27 results for “theauthorvivian”
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The unsung heros of the night shift have managed to actually mix them up, so now we have a little bit more than 100 items we can't sell due to regulations, and can't give them back either because they are already through all manufacturing procedures and thus aren't of any use for the original company.
Each item is worth approximately $200, that's a minimum $20,000 loss (a little more adding manpower, energy, time…) because some person hasn't taken a flashlight to look up two letters.
Yay!!
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I'm usually not spilling #Work tea, but…you need to hear this even if you have no idea what I mean.
The company sometimes gets semi-finished products delivered that we make whole, and each item of those are marked with a batch number from the original manufacturer. When we do our work, this batch number becomes irrelevant to the customer because we print our own in it. But it matters for our production since it's illegal for us to mix different original batch numbers within ours.
Guess what?
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could not have been given to me. Without even the slightest breath of wind, a small dust devil had appeared some distance away just like that and vanished again just as quickly. Except that, within that cloud of swirling dust, I believed I had made out a face. A woman’s face, a very kind one. And it seemed to nod at me. I closed my eyes for a fleeting moment, gave thanks for what I had experienced, and then turned toward Abigail.
#PennedPossibilities 1167
If you have one, post a snippet involving spirits, such as a character talking to or about them.
“It’s alright, I'm sorry.” Abigail said, in a somewhat soothing tone. I was refilling the bottles and just about to stand up when I caught sight of something on the opposite bank, and a word escaped my lips, “SHIMÁ.” “What?” Abigail asked, but I couldn’t explain to her what I had just witnessed. I couldn’t even explain it to myself, yet a clearer sign …
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27. Oktober
Bronze, Silber, Gold – gibt es sportliche Charaktere in deinen Geschichten? Und standen sie mal auf dem Siegertreppchen?
Nein. Es gibt nur eine Erwähnung von sportlicher Aktivität im weitesten Sinne in "AlexA" (Nein, nicht *das*…🙄), aber ich werde das hier nicht öffentlich darlegen weil es eine ziemlich sexistische Bemerkung sehr lebhaft nachstellt. Aber auf ein Siegertreppchen hätte die Gute irgendwie schon gehört …
Nevermind.
#PennedPossibilities 1166
Would any of your characters actually survive a “zombie” apocalypse?
Ketchup
Nobody would, never ever. If there will be any disease that turns people into ferals within days or even hours, we're all doomed. Even those who somehow wouldn't be infected because we have to shut down every nuclear power plant, and even shut down they will turn real bad when unattended. So, every zombie tale or movie with survivors for more than a couple of months is blunt stupid.
Sorry.
#PennedPossibilities 1165
Ketchup
Can the dead truly return to the “land of the living” in your universe?
For real, like resurrection? Nah. Earth to Earth and so on.
But… (…and that's a little spoiler that I hopefully won't regret…) Kessy will see both her parents again.
The young man even makes a call on my behalf, saying he’s just around the corner. I thank him and head off.
Another half hour passes, and then I find myself sitting in a vehicle that reeks intensely of a "new car" smell—with an old bicycle in the back—as I approach my destination. I’ve rented this station wagon for two months; it’s damn expensive. At the address Mark gave me, I find an auto repair shop But someone is already moving in.
#WritersCoffeeClub
October 27th
As a writer, what do you need right now?
A whole month of vacation with nothing to do.
But it's almost the end of the year, so my workplace needs my efforts for inventory and year-end closing. Shame.
#ScribesAndMakers
October 27th
Do you collect (unaltered) natural materials for projects?
Um…no. Books with unfilled pages are unfortunately not native to Europe.
#WordWeavers
October 27th
What location in your story would you most like to visit? What location would you absolutely avoid?
The town (that is unnamed) I would visit, but not the military base nearby. But in this story, I can't either because they're both made up.
#PhantastikPrompts
26. Oktober
Wie kritisch liest du selbst? Hast Du einen Anspruch an fremde Bücher? Oder lässt du beim Aufschlagen des Buches alle Gedanken fahren?
Ich versuche, alle viere gerade sein zu lassen um mich in die Geschichte vertiefen zu können. Wenn ich aber durch irgendetwas in der Geschichte aus dem Lesefluss gerissen werde, dann kann ich auch leider kaum wieder so tief eintauchen wie zuvor. Das kann dann auch zum Weglegen des Buches führen…
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25. Oktober
Ketchup
Wie viele Charaktere hast du maximal in einer Szene? Gibt es da ein Limit für dich?
