#coreomajoris

madcitypaxie is a muthafucking GIFT TO HUMANITY.

You really do a good "what the fuck is this shit?" face, for the record. My sympathies about the stash clearing.

It's good because it's well-practiced. My WTF face is the result of thirty years of being astonished at the bullshit that goes on around me. 

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Rules: In a text post, list ten books that have stayed with you in some way. Don’t take but a few minutes, and don’t think too hard — they don’t have to be the “right” or “great” works, just ones that have touched you. Tag ten friends, including me, so I’ll see your list. Make sure you let your friends know you’ve tagged them!

In no particular order—

As You Like It - William Shakespeare

The Stand - Stephen King

Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood

New and Collected Poems - Richard Wilbur

World War Z - Max Brooks

Global Frequency - Warren Ellis

The Divine Comedy - Dante

Religion and the Decline of Magic - Keith Thomas

The Complete Poems - Elizabeth Bishop

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

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I...I have to google what wordwar is, besides the obvious meaning, so no, I don't. New to MCU fandom so I don't have any writing buddies yet. But I imagine someone else's enthusiasm/ideas would act as your springboard.

the way i tend to do wordwars is on a ten-minute timer--you and your writing partner start at an agreed-upon time and write as much as you can in ten minutes. when time's up, post your wordcounts. the person with the higher wordcount "wins." rinse and repeat as many times as you can both stomach.

zekkass writes faster than i do, so she almost always wins when we war, but just the desire to put up numbers higher than the low two digits means i actually will write for a change. i also tend to edit heavily while writing by my lonesome, meaning i'll take forever on a pair of sentences and wear myself out. wordwars are quantity over quality, so most of my mistakes (unintentionally repeated words, syntax errors, the like) happen then, but of course i can always go back later and edit, so sometimes it's exactly what i need to break out of a rut.

if you feel the need for the world's whiniest, most obstinate writing partner, you can always try to hit me up on gmail. i'm generally around from late evening to the wee hours of the morning eastern standard time.

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I'm too tired on weeknights to make it to 1 K but I do try when I'm working on a deadline. deadlines work whether it's with friends or for a big bang or whatever.

i'm wretched at writing in any quantity, so 1k a day seems herculean to me, but shoot for the stars, land on the moon, et cetera et cetera.

I endorse this plan, because I _actually spin_, if you're looking for something to do with the fiber when you shear those llamas. (And I'm a single thirtysomething with her own house and it ROCKS.)

Good point. I should get alpacas not llamas so I can sell their fiber for more. :)

Are you willing to say vaguely what region you're in? Because my mom's house got pretty crazy storms tonight, and I wonder if you were near there. (They're in Columbiana County....)

I am not 60, no. I do miss the fields and the farms and I dearly miss raising chickens, but not the isolation.

IT LOOKS LIKE HOOOOOOOOME! ...have I mentioned I don't miss the loneliness of living out in the country?