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#ScribesAndMakers – 7th Sept. What 'character' would make a great main character?
‽: Both questioning and excited. Also, not many people use this character, so it retains novelty and interest.
Let's hear it for the interbang.
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#WordWeavers 6/9: What is your MC hilariously bad at?
The current minor ones, the Morlocks, seeing in the light.
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#WordWeavers 6/9: What is your MC hilariously bad at?
The current minor ones, the Morlocks, seeing in the light.
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#WordWeavers 6/9: What is your MC hilariously bad at?
The current minor ones, the Morlocks, seeing in the light.
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#PennedPossibilities 1120: Saturday Word Edition: Share something from your WIP pertaining to the word “entertainment.”
I ended up ordering the roast duckling and peaches in Chartreuse jelly. The first was excellent, while the grassy flavor of the second didn’t agree with me.
Emily used the ivy growing on a trellis next to our seating to sneak sips of my consommé, while I indulged in oysters and a Champagne cocktail.
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#PennedPossibilities 1120: Saturday Word Edition: Share something from your WIP pertaining to the word “entertainment.”
I ended up ordering the roast duckling and peaches in Chartreuse jelly. The first was excellent, while the grassy flavor of the second didn’t agree with me.
Emily used the ivy growing on a trellis next to our seating to sneak sips of my consommé, while I indulged in oysters and a Champagne cocktail.
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#PennedPossibilities 1120: Saturday Word Edition: Share something from your WIP pertaining to the word “entertainment.”
I ended up ordering the roast duckling and peaches in Chartreuse jelly. The first was excellent, while the grassy flavor of the second didn’t agree with me.
Emily used the ivy growing on a trellis next to our seating to sneak sips of my consommé, while I indulged in oysters and a Champagne cocktail.
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#WritersCoffeeClub – 6th Sept. If you work digitally, what keyboard or dictation do you use? If paper, what do you write with?
Digitally: I use a Corsair keyboard attached to my laptop. Some of the letters are wearing off.
Paper: Whatever pen is at hand. (A fine tip is better.) A notebook bought at Daiso if I am organized. Otherwise, scrap envelopes from bills.
#ScribesAndMakers – 6th Have you ever listened to an audiobook where the reader had a good voice, but not the 'right' voice?
No.
#ScribesAndMakers 5: Favourite colour of ice cream?
A name, maybe, but color not so much. I love the name "Rocky Road."
Color: Black Sesame, but I'm reaching.
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#WritersCoffeeClub – 6th Sept. If you work digitally, what keyboard or dictation do you use? If paper, what do you write with?
Digitally: I use a Corsair keyboard attached to my laptop. Some of the letters are wearing off.
Paper: Whatever pen is at hand. (A fine tip is better.) A notebook bought at Daiso if I am organized. Otherwise, scrap envelopes from bills.
#ScribesAndMakers – 6th Have you ever listened to an audiobook where the reader had a good voice, but not the 'right' voice?
No.
#ScribesAndMakers 5: Favourite colour of ice cream?
A name, maybe, but color not so much. I love the name "Rocky Road."
Color: Black Sesame, but I'm reaching.
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#WritersCoffeeClub – 6th Sept. If you work digitally, what keyboard or dictation do you use? If paper, what do you write with?
Digitally: I use a Corsair keyboard attached to my laptop. Some of the letters are wearing off.
Paper: Whatever pen is at hand. (A fine tip is better.) A notebook bought at Daiso if I am organized. Otherwise, scrap envelopes from bills.
#ScribesAndMakers – 6th Have you ever listened to an audiobook where the reader had a good voice, but not the 'right' voice?
No.
#ScribesAndMakers 5: Favourite colour of ice cream?
A name, maybe, but color not so much. I love the name "Rocky Road."
Color: Black Sesame, but I'm reaching.
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#WritersCoffeeClub – 5th Sept. Do you track your word count? How? Why?
I don't do it for productive reasons, but I do do it for EP, chapter, and volume length.
How, it at the bottom of the LibreOffice window.
