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Weekly Wrap Up (Nov. 17 - Nov. 23)
By wildone
Steve has climbed into his cave and don't wake him up until the end of April. I think it it is @Slytherin's turn to stay awake this winter That bear just happens to be the colour of outdoors. We got dumped on the past week. No road lanes, no sidewalks, no nothing. All buried in snow. It is beautiful if you don't need to go out into it Also, the temperature dropped into the minus celsius without windchill Winter is here, I hereby declare. May you all share the wonder of it- 15 comments
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And then there are people like me, trying to write something that should probably have been a novella and compressing it until it's as short as humanly possible. -
The great thing about prompts is that that there's no limits on what you can do with them, unless it's specified in the prompt itself. My first multi-chapter novella was based off a prompt response. Good writing is good writing, whether it's a 1k flash piece or 30k novella. Although if Steve is approaching 20k, maybe I should have specified an upper limit for the PT Event Which reminds me, I need to check my PMs -
By ReaderPaul · Posted
Certainly I agree with that. I have read a lot of flash fiction (normally 1,000 words or less) that are excellent. Some, however, can't be chopped or edited without losing much of the story. -
This both made me laugh and made me want to read A Wizard's War:
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By JamesSavik · Posted
Semiconductors depend on a doping agent in silicon to act reliably in circuits. The doping agent and silicon create a lattice structure with an extra electron (n-type), or a hole for an electron (p-type). The diode, the first semiconductor device, will only allow current to flow in one direction. Discovered by Russell Ohl at Bell Labs in 1939, the diode was just the first semiconductor device. It was soon followed by transistors and their numerous variations. -
Stories don't need to be long to be good. Hemingway's Hills Like White Elephants is only 1,500 words and Shirley Jackson's The Lottery is 3,000 words. -
By ReaderPaul · Posted
Well, @wildone -- are there limits on how long a prompt story can be? I would rather a good 20,000 word prompt story than one which is so chopped and/or choppy it is a challenge to read. -
Why aren't people or other living things silicon based? It's due to the fact that when silicon reacts with oxygen, it forms a stable lattice which is then not possible to easily eliminate from the "organism" (if the organism did indeed exist), and so a silicon-based life form would not be able to get rid of the waste products arising from its own metabolism. -
Silica is a chemical compound made of silicon and oxygen with the formula SiO2. It can be found in many forms, including crystalline silica and amorphous silica, and is present in the environment in sand, soil, rocks, water, and air. Silica can also be found in concrete and bricks, and in the form of silicone polymers it can be found in sealants, lubricants, and even medical applications like surgical implants.
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