrat all we did was "Penny for the guy mister?" and that was it, no Halloween.

With all the fireworks going off my dog is utterly terrified and thats not what Guy Fawkes, Bobby Bonfire, and Freddie Firework were trying to achieve.

I think the Halloween thing is entirely an American import. Here the 5th of november is significant to Druids & Wiccans but I think thats all. As for the wicker man I know several candidates.

[delbhoye]

Hallowe'en is popular in rural areas because they do witchcraft for real there, and burn policemen in big wicker statues.

[selfreflectionII]

Ah the wicker man - I love that film

(the original one)

[noodlemasta]

We do like our toffee apples!

I was slightly bemused as to the number of fireworks being set off around my house in the past week.. the only thing I can think of is people celebrating the 'planning period' of blowing up parliament?

[waynooooo]

I was trying to figure out a way of explaining bonfire night on my vid but you have it down to an art haha :p

[ogier1]

how many pages (in a standard font) are the required words?

What is your first sentence?

[Eliseharris]

200 pages of American letter paper with one inch margins, double spaced with 12 point courier new. Of course we use A4 in the UK so that throws the whole thing out.

[Eliseharris]

My first sentence is certainly not going to end up as the opening one, but it was a case of starting to write anything and then keep going: "It wasn't that she hadn't thought about it, it was just it was never practical and there was that whole moral issue to think about."

[LoveCraken]

LOL @ ur explanation of Guy Fawkes night.

[dudeinneed60]

Elise how long is your index finger?

Mine is 3 1/16 inch and the middle one is 3 5/8 inch.

Yours appear the same length, and lovely at that.

Thoughtland must hear of this.

[LoveCraken]

YAY! She's nanowrimoing. I'm supposed to be trying this year, but I only have 1330 words right now cause I started on the 4th day after suddenly getting inspiration.

[emodylan]

good luck in your writing we know you will succeed

[restive123]

Guy Fawkes Day is such a delightful holiday, so subversive, because, face it, you're not really celebrating the Gunpowder Plot's failure, you are celebrating it's conception. The figure you burn in effigy is supposed to represent Guy Fawkes, but in your heart you know it's actually the right honorable Gordon Brown

[lapislazuline]

terrorist burning day is all very well but one of my jack russel,s is scared of big bangs, so that,s not so good

[Eliseharris]

The cat has the same problem. She keeps hiding under the futon after rushing in to the room in a right panic.

[UtRadioGuy]

The word TRY is just another word for I don't really want to do it! I never use the word TRY because it just means you don't want to do whatever it is. I say I will or I will not. Think about the word TRY, and what does it mean to you? Good luck on the 1666.6666 words a day for 30 days. Thats great if you can do it! Have a great day Elise!

Rick

[quantumdriven]

Elise, I swear you only blinked your eyes 14 times in the 5:17 here and most were partial blinks.

Not to be negative, but I fear you're jinxing yourself by sticking with the Wonder Woman getup.

1600 and whatever words/day is easy if there's anything at all to say. Don't hold yourself to a limit. Make rough chicken peck outlines to refer to and you'll be surprised how they fill out and blossom if indeed the narrative was solidly in your head.

[quantumdriven]

Upon stopping then make more outlines to sleep upon or daydream about while in the shops, but do watch out for traffic!

[Yanni75]

Thanks, and good luck with the writing.

By the way, Elise, did you like that video I made of you lip-singing ? I thought you looked very cute in that head-scarf.

[Eliseharris]

It was very good. thanks!

[Yanni75]

You're welcome. I'm glad you liked it.

This makes my day even better.

[dudeinneed60]

It was splendid, and I logged-on just so I could pump 5 stars into it.

[Timelessgeist]

So did I...

and all hale to the WW Pjs :))

Why not do somthing on underware, in underware maybe??? ***** cute funnygirl :)))

[Timelessgeist]

PS the so did I... was about logging on just to 5* this :)) Uber-cool oh Goddess :)))

[100and1000s]

I'm not into the whole burning effigy thing either we have our own version here in Derry called Lundy's day which is in December.... anywayz, enjoy fireworks nite, play safe and good luck with the novel :)

[rawfulralph]

Return of the Wonder Woman pyjamas: a year to the day? It can't have been that long...

We always did Halloween round our way when I was a kid. We just didn't do it properly -- no comparison with the couple of times spent in the US.

Ah, well, back to fireproofing the house.

[jamiehasnomercy]

There is no try just do or do not (in the famous words of yoda)lol fun apples made me laugh, i can help with your novel by giving you a word "THE"i now its only a small word but i bet you can incorporate it into your novel somehow

[Eliseharris]

I will try to get it in, but it might be difficult thinking of a context for 'the'!

[jamiehasnomercy]

lol so what exactly is your novel about then or dont you know yourself yet?

[Eliseharris]

I do know but I would rather not talk about it yet, as it's completely ridiculous and I am not sure where it's coming from in my head.

[menthyr]

My house mate is trying to do the novel in a month thing. He's on 15,000 words so far.

Good luck with yours, even if you don't finish it, I would still like to read it.

[Eliseharris]

15,000! Goodness he must have really been going at it.

[menthyr]

Yeah its all he's been really doing besides his criminology work (which helps with his book)