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UnderYourSpell said:
Tomorrow night I must put on a brave face and take my still unhealed body to a suprise anniversary party for my sister-in-law and her husband. The place will be filled with my husbands relatives (believe you me there are hundreds of them, being a very prolific cross between the east end of London and Irish!) Some I have met before those coming over especially from Ireland I have not. My husbands ex-wife and his children will be there. I will smile sweetly and chat nicely to everyone and tell them how I nearly died in May whilst trying not to fall asleep from exhaustion. I feel tired already just thinking about it.
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Take it easy, but have a good time !
 
EroticOrogeny said:
Take it easy, but have a good time !
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Thankyou very much I've just had to go out and buy new shoes that look anywhere decent and that I can get on my poor feet!
Now back to business ..... trying to think up a good title (an failing miserably) for a sestina I have just slogged my way through!
 
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vacation is almost over. sigh. LOL

Well, coming up the elevator a few minutes ago, the other women in the elevator were asking about how the penthouse is (they saw my daughter, my mom, and i were going to the top floor). I wouldn't really consider this a penthouse, I don't think. I think of the penthouse as taking a large percentage of the top floor.. but that could just be my perspective from movies and so forth. Of course, when they asked, my mom complained about the small kitchen and only having 3 bathrooms. LOL That's kinda been my mom's pet peeve with this resort. But, anyway, it was nice. I had to do some work and schoolwork this week, but I did find some time to relax and walk on the beach at sunrise.

Now, I am kinda bracing myself to get right back to work. I have several articles to finish up before Monday. I'll be able to do it. I just don't know how much I will be able to do tomorrow after being on a long ride home. ya know? And, I got a small writing assignment for this week from my newest client. This is also the last week for my current art class, so it's time for final projects. So, yeah, busy week ahead...

Ya'll stay cool..
 
UnderYourSpell said:
Thankyou very much I've just had to go out and buy new shoes that look anywhere decent and that I can get on my poor feet!
Now back to business ..... trying to think up a good title (an failing miserably) for a sestina I have just slogged my way through!
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omg.. sestinas.. I haven't made it through my first one yet..
Can't I just write 25 villanelles and terzanelles? LOL
 
LadynStFreknBed said:
vacation is almost over. sigh. LOL

Well, coming up the elevator a few minutes ago, the other women in the elevator were asking about how the penthouse is (they saw my daughter, my mom, and i were going to the top floor). I wouldn't really consider this a penthouse, I don't think. I think of the penthouse as taking a large percentage of the top floor.. but that could just be my perspective from movies and so forth. Of course, when they asked, my mom complained about the small kitchen and only having 3 bathrooms. LOL That's kinda been my mom's pet peeve with this resort. But, anyway, it was nice. I had to do some work and schoolwork this week, but I did find some time to relax and walk on the beach at sunrise.

Now, I am kinda bracing myself to get right back to work. I have several articles to finish up before Monday. I'll be able to do it. I just don't know how much I will be able to do tomorrow after being on a long ride home. ya know? And, I got a small writing assignment for this week from my newest client. This is also the last week for my current art class, so it's time for final projects. So, yeah, busy week ahead...

Ya'll stay cool..
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I'm sure you'll be able to get it all done!

I'm taking off on my vacation on Sunday.
No computers, either.
All the threads here will be someplace else by then,
and likely 500 emails waiting to be read at work.
 
LadynStFreknBed said:
vacation is almost over. sigh. LOL

Well, coming up the elevator a few minutes ago, the other women in the elevator were asking about how the penthouse is (they saw my daughter, my mom, and i were going to the top floor). I wouldn't really consider this a penthouse, I don't think. I think of the penthouse as taking a large percentage of the top floor.. but that could just be my perspective from movies and so forth. Of course, when they asked, my mom complained about the small kitchen and only having 3 bathrooms. LOL That's kinda been my mom's pet peeve with this resort. But, anyway, it was nice. I had to do some work and schoolwork this week, but I did find some time to relax and walk on the beach at sunrise.

Now, I am kinda bracing myself to get right back to work. I have several articles to finish up before Monday. I'll be able to do it. I just don't know how much I will be able to do tomorrow after being on a long ride home. ya know? And, I got a small writing assignment for this week from my newest client. This is also the last week for my current art class, so it's time for final projects. So, yeah, busy week ahead...