Die meisten Charaktere waren sechzehn, allerdings nur vier davon mit Sprechrollen: Alle Reisenden aus "Die Sieben Sünden" (die originalen 7 Freunde + deren 7 Freund*innen) inklusive ihrer beiden Gastgeber.
Ein Limit werde ich nicht annehmen, schließlich weiß ich nicht, was die Zukunft bringt…
#PhantastikPrompts 24. Oktober
Dein Protagonist ist unglücklich verliebt und denkt sich einen Song aus. In welchem Genre würde der Song passen und würde er/sie/es ihn singen?
Country & Western oder irgendwas, das Hippies mögen. Vermutlich würde Kessy versuchen das Lied selbst anzustimmen, doch das würde wohl zur Folge haben, dass ihr Vater draußen auf der Bank vor dem Haus sitzen täte damit niemand denkt, dass er gerade sein Kind vermöbelt…
#PhantastikPrompts
23. Oktober
Ketchup
Wie viel (erweiterte) Familie gebt ihr durchschnittlich euren Protagonisten?
Drei bis sechs im Schnitt; Vater, Mutter, ein oder zwei Kinde, Tante, Onkel.
#WordWeavers
October 24th
Which character would survive the longest if suddenly dropped into our world (…)?
Ketchup
All the indigenous characters I wrote about would survive until they die of old age. They don't depend on our understanding of how the world should work. They know their way, and everybody around them does too. Hitchhiking to the nearest reservation will do the trick, and nobody from any government or any kind of official people will ever notice what happened.
#ScribesAndMakers
October 26th
What's something you accomplished this month that you weren't sure if you would be able to?
See yesterday's answer.
Thanks.
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October 25th
Ketchup
What's something you accomplished this past week?
Nothing, since I didn't write a single letter.
Sorry, but sometimes I have to attend the bread job first…
#ScribesAndMakers
October 23th
Ketchup
Our next featured creator enjoys hiking.
Do you enjoy being outdoors, and if so, does it have an impact on your creativity?
Yes, I enjoy being out in the woods for various reasons. But I don't think it really has any impact on creativity.
#WritersCoffeeClub
October 26th
How did you develop your voice?
Well, that happened without any action on my part approximately thirty-five years ago.
Just kidding.
The voice of my works is dependent on who is the targeted group. So, a very light one for a younger audience and a much more serious one for adolescents and above.
But I didn't develop that, it just kinda naturally happened.
#WritersCoffeeClub
October 25th
Ketchup
Tell us about inspiration from an unlikely source.
Too many to count since I often get inspired by things I overheard from random people spilling tea…
#WritersCoffeeClub
October 24th
Ketchup
What is currently provisional in your workflow (or work)?
The last few pages I wrote, everything else is fixed.
(Until I find some errors, then it's not…)
#WritersCoffeeClub
October 23rd
Ketchup
How do you make sure you deliver on your writerly promises?
Checking the draft, checking it twice, and checking it a third time. Then again.
My feelings change over time, so I need to keep track of what, and how I've written before. It's absolutely necessary to keep the same tone throughout the whole work, otherwise the readers may get upset.
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stands a perfectly groomed very young man in front of me, beckoning me over to his desk. So, back up I go, following him; in less than an hour, everything is sorted. The house isn’t sold yet, of course. An appraiser still needs to take a look at it. My mind is already racing ahead, because there’s no way I can keep getting around by bicycle; I wouldn’t survive that. I can’t take the company van away from the guys, either, so I need a car. A rental, for the time being.
Didn’t I buy one a while back? I’d better check. I head downstairs, and there are actually two hanging on the wall. The tires are still in good shape, so I haul the smaller one upstairs and set off.
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SURPRISING
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It takes me a good half hour to reach the bank; I’m just not used to this anymore. Inside, I’m told that an advisor will be with me shortly. So, I sit down. But no sooner have I sat
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Well, once I’ve managed to get rid of the house, there’ll be significantly more. But I have to actually pull that off first. The question is, how? Besides, I need a new workshop before anything else. So, I switch off the computer and look for… wait, I don’t even have a car. Alan always took care of that. Alan-Ass. I like that. From now on, that’s all I’m going to call him, Alan-Ass. But wasn’t there a bicycle somewhere in the basement?
Shortly after, I arrive at what used to be my home though it isn’t anymore. I go inside anyway and look around. What do I want to keep? What can go? Honestly, everything could go, in either direction. But that’s not really an option, so I quickly sit down at the computer to check my account balance. Between that and the business account, there’s nearly seventy grand, but I can’t touch any of it. Only twelve of them are mine.