Good morning, all.
Spring training is here! About frikkin time. It feels like years.
It's still very cold here, and snow is likely later in the day (sorry Sara).
I submitted something here, about a Filipino creature called a Wakwak. Assuming it gets accepted, I hope you like it.
Coffee and a snickerdoodle would be swell.
Good morning all. I'd love a hot coffee. And a cookie!
5 degrees here now, and expected to get colder. Sara, I suspect I'll be sharing my weather with you this weekend. Stay warm!
I've been reading about "light pillars" which are tall trippy pillars of light when it's very cold, very still, and foggy. Those have been our conditions the last couple of days, and though the weekend.
Anyway. That's what we'll be looking for the next few days.
Happy Valentine's Day this Sunday, all!
Hey everyone. Been awhile. Hope you are all well here.
I'd love a coffee. A cookie too, if there are any left.
Cheers all.
That was a fun contest, with some truly good stories! Congrats to the winners, and to the remainder of the top 10.
I HATE socks. Don't wear em.
Shoes or sandals?
Well, my power just went out, so I can't work! They stopped by yesterday and said this would happen, for about an hour. Rhank God my phone has a mobile hotspot.
Not much else gojng on here. I may write. I may kick back and read and drink coffee.
I've been going for a 6,000-10,000 step walk every day for about a month now. It's really improved my life. I look forward to it. And as I get to think about what I plan to write while I walk, it helps my writing too.
Hope everyone is doing well.
Hope everybody is having an excellent day.
Hi Larry, hi Sara, hi Scott!
Scot, I just bought my eldest a car, which she will pay me back for. It's nicer than my beat up mini-van! It's hard to watch your kids drive off like that. Parenthood is not for the faint of heart.
All the snow has melted off here. Drizzly day, which doesn't really bother me. No Mets game today, which does.
A coffee, lotsa milk, no sugar, would be swell.
I have a quick question, abd this may or may not be the right thread for it. I noticed, on the front page, below the number of votes in the circle, most comp entries say "Scored 5 Comp." Some however (like mine) say "Score Comp" with no 5. What does the 5 mean? I qualified for the comp, right?
Hello all. I'd love a cup of decaf.
Thanks to everyone who voted on my very last second entry. I didn't know the deadline was today until today. So I looked at the contest words, and sat down and wrote the story in one sitting, which I NEVER do. It was fun. I'm about halfway through reading the other entries. Lotsa good stories in there. Good luck everyone.
It's very smoky and weird here right now, from the fires. The sun went down red. And a cold front is coming in that's bringing heavy winds, followed by snow. Feels very apocalypse-y out.
Hope everyone had a pleasant Labor Day weekend.
Okay, no guarantees, but I will try to get an entry in by midnight, Pacific time!
A quick question - can we use different tenses of the required word? Like, "screamed" instead of "scream/s"?
Hey Sara! Hey Scott! Hey Bill!
Been awhile. I'd love a coffee.
Sara, I just submitted the first half of a story here, and it's the one I used your name for! If they post it I will let you know. Yay for tanks the Turtle!
The contest looks cool. I may enter. I'll def check out all the entries!
Enjoy your day everyone!
Good thread. Glad to see Shirley Jackson mentioned so often.
My own list (I will try to keep this short):
Elmore Leonard - for dialogue and shifting POV
Shirley Jackson - for all rather reasons given above
David Foster Wallace - for those long, beautiful, looping sentences
Stephen King - natural storyteller, just hits all the right notes
John Irving - for World According to Garp, a perfect book, funny and sad and wise
Kurt Vonnegut - made me want to get a writer
This was a very cool contest. Contrats to Paperboy, the Welsdh Dreamer, Ping!, and all the other who rounded oout the top ten!
Rain. Though I like both.
Pool or lake?
I am actually pretty fond of all the seasons, but Spring has to be #1, because I don't have to drive the kids to school every morning, and because it means the beginning of baseball season!
I hope everyone had an excellent Valentine's Day. We gave each other Pez! Ah, true love.
good morning people