Ya'll stay cool..
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just in time for autumnal cozies
 
The answer just came too, and on no sweeter morn could it come. A good night's rest does wonders.
 
hmmnmmish, I was presented with an example of how fickle? confusing? Literotica feedback and scores can be. I just returned to my ghetto fabulous house from vacation. After putting things away, I checked my email. I had 9 or 10 feedback emails about my new story that posted today. It is by far the most emailed feedback I had gotten in a long time. Even more unusual was that all of them were in glowing praise of my new story. So, I'm thinking, wow, I bet I have a good score. So, I check the score....
3.75

wtf?
Then, I remembered that earlier this year I had the same phenomenon.. I would get raving email feedback, a mix of nasty and praising comments, and low scores.

:confused:
 
LadynStFreknBed said:
hmmnmmish, I was presented with an example of how fickle? confusing? Literotica feedback and scores can be. I just returned to my ghetto fabulous house from vacation. After putting things away, I checked my email. I had 9 or 10 feedback emails about my new story that posted today. It is by far the most emailed feedback I had gotten in a long time. Even more unusual was that all of them were in glowing praise of my new story. So, I'm thinking, wow, I bet I have a good score. So, I check the score....
3.75

wtf?
Then, I remembered that earlier this year I had the same phenomenon.. I would get raving email feedback, a mix of nasty and praising comments, and low scores.

:confused:
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I recall your lamentation.
Prior to this morning's clearing of the list to make way for an idea, a similar quandary befell a recent submission: didn't get 9 or 10, just 2, but they encouraged. But the number that publicly rates the quality never did nudge much upwards. Heck, I thought there was some intensity contained therein. And I wasn't the only one. But others apparently disagreed. You just never know what sort of completely objective perspective will come along.

And welcome home.
 
hmmnmm said:
I recall your lamentation.
Prior to this morning's clearing of the list to make way for an idea, a similar quandary befell a recent submission: didn't get 9 or 10, just 2, but they encouraged. But the number that publicly rates the quality never did nudge much upwards. Heck, I thought there was some intensity contained therein. And I wasn't the only one. But others apparently disagreed. You just never know what sort of completely objective perspective will come along.

And welcome home.
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I've never commented on a story. I give something a five if it's longer than a page and I've made it to the end of the story. If you get off while reading a story you should probably give it a five, but that might be too narrow a field. Then you might think, what about the masochists who get off reading a terrible story? Should they give it a one because they know objectively that the story is garbage, or a five because they've gotten off? Ha. I think I actually wandered upon a thread like that once on the prose side.

Edit: I was mistaken, the discussion was about masochists or submarines or whatever who get off on people voting their story down and telling them they're terrible storytellers.
 
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bflagsst said:
I've never commented on a story. I give something a five if it's longer than a page and I've made it to the end of the story. If you get off while reading a story you should probably give it a five, but that might be too narrow a field. Then you might think, what about the masochists who get off reading a terrible story? Should they give it a one because they know objectively that the story is garbage, or a five because they've gotten off? Ha. I think I actually wandered upon a thread like that once on the prose side.

Edit: I was mistaken, the discussion was about masochists or submarines or whatever who get off on people voting their story down and telling them they're terrible storytellers.
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I'm an underdog guy. I think that's it. Always was. Like to go on an occasional browse and find stories or poems by names I've not heard of or have heard of, but are not much heard of, and who have relatively low numbers pegging their works. Check em out see if they're really that bad. They usually aren't. Slip a fiver in their back pocket. Because I know the underdog feeling. I never 1'd anyone. Actually, there's been times when I enjoyed something so much that leaving a number to indicate satisfaction did not even occur to me. Someone should start an Underdogs of Lit thread or something.
 
And to touch on an earlier echo: Quality is pretty high on the list. So is fun. They're about even. I have an idea in my mind what constitutes quality work. The actual results are almost always far short or way wide or in some ways failures relative to the ideal in my mind. But even if someday, I would by some stroke of luck on some dark and story night, hit that sweet spot of quality, it would still be perceived as unreadable, and I would still be considered among the worst writers here, because my idea of a quality work is apparently in diametric opposition to the overall accepted concept of a quality work. The fun comes in with the misses, actually. Because the fun part is finding and exploring all the different doors and ports and sleeves that pop up and open...

