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Started July 1st 2019 for contests, etc. as other blogs are filling up and have other purposes.  I'm starting a new blog because
I'll be linking to
I've started an appendix (I no longer have one personally) to keep track of my Space Cadet journals for Space Blog. It's a work constantly under construction. Mind the mess.
I needed to start a folder for contests as there are so many deadlines and details to remember.
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4207 After midnight ... cold ... 29 degrees. Spring comes back on Wednesday for an entire week ... or so they say. I'll look over my contest offerings. Some only need editing. Others will not be done. In April I'll be focusing on my poetry and hopefully pre-packing and pre-planning for travel. I need to get out of here! Spring weather should help though. If I don't get out today due to the cold then Wednesday I'll be looking for daffodils on my way to market. Need to find my camera. Bright at 11:34. A reluctant 32 degrees. I wrote this as a comment for Sue but deleted it there: "Memories ... a song pops up from childhood (from long before the musical "Cats"). Mine are entangled. A flash just came from Summer of '73 when I was at the U of Kansas ... I think! I know Gayle was in the flash and I know I stayed in Oliver Hall that summer; but it could be Spring of '73 in McCollum Hall. In other words ... just a flash image seen incompletely, no smell or sound. It's moment when nothing happened. No drama. No trauma. It was during a time when I was struggling with personal issues but obviously not hysterically. Hysterical was Spring of '72 and all of '74. Maybe we all, there were 4 of us, were at one of their places ... which would explain the fuzziness." Or maybe '74 just before I left for CR? That's the problem. I either have nothing to write about or simply cringe at the idea of sharing. The 30 Day Blog Challenge seems to focus on us 'getting to know each other's dirt' or 'recounting our bland E-rated existence'. I'm either triggered like a s***-flinging 80's talk-show or feel like I'm watching a '50s sit-com. These WDC bloggers can be interesting (even when their lives seem boring or conventional) and did interact quite a bit. Many are writers. Only a couple come from my background; yet, I'm sure I could connect with all of them on some level if they were interested. It was that way in Old Blogville. I survived one month. I'm not a story-teller. Time to just move on and do my own thing. The sad part? I'll continue blogging and I'll continue to be ignored. Noon. Will I change my tune? 5 p.m. 38 degrees windy cold. I'm procrastinating. I've had enough coffee and just ate two potatoes, boiled, fried, smashed. I've been reading. 35 degrees and slowly slipping at 8:43. I did some writing. When it flows it flows. Need to do some more otnight, maybe post a couple. These are for my eyes only at the moment but I put them here to easily access: Flash [18]: "Sally of the leeches 505 words"  Two poems [16,17]: "Rain and tornadoes by March 31" In NCAA  it looks like, UConn (1) v. Arizona (3) and Stanford (1) v. South Carolina (1) Baylor (1) v. Houston (2) and Gonzaga (1) v. UCLA (11) |
  PROMPT March 30th Congratulations on making it to the last day of the competition! What was your favorite prompt from the last month? What was the most rewarding aspect of participating in the competition? The level of participation and the level of interactions was very good this past month. However, the prompts need some work. By having only one prompt it puts some participants in a bind when it's inappropriate, culturally or socially unacceptable or inapplicable. Those who are marginalized or a minority may feel unwelcome. Not intentionally so ... it's never "intentional" ... but it can be insensitive. Other prompts make me feel like I'm an eight year old writing about bunnies or much worse a ten year old being told to write about my lousy summer vacation by a teacher who has no clue... There's an easy solution. The Prompt Chest has hundreds of prompts. Give participants a choice of two, preferably three each day. Make them as different from each other as possible. Oh, and stop encouraging us to write about difficult times in our lives. This isn't a mandatory therapy session. I don't mind reading about people's pain if that's what they want to share. Good on them. It's alway surprising how many of us can relate. But expecting me to share (or skip the prompt) is inappropriate. Two that worked for me (but maybe not for everyone): PROMPT March 8th Where are some unusual places you’ve been? What was the most interesting or surprising thing you learned or discovered about those places? PROMPT March 19th How are you different now than you were in the year 2010? What have been the most significant changes in your life in the last ten years? |
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