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Rated: 13+ · Book · Personal · #1311011

A terminal for all blogs coming in or going out. A view into my life.

Started July 1st 2019 for contests, etc. as other blogs are filling up and have other purposes.

Ferry boat between Solvorn and Ornes across the Lustrafjord i Sogn og Fjordane.



My new new new blog is
 
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ในสวนของเลียม Open in new Window. (13+)
In Liam's Garden, a personal journal
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.

I'm starting a new blog because
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L'aura del Campo Open in new Window. (13+)
Online journal capturing the moment and the memory of moments. A meadow meditation.
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had over 1,200 entries and that was getting close to full. I don't want to trim it by deletion. I did that once, much to my dismay. Will be used more for poetry.

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Hoarfrosts from Hell Open in new Window. (GC)
Anything I'm not happy about or that I don't want in my main blog!
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is still hidden from the public and will remain so. It's more personal and full of angst. Was used for 30DBC for May 2020 and now used for Blogville.

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Enga mellom fjella Open in new Window. (13+)
Enga mellom fjella: where from across the meadow, poems sing from mountains and molehills.
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was full... until the number of entries was increased. A mixed blog, mostly stories.

I'll be linking to
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On The Write Path Open in new Window. (13+)
ON THE WRITE PATH: travel journal for Around-the-World in 2015, 16, 18.
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as I need to post there about my travels.

 
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O Pinions! Open in new Window. (XGC)
May my opinions gather wind under their wings and fly, perchance to soar.
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is for my opinions. *Laugh*

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Nurture your Nature Open in new Window. (13+)
Look around. Let Nature nurture your Soul. I record images I sense and share them here.
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was set up for nature observations and musings.

 
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Watt's Gnus Open in new Window. (18+)
On topics and today's gnus. Definitely opinionated. Set to 18+ for a reason.
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come out of a need to share interesting stuff I come across. When I was young I did a small newsletter named as such. (or was it column in the newsletter? Been 30 years... I think.)

 
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Flash Fiction Open in new Window. (GC)
Short 300 word, more or less, "stories" .
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is where I put my flash fictions. Maybe someday I'll figure it out and have enough good ones to publish. Ratings vary and some are hidden from view.

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.
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Space Cadet - the never ending journal Open in new Window. (18+)
Journeys of an Alien Space crew.
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I needed to start a folder for contests as there are so many deadlines and details to remember.
 
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Conquest ... to keep track of contests Open in new Window. (ASR)
A place to keep track of in progress works and up-coming deadlines as well as any awards.
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(also very messy!) *Shock2*

 
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Blogville  Open in new Window. (XGC)
Where bloggers meet and greet to read and share. No required prompt. Alias: blogville.
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is for posting personal blog entries in hope that folks will comment and post their blog entries there as well. I will be commenting on all blog entries posted. It's my effort to rebuild a blogging community.

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Bibimbap 비빔밥  Open in new Window. (13+)
Left-overs piled on hot rice and mixed.
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an E blog focusing on food and culture. Easily digestible for the Queasy and Questioning.

December 18, 2019 at 7:39pm
December 18, 2019 at 7:39pm
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I responded to Eric Wharton Author Icon:

We all use the same ideas and words. Seldom is there anything truly new. The themes of all movies have been done again and again.

When Rashomon came out in 1950 it was startling to Hollywood because the story wasn't wrapped up. The ambiguity of truth was shocking to those accustomed to simplified black/white concepts common in American culture of that time (still common, imho). Writing an ending would be fan fiction and in this particular case not a good idea.

However, Western writers have been appropriating Greek gods for centuries. Isn't that fan fiction? And didn't Shakespeare rip off old tales, change the names, adapt the story to English culture of that time? Romeo and Juliet was NOT new.

There's nothing I write about that hasn't been written before. But have I done it well? Have I learned something in the writing? Has the reader learned something in the reading?

Shakespeare is worthy as is Akira Kurosawa.


Fan fiction... A familiar setting or a set of familiar characters... or both.

If I were to write fan fiction in the Harry Potter World I would write as a Hufflepuff. THANKFUL SONALI Party Hopping! Author Icon would be a character. Teacher, student, peer? I'd try to incorporate other WDC Hufflepuffs. I'm sure we'd have lots to say about the other 3 houses. Why are the Slytherins so self-righteous about being pure? Why are the Ravenclaws so caught up in being rational that they don't see humans for the emotional beings they are? And don't even get us started about those Gryffindors... (they're techy...).

My flash fiction sometimes uses ideas found elsewhere and the contest provides prompts. We all write to them in different ways. But... we rarely write outside the box.

I'm watching Chinese series on Youtube. Would writing about Xiao Bai and his past and current incarnations be fan fiction based in the Fairy Fox world?

How about Biblical fan fiction. Thousands of fictional stories come from there. Christmas carols? Most are pure fan fiction! Mary did you know? Really... did you hear the Little Drummer Boy? Was the night Silent?

If writing fan fiction helps a writer to write then ... write on.


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