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#WritersCoffeeClub – 5th Sept. Do you track your word count? How? Why?
I don't do it for productive reasons, but I do do it for EP, chapter, and volume length.
How, it at the bottom of the LibreOffice window.
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#WritersCoffeeClub – 5th Sept. Do you track your word count? How? Why?
I don't do it for productive reasons, but I do do it for EP, chapter, and volume length.
How, it at the bottom of the LibreOffice window.
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#WritersCoffeeClub – 21st Jul. Do your works contain erotic elements? How far do you go?
My Girlfriend Almost Got Me Killed: is explicitly/graphically sexual and fetish-oriented. At the same time plot and character-rich.
The other series are fade-to-black.
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#ScribesAndMakers 21 What everyday object would you photograph as if it were art?
More recent example. An attempt to contrast the #daffodils with the corroded #firehydrant.
#NMSAM #NMPrompts
#Photography
#マストドン写真部 #写真
#urbanphotography #NMPhoto #Seattle #UrbanLife #Bloomscrolling #Spring #Seattle #UrbanLife #FlowerViewing #花見 -
#ScribesAndMakers If your creative work could speak, what would it say about you?
And what's this with the poetry in your stories? It started as quoted song lyrics, and now there are whole chapters where characters exchange renga and kkatauta. Yes, I know the #Heian and #Edo periods, and the narrator explains it, but do you think readers want this level of realism?
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CW: Wss366 Microfic Possibly sacrilegious
EMERGENCY The Rapture
#Wss366 #MastoPrompt #MicroPrompt
#WritersCoffeeClub 18 Sept: Have you written something blasphemous?#Bang! Suddenly, the sky lit up, and people on the park swings began floating up in the air. At least some of them. Arms of the monkey bars reached out to capture others.
I lowered the sun visor in the car and checked my emergency list of actions to take during the Rapture.
- Put on sun-#screen. (Cancer risk: Health risk of divine rays unknown.)
- #Comb your #bangs. (First impressions are important.)
- Take your protein pills and put your helmet on.
- Step out of the car slowly, and keep your hands in plain view. (Lightning Risk)
#NMV366 #NMPrompts #NMMP #MicroFiction #TootFiction #Drabble #NMWCC @extraspecialbitter
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The Spatulater
#wss366 #mastoprompt #microPrompt 08/14
Carrie received a #Jolt (TM) visiting her new girlfriend friends house carring several tubs of CoalWhip (TM). She was late as usual, any #later she would have missed seeing the hunky Amazonian (TM) driver deliver a case of Peckerish Farm (TM) fudge sauce.
She found Kim in the kitchen wearing nothing but an apron and a #spatula. Turns out Kim was a #spatulater.
Note: "later" is a suffice indicating a worshipper.
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#TimeTravelingGhost Part 18: Episode 2: 1937: The Hindenburg Part C
#TimeTravelAuthors 7/5 Loops 7/9. POST-SIZED snippet (Word: sky)
The standing sister repeated herself, “You can see me.” This time it was a statement rather than a question. The seated sister remained oblivious to us.
I studied them again as I decided how to act. They were more than sisters. If they’d stood side by side, I'd not have been able to tell one from the other, except that one wore white and the other mauve.
I nodded and walked over. “Yes, I see you.”
The seated sister looked up, lips pursed. “Excuse me? Were you talking to me?”
The standing one took my arm. “You must help me, please.”
“I don’t understand,” I said.
The seated woman’s eyebrows pinched. “Neither do I. Now, please stop bothering us, or I’ll call a steward.”
“Come, please,” the other woman pulled on my arm and pointed to an unoccupied table. “Let’s talk over there.”
We were barely seated when she began speaking. “I’m Emily Pang, and you might not believe this, but I’m a ghost. That’s me sitting over there. I’m still alive, and I have to warn myself—them. But you think I’m crazy, don’t you? Ghosts, who believes in ghosts? I don’t—didn’t. But it’s true, I’ll be dead in a few days...”
I held up my hand to stop the torrent of words. “I…”
The woman rushed ahead. “...If you would explain to them. I must save them. Please. It’s crazy, but…”
“Stop!”
