I have fun writing, but I usually have to take a break to recharge, often to the next day.
Very similar, the farms have better windbreaks, You hit pretty big towns, Fargo, Bismarck, Dickenson, nothing like that up north. You also passed the badlands and the Burning Hills, which honestly are incredible. The plains are an acquired taste but a few episodes of "A Prairie Home Companion" is all it takes to understand the lifestyle and the people.
Yeah, it was the area between Fargo and Bismarck where this particular scene struck me. At one place, the highway interchange was the highest spot around. There was some people there as the bus came in; I recall that they may have been there just to see the afternoon bus arrival. In any case, I had a hard time imagining what it would be like to live there. They would probably have a hard time imagining living in a metro area of twenty million. Just seeing it on TV or in the movies isn't enough. The noise level alone would be hard to imagine.
Chloe: I'm a newbie on the block but have some already-written unsubmitted stories starring hardcore nerds (and nerdish writing style). Q: What (if anything) is the difference between a "nerd" and a "geek"? Google Search gives mixed results on this question. Would "nerdish" stories be suitable for the Geek Pride story contest or get booed down for too many "big words" and nerdish ideas? Help, please. Quintessential Nerd
It's not a contest
Well, don't get me wrong, I'd like to own a weapon just for target practice, but that's hard to do that where I am and I haven't fired a weapon since I was in the Boy Scouts around 1969 (skeet shooting, as I remember it). I've never owned a firearm of any kind. I would shoot deer and ducks if I needed the food, which many people do. And let's face it, a lot of cows are dying to make my hot dogs, but I don't have to do the job myself. They just come neatly in the package and I'm barely ware that this was some creature's living flesh.
There is a lot of overlap, and no clear definitions. I guess a geek is somebody who has a lot of esoteric knowledge, and nerd is someone who is socially awkward. There must be plenty of people who are both. I wouldn't worry about it; just submit whatever what you think is best. (You can submit more than one if you wish.)
I'd go with geeks being nerds who know how to wash, while others would use the terms the other way round, "Festival of the Spoken Nerd", for example.
Not washing is a bit extreme, I think. Mostly they do that. But many people think someone else is a nerd, not themselves. It's one of those very adolescent concepts that starts to lose it's importance with maturity. But yeah, my Geek heroine knows a lot, but she's mostly socially adept. Or to put it another way, she's not as concerned about what other people think of her as what she thinks of them.
Oops, an inconsistency. Chloe?Okay... so forgive me for being difficult, but this states that submissions will go live on Wednesday, May 25th... but May 25th is a Thursday. So confused. Send help please.
You changed your avatar? Is that really you? Believe me, I'm not putting my face on here! To digress a bit, my Facebook page, which I rarely use, has my real name but not a single photo of me or anybody I know. People overdo that quite a bit.Okay... so forgive me for being difficult, but this states that submissions will go live on Wednesday, May 25th... but May 25th is a Thursday. So confused. Send help please.
OOOPSOkay... so forgive me for being difficult, but this states that submissions will go live on Wednesday, May 25th... but May 25th is a Thursday. So confused. Send help please.
I'm going to be 68 at the end of the month, so I wouldn't expect anything creepy or any soul-crushing rejections. I just look my age. But I'm still not going to do it.Yep, that’s me. I’m not shy in the slightest. I honestly don’t photograph often, I typically enjoy playing amateur photographer and take photos of nature and food, which is majority of my social media presence. Perhaps I’m a bit of a masochist as well for putting my face out there, but hey… anybody stupid enough to take an accurate avatar photo as an invitation to be creepy or forward deserves my venomous, soul crushing rejection.
I’ll probably use my avatar photo on the back of a novel someday.
If I ever do a novel (completely unlikely) I'd probably use the subway train photo again.
I'm going to be 68 at the end of the month, so I wouldn't expect anything creepy or any soul-crushing rejections. I just look my age. But I'm still not going to do it.
Been there, done that!!!
Yeah. Got a vague recollection of somewhere I need to be, bit hazy on it... uh just that it needs WiFi access....
