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How do you plan to improve your life in the coming year?

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?]

Known Muser birthdays this month:*

12-06 KitKat’s birthday (1994)
12-09 Zwendelina’s birthday (1991)
12-09 Achoo, son of Asneeze (Sphinx)’s birthday (1993 – red, no grAARGH!)
12-12 Johnny Vern’s birthday (year? color?)
12-17 Unintended Pun’s birthday (1992 – color?)
12-20 Cheese Monkey NUMBA 1’s birthday (1993)
12-30 Zyviva’s birthday
12-30 Purplefinch’s birthday (purple?)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between March 25 and April 24, 1994.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between June 29 and July 29, 1991.

*Note: Listed MBers who have been inactive for several months won’t appear on next year’s birthday calendar unless they show up again.

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.

A thread for discussing non-romantic relationships.

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

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.

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:
Annoying ailments
Butterflies
Fears
Favorite sculptures

Continued from Part 1 (what else?).

= NaNo Brainstorming = generating ideas for NaNoWriMo = National Novel-Writing Month, which takes place in November and will have to be described on the thread.

It arrived early Sunday morning, blog time. How do you like it so far?

A place to discuss life outside the educational system. Continued from version 2007.1.

All kinds of dances and dancing. Anything that moves. Continued from v. 2007.1.

“Talk Like a Pirate” Day is Wednesday, September 19. (No, the GAPAs didn’t make it up. It goes far beyond MuseBlog.) How will you mARRRk the occasion?

Requested by Alice, who is bursting to talk about it.

Actually, we’ve done this before.