The AH Coffee Shop and Reading Room 09

[MillieDynamite]

Well, in Wyoming, you'd have your pick between ponderosa pine, blue spruce, bur oak, cottonwood (more suitable for hanging from than building with), or mountain ash. I don't count chokecherry, as it's more of a shrub, and I don't think aspen is good for lumber, or Rocky Mountain juniper.

Hey this is lit. All the wood is exaggerated by inches.

 

[sirhugs]

Well, in Wyoming, you'd have your pick between ponderosa pine, blue spruce, bur oak, cottonwood (more suitable for hanging from than building with), or mountain ash. I don't count chokecherry, as it's more of a shrub, and I don't think aspen is good for lumber, or Rocky Mountain juniper.

aspen apparently has certain construction uses, but is limited by its size. Like some guys in real life (never on Lit)
https://www.fs.usda.gov/nrs/pubs/LSFES_aspen_reports/1947_lakestates_aspen_9.pdf

 

[Candy_Kane54]

It's going to be another dull gray morning with highs around forty for the day. It's supposed to warm up tomorrow into the fifties (if you call that warm). We may get some wet snow Thursday but hopefully not enough to mess things up. I noticed that the chives are starting to put up some green sprouts so I guess that means its going to be spring sometime soon.

There's a fresh pot of coffee brewing and the teapot is ready. There are snacks on the counter and, unfortunately, the brownies are all gone. There is a bag of baby carrots in the 'fridge for the plot bunnies. Just don't go down in the basement today. I can here the dragon moving around and so he's probably hungry. I'll try to get some coal for him today.

I'll be over in the corner working on my story. I'm making progress and I hope the story comes out the way I want it to.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

I seem to have a 'friend' following me around causing problems, so I may be in a different corner behind a door peeking out for a while.

 

[NotWise]

Breakfast is a plain bagel and cream cheese. I'll edit while I eat.

The amaryllis that are done flowering had a vacation on the patio yesterday. They probably will for the rest of the week, so they can soak up some rays and get stronger. The ones that are still flowering will wait.

There was a thread in the last couple weeks where a question came up about influential comments, or something along those lines, and I've been thinking about it on-and-off since.

@_Lynn_ gave me the most important editorial comments I've had. It was in my first year here, and I was giddy about the story I recently submitted. She read the first couple paragraphs, found several mistakes, and predicted that I overused "then."

She was right about "then." More importantly, her comments made me look at my own work more realistically. It didn't all soak in immediately, but it eventually changed the way I view my work. I still use the experience to fuel my self-editing and to ground my expectations.

Writing this morning, then more work on the table for the garden shed. And I need to water what's left of my lawn.

 

[NotWise]

aspen apparently has certain construction uses, but is limited by its size. Like some guys in real life (never on Lit)
https://www.fs.usda.gov/nrs/pubs/LSFES_aspen_reports/1947_lakestates_aspen_9.pdf

Excelsior and match sticks seem like more appropriate uses for aspen. Plus it's a nice yellow when the colors change and it stands out among the evergreens.

 

[Duleigh]

Well, in Wyoming, you'd have your pick between ponderosa pine, blue spruce, bur oak, cottonwood (more suitable for hanging from than building with), or mountain ash. I don't count chokecherry, as it's more of a shrub, and I don't think aspen is good for lumber, or Rocky Mountain juniper.

There's plenty of lodgepole pine in western Wyoming. In Eastern Wyoming there... uh... tumble weeds and thistle.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

I seem to have a 'friend' following me around causing problems, so I may be in a different corner behind a door peeking out for a while.

It's on almost every thread recently, so I can't really partake.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

We got gifted too many Ferrero Rocher chocolates a week ago and I swear they've been sneaking into my closet and altering my clothes to make them smaller. I'll leave them in that bowl by the coffee.

 

[Candy_Kane54]

It's going to be sunny and in the fifties today before we get some snow showers overnight into tomorrow. My BP is slowly moderating but I am still wondering why it is still so high. Oh, well, we'll see how it goes.

There's coffee brewing and the teapot is hot. There are snacks on the counter along with some Girl Scout cookies. My all-time favorite are the Tagalongs.

I'll be over in the corner working on my story. I think I'm liking this writing in 3P. I just hope I'm doing it right and not just bastardizing 1P.

 

[NotWise]

We got gifted too many Ferrero Rocher chocolates a week ago and I swear they've been sneaking into my closet and altering my clothes to make them smaller. I'll leave them in that bowl by the coffee.

If you ate them, then they wouldn't be able to sneak into your closet. It's an important defensive measure.

 

[NotWise]

It's going to be sunny and in the fifties today before we get some snow showers overnight into tomorrow. My BP is slowly moderating but I am still wondering why it is still so high. Oh, well, we'll see how it goes.

There's coffee brewing and the teapot is hot. There are snacks on the counter along with some Girl Scout cookies. My all-time favorite are the Tagalongs.

