Gahhh! Dialling The Number of the Beast

[Katie-Ellen]

The stats advise I have made 666 comments here. Call me the exorcist! Fetch me the Pope.

Oh, hang on, this makes 667 . If a post counts as a comment.

........And relaxxxxx.

Devilishly good blues song here, Me and the Devil, Gil Scott-Heron. Wait for the spoken poem at the end.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OET8SVAGELA

 

[Alistair Roberts]

Your three seconds of fame, or is that infamy? Hope you enjoyed it. Next one, is when you sell a best seller

 

[Katie-Ellen]

Fame is an empty room. Pride in a job done; a readable, saleable product shipped, that's the dream. I just do what I do, just like you.

 

[Emurelda]

I remember when I tweeted that I had a 'beast sum of followers' or something like that when it reached 666 twitter followers the first time. I say first time because as soon as I tweeted it someone unfollowed lol and I had to go 'through it again'. Second time round in silence.

 

[Jennifer Stone]

Break out the Iron Maiden, 'The Number of the Beast', or Charles Daniels Band, 'Devil Went to Georgia'. I went through a stage of keeping any receipt that totaled £6.66 or gave me the same in change. I know I'm lame for doing it, but sometimes I live for such quirky nonsense.

 

[Karen Gray]

Break out the Iron Maiden, 'The Number of the Beast', or Charles Daniels Band, 'Devil Went to Georgia'. I went through a stage of keeping any receipt that totaled £6.66 or gave me the same in change. I know I'm lame for doing it, but sometimes I live for such quirky nonsense.

I concur lol

 

[Katie-Ellen]

It's a kind of touching wood....except apparently the phrase isn't really, touch wood. Not originally.

Touch wood
No good
Touch iron
Rely on

Fairies of the totally non- Tinkerbell variety are afraid of iron.

Someone asked once, if you met the Devil, what would you say to him?
I asked my mother what would she say. She said, I'd tell him, eff off, I don't like you.

I asked my sister, she said, I'd ask him in for coffee. I'd like to hear his side of the story.

She's a solicitor

 

[Jason Byrne]

As it happens, letters of the Hebrew alphabet correspond to numbers, and the Beast, as described by John with the number of whose name being 666, is none other than our good friend Emperor Nero. Probably seemed like the Devil to the early Christians, but not as pertinent twenty centuries later.

 

[Katie-Ellen]

He certainly was a Beast, him and his emerald monocle, but it's still pertinent if it ever was, alas.

 

[Jason Byrne]

He certainly was a Beast, him and his emerald monocle, but it's still pertinent if it ever was, alas.

Very true.

 

[Karen Gray]

Da da Daaaaaaaaaaa!!!!

 

[Emurelda]

Wow that's a lot of pages! Not to mention words. How you do it is amazing!!

Well done on reaching that beastly milestone.

 

[Alistair Roberts]

Funny, I've seen this somewhere before??? As for numbers, I just think I gave myself a headache, 6.7 novels times almost 100,000 words each..... I think I need a holiday, or....... (you fill in the blanks) lol

 

[Jennifer Stone]

Funny, I've seen this somewhere before??? As for numbers, I just think I gave myself a headache, 6.7 novels times almost 100,000 words each..... I think I need a holiday, or....... (you fill in the blanks) lol

A cup of tea perhaps? Treat yourself to a biscuit, you earned it.

 

[Karen Gray]

Wow that's a lot of pages! Not to mention words. How you do it is amazing!!

Well done on reaching that beastly milestone.

Thanks Mrs escapism... that's what it is

 

[Karen Gray]

Funny, I've seen this somewhere before??? As for numbers, I just think I gave myself a headache, 6.7 novels times almost 100,000 words each..... I think I need a holiday, or....... (you fill in the blanks) lol

Haha am I messing with your happy place there Alistair?

 

[Karen Gray]

A cup of tea perhaps? Treat yourself to a biscuit, you earned it.

Tea is the answer to EVERYTHING

 

[Emurelda]

Oh yes...Yorkshire tea will do me fine thank you.

 

[Karen Gray]

Oh yes...Yorkshire tea will do me fine thank you.

I like good old Scottish Blend or Tetley myself... used to be PgTips but the taste changed so I don't buy them much any more

 

[Emurelda]

Funny, I've seen this somewhere before??? As for numbers, I just think I gave myself a headache, 6.7 novels times almost 100,000 words each..... I think I need a holiday, or....... (you fill in the blanks) lol

I am just in awe.

Sitting here scribbling away, still, with my first 30k or so MS (editing) and it just doesn't end. I mean it doesn't end. Where is the end? I wish I was one of those calmly confident, serene kinda lass who knew it will all come together by just being patient. But I'm not!

 

[Alistair Roberts]

Calmly confident? Well that's not me! On the outside maybe, but on the inside? Nar! One always (?) has doubts, but you plod on, keep writing, keep wondering. Eventually you go back and read what you wrote, some of it is rubbish, but then you say "Wow did I write that?" Well, yes you did and you realise there is hope yet. Like anything else, the more you do the better you get, then you learn from others and realise you can do even better. I'm still learning

 

[Karen Gray]

I am just in awe.

Sitting here scribbling away, still, with my first 30k or so MS (editing) and it just doesn't end. I mean it doesn't end. Where is the end? I wish I was one of those calmly confident, serene kinda lass who knew it will all come together by just being patient. But I'm not!

Be brave and let the characters write the stories for you. When I started this venture (March 2014) it was a stand alone 50,000 word YA novel I was aiming to write about Mòrag and Randall only. The Brax character came about by pure accident and by chapter 7 I stopped trying to write what I set out to write and it became organic, practically writing itself. 5 months and 96,203 words later I was starting book 2. 4 months and 128,608 words after that I was starting book 3 and 151,586 words and 5 months later I am now half way through chapter 1 of book 4 and the series certainly isn't YA anymore lol!

The funny thing is... If I had stuck to my 'plan' for what I wanted to write, I may never have finished the first book. I think if you feel like you should write in a particular way you should be brave and embrace it. It may not be what you set out to do, but it could be your subconscious telling you that it has a whole other plan for you xxx

 

[Emurelda]

Great advice @Alistair Roberts and @Karen Gray . I want to break into song now ... "Let it flow.." Tune to Frozen 'Let it go'.

 

[Karen Gray]

Great advice @Alistair Roberts and @Karen Gray . I want to break into song now ... "Let it flow.." Tune to Frozen 'Let it go'.

Lol!! I think this one is a bitty more what I mean though

 

[Alistair Roberts]

Good choice Karen

 

[Karen Gray]

Good choice Karen

One of my 'mantra' songs