Tuesday 17 July 2012

500 Miles of Dartmoor

No, the title of this post is not just an awful pun on the song choice used in this video . . . honest! Stop looking at me like that!

Anyway, here you have it, all edited up and prettified, as best as iMovie will allow me.

Enjoy!



However, before you go, I have a very, very, VERY important question to ask you.

What would you like me to do my next "Writerly Tips" about? I have a few ideas, but I'd be really interested to see what you guys want. After all, it's your amusement that I write them for, isn't it? No subject is too nitpicky or too daft (unless you want me to do a post specifically about how to decide on a colour for your heroine's toenail polish, I might struggle there).

~Charley R


36 comments:

  1. I for one, happen to love that song! I could proabbly walk... erm... 5 miles to it. *grins*


    Nice video Charley.
    1) Amazing scenery
    2) Can you believe people used to live there?
    3) Did anyone step inside tha 'Fairy Ring'? (appears in the last minute or so of the video)

    I totally would have. *giggles*

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    1. 1 - Yes. In its dry moments. When you can see it xD
      2 - Yep. People still do. Crazy people.
      3- We all did. And danced around the rocks with our rucksacks off. Because we were hysterical and on a sugar high *giggles*

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  2. Oh and I forgot:

    FOR PONY!

    (And anyone who gets that reference earns double kudos.)

    Oh and... What about talking about how you help a dragon sort is treasure? *giggles* :}

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    1. Hmmm ... dragons ... now those are a good starting point. What about a post with tips on magical critter creation?

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    2. Oh that would work *Elo suddenly realizes she forgot to follow this post*

      And if you want the reference go look up LFG comic (http://www.lfgcomic.com/)...
      It's based on WoW Horde races. You'd love the character Richard, Charley. He's an Undead preist/mage. Fr Pony is his battle cry. He's awesome. I identify with Kale more - the wants to do good, but has to fight the racial tendancy to do bad. *grins*

      I ought to start following it again, maybe buy copies of it *grins*

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    3. Heehee, having a poke about the site now - looks fascinating!
      Aaah, that's wehre FOR PONY! comes from, is it? how intriguing.

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  3. Interesting... Dartmoor really is beautiful when you're looking at it through the eyes of a truly miserable person while sitting comfortably at home at your computer.

    As for writerly whatsawhooey... I dunno. If I give you any good ideas I'll take them back immediately and write my own blog post from them. 'Cause there are only so many good ideas to go around, you know.

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    1. Hehe, these were taken mainly on Day One and Day Two, when it was dry, so it was gorgeous then .... but after about midday on Day Two it all went to heck I tell you.

      Nice try = I've tagged all my ideas carefully. If they escape this blogosphere, a team of trained and highly irritable Romulans will be dispatched to retrieve it. And they have full liberty as to the fate of the thief ;)

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    2. I would expect nothing less from you, Charley-- but any idea I give you would still be my idea, so the tables would be turned and you would be stealing my idea. Say hello-- and soon after, goodbye-- to my Uruk-hai.

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    3. Romulans > Uruk-Hai.

      But your point does stand ... curse you. You willl not escape the wrath of my minions next time. Because next time it'll be pirates. Undead ninja pirates.

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    4. Hey, I was going to do pirates! That was my idea first!

      Okay, then I'll sic a few phoenixes on you. See how you like burning to a crisp... slowly.

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    5. I DO WHAT I WANT! *cackles*

      Yeuch. Remind me to set my water sprites on guard duty again - we had phoenixes roosting in the chimney of the fortress once. Made for very interesting firework displays when we lit the fire underneath them.

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    6. Listen, I don't care how much water you can spit; my phoenixes will still kill you if you dare to come near an idea of mine.

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    7. *smirks* Just try and stop me . . .

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    8. I had an idea last night that I shall graciously allow you near without your face being burnt off: prophecies. You'll have fun with that, I'm sure.

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    9. Prophecies ... oh yes ... I DO like that ... I'm positively spoilt for choice now!

