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Weekly Wrap Up (Nov. 17 - Nov. 23)

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Steve has climbed into his cave and don't wake him up until the end of April. :sleep: I think it it is @Slytherin's turn to stay awake this winter :P 

tired polar bear GIF

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 :P Winter is here, I hereby declare. May you all share the wonder of it :yes: 

I'm in a bit of a predicament. I signed up for the Prompt Contest, and just a reminder that you have less than a week to get them in. Make sure you check out the link below to get all the information. Now some of you can put out a prompt like in a few hours. I've been going for over a week now, and over 5,000 words and I'm not even half way to my final that I have pictured. I don't know how you all do it. I'm right now in the stuck category where I don't know if I can finish. Also, who wants to read a 5-10,000 word prompt :P These are the things that swirl around in my head, along with all the air, when I get like this. Help? :o Any ghost writers out there? :rolleyes:

Now what happened this past week :unsure:  Something really, really, really big happened on Thursday! Keep reading down to see the big news on that day ;) 

Monday, I was busy. I had to change my signature at the bottom of my profile as we had a new Signature Author introduced:

Myr was back in the saddle again on Tuesday, but I think it was on a mustang :o He gave us the top read stories for every tag for the past 6 months:

Wednesday was a nice teaser. A teaser in the form of excerpt on why to read this month's Signature Author's story:

Thursday, was that big news that I was talking about! Check out our newest Signature Author:

Friday, speaking of Signatures this week ;) Aditus popped in with a couple new Prompts:

 

 

 

Well I don't think Bird is a Word of the Word of the Day, but maybe this will get you into mood :P 

nitrogen, oxygen, fluorine, neon, sodium, magnesium, aluminium

 

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Poetry Anthology 2025 - More information to come. April 2025.

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Here is the look at the past weeks postings on all our Authors and Poets!

 

2 Recently Updated 'Signature Author' Stories

  1. The Freshmen by Mark Arbour
  2. By Chance or Appointment by Parker Owens

2 Recently Updated 'Classic Author' Stories

  1. Secrets 2: Looking Through Different Eyes by Bill W
  2. Dragonproof by Dabeagle

38 Recently Updated 'Author' Stories

  1. How the Coronavirus Jump-Started my Sex Life by KKirk
  2. Studs, Spurs, and Stephanotis by JJQuinn
  3. Tragedia Et Amor by P. E. Knapp
  4. Good Times by Albert1434
  5. Kept Boy to Made Man by empath
  6. A Christmas Coincidence by Ticklishboy30
  7. Straightening Affairs by ChromedOutCortex
  8. Springbank by quokka
  9. The Second Circlet: The Old Places by MrM
  10. Love on the Rocks by P. E. Knapp
  11. Young Greek Men by employee007
  12. Hercules enslaved by Catgenie
  13. Mickey by Connectwriter
  14. Halos and Heroes by JJQuinn
  15. Another Time by Celian
  16. Albin by CLJobe
  17. A Jewel in the Dirt by Celian
  18. The Day his Motor Died by chris191070
  19. Kingdom Of Men by CasualWanderer82
  20. Thompsonville by Mark Ponyboy Peters
  21. The Dreamer by ChromedOutCortex
  22. A Journey to Egypt by Albert1434
  23. Those Left Behind by Robert Hugill
  24. Hungry for Gains by Jack Poignet **Complete**
  25. Hubris by ValentineDavis21
  26. Ark II: Life on Gaea by R. Eric
  27. The Roaming Sea by mcarss
  28. Avery Junior, Mentalist Extraordinaire by Lee Wilson
  29. Half a broken Wing by Celian
  30. The Blue Moon by Lupus
  31. As They Say - (Revised) by D.K. Daniels
  32. Ralph: Breaking free by Robert Hugill
  33. The Ticklish Brotherhood by Ticklishboy30
  34. Microwave Dave's Bad Days by Lee Wilson **Complete**
  35. David C. McLavic by CLJobe
  36. Permutation by W_L
  37. Blood Money by Yeoldebard
  38. Ink and Flowers by Celian

 

Read, Write, and REVIEW!!! (Don't forget to Recommend too!)

 

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Lee Wilson

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@wildone I can sometimes pump out 2,000 words in a day (seriously, I did it just yesterday). If you’re serious about help, depending on the topic, I’d love to help.

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Bill W

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I might be considered a ghost writer, since I believe I've died before in past lives, 👻👻 but that probably won't help, will it?  

Most of us sing that we're dreaming of a White Christmas  🎅, but we only want the snow   🌨️  ❄️  to stick around for a day or two before it disappears, so you can can keep that white cold stuff up north where you live.  

Oh, and I don't think @Slytherin would be a good choice to stay awake all winter.  I've heard that she has trouble staying awake past 9:00  🥱🛏️.  

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Slytherin

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Sorry Steve, I have already arrived at my Bear Resort.. Will be back February 1st :P Maybe you can talk to Zombie or Penguin?? :funny:
 

party bear GIF

 

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2 hours ago, Slytherin said:

Sorry Steve, I have already arrived at my Bear Resort.. Will be back February 1st :P Maybe you can talk to Zombie or Penguin?? :funny:
 

party bear GIF

 

Penguin 🐧 loves the cold weather, not sure about Zombie.

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Slytherin

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53 minutes ago, chris191070 said:

Penguin 🐧 loves the cold weather, not sure about Zombie.

I bet he wants to visit my resort insted of work :funny: @Zombie

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Valkyrie

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We've set a record for latest first snowfall, and we're still waiting for those first flakes of the season :unsure:  Looks like December may be finally ushering in the s-word.  With the lake at record high temperatures, we're probably looking at getting the whole season's worth at once.  

Steve deserves this for posting the video to that song :angry: 

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Surfin Bird Illustration GIF by nothingisfunny

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lawfulneutralmage

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First snow in Oslo today. Then rain washed it all away...

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Bill W

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5 hours ago, Slytherin said:

I bet he wants to visit my resort insted of work :funny: @Zombie

I'm sure he would, because the first time I read your post I thought  it said this: 

Sorry Steve, I've already arrived at my Beer Resort!  :facepalm:  :wub: 

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Lee Wilson

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4 minutes ago, Bill W said:

I'm sure he would, because the first time I read your post I thought  it said this: 

Sorry Steve, I've already arrived at my Beer Resort!  :facepalm:  :wub: 

I’d visit that one!

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ReaderPaul

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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.

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30 minutes ago, ReaderPaul said:

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.

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.

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4 hours ago, drpaladin said:

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.

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.

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Valkyrie

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5 hours ago, ReaderPaul said:

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.

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 :unsure: :P   Which reminds me, I need to check my PMs :whistle:  

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3 minutes ago, Valkyrie said:

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 :unsure: :P   Which reminds me, I need to check my PMs :whistle:  

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.

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