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“A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.” ~ Edgar Allan Poe Do you have a favorite writing contest that's ongoing or one that you've participated in? |
I won! I Won!!! Have you ever won something very unusual in a raffle? |
| Last summer I entered a raffle at the last minute to benefit the family of a young boy who died of a terminal illness. Wasn't planning on winning and didn't even look at the prizes. Turns out I won the grand prize; a fantastical haul!! Tickets to 2 different Buffalo Bills games, 10 beer koozies, 10 patches, a signed football, 3 different signed Bills jerseys, a large metal door sign, a signed 8x10, a signed book, and a one night stay at a luxury downtown Buffalo hotel...that used to be the Buffalo Psychiatric Center. |
| About 30 years ago we lived in rural Georgia and my sister and I entered a raffle. She won 3rd prize 🏆 and when she told her daughter on the phone, she thought she was joking when she said " I won a hoe at a raffle! |
Want It Wednesday  Tell us about something you want... Not something you need... Something you just want.  |
| Open minds, objectivity, an open forum to further great minds with conjecture, whether accepted, and be respected and not dismissed. Not snubbed from monistic labels, garrulous and/or surreptitious (unfounded) rumor, the usual ignorance that follows the crowd. But, stand for something, stick a neck out, decry inhumanity to truly represent individual beliefs and help conquer silent oppression everywhere that forces our divide. Back to my rocker. I don’t know what I just said. Possessed, maybe?  |
| I want a friend who I can talk gross biology facts with all day and not have them run the other way. |
A thought on how one can create a character Do you push the envelope of belief in your characters and stories? |
Three Word Thursday What three words best describe sharing gratitude? See a great response? Send them a Three Word Thursday badge! from the left menu, "Points" --> "Merit Badges: Shop"   |
Two Word Tuesday Give us your best two word caption for this photo...  See a great response? Send them a Two Word Tuesday badge! from the left menu, "Points" --> "Merit Badges: Shop"  |
Do all characters need to have a happily-ever-after? What's your favourite unhappy ending (if any)? What do you like about it? |
| I thought of a movie, too, since I recently viewed it. Sweet November has a very unsatisfactory ending. I saw it back in 1969 and I blocked out the ending. I remembered it ending with the guy giving her a thousand November pages and a seven-sided box. It was a sweet romantic way to end it, but, no. It keeps going, and at midnight she kicks him out, and Mr. December comes in. It was sad; true love lost in the end. |
| I was reading the Mark of Athena the other day (for the 1000th time) and it was when AC and PJ fell over the edge I threw the book across the room (I used the initials so if you've read the book you know who I'm talking about. I did this to not spoil it) |
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Two Word Tuesday Give us two words that best describe a crackling fire... See a great response? Send them a Two Word Tuesday badge! from the left menu, "Points" --> "Merit Badges: Shop" |
They can't all be Mary Sue and Gary Stu. What is your go-to method for naming characters? |
| Google baby names from a specific country. Mine, specifically, is usually Japanese names because I really like how there's meaning behind most of them. A hope for the child is usually in the name somewhere. Sometimes I'll look up names for multiple countries (example: Japan and America) and try to fuse name pieces if I can. Google is my friend when coming up with character names. |
 Suddenly Sunday Finish this paragraph: While organizing the attic filled with forgotten memories and dusty trinkets, suddenly... Leave your completed paragraph in the comments! |
| suddenly a small creature peeked out at me from a corner of the trunk. It wasn't much more than a puff ball with a tail pom pom and long ears down the sides of it's head. It changed colors three times as it smiled up at me. That's when I realized that Aunt Maggie's magick really worked. |
| I found my childhood in some torn paper pieces , some scribbled words cut off and rewritten, terrible signatures of a teenager, weirdly funny eyes and moustaches of egg heads. |
| While organizing the attic filled with forgotten memories and dusty trinkets, suddenly a light glowed behind some of the boxes. I scramble carefully around everything to locate the light source and moving a box or two out of my way, I find what seems to be a jewelry box or some kind of trinket box. There's a lock on the front, and light spilling out of the sides. I carefully turn the item over and over in my hands, I can hear something bonking around in the box and I return it to its upright position. I wonder what's in here? |
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There are many, many others that I really enjoy, too.
A few favorites, and I've partiipated in several.