Listen to a band. The last bar where I sang karaoke still has assassins out looking for me.
Pop or Jazz?
Strong coffee in the evening? Eek. I generally won't even drink black tea much past noon. I "go green" for teatime or dinner time. Have a super day yourself!
Tams has entered the comp and it's a terrific piece. Check it out on the front page. One nice thing about the low rate of production on here is that stories linger on the front page a while. Some other writing sites, your story is off the front page before you even know its published.
Morning tea and (checks jar) cookies time.
Short story. I find it hard to focus on longer works these days unless I'm on vac.
On the deck or on the couch?
Kind of depends on mood. Right now, sausage (we get these nice, locally made garlic ones at our Costco)
Write a story or read a story?
A lot, actually. I am very fond of short fiction. Even among novels, I often prefer shorter works to door stoppers (e.g. I think The Mist is better than a lot of Stephen King's monster tomes).
Genre-wise, I tend to s-f, horror, and fantasy, esp. the latter two.
If you're into fantasy and horror, try to get some Clark Ashton Smith. He mostly wrote for the pulps in the 20s through the 40s and was, IMHO, easily better than his better known friends H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard. He was also a poet and artist (sculptor and painter) and it really shows in his prose.
Had my son living at home for a month. Wanted him to stay longer. He was on work from home so didn't need to be in Ottawa. However, a young lady was involved and apparently that trumps parents.
Not commuting to work has been nice. That usually eats up 45-60 minutes a day for me. The commute from my kitchen to my home office is much shorter.EpJpRnt87wp2vM11
Good morning (almost afternoon here, actually). Kettle's on for some tea. Lost one of my staff. He resigned yesterday to take another job. Leaves on August 10 so I'm getting things rolling on a hire already.
Comp entry is all ready to go, just need to hit the Publish button. But, me being me, I am going to give it another pass sometime this afternoon.
The humidity is brutal here and the temp is headed for 31. Showers in the forecast for later in the day which hopefully gives us a break.
Read my latest draft and only did a couple tweaks so I think I am on track to post this week.
Need more tea. Day is going a bit nutty.
Good morning to you. Kettle is on. I'm having a Scottish Breakfast myself but there's plenty of varieties of teas out. The popcorn machine should arrive in a couple days. Amazing what you can find online.
First draft done. 600 words and I'm still missing two of the word bank words so second draft will be a heavy revision. Kind of hate to do it since I like where it is at but I don't have another comp idea right now so I kind of have to try to make this one work.
You know, Rump, I swear Windows 10 may actually be more prone to the "blue screen of death" (we just call it BSOD, pronounced "bee-sawed", in IT) than 7 & 8 were. I swear I have seen more of them in the past couple years than in all the years I was using Windows 7.
Good morning and happy weekend, everyone!! Tea and ... well, tea anyhow. Need to refresh the munchies, I guess.
Got a couple paragraphs on a possible entry scribbled out. Started writing in OneNote for the first time, then realized it doesn't give a way to get a word count so I'll probably have to copy over to Word at some point. Not entirely sure where it goes, yet, but sometimes it is best to let stories show you where to go.
Glad to hear your migraine is over, Sara. I get tension headaches quite bad sometimes and I can't picture a headache being worse than that, but apparently migraines are. * shudders *
The week draws to a close, so I think shall settle over on the big comfy couch with tea and cookies and a critter or two for company.
It isn't as hot here as last week but still muggy.
Read the three comp entries and things are definitely starting off well.
Sara, I was on a meeting with someone today who actually uses supplemental oxygen to help with her migraines. Ironically (or perhaps not), she's a Respiratory Therapist who manages one of our branches. She's also a Mom whose kids are still not that old, IIRC, so migraines must be hell for her.
* helps self to limeade and a monkey *
With a 500 word limit, I figured it wouldn't take long for entries to start showing but, wow, three already. Guess I need to get cracking.
Scottish breakfast is filling my cup this morning and (checks cookie jars) mmmm, pumpkin.
Wow, 3 up already. I just have ideas, none of them really clicking yet. Good for those people.
Hot tea. I like iced but a lot of my favorite teas don't work well cold.
Ebook or paper?
Journey begins with single step.
