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These are my thoughts and ramblings as I forge my way through this thing they call Life. I blog with these groups:     "Blogging Circle of Friends "  [E] 
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| Birthday Bastion 2025 September 2: Prompt 2: The difference with last year’s celebrations is the implementation of Artificial Intelligence. AI/ChatGPT: A pest or a blessing for writers? Give us your thoughts. I am not a fan. I mean it can be interesting and helpful once you have generated your own work. I know some people who even use it to help them work through story ideas, but I would still be careful. I know Autocrit.com has an option of a story analyzer to help guide you through your story. It can even do a reverse outline. I like the concept of that. So I guess it is not all bad. Still thoughts of Skynet linger. One must always be conscious and aware of what you are doing and why. Never act mindlessly or let it take over. Giving away control is never a good idea. Even Grammarly is not always correct. I would be willing to see what could be done. Keeping an open mind. My word count is only at 134 and apparently I need more.... like 350 sooooooo.... one needs to remember to READ the fine print when one is joining up.  I read a few other writer's ideas and really found Robert's comments really hit home. I agree with his idea that AI is like any other tool. It can be used for good or for bad - it all depends on the user. I do think AI can be helpful for people with accessibility issues. Speech to Text software has improved over the years. I remember trying one program and finding the delay drove me crazy - imagine the poor ADHD kid trying to use it. We had to cover the monitor while we worked. I found pacing and not looking at the screen also helped. But now.... you can use the technology to type a text. Thought watch spellcheck. That sucker can mess with your words.... partiularly if you swear. [now how many of you just went to checkg that out?] I have a friend who has named her ChatGPT stuff - one is Alfred and the other is Bixley. She finds asking these things questions cuts down a lot of her research time. Even though I don't have a Chatgpt account, I find myself asking her to look up something. I now have a whopping 362 words. |
It's WDC - 25th Birthday Blog / Scavenger Hunt September 2nd There are multiple contests celebrating WDC's 25th year. Name at least five of them and participate in one of them. Post your answers in a blog entry telling us what motivated you to do that contest. ( * no one sentence responses allowed) Do you like doing contests in general. What's your favorite one during the year? I love this time of year. This whole month is full of contests and activities. I signed up for this blogging scavenger hunt "It's WDC- 25th Birthday" early and am enjoying it so far.... I do appreciate that today is not as challenging as yesterday. I don't know if I could handle the daily hard challenges. I will admit I did have fun searching yesterday and I learned a few new things. That's always a bonus.Aside from this contest, I signed up early for the Masquerade Party "Wdc 25th Birthday Masquerade Party" . I am incognito as Joan Watson from the TV show Elementary. So far I have posted twice on the first day. " and ". I like to tell my own story interwoven throughout the party itself... it's crazy overwhelming because you have to stay on top of the forum and read EVERYTHING! I am committed to sticking right to the end this year. It runs for two weeks.I also signed on to the "Blog Week Birthday Bastion 2025" . I wrote my blog yesterday and forgot to post it until this morning.I entered the Writer's Cramp yesterday with "September 1 Entry - WDC 2050" . I expect I will try to enter a few more times as the week progresses. The gift point prizes are higher than they usually are for this week only. I may get lucky, and if not, I will have fun with the prompts. I am also thinking of doing the "Jane Austen Writing Contest 250 Years" . I have a month to work on this one. A new contest is the "Golden Apples Writing Contest Forum" . It is new to Writing.com. I may check it out as well. The prompt is writing a story with apples... I had thought to write something for "Journey Through Genres: Official Contest" but I signed up as a judge for this back in July. Don't think I am allowed to enter something I judging. Not to worry. I am a huge fan of Writing.com contests and challenges. I usually sign up for the "I Write in 2025" contests each year - sadly, this year's challenge is drawing to a close. It keeps me on my toes and writing every week. I have also signed on to "The Bradbury" this year. The challenge is to write 52 short stories in 52 weeks. I am behind, but not too far. Another contest I love it "The Contest Challenge" which requires me to enter a contest from a select group each month. Weird thing is, this month it is all contests I don't see in Party Central. Not sure why that is, but hey, I will do one of those as well. Do I have a favourite? I love them all. If I could I would try them all, but I know my time is not infinite, so I will go with the Masquerade Party and this blogging scavenger hunt because Witchy Woman   is one of my favourite people. My all time favourite is virtual traveling with Blog City! That was a blast.... and so much cheaper than actually traveling. Time to get on with other contests now.... |
