The AH Coffee Shop and Reading Room 09

[NotWise]

Uh oh...is it time to christen a new coffee shop?

Probably not. In the old forum we had to restart the thread after 5000 posts. Not true in the new forum. We're currently approaching 15,000 posts. Maybe there's a limit we don't know about, but we don't need to take any action until we find it.

 

[MrPixel]

Does the orgy add anything to the story, or is it just a fuckfest for the sake of it? If the rest of the story is full of sez, then a simple "Right, let's hit the showers and Jane... I'm hitting you first" is probably enough.

That's the crux. There are scores to be settled in the locker room, but the need to do so has been discussed. But I need a coda a little less jarring than "game, set and match". No worries, it'll strike me before the day's out. Okay... "Stevie? Time to pay up," as she strokes his..."

Or something like that.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Thanks! Yeah, Shutterfly must be down or kicked me off at least. I have another site I can use. If I can remember what it is.

I can still see your legs if I click on the link. Nice legs.

 

[NotWise]

This has been going on all week: on Sunday the weather service predicted a significant chance of rain starting Tuesday, on Monday the weather service predicts a significant chance of rain starting Wednesday but none on Tuesday, on Tuesday they predict a significant chance of rain starting Thursday, but none on Wednesday, etc.

Now (Friday) they think the rain will start on Sunday. It hasn't rained at all, despite early predictions for a relatively humid week and intermittent rain.

I'll just listen to the Deftones.

 

[old_prof]

Tomorrow is going to be our thirteenth straight rainy Saturday, always notably chillier than the weekdays are. At least I am off school now, so it doesn't matter. And my knee doesn't et me do much outside right now anyway.

My son and his partner are moving back in right now, which is going to be weird. He knows about my writing, but has no interest in reading it; outside of I/T stories, not many people want to think of their parents that way. But she doesn't know and I am not sure she would be comfortable with some of what I write here. Given how much of my time I spend writing these days, I suspect she will realize eventually. I wonder how that will go.

 

[NotWise]

Tomorrow is going to be our thirteenth straight rainy Saturday, always notably chillier than the weekdays are. At least I am off school now, so it doesn't matter. And my knee doesn't et me do much outside right now anyway.

My son and his partner are moving back in right now, which is going to be weird. He knows about my writing, but has no interest in reading it; outside of I/T stories, not many people want to think of their parents that way. But she doesn't know and I am not sure she would be comfortable with some of what I write here. Given how much of my time I spend writing these days, I suspect she will realize eventually. I wonder how that will go.

I've always told my kids that I write. I've just been circumspect about what I write. I write SciFi, I write Romance, I write Adventure, I write Mystery, I write Drama... The closest I got to a problem was last month when my fifty-ish nephew got pretty insistent about reading something.

I let my son-in-law read one (The Third Ring) that's mostly nonerotic and that I sanitized even more. He's an animator and he was looking for a personal project. He loved the story, but the project was too big. It might be too big for volunteer voice actors, too. Someday I'll get around to offering it to an illustrator--maybe my daughter if she ever rekindles her interest in illustration.

 

[Rustyoznail]

There are ways to disguise what you're doing. I assume you're on a computer, so have a browser full screen and your word processor smaller in front of it. If she wanders in, click on the browser at the back.

 

[MrPixel]

There are ways to disguise what you're doing. I assume you're on a computer, so have a browser full screen and your word processor smaller in front of it. If she wanders in, click on the browser at the back.

Heh. In the early days when personal, at-home internet access was rare and expensive, there was a porn site with a "boss" button. Click on it, and the screen immediately switched to a fake spreadsheet. I can't know if it fooled anybody, but it was funny that somebody thought to have that feature.

On the Mac, command-H covers all sorts of skulduggery. Just make sure you have something innocent underneath.

 

[Candy_Kane54]

Got some sun this morning with only a slight shot at a shower around noon. Otherwise a nice day and I'm going to try to get some gardening done. I am so glad that my knee has recovered enough to be able to do things again.

I've got a fresh pot of coffee going and the teapot is steaming. There are various pastries on the counter. However, somebody nicked all of the brownies so there are none left.

I'll be over in the corner working on my story. I have the first vignette pretty much done so only four more to go.

 

[NotWise]

This morning's NYT Sudoku took me almost an hour.

I'm warming up to the next scene in my WIP. I struggle with Zelda. It's easy to make her more bland and hard to keep her edge, but if I do that the story suffers. Well, it suffers in my imagination. Also in my imagination, the I/T readers put a bullet through this story two years ago when I wrote the synopsis.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

I submitted my Sports challenge story - 6k words so one of my shortest ever. A couple of my chain story group are looking at my finale, which needs a bit of rearranging but is pretty much done.

So I can play around with various other WIPs for a while, though I've been hit by a new plot bunny... (Only sex can alleviate wife's menopausal mood swings. Husband is struggling to cope, but she can't manage without. He has a bright idea and she becomes a reluctant hotwife... and then gets well into it, whether needed for medicinal purposes or not.)

 

[MrPixel]

Yeah. That. I need to tie a ribbon on it and upload my sports story. With Russ's assist I have an okay ending. I feel what I wrote is a little weak, but it conveys the idea. We'll see how it fares.

 

[NotWise]

So I can play around with various other WIPs for a while, though I've been hit by a new plot bunny... (Only sex can alleviate wife's menopausal mood swings. Husband is struggling to cope, but she can't manage without. He has a bright idea and she becomes a reluctant hotwife... and then gets well into it, whether needed for medicinal purposes or not.)

I like the idea. Which category would you write it for?

