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Hey Elyse! I just noticed a story in The Guardian – British newspaper – about Alan Rickman. I didn't know if you'd be interested, but thought I'd point it out anyway:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/sep/24/alan-rickmans-secret-showbiz-diaries-harry-potter

He was a versatile actor, and an intriguing person.

And good afternoon to everyone else. I'd like a cuppa Red Rose, and I'll mosey over to Sara's corner and see if she shows up.

James, thanks for that article. Fascinating! I really love Rickman, though I suppose most people do. My favorite quote: "The trouble is writers write from pain and Harold has closed up all his wounds, so all he can write now are these small things.” (Alan Rickman talking about Harold Pinter).

Time for Lego and coffee and a Lego-shaped cookie!

Hey E, hey Sara, hey Ape.

The first draft of the novel that began its life at this very site is finally done! Huzzah! Send it out to a few trusted eyes, slap it in a drawer for a couple months, write some short stories. Today I'm gonna kick back, have lunch with my daughter, get a celebratory haircut, take a long walk, and go out for Mexican food with the missus.

I have 7 lines of poetry! Looking forward to reading the others.

I hope everyone has a FABU weekend. Sara, I hope your ribs quit giving you grief.

A large coffee and a coffee cup shaped cookie! How meta!

Stormy and rainy here too, Ape.

Expecting to finish the rewrite today. I feel a good mental tailwind behind me, and woke up itching (figuratively) to start.

And I have the first line of a poem! I will try to write it this weekend, and then peruse the others.

I hope everyone is well. Sara, I haven't heard a peep from you about the Braves (sorry Red, I'm obsessive).

Coffee! A cookie! A visit from the muse!

Good Lord yesterday was a crappy day. Thank God it's a new one today.

Nice to see all the poetry entries. I won't read any til I submit - I actually have an idea, after my first attempt was so bad.

Outside chance of finishing the edit today or tomorrow. That's something to focus on. Should be a nice chill day.

Coffee and one of Sara's delish cookies!

Here's my poem: where's the frikkin coffee?

It doesn't rhyme.

Hope everyone is well. I'm a tad grumpy.

No chores - editing all damn day. That is all.

I hope everyone is well. Coffee and a cookie please!!!

Made my first attempt at a poem. It sucked.

Going to the doc today, no biggie, just a checkup.

I'm almost exactly halfway through this edit of the book, after which I'm putting it away for awhile. I'll write a story about tentacles in the basement while I get some reactions. I'm tired of editing. I want to write new content.

Coffee and cookie please!

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Moonfall on HBO Max. It was bad, a mash-up of themes from Independence Day, Armaggedon, and 2012. I'm not surprised it was a huge box office flop. I love watching Halle Berry, but she couldn't save this mess.

Oh, it's awful. I still liked it though. So weird and bad I couldn't look away.

I'll have a big cup

of that hot perking brew

my poetry sucks

I haven't a clue

Yet I'll read all the entries

And proffer my best

And know that the winner

Has passed a great test

Just saw Barbarian in the theater. Really good strong horror movie. And the preview for Smile looks scary a f.

I can't even think how to start writing a poem! But I'll enter! Promise.

Annoying errands today, and I didn't sleep well, so I'm a tad irritable, but nothing I won't get past. Releasing the novel into the wild this week, just the shaggy first draft, to a intrepid group of beta readers with a high tolerance for half-baked sci-fi.

Mets are back in first place, albeit by the skin of their teeth. Sorry Sara.

Back to the salt mines. A coffee and a cookie please!

Broke a tooth yesterday, and had to go to the dentist today, so I am irritable. Grrr.

We are having dinner on the patio at out fave restaurant before the first cold front of the Fall hits - 30 degree drop!

Thanks for the cookies Sara! A London Bridge cookie please! Plus the obligatory coffee.

I'm a day late and a dollar short, Elizabeth, but HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY!!!

Red, I'm not a real poet either, but I will submit 45 lines of poetry-adjacent doggeral.

No Talia Thursday. I've got therapy in an hour, plus a chip broke off a tooth last night, so I have to go to the dentist. Again. Wah. No pain at least.

Braves and Mets are fighting for first place. Fun to watch!

Coffee and 45 cookies please, one for each line of poetry.

I just finished watching Marathon Man for probably the 5th time. What a great movie.

Yay!

Hey, the new contest sounds cool, and the graphic rocks! I am a horrible poet, but I will enter just to support the cause. I'm gonna bug Talia to enter too.

I read the stuff about the site getting fewer stories and reads. I'll try to do better in my reading.

Lazy day today. Double header for the suddenly dreadful Mets, and some work on a Noir story for another site. I understand Rumps has been seen about! Hope he stops by here!

A coffee please, and a hot dog cookie.

This sounds swell. Thanks for all the hard work in making the site better, Molly and everyone else who helps behind the scenes. Looking forward to seeing how it works!