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    10. Exactly, and you didn't anger my phoenixes-- not to mention the harpies.

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    11. Ooer, harpies. Aren't they a little hard to . . . you know . . . house train?

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    12. Not if you aren't afraid to kill them. Make one good example of the first to spoil your carpet, make the rest pay for the new carpet, and they become positively tame. They've even taken to bowing and scraping once I step through the door, which as you can imagine is rather gratifying.

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    13. Oh really? Fantastic - on your advice I may get myself some new harpies. I fed my last one to my kraken. It was rather funny.

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    14. Be careful with that; you'll spoil the kraken. When they think they're entitled to something, they'll never let up.

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    15. I like my kraken - and he does put up with a lot. His sleeping spot is right under the Tribble Pit, so he gets woken up a lot by people I throw in there. Poor critter.

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    16. You'd better watch that no tribbles dig their way through the floor. Every kraken knows that a tribble a day keeps Charley away, and before you know it your Tribble Pit will be a Kraken Pit.

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    17. Haha, I'd like to see my little fuzzballs chew through MY floor. That stuff is tougher than a Nokia phone.

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    18. But is it Ash proof? *snickers*

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    19. Everything I own is Ash proof. I ensured that much at least.

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    20. Oh good - so you learned from the bunker disaster.... *grins*

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    21. As far as I know, cinders aren't destructive. If they were, Cinderella would be a lot more popular.

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  4. Attempting to load it now. Using someone else's WiFi though because they didn't secure it. People who don't secure their WiFi have got it coming when an internet addict with a laptop is nearby.

    As for Writerly Tips, I'd like to know what to do now that Irial has turned up 30,000 words earlier than I was expecting him to, but I'm not sure if you can help me. Can you talk about names? Everyone struggles with names but they can be amusing to think up too. How you choose names and what connotations they have to have, etc.

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    1. Hmm, now there's a good one! I could certainly give that a go - though I'm afraid Irial is beyond my jurisdiction. Unless you want me to set something tall and sadistic on him. Though that may just leave him splattered all over your book rather than back where he's supposed to be . . . sorry. Can't help you there :P

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  5. Hey Charley,

    So, I just logged into NaNoWriMo for the first time in...well...probably months, to start setting up my profile over at Camp NaNoWriMo, and I read your message from the beginning of June. (I WASN'T IGNORING YOU! I DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS THERE, HONEST!) I now know from experience that NaNoWriMo neglects to alert Wrimos by email when they've gotten NaNoMail (bad NaNo! bad!), so I thought I'd let you know I replied. :) Thank you!

    Also, got to agree with Liam - those photos of Dartmoor are gorgeous! Although it does look like a rather damp camping trip...and I know from experience that sleeping in a tent when you're wet and can't get dry isn't pleasant! Hopefully you enjoyed yourself at least a little bit...?

    Anyway, thanks again for the message! Hugs!

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    1. You're very welcome! I knew you'd get it sooner or later, but I didn't quite know when. And yes, BAD NANO! NO COOKIES FOR YOU!

      Hehehe, oh it was exceedingly damp, but it wasn't so bad when we were walking (except on day three, when we all nearly died), but it was mostly when we were trying to sleep and cook and stuff. THAT was yucky xD

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  6. Yeah, sleeping in damp things is icky. But I'm glad you didn't mind it too much when you were walking! ;)

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    1. It was rather cooling when we were walking ... until the downpour became torrential. Wasn't so much fun then xD

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  7. And all I can think is... EPIC!! :) Stones all over, hills for miles, and fog every day of the week! Ha ha! :) No, but seriously, that looks like something I would be crazy enough to try, rain and damp or no. I'll have to fly out to Dartmoor just to walk around for a day :P.

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    1. Hehe, on my own terms (as in, walking with a day rucksack and sleeping in warm, cosy inns) I'd probably have loved it - the place is absolutely gorgeous, and it's a great inspiration for settings etc . . . but in the circumstances? Too cold, wet and hungry to notice the scenery as much as I'd like to. Sadly.

      Glad you like though :D

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