I'll be over in the corner working on my story. I think I'm liking this writing in 3P. I just hope I'm doing it right and not just bastardizing 1P.

My wife bought our Girl Scout cookies in January. I've already finished the two boxes of Trefoils she bought for me. I'm going to start on her Samoans pretty soon, but those things are a lot like candy. I try to moderate.

You've probably been reading 3P all your life. Seems that it shouldn't be a huge challenge. I sometimes like to think of the 3P narrator as a story teller and give him/her a conversational voice. It can come out with some of the effect of 1P. In my two "Third Ring" stories the narrator actually is an unnamed character.

 

[MrPixel]

PT session later this morning, which means I'll actually have to get fully dressed before noon. I take my retirement seriously, you know.

Momentarily in the writing doldrums. I was 6K words into a swinger party story, but there was a subplot involving an incest situation, and it's become clear the site I'm publishing on these days has zero tolerance for it, even the mere mention. Doesn't hurt my fee-fees (not a fan of the genre anyway), but the overall plot stumbles without it. Have to set it aside.

I do have a two-part concluding "chapter" – 20K words combined – for the big story I have here about ready to go. A couple of you have been following my temper tantrum about the text centering problem. I'm in a quandary because I know these new stories are going to be dialog mush without working scene breaks. But I'll be damned if I'm going to change my style because Manu broke something and refuses to fix it. He won't fix it, we can't flag it as a problem in the prefix, so what's the point in publishing yet more nonsense? It won't work on the other site because it requires the previous 48 episodes, which I am just starting to edit and upload.

Being rousted from bed by the dog at 0430 is not helping my frame of mind, either. Maybe I can catch another hour of sleep before the PT appointment, for a grand total of 4 hours.

 

[NotWise]

I do have a two-part concluding "chapter" – 20K words combined – for the big story I have here about ready to go. A couple of you have been following my temper tantrum about the text centering problem. I'm in a quandary because I know these new stories are going to be dialog mush without working scene breaks. But I'll be damned if I'm going to change my style because Manu broke something and refuses to fix it. He won't fix it, we can't flag it as a problem in the prefix, so what's the point in publishing yet more nonsense? It won't work on the other site because it requires the previous 48 episodes, which I am just starting to edit and upload.

Just that little setup reminded me of the classic porn comedy "Pretty Peaches" with Desirée Cousteau. She loses her memory in a car wreck and has adventures trying to get it back. Her last adventure is a swinger party where she suddenly recognizes one of the men in the flesh pile as her father.

No sex directly between them. If your incest-y storyline runs something like that, then you can probably get away with it.

 

[Belegon]

Probably another "Inside day" since there is snow on the ground again. Honestly, I don't get out most days anymore. I need a local "coffee partner" I can meet just so that we both actually remember to engage socially...

 

[Belegon]

I can hear the dragon moving around and so he's probably hungry. I'll try to get some coal for him today.

Sounds like a job for the local from West Virginia... I'll get right on it.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

5 pounds of drumsticks in a crockpot on low for 8-9 hours and you can't pick up a bone without the meat staying in the pot. Falls off the bone in the most literal sense.

 

[Duleigh]

Dialed a friend of England and got Windsor Castle by mistake. They answered and I fell back on an old prank call and said, "Do you have Prince Andrew in a can?"

They said "Yes we do."

Too soon?

 

[MillieDynamite]

Well, let him out! Look, they should lock up Prince Andrew for his kid fucking, but in a can?

Dialed a friend of England and got Windsor Castle by mistake. They answered and I fell back on an old prank call and said, "Do you have Prince Andrew in a can?"

They said "Yes we do."

Too soon?

 

[Duleigh]

Well, let him out! Look, they should lock up Prince Andrew for his kid fucking, but in a can?

Actually he was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office, a charge that carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment in the UK. He was telling (selling?) state secrets to the pervert.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Oh, but not in a can, right?

Actually he was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office, a charge that carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment in the UK. He was telling (selling?) state secrets to the pervert.

 

[Duleigh]

Oh, but not in a can, right?

It's a JOKE - there used to be a smoking tobacco named Prince Albert and it came in a can. Kids would call the store and say "Do you have Prince Albert in a can? You better open the lid and let him breath!"

 

[MillieDynamite]

Yes, I've read the joke in a story sometime ago, and I think I saw it when I streamed Night Court. Well, saw them tell the joke.

It's a JOKE - there used to be a smoking tobacco named Prince Albert and it came in a can. Kids would call the store and say "Do you have Prince Albert in a can? You better open the lid and let him breath!"

 

[Duleigh]

I think I saw it when I streamed Night Court.

Night Court is one of the finest educations on 1980s Popular Culture in American society.

 

[MillieDynamite]

The original was fantastic. The new one disappointed me. Even when Brent Spiner reprised his idiot role. I gave up on it, midseason, midepisode, last year. I did like seeing John Larroquette in his Klingon makeup (but his ridges were different).

Night Court is one of the finest educations on 1980s Popular Culture in American society.