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 Possibly a mistake, definitely an experiment. A politics free journal of personal reflections and achievements. This is my first blog, so any feedback or advice would be appreciated. Blog serials (will) include:  Fairy Tales Told Wrong (a character study) (a poem) |
Back in September Professor Q  posted "Note: I am officially writing something about this. A pl..." linking to an article about the magazine Seitou.Like her, I this story excited me and gave me several days worth of plotting. 'The Dragon Speaks' is a story about a poem that breaks caste. The titular poem is written by a man assigned a police vocation, and based on a martial art form. But that is as much as I have so far. I have the world build around Rya-Karin and I've written the poem, but I can't settle on what the story is about other than that poem featuring as the trigger event in his life. Is it a story about sacrifice and love? Is it about self-realisation or a sinister tale about manipulation and indoctrination? Do I want to draw it out broader and write a story about civil unrest where the poet is just one key character? I don't know yet. So this one is going to have sit in a file for now. "Finding the Right Story Sparks"  by Jay's debut novel is out now! Sometimes you have a good idea--and no idea what to do with it yet! (Short Stories Newsletter - February 28, 2018) |
| We should take all the bad chemistry jokes and barium. My Darling has been on a relentless rampage of bad jokes all week. But I don't want to cut my hair! ▼ Her sister has been encouraging her. They're exchanging jokes by text message. I shouldn't have ordered the seafood. ▼ It has been nothing but stupid and naughty puns for days. What do you call a fish with three eyes? ▼ Somehow she's still catching me out with the ones which are disguised as genuine comments. I want to throw an amazing space party. ▼ But the way she titters holding in a punchline, knowing full well she's going to get told off... What's green and has wheels? ▼ There is only one cure for this afflication that has come over her: You know you're a '90s kids when... ▼ |
I'm currently working my way through "PORTFOLIO STUDIO" by Whata SpoonStealer  which is why everything in my port keeps moving around every couple of days and why my biography tab is now a game of leapfrog.It has been hard tricky finding cover art for my items. Most of these are small resolution wall papers cropped down. I have looked for free to use art, but the websites I've used don't always have information on the artist, so I haven't been able to credit them, which I would have liked to do. But the workshop is fun. It's encouraging to receive feedback on the presentation of my items and hopefully attract more readers. I've received several reviews in the last few weeks; I'm not sure whether that is because I have edited most of my items recently or just because from luck. The workshop also took me to my back-up hard drive and retrieving files I haven't looked at since at least two laptops ago. I don't think I have used that drive since 2012. Most of the files... need at lot of work, if I decide to pick them up. There is an Angelo story I started a long time ago which I might revisit soon. Most of the stories I know I won't revive, but it's been interesting to flick through old memories. And of course amongst that I found what I was looking for: The Blessings , which brings my poetry tally up to three. I am working on a fourth poem, but poetry is hard :/.I'm also clearing newsletters out of my email folder and sorting most of them into World Weavers' Library or Tilly's Reference Library depending on the content.And the other thing I'm doing this week is reviewing the entries for the latest round of the World Weavers' Championship . Once the rewards for that are done, it'll be time for the debut of the World Weavers' Network activities, at which point I will be turning off my review requests and asking people to make requests in the forum. This is just so I can get more reviews done and do them in my own time without having to reject requests for coming in at the wrong time or limit my comments to a glancing pass.And then at the end of next week we are off to my sister's wedding. So it's a busy month in this rabbit hole. |
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