I stick to one unless it's really soft or flat, then might need a second.
WYR use Uber/taxi or transit in a strange city?
Packing is under way. Airport bus is booked. We are gonna be outta here soon. But I am still around for the weekend.
Putting on some Finnish Juhla Mokka dark roast coffee (since I will be hitting Helsinki).
Teas are Earl Grey and Raspberry Royale. Hot water is ready for other teas or hot bevvies.
Washed the pitchers and made fresh iced tea and lemonade. Sodas are stocked up.
Later, alligators.
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I think it's awesome you are visiting islands on this cruise, Mendalla. Hopefully you will be inspired to write a story. Hawaii is supposed to be beautiful. My childhood best friend lives on the Big Island.
Not this cruise, that's a planned future one. Current cruise will be the Baltic Sea. Not as warm.
And the results are in. Go over and have a look. Then you can come back for some dark roast Blue Mountain coffee or English Breakfast tea while you mull them over.
Annoucing The Winners Of The It's Not What It Looks Like Competition | Stories Space
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I think days at a time on ship reading and wandering around and looking at the water and sky sounds awesome.
My wife wants to do Hawaii out of LA someday. 10-11 days at sea for 5-6 days actually visiting the islands. Let's just say my laptop is coming along on that one. Could probably get a story or two written.
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Most of those "10 cities in 11 days" cruises don't show you all that much since you're in each city for such a short time.
That's my thinking, too, and one of the stops is a city we have been to. However, my wife is a driven, type-A sort so staying on the ship will not be a welcome suggestion unless she's really beat, too. Why she married a laidback ape remains a mystery to some.π
And good morning!!
It's a lovely, if a bit chilly (yes, chilly on May 30, it's that kind of Spring) day in my neck of the woods.
Putting on some Deathwish Dark Roast for the coffee set, Darjeeling and Original Earl Grey for the tea crowd, and there's hot water for whatever other hot bevvies might turn your crank. Checked the fridge and we are looking good for cold ones.
Later, alligator.
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Brooks -n-Dunn concert sounds fun JEFF .
Strange as it sounds, this headbanger kind of agrees. I used to listen to a bit of so-called "New Country" and I recall these guys being a nice listen. Not something I'd ever be a hardcore fan of, but I wouldn't change the channel if one of their videos came on.
Jean-Michel Jarre with Brian May is like an 80s fantasy come to life. Top synth wizard meets one of the best guitarists of that generation.
I have been getting more creative with my playlists on Amazon Music. One new one is "Energize My Day", a list of songs that I find get my heart pumping and my mood rising. The leadoff track, appropriately, is "Energize Me" by After Forever, one of my favourite songs from the pen and voice of Floor Jansen (and one she still uses today in solo sets).
In the current configuration, the first four songs have Floor on vocals (1 After Forever, 2 Nightwish, 1 solo), and she appears again a couple more times later in the list. Need to shuffle things a bit. She really puts a lot of energy and verve into her singing even in studio, which is why she shows up so often.
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So far, I think I've got a decent chance of making the Top 10 in the current competition! Of course, it would be great if more people joined the fun, but then I expect there will be a last-minute rush.
There was but for this comp, that meant like 4 stories. At least ten matches the last comp so we aren't falling any further. Two days until the judging announcement is supposed to happen. No idea if things are happening on schedule or not. We will see on Friday, I guess.
Thanks for getting things going, Bear.
Headache gone, back is better. Worried about upcoming vacay. 10 cities in 11 days (cruise). Not sure if my body will be up for that pace but we shall see. I have a few more days off after we get home to recuperate anyhow.
An interesting mix in this one, but the general idea is print publications that will take more than one form, so fiction, non-fiction, poetry, etc. A lot of more general literary journals, less genre-specialists in this one. There's one horror magazine that I noticed. Some with other focusses like feminist writing or specific styles (one specializing in tanka, for instance).
One that I think is kind of cool is The First Line, described as follows:
"This quarterly journal accepts fiction of 300-5,000 words that begins with a pre-set first line; 500-800 word critical essays about your favorite first line from a literary work; as well as some poetry. For their next submission period, the line for fiction is: βWhen she was eight, Alice Henderson briefly held the world record for filling her mouth with marbles.β (Deadline 1 August 2024)."
Neat concept for a journal, eh? We've had the odd challenge here like that.
Β» 35 Print Literary Journals that Publish Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry (authorspublish.com)
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Just as long as nothing happens to Ringo
I forget if he ever gets "blued" (you'll see what I mean) but it's a fun, silly Beatles movie so the guys all walk away in the end.
Good morning! Rainy days to start the week in my world. Even got a weird, out-of-the-blue tornado alert from Environment Canada yesterday evening. Weird because radar showed that the storm system involved was still crossing the border (no doubt getting a hard interrogation from border services ππ€£) when the alert went out and when the storm did arrive here, it was just heavy rain. Not even that windy compared to some storms earlier in the month.
For coffee, we've got some Tobermory Flowerpot Island.
Teas are Wakoucha (Japanese red) and Raspberry. Hot water is ready for other teas and hot beverages.
Washed the pitchers in the fridge and mixed up fresh iced tea and lemonade. Sodas are stocked up.
Later, folks.
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The theme and concept seemed so simple on the surface, but when I got down to it, proved decidedly more difficult than I expected to fashion a story. Maybe that should have been the story itself!
So it was not just me. I felt the same. It seemed like an easy one to come up with something interesting for but I went through three different story ideas that failed at various stages of drafting before my entry, the fourth, kind of stuck the landing.
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Drew Carey enthusiastically praising the Phish
Carey likes Phish, eh. I need to listen to them. I have probably heard them but there's no Phish entry in my brain's music library for some reason.
OTOH, in my world "phish" has taken on a rather negative connotation, being associated with hackers trying to scam people or steal passwords.
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My thing is - what if the submarine was driven and co-piloted by the octopus and the walrus? And what if it was a killer submarine?
The weirdness gets into that zone. Not those specifics but very weird. OTOH, the soundtrack is basically a Beatles greatest hits so the music is fantastic.
At first blush, LOTR. Long overdue for another pass at it. Though I have never read Narnia all the way through so perhaps that.
The novels or the movie/TV adaptations? (For either)
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Never heard of "The Last of Us"
Acclaimed sf TV series based on a videogame series that has fungus-based zombies (inspired by an actual fungus).
Stormy Saturday here. How's thing in your neck of the woods?
We've got some Muskoka Loon Call Breakfast Blend ready if coffee's your thing. Tea-wise, there's Organic Darjeeling and Buddha's Blend. Cold beverages and sodas are looking good.
Nine in the comp. Hoping we might see more but we shall see. I've got a couple more to read from the current lot but I'm please to say, it seems to be good, interesting mix of takes on the theme.