NaNoWriMo etc, New Zealand and Philosophy, Net Censorship and Sex Party

[tcpip]

I'm pretty sure I'll finish NaNoWriMo. I'm up to 41,000 words with three days to go. The reality is that even when I complete that will only be 1/3 to 1/4 of the number of words I want to write for this product. On a related topic, my review of Middle Earth Role Playing has been published on RPG.net, again with good responses. Have started the articles for the second edition of RPG Review with a Middle Earth/Rolemaster theme; Steven S. Long has agreed to an interview which is appropriate as his co-authorship of the Lord of the Rings roleplaying game.

Next week I'm off to New Zealand for the Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy Conference where I'll be talking about the use of Hannah Arendt and Habermas with respect to war, lying in politics, legitimation crises and independent organisation - all in the setting of "the Internet Age". After Auckland I think I'll take the train down to Palmerston North, hang of with family entities for a few days and then make my way down to Wellington where there's a few people I can catch up with.

Getup have started a campaign against the Federal government's idiotic plan to cripple Australian Internet access and make e-commerce utterly insecure. Sign up!. Just in time, the Australian Sex Party (no, not that sort of party) has been formed with a lot of media coverage and with just the sort of policies relating to sensual activities that make sense. It is quite possible that with the right level of organisation that this could be one of most important political events in recent history; the possibility of rational human emancipation will not be possible unless people think rationally about sex and sexual politics.

Comments

[mr-figgy.livejournal.com]

I don't really consider my work a "finished product"; I've added at least a thousand words to it since calling it in at 51010 on Nov. 25, and while I already have ideas about which parts could use expansion, I'm waiting for a second opinion from a couple of readers to see which parts they'd be interested in having me expand so I can consider a formal plan. I just hit their arbitrary goal count is all. The people who ended it at 128000 or so scare me quite a bit; they went at things less leisurely, perhaps; if that were the expectation of me, I'd wither.

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Well, there is a difference between 128 000 words and 50 000 words when both people have spent the same amount of time on the subject. Yes, creativity is part of it, but so is consideration of subject matter. If one was doing pure stream of consciousness onto paper the 50 000 words could be reached in oh, at 50 wpm, in just under 17 hours..

Hmmm.. One could feasibly write 30 NaNoWriMos in that time!

[mr-figgy.livejournal.com]

True, though there was nothing pure or streamy about how I was writing it; I was managing over 2000 words per day, most of which was fit in a window of 12:30 AM and 2:30 AM, with me stopping because I really ought to sleep...

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

That can certainly be done, especially when one is mulling over plot trajectories and so forth during the day.

I imagine a late night writing leads to some interesting plot ideas.. Indeed, it was last night that I came up with a plot idea that is.. quite scary.

[mr-figgy.livejournal.com]

Re: thinking about writing, I was always told during my postsecondary education that plenty of writing goes on in one's head before it happens on a screen or page. It seemed to work, leaving myself a hint in curly braces so my mind could pick up the next morning where it left off when I stopped earlier that same morning. :)

Re: late night writing, I just felt less inhibited, I guess, when it came to both coming up with something out of the blue and following plans I already had.

To be fair, I haven't kept in mind that, hey, I did start two days late, and choose to end five days early. And what's more, I've continued producing material on the same manuscript after calling it in with the website, so it's not like fifty grand words was the best I could do; more like a short-term milestone. :) I'm certainly not out of ideas about what could be expanded, and I'm sure my handful of readers will come up with things I haven't even considered.

[beagl.livejournal.com]

Hi! Need a place to stay in Wellington?

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

That would be most excellent! Fine company, harbour views.. What else could one ask for? :)

Email me your 'phone/location details to lev@levlafayette.com

[zeemverse.livejournal.com]

Let me know if you want to catch up in Wellington :) My email is popelindessaixATyahooDOTcoDOTuk or phone on 384 8807...

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Will do! That would be excellent. We can plot to take over the world... Or something similar at least :)

[taavi.livejournal.com]

I ran a Middle Earth campaign last year using WFRP. The players were all hobbits in the shire, dealing with the infiltration and coup of Sackville-Baggins/"Sharkey". It went very well. Could write up a scenario or something from that if you like. Can't bear the MERP system though so don't ask me to translate it into that!

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Really? That would be a great. Middle Earth using Warhammer is a bit of a strange fit, but it might just work for The Shire.

[phoebe82.livejournal.com]

wow, that's a pretty interesting emphasis for a party...

anyway, how come every single Kiwi i know doesn't actually live in NZ? it's TRUE! i know 3 and none of the live in NZ.

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

wow, that's a pretty interesting emphasis for a party...

I think a lot of Australians have grown a little tired of wowser politicians..

How do you think they'd go in Indonesia? :)

anyway, how come every single Kiwi i know doesn't actually live in NZ? it's TRUE!

Wages are much higher in Australia... And seeming that there's very little in terms of immigration restrictions between the two countries..

[shadow-5tails.livejournal.com]

I'm watching the development of the Aust Sex Party with interest. I suspect they'll grow to be more than just a political-party corner of The Eros Foundation, but as a single-issue party I don't see them getting very far; while I support most of their stated policies, I can't see myself turning away from my current affiliations to concentrate on this single facet of the change our country needs. So the question becomes whether they will expand beyond that initial platform, and if so, how?

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Well, I think that their scope is actually quite wide and fundamental. Of course, the great advantage of the preferential system is that one can vote for such parties without wasting the vote.

tehe

[vannak.livejournal.com]

everyone has a right to fuck robots! go the sex party!

Re: tehe

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Ｈｅｌｌｏ　ｆｒｏｍ　Ａｕｃｋｌａｎｄ！

＊ｎｏｄｓ＊ true that.

Would it surprise you to learn that I'll arranging a meeting with their leader?