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Anyone see the B Grade Horror flick called Teeth, currently playing on Foxtel ?

So bad it was good.

Teeth is a 2007 comedy horror film written and directed by Mitchell Lichtenstein about a teenage girl who has teeth in her vagina.
 
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Joshua, I'd recommend iiNet. Customer service is fantastic and I believe they still do a no-contract option.

I've been with them for years and never thought of switching.
 
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A lot depends on your local exchange & which providers service it. Check out broadband choice & the whirlpool forums - that should sort you out...
 

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Joshua, I'd recommend iiNet. Customer service is fantastic and I believe they still do a no-contract option.

I've been with them for years and never thought of switching.

Thanks for that, that was 1 of 2-3 providers I was looking at.
 
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By which I assume you mean you have forty pages of draft finished. Do you outline much before you write?

I scribble notes. Both as a general story outline plus before each chapter.

I'm now sitting at 51,671 words. I've set it at 15.5 Times New Roman as that gives me ~420 words per page, which seems a bit above average for the paperbacks I have on my shelves. So, 123 pages.

I've just finished what I consider "Section 1" so I'll leave it sit for a couple of days and then go back and start looking at characters to make sure they give the particular feel that I want them to give. After that I'll probably go back and do a decent edit across the whole thing.

For the record, the Flesch Readability Score is ~67, which is probably what I should be aiming for so I'm pretty happy with that.

All in all, I'm pretty f**king chuffed so far. It could turn out to be the biggest piece of shit ever written, or it may be a bit better than that and turn out the be the second or third worst piece of shit that's ever been written. Nevertheless, I've never gotten over 100 pages before without disliking it and scrapping it, so if nothing else I've been able to tolerate it longer than anything I've previously done, which makes me happy.
 

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Joshua, I'd recommend iiNet. Customer service is fantastic and I believe they still do a no-contract option.

I've been with them for years and never thought of switching.

I agree with that statement. I am also a long term customer and I am very happy with the service...
 

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I scribble notes. Both as a general story outline plus before each chapter.

I'm now sitting at 51,671 words. I've set it at 15.5 Times New Roman as that gives me ~420 words per page, which seems a bit above average for the paperbacks I have on my shelves. So, 123 pages.

I've just finished what I consider "Section 1" so I'll leave it sit for a couple of days and then go back and start looking at characters to make sure they give the particular feel that I want them to give. After that I'll probably go back and do a decent edit across the whole thing.

For the record, the Flesch Readability Score is ~67, which is probably what I should be aiming for so I'm pretty happy with that.

All in all, I'm pretty f**king chuffed so far. It could turn out to be the biggest piece of shit ever written, or it may be a bit better than that and turn out the be the second or third worst piece of shit that's ever been written. Nevertheless, I've never gotten over 100 pages before without disliking it and scrapping it, so if nothing else I've been able to tolerate it longer than anything I've previously done, which makes me happy.

Yeah rightio Tolstoy, I didn't aks for your life story.
 
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I once started writing a book about a bunch of 4 blokes who had a 25k bet against each other determined by whichever guy got the best result in fantasy football (EPL) competition. The idea was that it came down to the last week of the season, and whether Alan Shearer scores / doesn't score. So the bloke who stood to win the bet if Shearer doesn't score....rubs him out. Then the cops spend ages wasting time on obvious suspects....

I got to page 3 then had other stuff to write.
 
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