Word of the Day 12/31/13

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Resolution (noun)
res·o·lu·tion [rez-uh-loo-shuhn]

noun
1. a formal expression of opinion or intention made, usually after voting, by a formal organization, a legislature, a club, or other group. Compare concurrent resolution, joint resolution.
2. a decision or determination; a resolve: to make a firm resolution to do something. Her resolution to clear her parents' name allowed her no other focus in life.
3. the act determining upon an action or course of action, method, procedure, etc.; the act of resolving.
4. firmness of purpose; the mental state or quality of being resolved or resolute: She showed her resolution by not attending the meeting.
5. the act or process of separating into constituent or elementary parts or resolving.
6. the resulting state.
7. Optics. the act, process, or capability of distinguishing between two separate but adjacent objects or sources of light or between two nearly equal wavelengths. Compare resolving power.
8. a solution, accommodation, or settling of a problem, controversy, etc.
9. Music.
a. the progression of a voice part or of the harmony as a whole from a dissonance to a consonance.
b. the tone or chord to which a dissonance is resolved.
10. reduction to a simpler form; conversion.
11. Medicine/Medical. the reduction or disappearance of a swelling or inflammation without suppuration.
12. the degree of sharpness of a computer-generated image as measured by the number of dots per linear inch in a hard-copy printout or the number of pixels across and down on a display screen.

Synonyms
4. resolve, determination, perseverance, tenacity; strength, fortitude.

Origin: 1350–1400; Middle English < Latin resolūtiōn- (stem of resolūtiō ), equivalent to resolūt ( us ) resolute + -iōn- -ion

Now YOU come up with a sentence (or fic? or graphic?) that best illustrates the word.

100 in 100

[kaige68.livejournal.com]

It was proposed that we do a 100-in-100 challenge this year. I think that's a grand idea, and I think that it's especially wonderful as it can be used for both written words and image words. But it's us, we can do more! So here's my proposal:

Starting on Wednesday I will post something daily with it (and yes I'll set it up in advance) and you all just chime in with a comment of "Done!" if you wrote 100 words that day, or made a graphic. It's that easy! This isn't going to be haphazard though. I want a commitment! Maybe you can't get to the comm every day, so if you missed commenting but did your words, comment when you get there of "Done 7 days!" (or however applicable). We'll keep playing for 100 days or until everyone has dropped out. And then we'll start up again on the first of the next month. We can get 3 of these in this year!

Am I making sense? Have I had enough coffee yet? Probably no to both!

Thoughts? Who is with me?

Monthly Challenged in 2014

[kaige68.livejournal.com]

I think, I hope, that this is the last of the 'getting stuff in order' we need to get done.

We are planning out the monthly challenges, and taking a lot of suggestions for what to do. What we need are a couple more months that we looking for themes for, preferably not holiday themes as we are doing holiday challenges, but we do need ideas. AND we are looking for some volunteers to run the challenges.

You will all be happy to know that the wonderful heffermonkey will be running 3 Bingo's this year! If there is anything with nobody running it then it's up for grabs, if there is anything that I'm running you are welcome to it, and H is really only glued to August Rush. SO:

January - Rare pairs - kaige68
February - Cross over - _____
March - Bingo - heffermonkey
April - Song fic? - haldoor It occurs to me now that I haven't asked you about this.
May - 5+1 - _____
June - Bingo - heffermonkey
July - Pool Party - kaige68
August - August rush - haldoor
September - Bingo - heffermonkey
October - ____ - _____
November - Live like other half - haldoor
December - _____ - _____

Tuesday AU Prompt - "That will test our nerve, and discipline will count just as much as courage"

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I had to make one more :)

August Rush reward fic for simplyn2deep

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Title: The Start of Something
Pairing/Characters: Steve/Danny (H50)
Genre: First Time, Romance?
Word Count: 5259
Rating: NC-17
Warnings/Spoilers: None for the show, unless you count Catherine being on the team instead of Kono
Disclaimer: My ownership rights have yet to be confirmed; I mean no harm and make no money
Beta: siluria dropped everything so I could make this into the 2013 counted words for 1_million_words. Thank you again, my love; you are a star! Any remaining mistakes are entirely my own.
Summary: Danny gets a rude awakening he didn't quite expect; to his surprise, he can't stop thinking about it.
Author’s Notes: This is simplyn2deep's reward from 1_million_words' August Rush challenge (yes, it's been that long in coming!). She asked for me to use the song 'Crash My Party' by Luke Bryan as inspiration. Babe, I'm not sure it's exactly what you had in mind, but Steve 'helping' Danny kind of has a 'Crash My Party' ring to it, so I hope you'll like it anyway!

NB: this fic can also be read here at AO3

WOOT! Made it into 2013 count! :D

Last call

[kaige68.livejournal.com]

Last reminder of the year! You have until 03:00 Eastern Standard Time to get your numbers in! That's a little over 8 hours! TEN MILLION IS TOTALLY OURS!

Written ~ Image ~ WIPs