My first wife (man, it's weird to use that term) loved Whose Line is it Anyway. Drew is a natural doing that kinda thing. I loved his old show (and his old TV show song, Cleveland Rocks!)

More editing today. I'm nearing the end, though, of this draft. Then, a couple short stories are knocking at my brain's door (including an entry in the Noir comp on another site). I'm gonna try a new novel at the beginning of next year, if I can get rewrites done on this one.

Braves are breathing down the Mets' necks after the Nats kicked our butts. Gonna be a fun finish! Good luck Sara!

I'd love a tiny BBQ grill cookie please! And a coffee!

Ooh, you might have pulled Talia into this contest!

Good morning. I'm currently 10 minutes into trying to refill a prescription, listening to the tinkly hold music, and the nice woman telling me there are two callers ahead of me.

Gonna try to finish the first pass of the novel this weekend, maybe today. Then a story for another site I think, for a competition. Then back to the book.

I think our plan this weekend involve buying a Lego Central Perk (from Friends) and building it. I'm psyched!

A coffee and a cookie please!

flicks on the lights, blinks

Good morning all.

Mets lost. Wah.

Editing all day. Wah.

I guess coffee might kick my butt into gear and get me going. starts percolator, grabs a cookie

You are right about Artemis, Ape. I hope they can lift off Friday. Someday, I'd love to see a rocket lift-off. Bucket list.

Mets are facing the Big Dogs of the National League - the Dodgers (sorry Red). Gonna be a tough series. Sara's Braves are on our heels.

Other than that, same old boring deal. Edit, walk, supper, watch the game. I should be about 3/4 done with this first pass by the end of the day. These are the easy edits, though, the real work is ahead of me.

Coffee and a win-shaped cookie please!

Good morning all. Thanks for the set-up!

Went to a minor league baseball game last night with Talia and my daughter. Fun, even if the name of the team is the Vibes, and I felt very silly yelling Go Vibes!

Bummed about the Artemis mission being scrubbed. My thoughts on Mr. Mush aside, I was very psyched to see us go to the moon. I hope they are able to lift off soon.

Family friend was here for a week, but she has left, so we are back to our old habits today.

A coffee and a cookie please.

Good morning all.

I'm a little over halfway through this first pass of the novel, and I have cut 12,000 words. I suspect there is a taught 80k word novel amid this 115k monster (now 103k). It's a litle better than I expected, though that is not saying much.

Talia free Thursday, but we have a family friend staying over, so the cats are spared the full-bore weirdness of me left to my own devices.

I'd love a cup and a cookie.

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Welp, this should be interesting. A guy on one of the other sites I am on (the support site for the software I use to run Wondercafe2) wants to translate The Chronicles of Tana the Healer into French and post the French versions on his site. I gave permission. What is there to lose? He'll link to the originals on here for people who want the English and I get more readership en francais. And it will be kind of cool to have my writing in another language.

Grabs a lion and a polar bear in honour of absent (from here at least) friends.

That's cool about the translation. Anything to get your words out there. Good luck!

We have an old friend staying over for a few days. Should be fun. She's a writer too, and a frikkin successful one. So she and I will write all day, while Talia lawyers from the kitchen table.

Mets lost to the Yankees last night. Sigh.

A coffee and a car cookie. Any Lambos?

Good morning. Still trying to wake up. Frikkin weekends. Chill day, though, editing and a few errands. Mets/Yankees tonight!

We have a family friend staying the night. Should be fun. Not much else going on. At least the basement has dried and we have hot water.

I'd love a coffee and a bicycle-shaped cookie.

Writing, not editing, today. I got too bored yesterday and so started a story about a suburban homeowner checking his basement for leaks and finding eldritch horrors (I love that phrase). Sound familiar?

Other than that, nothing much. Should be a pleasant day. My tow shall not keep me from walking today!

A coffee and an airplane cookie!

dripping of percolator, gurgle of teapot, crunch of cookies

Hope everyone is doing well. Good luck at the job Sara. Gill, if I saw a Christmas decoration in mid-summer I'd burn it.

Another chill day. I am taking a break from editing to write new stuff for a day. It's just too monotonous otherwise. Fine weather.

Mets finally salvaged a game against those pesky Braves. Seeing if we can eke out a win tonight. I'll try to intercept Sara's shipment of cookies to the team today.

My toe has been bugging me, but I'm gonna try to go for a walk again today. I miss walking.

I'm having a coffee and a car-shaped cookie.

Mets got crushed again by our famous cookie-maker Sara's team, the Braves.

It rained all day yesterday, but today appears warm and sunny. Our hot water has quit working, so my first task of the day is going downstairs and futzing with the pilot light. Wah. Just as soon as I finish this cup of coffee.

Hope everyone is doing well. Feel better Sara. Gill, I'd be happy to listen to your complaints.

A coffee and a cookie please.