Eastbourne & NaNoWriMo

[squirmelia]

Jumped aboard a train to Eastbourne today and started writing my NaNoWriMo novel on the way. There were no power points on the trains (well, there might have been in first class), so I reverted to writing by hand, and now my hands are a vivid blue colour and blueberry scented.

Eastbourne is "the sunshine coast" according to a sign that greeted me at the station. It was gloriously sunny (for November) today, so that may be true. I walked along the pier, wandered along the pebbly beach, and then past the holy well, and up to the South Downs Way, where I tried not to fall down a rabbit hole, stared out at the sea and saw the lighthouse at Beachy Head.

My novel (3454 words currently) so far has in it: pigeons with super powers, strange village festivals, lesbianism, weird cloud formations, ghost shops. Oh dear.

Comments

[dizze.livejournal.com]

Do you ever post your NaNoWriMo stuff online?

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

No! It must all be kept secret. Even from myself. I don't remember what I wrote last year.

[dizze.livejournal.com]

Shame i would like to read a story about a super powered lesbian pigeon attacking ghosts at strange village festivals using unusual cloud formations as cover for their attacks.

[the-elyan.livejournal.com]

I'm fond of Eastbourne - there is a sense of time infinitely held there. Good luck with the writing, and don't let the pigeons take over your head.

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

I am not giving the pigeons mind control, don't worry!

I enjoyed Eastbourne and also the South Downs. Am glad it was not as windy as it was last time I went to Beachy Head - it was so windy that my mum and I kept throwing ourselves to the ground, laughing, because we could barely walk and felt the need to cling to the ground!

[strawberryfrog.livejournal.com]

If a pigeon could wish for a super power, what superpower would it want? (probably not flight)

[dizze.livejournal.com]

How about a purpose in life other than spreading disease?

[strawberryfrog.livejournal.com]

There are people who need that too; but I don't know if that's what they would personally wish for.

[tlrmx.org (from livejournal.com)]

There's always that exhortation to "Write what you know" and I'm glad to see that either you've completely ignored that or your life has been even more interesting than I previously thought.

[bennybunny.livejournal.com]

Your nanowrimo sounds good value for money for density and entertainment, I would definitely red it given the opportunity. Saw you are mutual friends with four people I hold in high esteem on LJ, hope you don't mind but I added you.