I think ahead now and then about life after Zelda. I had a story about the ghost of a geisha who died during the upheavals following the Meiji Restoration. My plan was to finish that, but now I don't know where the damned thing went to.

PS. Found it. The name on the file was too innocuous.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

I like the idea. Which category would you write it for?

Oh, it would have to be LW, for shits and giggles and lots of views! Was thinking of calling it 'A Loving Husband'. If it ever gets done - I have many drafts over 2 years old - I anticipate lots of commenters calling the husband a simp cuck, not a real man, he should divorce her asap, etc. I'll aim for fifty of them...

Any similarity to my current age and situation may not be entirely coincidental. The first combo of HRT just made things worse.

 

[NotWise]

We're bright and sunny with the temperature headed to about 90F. So far, the weather service is sticking with the forecast that we have a good chance of rain tomorrow.

I'm designing a shade cover for tomatoes and green peppers. It looks like the tomatoes can go into the beds next week and it would be good to have the cover up by then.

 

[Candy_Kane54]

A little cloudy at the moment but we're expecting sun this afternoon and temperatures near normal. It's been a cool May and I'm looking forward to the heat of summer. I potted up some more herbs yesterday but managed to tweak my back so I'm moving around stooped over, which doesn't help my knee any.

I was still able to get a pot of coffee brewing and get the teapot heated up. I put some donuts on the counter for snacking.

I'll be over in the corner working on the second vignette, which is coming along just fine. I'm hoping this story works out the way I want it to, but the characters have the final say ...

 

[TarnishedPenny]

BIG wind last night, big enough to blow out electric candles across my neighbourhood and some others, too. I woke up three hours later when the power came back on.

 

[NotWise]

A little cloudy at the moment but we're expecting sun this afternoon and temperatures near normal. It's been a cool May and I'm looking forward to the heat of summer. I potted up some more herbs yesterday but managed to tweak my back so I'm moving around stooped over, which doesn't help my knee any.

I was still able to get a pot of coffee brewing and get the teapot heated up. I put some donuts on the counter for snacking.

I'll be over in the corner working on the second vignette, which is coming along just fine. I'm hoping this story works out the way I want it to, but the characters have the final say ...

We'll see how much you enjoy the heat of summer once it actually gets there.

Take care of your back, CK.

 

[NotWise]

This morning's Sudoku took an hour. The cats thought I should be ashamed of myself, but at least I got a little feeling of accomplishment.

 

[dmallord]

Blech....no thanks....in my youth I was a Pepsi guy...then I swapped to Coke....(Pepsi got too sweet) Then energy drinks was my thing....red bulls and monsters...I'm trying to get off of those now and stick mostly to water and juices... cranberry-mango is my go-to...

But if I'm honest...I'm still not off the energy drinks...I'm trying though....

I mix cranberry mangoes with lactolose to kill a little of its taste. The nurse recommended it. It's definitely better than a straight-up shot of that stuff.

 

[dmallord]

I wrote a sequel to a story in 2023. Today I read the ninth comment about it. Two were fair comments with 4 and 5 scores. The other seven were harsh to brutal. The last one tried to ease the pain by saying I was a good writer but the sequel was a 'shit the bed' one, he said, appologically.

In the preface, I alerted them that it was a noir storyline. I suppose they didn't understand the term and wanted it to have a happy ending from their comments, instead of how it ended.

As I close down my writing, I'm considering deleting the sequel. Does anyone have thoughts on that, or have you taken a story down because of how readers received it?

 

[MrPixel]

This morning's Sudoku took an hour. The cats thought I should be ashamed of myself, but at least I got a little feeling of accomplishment.

I don't have the patience for Sudokus, but C will practically spend every waking hour playing the various online versions. I do not harass her about this addiction, even when she cops the my-shit-don't-stink in an argument dressing me down about the time I spend "with your ass in that chair in the office staring at the screen where all I see is the back of your head." A/k/a "writing."

Sorry. Sore subject. Obviously.

I did solve today's Wordle on the third guess, the whole puzzle in the time it took for the keystrokes. I will reiterate that anybody who solves on the first two is cheating.

 

[NotWise]

I don't have the patience for Sudokus, but C will practically spend every waking hour playing the various online versions. I do not harass her about this addiction, even when she cops the my-shit-don't-stink in an argument dressing me down about the time I spend "with your ass in that chair in the office staring at the screen where all I see is the back of your head." A/k/a "writing."

Sorry. Sore subject. Obviously.

I did solve today's Wordle on the third guess, the whole puzzle in the time it took for the keystrokes. I will reiterate that anybody who solves on the first two is cheating.

I won't allow myself much more than 90 minutes on a puzzle. At that point there are three possibilities: I'm missing something, I screwed up, or the puzzle requires a technique I don't have. If the problem is the first option, then I might be able to set the puzzle aside and come back to it later, but I'd rather go on to a new puzzle. The second and third options are killers. At 90 minutes I should do something else anyway.

In addition to online puzzles, I have my own programs for constructing and presenting Sudokus, so I have a bottomless supply at (almost) any level of complexity. I say almost, because I can't generate Master level puzzles.

 

[NotWise]

As I close down my writing, I'm considering deleting the sequel. Does anyone have thoughts on that, or have you taken a story down because of how readers received it?

I've never taken down a story because of the way it was received, nor will I deny myself that option should I want it.

 

[MrPixel]

... At 90 minutes I should do something else

I just conveyed your observation. She laughed.

I've never taken down a story...

Just one here, although some comments on it were nasty (LW... of course). It was a thinly-disguised IRL recounting, and it (finally!) occurred to me that if the "subject" of the romantic angst ever read it - million-to-one odds - he'd recognize the scenario right away.