She shut her mouth with an almost audible snap.
I kept my hand up while I studied her. She looked to be in her forties. Plain, but with a touch of class that her white linen dress accented. Its long lines made her appear taller, but I guessed she was of mid-height. I couldn’t see her hair because of one of those bucket-like hats popular during the Great Depression. Her #sky-blue eyes, almost indigo, were her most outstanding feature.
A steward appeared, perhaps summoned by my raised hand. He gave me an odd look when I ordered Champagne cocktails for the pair of us, but he took the order without comment.
When he’d left, I spoke. “I believe you. I’m a ghost too. Luminelle Bijou, that’s my name.” I almost blushed remembering Mademoiselle Baker.
I would have continued, but she launched into speech again, “Then you must have died here too.”
“Maybe, I don’t know. Actually, I don’t know where here is.”
“The Hindenburg, May 3rd, 1937, on the 6th I burn to death!”
The Hindenburg crash. I’d picked a wonderful spot to appear.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindenburg_disaster
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#wss366 06/19 #shake
#FanFiction #TheApothecaryDiaries
*** Pearl Farming ***Maomao ran her fingers over the gourd’s surface. It felt normal, smooth, slightly irregular, with a mild grain.
She looked up at the man, one of Meimei’s clients, who stood with three broad-shouldered women. They made the room look small. Behind them stood Madam and a few courtesans. Their delicate looks and midday drowsiness stood in sharp contrast to the newcomers, women who worked with their bodies, but in a completely different fashion.
Usually, there was trouble when women showed up at Verdigris House, especially if accompanied by a husband. There had been none today. This was business. Madam was doing a "favor" for a client and had pressed Mao with her special talents into service.
“May I shake it?” Mao asked.
“Yes, of course.” The man sounded nervous. Mao could smell his sweat from where she sat. Meimei said he played a good game of Go but was otherwise innocuous. He didn’t look like the head of the Pearl Divers Guild.
Mao shook the gourd. Rather than the sound of seeds, something more substantial rattled inside.
“And if I prove it’s a scam, I keep the pearls?” she asked, avoiding Madam’s gaze lest she lose her reward.
“Correct,” the little man’s tone lacked decision; he was too meek. He looked like the perfect target for a con. Mao considered asking for more but decided to avoid Madam boxing her ears for impertinence. Why was Madam the only one who could be greedy?
She glanced down at the fragments of another gourd lying on the table, mixed with inferior-quality pearls. Once ground, they would be fine for medicine, so she didn’t mind.
“And he said that unless you paid him, he’d sell the seeds to farmers and ruin your business?” Mao probed. It seemed a rather roundabout way to make money. Why not just grow the gourds yourself?
The man nodded.
She gave the gourd another shake, then ran her fingers across its skin. It felt right… Ah, there it was. One section felt different. Too smooth. She carefully explored and defined the area. It was circular, about the size of her thumb tip.
Turning away, she gathered a few things and mixed an acidic solution, stronger than vinegar but only slightly. Nothing that would cause a burn, but enough to dissolve a cheap varnish.
“It’s okay if I damage this slightly?” she asked.
The man glanced back at a woman with powerful lungs. She was probably his wife and the actual head of the Divers Guild. The woman made an imperceptible nod.
Mao didn’t wait for the man to speak. She had her answer.
She warmed her solution and gently rubbed the gourd’s surface. When satisfied, she dried the gourd and heated the questionable portion using a candle.
As expected, that section browned faster than the rest.
She showed it to the people watching. “It’s a fake. They’re trying to shake you down.”
The man’s wife looked grim. Mao was glad she wasn’t the conman.
#microfiction #NMPrompts #NMV366 #薬屋のひとりごと @yon #Anime #Fantasy #Mystery
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What fun. I missed #FridayKiss. But #ThrowbackThursday looks even better. My I suggest using a shorter name, especially since we are just starting. maybe TBThur. Some people need to save characters in their posts. #NMPrompts #NMTBT