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A look at how activities and other reasons come into play for a review. Do you review as part of an activity or is it something you do for other reasons? |
 🚀 Frontier Friday... 🚀 It's your turn to boldly go where no one has gone before. Where are you going and what's one thing you encounter?    |
| I will take one of The Big E's Gedanke to Merope of the Seven Sisters and find . . . whatever I find. |
| I am going to a place here on earth, a secret garden, there is peace in this place,hope,joy and love.I encounter that there's a big fence not to keep folks in however to keep others out and there is a magic force- field beyond the fence. |
| To another galaxy close by, and I would love to pass through a nebula. The shapes and colors always amaze me, and my phone case is decorated as a galaxy. |
In what ways can you include a child's point of view in a story?
Did you ever consider writing a story in which a child character picks magic as reality? |
| Once, as a teenager, I wrote this story about a girl who gets sucked into a magic painting. That is as close as I've gotten. As I've grown up, I find most of my characters tend to be adults. Maybe one day I will write about a child who knows magic is real. It'll have to wait until after I'm done with some stories I've got to finish. |
| I used a Buddy Lee doll to address loneliness. I gave it special powers. It was a family 'heirloom'. Granddad used it because his dad did not come back from the war. He grew up without a father on a farm. Lonely. The 'father' (uncle) used it because granddad was a s--t. The grandson used it because he was abused and abandoned by his parents. Ezra made it all right for all of them. As much as a friend could. He could 'talk' to them. Damn smart doll. |
Radio, TV, the internet, and apps are said to harm book sales. Who still buys books? Who buys Mystery books? |
| You could buy my book. "Larry Lifesaver Motorcycle Riding Tips". That is if you are a motorcyclist? Kev. |
| Me! I love books. I have always loved to read and am thankful that my grandmother taught me how. I don't read much for mystery books anymore, but I loved that genre as a kid. I read the entire Nancy Drew collection, Basil of Baker Street collectiom, and lots of Agatha Christie novels as a child/teenager. |
What a Long, Strange Tip It's Been How much should you tip? |
| Where were you in 62? At the ripe old age of 17 I was working as a car hop at he Hampton Steak n Shake in St. Louis, Mo. The other guys informed me that a dime was an adequate tip for our services. A nickel was insulting considering we were working for a dollar a night and a dollar for food. They also took SS out of that dollar. A quarter was magnanimous and fifty cents would get a dance across the parking lot in joy of the moment. That summer on a fourth of July Saturday night we had so much business I took home twenty dollars. It was the best work day that summer. Some grown men didn't make twenty bucks a day. A young couple came in for the supper trade and told me it was their one year anniversary and they were celebrating at Steak n Shake. I took their order and carried it out and hung it on the door in the usual manner, but as I did so it began to sprinkle rain. I rushed and brought out a wheel tray which I hung on the customer's steering wheel and carefully transferred his food inside the car so he could roll up his window. When I saw the lights come on his 56 Ford I went out and picked up his tray and collected his tab. I walked away with a five dollar and fifty cent tip and all the car hops saw me dance all the way to the drop off window. To this day I always over tip in remembrance of those days when a nice tip meant so much to a high school boy. |
| I tip based on what I can afford, the efficiency of the service I receive, the kindness of the employees, and other factors. I tip food service workers especially as I often sit for long periods of time reading or writing and am very appreciative that they let me do so. I show my appreciation by tipping. Also, they don't just take your order and put it in a bag or on a tray, they clean up all the mess that most people tend to leave on tables, floors, and especially in the restrooms for minimum wage. Quick service restaurants and "cheap" restaurants don't have a huge profit margin so if we want to continue to be able to have affordable places to enjoy meals, snacks, and beverages then we have to accept that the base pay can't be too much—otherwise, we will end up running all the small shops and restaurants out of business AND many of us will no longer be able to afford to enjoy relaxing and socializing over a meal in a nice little restaurant or cafe. Keeping base wages low enables small mom and pop restaurants and cafes to stay in business, keep their prices reasonable, while still offering quality food/beverages. Payroll is often one of the biggest expenses for businesses, other than ordering/maintaining the products required to sustain their business. Also, most of the big chains/corporate places rely on their busy, top performing restaurants to offset the costs of those that don't "perform" as well due to being in quieter locations. |
Crystal Dragon  - I also like to tip housekeepers/room attendants who clean the hotel/motel room whenever possible as I know they often have to clean up all sorts of nasty stuff from people. I treat my hotel/motel rooms like I do my own home and clean up as best I can and have respect for the establishment I am staying in. Some people figure, well it's not my home and someone else will clean up my mess so they trash the room or simply leave it filthy dirty and/or they use and abuse the amnenities by leaving lights, TVs, and radios on all the time—wasting needless electricity, water (especially hot water), and other resources without any thought as to the energy requirements and cost to the hotel/motel and the environment. I often leave little hand written notes to thank the people who clean my room at hotels/motels I have stayed at. I know they don't get paid a whole heck of a lot for what they do. They often are the ones who have to clean all the washrooms and keep the interior of the building clean. They get paid much less than maintenance workers too and it's a very physically demanding job that can often be quite thankless. |
A look at dialogue and deciding what characters need to talk about in a story. How do you decide on dialogue and topics for the conversations that happen in a story? |
| Shakespeare writes great dialogue. It is full of subtext and misdirection. It is subtle, yet powerful. In "Measure for Measure" Angelo speaks over a hundred lines of dialogue trying to get Isabella to understand his intentions. I wish I could do that in my writing. Maybe if I work at it hard enough I will. |
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After a too-long hiatus! What's YOUR best thing about writing again? |
| Getting the creative juices flowing again after a spell of no inspiration. For some unknown reason, I have written a lot about time travel over the years. So much so, that I'm now putting together an anthology of time travel short stories and hope to get it published in the near future. I thought I'd run that well dry years ago and left off writing at all. It came to me in a flash. I'd never written about time travel on another planet and thus was born 'Mars'. I've got a good rough draft that can be expanded on later, but the idea is in the can. |
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 Hey Writing.Com, we'd like to know!  What are you reading this weekend?  |
| I ended up re-reading the descriptions in Fashions of the Old South (a paper doll book). |
| I finished reading "iPad FOR SENIORS for dummies." by Dwight Spivey (family man, coffee connoisseur, and Apple expert). Use video chat, email, and social media - Surf the web and share photos and videos - Learn about the newest iPad models. |
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