Just about everything and every way I enjoy and find interesting are the very things and ways They Say we are not supposed to do. I find it more interesting and fun and alluring quality target to see sex in a prose/fiction sketch/painting/extravaganza/fun house//maze, as a possibility rather than a necessary end. More like, greet the reader at the funhouse door, and they ask where the sex room is, but I have to tell them they might be in the wrong place, if they're just looking for sex. Usually they go away, or they throw a rock at the window. Once in a while a visitor might come along and I invite them inside, and we just hang out and see what happens; and there may be sex. Certainly may be. Maybe immediately or maybe after a full day of other fun stuff. Or a few times in between. That's assuming the ideal quality is ever attained. So even if I ever succeeded by my standards I would still be a failure by local standards. That's just the way it is.

Man, the unseasonable cool continues. It's like early fall except the leaves are still green.
 
It is so hotttttttttt here at the party last night all the doors and windows were opened but we had to keep going outside to cool off
 
bflagsst said:
I've never commented on a story. I give something a five if it's longer than a page and I've made it to the end of the story. If you get off while reading a story you should probably give it a five, but that might be too narrow a field. Then you might think, what about the masochists who get off reading a terrible story? Should they give it a one because they know objectively that the story is garbage, or a five because they've gotten off? Ha. I think I actually wandered upon a thread like that once on the prose side.

Edit: I was mistaken, the discussion was about masochists or submarines or whatever who get off on people voting their story down and telling them they're terrible storytellers.
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You should read my only story here. Maybe you'll want to comment. Lord knows, don't read it for the porn value because I write lousy porn (The_Fool, feel free to disagree lol). Why do I write lousy porn? I've realized that every erotic story I've tried to write, I'm always much more interested in the literary elements than anything else. Anyway I'd rather have sex than write about it. And writing porn is not an erotic experience. Writing poetry sort of is in a sensory overload kind of way, but prose? Meh. But read my story--or wait till autumn. I wrote it for a Halloween contest here. It lost.

Hey but speaking of literary value, I just bought a whole bunch of books from Alibris. God I love that site. It's like buying books from the Good Will store except I can pick exactly what I want. So I spent 10 bucks on books and 15 on shipping. Heh. Autumn coming makes me want to read lots and lots. I guess I never got over back to school syndrome...
 
UnderYourSpell said:
It is so hotttttttttt here at the party last night all the doors and windows were opened but we had to keep going outside to cool off
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Oh God, here too Annie! It has been in the 90s and very humid here for days. eagleyez and I have been living (as in never leaving) the bedroom because it's the only air-conditioned place in our flat. Doesn't that sound sexy? "We never leave the bedroom?" We're like joined at the hip, not necessarily sexually. And no we haven't killed each other yet. We get on amazingly well. He is the only person in the world I can be trapped in a room with and not want to kill eventually.
 
hmmnmm said:
I'm an underdog guy. I think that's it. Always was. Like to go on an occasional browse and find stories or poems by names I've not heard of or have heard of, but are not much heard of, and who have relatively low numbers pegging their works. Check em out see if they're really that bad. They usually aren't. Slip a fiver in their back pocket. Because I know the underdog feeling. I never 1'd anyone. Actually, there's been times when I enjoyed something so much that leaving a number to indicate satisfaction did not even occur to me. Someone should start an Underdogs of Lit thread or something.
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It's one of the reasons I really like you. I like underdogs.

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I have never heard of Alibris so I googled it I am off to on a voyage of discovery I may not surface for days ........
 
UnderYourSpell said:
I have never heard of Alibris so I googled it I am off to on a voyage of discovery I may not surface for days ........
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I hadn't either. My daughter was looking for this obscure art book about six months ago and I found it googling. I am in love with that place. I go through books like water--there's always something I want to read, and I can no way afford to buy all of it from a regular book place. I usually buy five or six books at a time from them and even with the shipping charges, it's obscenely cheap.
 
I've just bought three from a charity shop ...... I'm reading one now 'How to murder your husband'!
 
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