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All the Prompt Calls! (Or at least three of them)
- My Giraffe Call is still open, and will be closing at the end of the day today.
- K Orion Fray, who you may recognize from the Silas/Hunter-Hale/Adder and Luke/Myst shortfics going back and forth, has open a prompt call open! The theme for March is Luck. Donations are accepted.
- Rix has written about a thousand stories to my prompts! Read What Monsters Fear and Unexpected Life Change
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PiNoWriMo Day 5
Woo-Ha!
Yesterday I wrote 1523 words of Addergoole and 600 words of Other (see Fine Dining, posted for the Giraffe Call late yesterday evening).
This brings my totals to 2525 Other [goal 2500] and 7650 Addergoole [Goal 7500]. Woo-hoo!!
Last Addergoole line of the night:
“What are you going to do about it? It’s not like you can challenge us. It’s not like you can do anything right now.”
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Weblit Wednesday: a Guest Post on Poetry for the Masses!
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thesilentpoet
In a way, the Poetry for the Masses! project started in 2010, when trying to raise money to attend a conference in Minneapolis, I hosted a poetry drive on my journal. While never consistent until recently,
I would occasionally resurrect it. In 2012, having renamed it to be Poetry for the Masses!, I started it for what I thought would be a one-off thing, instead, it’s become a semi-monthly event, with calls
for prompts, perk lists, and freebies.
It was through Poetry for the Masses! that Silk Road Allies, the shared world between myself, Elizabeth Barrette, and Marini Bonomi, started. Over the course of the several months, I’ve written poems on
such subjects as fairy tales and folklores, religious traditions, science, and history. In addition to Silk Road Allies, I also frequently write poems regarding to my larger and longer crowdfunded project, Sixty-Four Squared, a tentatively five-novel project, which is directly written and linked to through my journal. Currently, I am still writing my way through Book the first, The Scholar’s Mate. In Poetry for the Masses!, I also frequently dip into Schrodinger’s Heroes, another shared world co-created by Elizabeth Barrette. However, there are many stand alones, and I always love new prompters, commenters, or supporters. All the poetry written during the Poetry for the Masses! sessions are on a pay-what-you-will, with donor perks typically starting at as low as the $5 level.
I had started Poetry for the Masses! again because I needed something to kickstart my writer brain, having just come out of a too long for liking dry spell. I keep continuing it as it connects me to a
fantastic community of writers, poets, and artists, working to create a community where we can all learn and share. I hope to continue it for a long time to come.
The next Poetry for the Masses! will be the weekend March 8-9 with a theme of “rebirth”. Please follow along at http://thesilentpoet.dreamwidth.org or http://thesilentpoet.livejournal.com. Prompts welcome, comments gleed upon, and tips certainly welcome.
Thank you, good-bye, and good night.
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Pi No Wri Mo: Day Four
Yesterday I wrote 1537 words of Addergoole and 566 words of Other.
This brings my totals to 6127 (par 6000) and 1925 (par 2000) going into today.
If I wrote 125 words less of Addergoole and 125 words more of Other today, I would be at par for both.
Last words of last night, Other:
“Trees have a different sense of brief than we do?” Aoife shrugged. “I don’t have training in xenobotanical ambassodorial duties.”
Last words of last night, Addergoole:
It wasn’t enough. It wasn’t enough, when she knew she could have been locked in a basement. “I’ve got to go see Arundel.” If she whispered quietly enough, her voice didn’t hurt people.
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Other news:
I am still plodding along on my last Giraffe Call!! Because I haven’t gotten through the first round of prompts yet (I was sick 🙁 ), prompts are still open!
And at $17.50 in donations, we are $12.50 from a hot cocoa recipe and $22.50 from donators getting another fic written!
And in health news, I’m feeling better! (mostly)
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Pi No Wri Mo: Day Three (Yesterday)
Okay!
Yesterday I wrote 1540 words of Addergoole and 542 words of Other.
This brings me to running totals of 1359 other [goal: 1500] and 4590 Addergoole [goal: 4500].
I’m wondering if I set my sights a little too high and should drop the “Other” to 250/day.
How about you?
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Protected: Chapter 27? Wylie
#Lexember in March: Syllabic Sunday: Snow, and snowshoes
In the early days of the proto-Cālenyena, snow was not something that they often saw. Their Texas-like climate never had lasting snow, and rarely had snowfall at all.
Thus, their word for snow was a compound word: rain-cold-hard, teb-run-zē, which, through the centuries, and, in their new home, their far more consistent exposure to snow, became terunz. (The ending sound is actually stolen from the Bitrani. Very few Cālenyen words end in a double consonant).
And, as they were becoming more familiar with drifts of the white stuff, they needed a way to get around in this terrain.
paiterz, snow-spears, were the first innovation (essentially skis. The Cālenyena call almost everything long and pointy a spear. When all you have is a hammer, etc.)
And, in different places but for similar need, Begerz, shoes-snow, snowshoes, were developed.
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Pi no Wri mo: Day one (Yesterday) and last line.
Addergoole words: 1860 [goal 1500]
Other Words: 0 [goal 500]
Total Words: 1860 [goal 2000]
Not un-recoverable!
(There was a great deal of roleplay, but that doesn’t count for words. Plus I did have of my taxes.)
Last Line of the day:
“You’re transparent, Wylie cy’Mendosa oro’Niassa.”
“I’m sorry?”
How about you?
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March Writing Goals
I have an immensely complicated writing goal:
http://aldersprig.tumblr.com/post/44323414520/marnowrimo-pirate-nano-part-two
That comes down to approx. 2k/day for 30 days.
What are your goals?
I’ve found I do better if people around me are also writing to a goal; play along?
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