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I've added a new entry to my "Writing Blog Number 2"  : "20250501 External Writerings April 2025" More stuff for you to click. |
Details for the May version of the
are now up. It's a different sort of prompt... hope you get something fun out of it. I will be fussier this time on following the rules. This is especially including the no fan-fic, the stand-alone story, the word count and prompt inclusion in the story, banned items, and the new thread rules. Break the rules, disqualified. Sorry. |
| I've added a new entry to my "Writing Blog Number 2" : "20250430 World-building - Mountains" Something to show how pedantic I can be... |
| May's Horror Writing Contest prompt will be going up soon-ish. But I have not been getting a lot of participants. So... I am going to give it a rest for a little while after May. Just let absence make the heart grow finder. As such, I have been asked about last year's drabble activity and I I'll be running one again. If people are genuinely interested, I will speak to Lilli ☕ and organise it for June onwards. Anyway, just some admin heads-up. |
| R.A.T.! Random Aussie Tune! This is part of my ongoing attempt to make Australia seem like a country not just populated by wildlife out to kill you (even though it is) and always on fire or under water (only half the time, to be honest) by posting songs I like by Aussie (not Kiwi) artists. I have often indicated I started going to pubs when I was young. Well, thanks to some weird genetics, i started hitting the pub scene in 1986... when I was 15. We would go mainly to see the music, and one band I caught early on in my pub-going career was Exploding White Mice. I bought that first album and a few singles, and saw them a few times over the next few years. They played the pub rock i still love to this day, and were local. They hardly made it big outside of Adelaide, but that was fine - they were our secret. And I saw them as often as I could. Seen live? Yes. Quite a few times. Overseas success? No. 'Blaze Of Glory' by Exploding White Mice (1987) |
| I just had a book of poetry (yes, me, poetry) receive a full m/s request. That was not on my 2025 Bingo card... |
| What is a m/s request? |
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| Annette - full m/s request is when they request the full manuscript after submitting a portion. In this case, we were asked to submit 5 poems that indicated the theme and the varied styles used, then I was asked for 5 more, now the full manuscript, which is 69 poems long, plus an Introduction and the order I want them in and any annotation with each poem. |
Reply| S 🤦 - That sounds really cool. I feel as though congratulations are in order. |
Reply| April 29 is International Dance Day |
WOW! I cannot even imagine the number of hours this person put into finding and editing the clips for that video, S 🤦. Thanks for sharing! Super impressive!  |
| English is a bower-bird language. We grab bits of everything and ram them together to form some vaguely coherent whole... and creating the third most difficult language for non-native speakers to learn. OBSCURE WORD OF THE DAY! - Today's word is spitchered. This means "destroyed, rendered inoperable". The reason I bring it up is that spitchered is the only Maltese word used in English. Yes, just the one... but at least it's one. Your challenge today, should you accept it, is to use this word in a letter to the editor of your local newspaper. |
| I question how often that Maltese word is actually used in English. lol I was trying to find a source for language difficulty learning rankings but since I was searching English sites, none of the sites included learning English. But I was questioning English being so difficult because my roommate is multi-lingual, including Korean (she lived there), which is a category 5 language (the most difficult) and she said that English wasn't as hard compared to some others. She's also taught several languages including Korean, Spanish (she was partly raised in Bolivia and is married to a Mexican-American), and English (and maybe French, but I can't recall for sure). I'd always been told (by English speakers who were struggling in English class) that English was one of the hardest languages, but my roommate started giving me examples Spanish of things that were much simpler in English and assured me that English, while not the easiest language, wasn't particularly hard. She also speaks French (she lived there, too) and some German, though that's her weakest language. On a related note, you know how AI now gives you a bit at the top of your search results? This is what it said..."English is generally considered to be in Category I or Category II in terms of language difficulty for native English speakers to learn..." HAHAHAHA!!! I though that was HILARIOUS! |
New question over at
And, yes, it's me, so it's a writering question: "QOTD: Tuesday April 29 2025" |
| R.A.T.! Random Aussie Tune! This is part of my ongoing attempt to make Australia seem like a country not just populated by wildlife out to kill you (even though it is) and always on fire or under water (only half the time, to be honest) by posting songs I like by Aussie (not Kiwi) artists. Daryl Braithwaite was the lead singer of Sherbert, who embarked upon a solo career in the 80s that did rather well. His biggest hit was also probably the best thing he's done - a cover of Rickie Lee Jones' 'The Horses'. Now, I do not say this very often at all, but this is a cover that, to me, outshines the original. And it is a song guaranteed to get a certain section of Australians singing along at the pub. Not screaming - singing. It is a pub anthem. And it is awesome. Seen live? Yes. Overseas success? Not particularly. 'The Horses' by Daryl Braithwaite (1990) |
| "I'm a writer," is always such a great excuse. Why are you reading a nineteenth century book on Aztec culture and death cults? "I'm a writer." Why are you watching those ants eat that mouse corpse so intently? "I'm a writer." Why does your search history include various poisonous flowers? "I'm a writer." Why do you keep talking to the homeless man who lives behind the supermarket? "I'm a writer." Why is there a dead body in your attic? "I'm a writer." |
| I've added a new entry to my "Writing Blog Number 2" : "20250428 Songs That Tell A Story" Something slightly different. |
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