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It's Monday, which means it's time for another prompt for the Bradbury Challenge. If you like this and you use it, please let me know so I can share the hell out of it. And, what the hell, you can have 100GPS because Schnujo's Giving Away GPs   gave me a whole bunch just for fanning them (oh boy, does that sound weird) and sharing is the thing to do. It's taken me a minute to get to posting this because I finished the full draft of an article about the Moomins for a Scandinavian academic journal and now I have no braincells left.
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| OK that was so frustrating! I set up my Bradbury collection as a book, and then when I tried to link individual entries, the system linked to the wrong item. Anyway, here is my first entry for the Bradbury Challenge:
And the prompt used to build it: (feel free to nab this and use it in your own way)
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SevenTwoEight  - When you're viewing something on WdC, it'll have the id number at the top. To make referencing easier, clicking once will copy the number into the clipboard, but clicking a second time will copy it with the appropriate ML tag, e.g. {item:1234567}, {entry:1234567}, {note:1234567} etc. You can then paste that where you want to refer to it. |
| I have to ask. Why SevenTwoEight? |
| It's my favourite number. When I was about 13, I submitted a story to a magazine, and had to figure out a word count. This was using an electric typewriter with a screen that didn't do word counts automatically. I figured out there were 728 average words on a single-spaced page, and that somehow latched in my head because I see letters and numbers in colour and those colours looked fantastic to me. |
New blog entry, all about falling down in the snow and in life more generally: "A Blog at the End of the World (2025)"  : "003. I fell down in the snow" I got through all that marking and another lot has just arrived. I'll save that for next week. |
| Woke myself up to write a blog entry. I was going to do this daily but then marking happened, as it inevitably does. "A Blog at the End of the World (2025)" : "002. Marking on Ice" Job interview sucked yesterday. I really cannot wait for them to let me know I didn't get it. UPDATE: I didn't get it. |
| Good morning and happy Tuesday! How are you all doing? I have a job interview today. It's snowed again, so I'm relieved it's a remote interview via Zoom. I'm still figuring out the details of the story for this week's Bradbury entry. I barely wrote any fiction yesterday but got a chunk of work done on my book proposal, so that's something, huh. |
| This took far longer than I wanted, but I finally set up a folder for prompts for the Bradbury. I'm using The Story Engine Deck, and have popped photos of the prompt. GOAL: Add a prompt on Monday and post the story on Friday. You are welcome to use the prompt if you find it helpful! Once I've settled in a bit here and can get my head around contests and such I'll add GPS for people who'd like to add their stories for points. Because what do points win? Prizes! Or kudos, at least.
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| Good morning, WdC! How are you all this morning? What's going on in your world? I just adopted a dragon from GERVIC  (I hope I paid for it right). It's freezing cold, but we survived the night. The river levels are high (as you can see) and we're hoping that they don't get any higher. Today, I've got two essays to mark and a writing workshop to lead. I should really be working on an article and the book proposal, too. Sometime later, I might even get to write some fiction. I'm debating entering the Bradbury, and I even signed up, but I'm not great at short fiction and time is a factor. Meanwhile, have a great day everyone, with your hot/cold beverage of preference. |
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