So you move from country to country and rent sounds great. We have landrover defender and we have kitted back out as seating and sleeping area and storage it has awning room that goes on side and also fridge/freezer chemi loo shower and tent so self sufficient, plus couple paddle boards, we love it spent lot of summer roaming Scotland the islands and Lake District as well as Cornwall and Devon. Already looking at how early we can get away after winter😂
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@homeport That sounds great. We have a plan to do something similar - UK first and then further afield once we’re not needed at home so much. My eldest daughter crossed Australia with a similar set-up, but no loo!
You and @SheilaWrote are living my dream!!
And still I’ve not managed to write other than on here!
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@homeport We are always on the move. My partner is from Romania and I’m from the USA so to make it easier on both of us for visa purposes, we just keep traveling. Your Land Rover sounds absolutely perfect. Complete with a toilet?! Perfection!
@CallyRose don’t worry about the word count for today, there’s still a bit of time. I haven’t done any more than what I did this morning. I want to, but so many distractions 
So many distractions! I knew it was going to be hard to carve out time so I’m just going to go with the flow. It will be easier later on in the week 
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@CallyRose you’ve got this!!!
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In the first half of the 1970s, we lived in Bangkok. I bought a 12–seater Landrover Series 2A (4 cylinder petrol; crash gears for 1st and 2nd!). We converted it into a camper, in which we drove back to the UK … down to Penang, ship to Madras (Chennai), then India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Austria, Germany, Belgium, ferry to Dover.
Wonderful times!
Mark
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I laughed like a drain at ‘ferry to Dover.’ ! 
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A fun day the first! 
I’m off to kip with just under 1800 words banked.
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Managed just over 1, 100. Too tired to push it further.
Looking forward to hearing more travelling adventures tomorrow 
That sounds great trip we were off to Morocco overland but first lockdown happened week before. Hoping to take it there still and to Iceland great motors
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How have people done today? I tried a discord sprint - it took me about half an hour to work out how to put anything into the chat - goodness knows what I was doing 
Quite happy with today’s eventual 2004 (please note the 4!) words of mainly twaddle but with a few salvageable bits,
How are all the travellers?
@CallyRose you did great well done! I didn’t do anything yesterday, apart from a lot of plotting in my head! Total word count is a disappointing 586! Hoping today will be better!
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Am picking up on my writing and scaring myself with my characters. Such as this ([…] refers to irrelevant writing):
“So, tell me about your proposal.“
Kennette clenched her fists. For a split second, she thought the word “proposal” meant a marriage proposal […]
“Girl, you’re not giving me any eye contact,” snapped Dr Everett.
Silence.
“If you can’t explain it, the door is just behind you,” said Dr Everett.
“Doctor,” said Kennette, “let me finish […].”
“Stop wasting my time. What’s in it for me if I become your supervisor?”Kennette froze, but spoke resolutely and firmly. “I like [your son]. I don’t want to like him.”
Ethan was taken aback […]. “Deal.” He uttered […] and he loathed himself even more […]
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Thanks, @Susan67 . How’s today been? I haven’t had a chance yet but am about to try 
Welcome back @thegirlclaudia . Love being able to read the snippet - intrigued about what’s going on and the background.
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@CallyRose …another procrastinated day I’m afraid! I think I work better with shorter deadlines, like a novel in a day!
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I think I do, too. Feeling quite overwhelmed with it. I think I need to break it down into much smaller goals rather than that big number at the end of the month. The writing I did yesterday felt a bit like throwing rubbish in the air and seeing where it fell. I could almost just have hit random keys!
Wondering if setting small goals like @pigfender 's outlines would help? Hmmm 
The synopsis for my story is: a teenaged girl aims to eradicate romantic feelings but falls for her supervisor of her romance-erasing project instead.
The girl is called Kennette and the supervisor is Dr Ethan Everett, a medical researcher who could take on a very small fraction of teenagers. In the beginning, Kennette was troubled by her feelings for a fellow classmate and she decided to look into a psychosomatic/neurological solution to get rid of her romantic feelings at least during puberty — and high schoolers like her could do science projects. Dr Everett didn’t want to take on Kennette, but his son wanted to get rid of a girl in class. Turns out the son and the classmate are one and the same. That united both.
It sounds intriguing, @thegirlclaudia. Are the characters doing what you want them to do? Or going off at their own tangent?
I keep my expectations low so that my characters meet them in creative ways. I wanted Kennette to be insistent in pursuing a solution to her problem and the doc to be extremely resistant to Kennette’s project idea because an ordinary high school student supervised by a university professor wasn’t the done thing unless the student was in something noteworthy such as a gifted programme. But he didn’t want his son to dive into romance at such a tender age either! So when Kennette, the boy’s not-so-secret admirer, says she doesn’t want to fall for the boy at all, he sensed that this was a good opportunity to exploit and to save his son from a low-life female his son disliked and he the father deemed inferior to his liking. Obviously the doc had no idea how privileged Kennette was because she kept a low profile, but I also had the doc take on the ideas of the intellectual elite and so he assumes he is higher in the social pecking order than Kennette whom he deems to be below him (and what father would want his only son to date/court/attract a rascal?) so I left it up to pantsing to figure out the nitty-gritty of how this sort of snobbishness plays out. It was quite fun giving the doc a mean streak as in the previous decade I’d made him too dreamy, stereotypical of many a male lead in many a musical… Professor Higgins in Pygmalion / My Fair Lady comes to mind for this doc.
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