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And now for something much the same as last time. Well, it has been a while.

And if you don’t celebrate Christmas, be merry anyway. Any excuse for merriment, we always say.

More questions. Occasional answers. Continued from No. 4.

Ludwig B. and Jane A. are, of course, immortal, but they would be (respectively) 237 and 232 years old on Sunday, December 16. They are jolly good fellows, which nobody can deny.

A perpetually popular topic. Continued from version 2007.4.

For discussions that need to be handled with extra care. NO FLAMING.

Continued from Hot Topics, v. 2007.7.

Sorting through the triumph and wreckage of National Novel-Writing Month.

Unlike the random thread, this discussion thread stays on topic until the topic changes.

Newcomers should read The Rules and The Guide before plunging in.

Current topic: Publishing
Snow
Recent hostage-taking at Clinton campaign office

Coming soon: [any ideas?]

Requested by the man for aeiou, who describes it as follows:

We don’t know exactly what he has in mind, but we’re eager to find out.

Week Two Begins. Continued from Part 1.

*National Novel Writing Month, for those of you who have not yet been swept up in the madness.

MuseBlog Participants (official or unofficial):

100% Cotton
2,3-dimethylPENTane (The Golden People)
Alice (West of West)
Axa
Beavo the Online Stalker (Magic: Handle With Care)
curious and questioning (Alter Egos and How to Enjoy High School) (A Self Called Nowhere)
:DAW: ( About me being Celli)
Der Wachtelschlag Fliegender (science fiction)
Ebeth
Fortune Cell
Glassboro (The Lord Groundhog)
/gradster(1)/ (Mixed-up-patched-together-pile-o’-words…)
greekgurl the Latin speakin geek freak! (Full Blooded Moon)
Gwendolyn of the Eastern Seas
Hafiz
Jadestone
jammin j (absolutely no idea)
Kiki the Great (Memoirs of a Teenage Zombie)
kricket
Lady Cinnamon Moon of Orange
lifewithoutanipod
Lizzie
MontgomeryGurl (How to Defeat a Grandolean)
oxlin widdershins
philosophical bunny
Prarilius Canix (Fourhenge)
Purple Panda (Muse Academy)
purplefinch (the evil R. Coontz and his Link Gnome minions)
Red-tailed HAWK (Prairie Passings)
Supergeek and the Deathly Hallows
Sweet Melpomene (fantasy)
Synthrael (Kitty Cadawell and the Curse of the Shadowslayers)
Taiwan Hippo Fan
the man for aeiou (Monster’s Land)
TNÖ (the Excelsior/Earth thing)
Unintended Pun
Vendaval
Lady Bunniful (Eccentricities of Red)

It’s today, November 5. In Britain, they say “Remember, remember the Fifth of November” and celebrate by trundling scarecrows from door to door and burning them on bonfires with fireworks bursting all around them — all to commemorate an explosion that famously did NOT happen there in 1605.

MuseBlog notes the occasion every year. Here are our threads from 2005 and 2006.

So that useful advice won’t get lost, here’s a place you can share your favorite tips and tricks or ask for specific help such as: How do you increase your word count? Keep your characters straight? Come up with names? How do you prepare yourself to withstand the dreaded Second Week Slog?

For general comments, word count announcements, or anything else NaNo-related, proceed to NaNoWriMo 2007, Part 2.

Unlike the random thread, this discussion thread stays on topic until the topic changes.

Newcomers should read The Rules and The Guide before plunging in.

Current topic: Endangered or extinct animals
Vampires
Disaster preparedness or maybe Soccer
(or possibly Soccer Preparedness or Disastrous Soccer — things are a little confused here at the moment)
Allergies
Martial arts
Pets

Ideas for future topics:
food (cooking, gross foods, etc.)
mythical creatures

Impatient Eager writers have been brainstorming on the NaNoBraSto thread. The moment you’ve been waiting for arrives at November 1, 12:01 AM by your local clocks, just in time to take advantage of the Halloween sugar buzz.
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It’s almost time, so it’s time.

Continued from Part Tw0.

Requested by Dancergirl13, who says she knows a good one.

Continued from Books and Reading, Part 5.

Kagcomix (who else?) says:

“There are really awesome artists from North America and Europe who toil forever on seriously awesome comics. i’d just like to give them some recognition, y’know. I’m talking about comics from Oni Press and things like that, stuff that isn’t totaly branded (and there’s a lot of non-branded or little known stuff). so please GAPAs’, can we give it a try?”

There are already threads devoted to manga, so please stick to non-manga comics on this one.

~~HPB Log, Cube Sector ff25c4~~

In October Odd-yssey, Part 3, hot-pink makeover successfully applied to employment location of GAPA RC. See report. Phase I accomplished.

Phase II. As our legions of invaders decorators swarmed into the interior to implement our plot measure the windows for draperies, encountered unknown alien force which continues to elude us.

By very popular demand.

Now being discussed: Coraline
His Majesty’s Dragon, by Naomi Novik
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

Coming soon:

Demand appears to be widespread, so let’s give this topic another try.

Words & names you ♥ or just want to talk about. Hey, is ♥ a word?

Continued from version 2007.2.

In the United States, it’s on November 22. Canadian Thanksgiving this year, however, is on Monday, October 8, and at least one Canadian MuseBlogger is desperate to talk about it. Any excuse will do for a party, we say.

If there are MuseBloggers who don’t like music, we haven’t met them yet. Continued from version 2007.3.

Muser-to-Muser tips about things that work, last, and/or please.

A reincarnation of last year’s “Recommendations” thread.