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NaNoWriMo (Day 5)

November 5, 2007 / / 0 Comments

It is the end of day 5 of NaNoWriMo, and I have hardly crossed the 1667 words deadline. So, I have fallen behind by four days. Bad, but not a lost cause yet.

I have been checking up on the NaNoWriMo site frequently and this year it seems to me that the site is a bit slower than last year. Maybe it is because of a larger number of people signing up for NaNo this year. But, one thing that I am really surprised by is that the word count API is still not working and neither are the word count widgets. Last year, I remember it was fun to see those widgets on people’s site, and know how they were doing with their novels.

The announcement on the front page of NaNo says that they are going to start working on them as soon as possible. I hope that they get the widgets to work real soon as 5 days of NaNo have already gone, and only 25 days of fun remain.

How are you doing with NaNo this year?

(P.S. – If you are here for the Robbery story, check back soon as I will be uploading the next part of the series very soon) 

NaNoWriMo (Day 3)

November 2, 2007 / / 0 Comments

Day 3 of NaNoWriMo is upon us and I have not written a single word  yet. Definitely not a good sign, and if something isn’t done about it soon, I think NaNoWriMo 2007 will be a lost cause for me already. But hopefully, things change today, as I am going to try and catch up with the almost 5000 words that I should have written had I followed the 1667 words per day regime.

For now, the only thing I have decided is that I am going to be writing a novella in the Romance genre, and it will be called “Digital Romance”.

How is it going for you?

P.S. This year I could not find the word count button that you can put on your site or blog. Anyone know what is up with that?

The Bank Robbery-V

October 29, 2007 / / 0 Comments

(This is the fourth part of the series that began here . If you like it,  and would want to be updated whenever I post the subsequent parts, you might want to subscribe to the posts via email)

Ramesh looked first at one face and then at the other, and when he realized that the two friends were serious, he said simply, “Its not easy”

“That’s why we need your help, you will be our inside man!”

“The one who always gets caught.”

“And if you get caught, I am sure you will blurt out our names, so when we ask you to join us, we intend to keep you safe. One for all and all for one.”

“Let’s hear the plan,” Ramesh said after some moments of silence.

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The Bank Robbery-IV

October 27, 2007 / / 0 Comments

(This is the fourth part of the series that began here . If you like it,  and would want to be updated whenever I post the subsequent parts, you might want to subscribe to the posts via email)  

“Good,” Vikas said.

There was silence as the two friends walked towards their offices, and I followed them.

“Let’s hear your plan!” Rahul said jokingly.

“The plan is simple. The day the transfer of money is to be made, we cause some trouble in the vehicle in which the money is to be transferred, so that by the time they are ready to leave it’s a bit late. And we will let them get the message across to the big bank branch that they are late . Then as soon as they leave we can cause the telephone exchange to go out and thus this area loses all connection with the outside world. Then as we will have already arranged we will stop the vehicle on the road and get away with the money.”

“And all of this will be done by just the two of us?”

“NO! we need a third one.”

“And who will that be?”  

“Ramesh.”  

“You can’t be serious. He works for the bank.” 

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Smorty – get paid to blog

October 27, 2007 / / 0 Comments

If you have been blogging for a while, then I am sure the idea of “monetizing” i.e. making money from your blog must have crossed your mind at some point of time or another.

A few years back, it was only a very few bloggers who could hope to make any money from their blog, but these days it is comparatively easier to get paid to blog .

I recently joined Smorty, a service that connects advertisers with bloggers. As an individual blogger it can be hard to approach the advertisers directly, and even when you do, you might not be able to get them to advertise on your blogs.

Smorty can help by being the link between you, the blogger, and any advertiser that might be willing to pay you to write an opinion post about them on your blog. Smorty is quite simple to use, and submitting your blog is easy and quick. My blog was approved within 24 hours, so that was another thing I really liked.

Since, this is my first post for them, I will have to wait and see if their post reviewingand payment, which I think they do on a weekly basis, is just as fast.

This is a sponsored post.

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