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Friday Forum Reminder

by revgeorge on January 8, 2010

Just a reminder that The Hogshead now has a forum.  It may be found here.  There are currently 36 registered members & 58 topics.  Remember that at the forum you get to control the topic discussion, whether it’s on Harry Potter or other topics.  Please feel free to register & start participating.

There’s currently topics on favorite Science Fiction and Fantasy books, Movies that Age Well, Sherlock Holmes movie, Climate Change, Canon, 2009 Books Read, Twilight, Harry Potter books & movies (obviously), Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings movies, Classic Books, and many more!!

Check it out!!

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National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)

by revgeorge on November 1, 2009

Good luck and well wishes to any pub patron who might be participating in National Novel Writing Month, otherwise known as NaNoWriMo.

For those who don’t know, NaNoWriMo started way back in 1999 as a project designed to simply get people writing creatively.  The goal is to write 50000 words all in the month of November for a novel or a novel to be completed later.  Participants cannot use previously written material or co-author works, although they can do preparatory work like outlines or plot or character ideas.  The focus is simply on writing, quantity before quality.  Editing is encouraged after the contest, not during.

Our own Blogengamot member Library Lily is participating this year.  She blogs about it on her site.

So, here’s a question for you all: Have you participated in NaNoWriMo before?  Ever thought of doing so?  If you write, what sort of writing do you do?  And again good luck to anyone who is now madly writing away for the rest of November!

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Rowling invokes Tolkien, talks literature and politics

by Travis Prinzi on February 13, 2008

by Travis

Rowling rarely mentions Tolkien, but I’ve found in the process of writing my book that she has far more in common with him than I had previously realized. Chalk it up to the Cauldron of Story (which is precisely what I do, actually….) In the recent interview for El Pais, translated (with some possible errors) here, Rowling invokes Tolkien on the theme of death:

Q: Solitude, death. We speak of dark things. At its best, literature comes from that.

A: Well, I think it was Tolkien who said that all the important books are about death. And there’s some truth in that because death is our destiny and we should face up to it. All that we have done in life had the intention of avoiding death.

Does anyone know the exact quote to which she’s referring, and is it accurate? She seems uncertain about her quote. This is a happy moment for me, because I just sat down to day to write a section of the book on the theme of death and the links between Tolkien and Rowling. [click to continue…]

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