| Blog Week Birthday Bastion 2025 Prompt 1. Sept 1. 25 years of Writing.com. Let’s celebrate! Guide us through your writing life at WdC. Ups, downs, hiatus? What happened with you being part of this wonderful community? I did not join this writing community until March of 2013 after I completed my first NaNoWriMo in 2012. I wanted community. I had a local group, but it was not enough and the guy in charge was getting busier and not able to keep it going. The joy of in person not always being consistent. So I joined Writing.com and was immediately overwhelmed by the layout of the site. I lingered and lurked but did nothing. Then Birthday week presented itself. I think I ventured onto the site and started to explore a bit more seriously. By the end of August I bought my first Premium membership and got more involved. That birthday celebration was a blast. Several of those writings are still in my portfolio. Those first contests gave me confidence and the community welcomed me warmly. In fact, The Paper Doll Gang welcomed me into their fold and taught me the way of the site. With my confidence growing I entered more contests and was able to reach out to others to pay forward the kindness that had been show to me. Since then I have endeavoured to be a positive, encouraging spark to those around me. I remember those overwhelmed feelings and find myself reaching out to new people to encourage them. I pay it forward to those newbies. Even as I have grown as a writer, I still find comfort and support in this community. It is my online writing home and I return to it time and time again to fill my need to belong. As the stress of the new school year crests the hill and supply days loom, I can be comforted to know I can find solace here. I can pour out my stories and find prompts and contests to get my creative juices flowing. I am currently trying my hand at writing 52 short stories in 52 weeks. Quite the challenge, but I love these kind of challenges. I currently have 26 stories written. so I am a bit behind, but not too badly. I have also enjoyed the I Write challenges that have me doing a contest a week for many weeks. These two challenges get me writing each week... sometimes I knock it out of the park and sometimes, its a dud, but either way I have had fun and let my imagination run wild. I have also met many wonderful, like-minded people. People I would consider friends. I have never met any of them face to face, but they warm my heart and I am grateful for their friendship. I am glad Writing.com is part of my life. I had tried other similar communities, but only this one held my creative interest. For that I am very grateful. My word count is over 467 words. |
| WDC 25th Birthday Celebration!!!!! Blogging / Scavenger Hunt: September 1st- Scavenger Hunt There are 5 WDC Moderators/ blue and purple cases who joined WDC in 2000 and 2001. Your challenge is to write about each one in your blog entry. Yup 5 Moderators= 5 paragraphs of at least 2 sentences each. (10 lines minimum) Should be easy check their portfolios. Find a hit song from 2000 or 2001 that you think --- one of these blue cases might like and tell us why. It doesn't matter which one of the 7 moderators you choose. Don't forget to link the song. First who are these purple or blue masked invaders and what song would they like? I travel through time to discover the possibilities..... I love this song. I think everyone would enjoy this song. So I didn't think this would be so hard. I have been searching and making my poor little bean hurt. So my answers in the scavenger hunt may be erroneous, but I had fun making the deep dive.... My first guess is Cappucine  . She is a marvelous poet who has been a member of Writing.com since December 13, 2000. She is a moderator with 403 community recognitions.Another Moderator is Joy-Happy 25, WdC!  . Joy brought her light to Writing.com on June 29, 2001. She is a very active member with 1558 community recognitions. I know she is a blogger and I follow her.Kenzie  is also a moderator that joined the site September 3, 2001. She has 446 community recognitions. She is an active blogger as well. She is writing through her fibro pain and I applaud that. Write On.Now things get crazy. Within the Moderator hub I found names of people whose cases are not changed and I don't believe are active here anymore. Interestingly they are both Canadians - LemonPie  and Colin Back on the Ghost Roads This is the link for this information: "NEW MODERATORS: Welcome These 5!" .If those don't count.... ♥tHiNg♥  is a moderator than joined Writing.com on September 25, 2001. They are mascarading as Thing at the Starved Rock Lodge during birthday week. With any luck we can work together to solve a crime. Since they like music, they may be interested in the music I picked - good melody and some serious good guitar music. And last is ElaineElaine  who joined June 6, 2001. She has 201 community recognitions and seems to enjoy writing poetry, fiction and non-fiction pieces. Her name is taken from a taken from a Cordwainer Smith story. This was a lot of work. It took me most of the day.... Happy 25th Birthday Writing.com! |
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