Happy Monday to you!

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Well hello there! Did you miss me? Didja?

First, I want to thank everyone for their well wishes and support.

Second, I want to remind you that the month is closing quickly so please update your numbers before we do the count on Thursday.

C: Daily Count peeps who wanted repeats, I'm calling it a free-for-all. GO! DO!

Penultimate: As a flash challenge or discussion, give me a dialog between pen and paper. I would love to see a graphic on this.

And last:. Thank you all again, we have the best comm on the planet, and it's all because of you. Now go forth and word.

Word of the Day 08/29/16 Kith

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Kith (noun)
kith [kith]

noun
1. acquaintances, friends, neighbors, or the like; persons living in the same general locality and forming a more or less cohesive group.
2. kindred.
3. a group of people living in the same area and forming a culture with a common language, customs, economy, etc., usually endogamous.

See more synonyms on Thesaurus.com

Can be confused
kin.

Origin: before 900; Middle English; Old English cȳth, earlier cȳththu kinship, knowledge, equivalent to cūth couth2 + -thu -th1; akin to Gothic kunthi, German Kunde knowledge

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

Happy birthday to llblckraincloud!

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The month of August is ending - but wait! We've got llblckraincloud's birthday to celebrate first!

Have a look at their wishlist, and see what you can do!

Dear llblckraincloud, I hope you have a good day today, and an even better year to come - may your smiles come easily, and the blood of your enemies flow true... er, well, it works for Daenerys, anyway.

( Birthday banner under cut )

August Rush: Weekly Round-Up (Week 4)

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You guys did great! There are some awesome creations coming together, and as the month isn't finished, you've still got time to go through the images one more time and make something for anything you missed, or if you haven't done anything yet, to create just one little thing (or more!) to add to the comm's August count!

( Week Four's Creations )

As before, you can link back to any of the daily posts or one of the weekly round-up posts if you are catching up on days you missed.

So that's the last week of August Rush! All the pics are posted, but you still have until the 31st to complete your creations to get a participation or completion banner! I'll post with full details of everyone's words and graphics and how the numbers fall after the month ends, and then I'll have a job to make some banners to add to the count for September! ;-)

Monthly Madness: Original Fic

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Hey there to all our original fic writers! *waves* How are you doing these days? Still working on something that comes under the Original Fic banner?

Maybe it's short stories; maybe it's a full-length novel or novels; or maybe you're just writing a few slices of life for your own characters. Whatever you're doing, share with us something about writing your favourite (or not-so-favourite!) characters.

Here's a few questions you could answer (if you want) about one (or more) of them:

1. Where did the character come from? (Based on someone you know or have read about? Entirely from your own imagination? Somewhere else entirely?)
2. What drives them in your story? (are they looking for something/someone; on a quest; need to prove themselves to someone? Something else?)
3. What makes you like/dislike them?
4. How do you try to make them real?
5. Who do they interact best/worst with in your story/stories?

I must admit, I've been very slack with keeping up on my original fic this year, so I'm going to skip over my characters right now, but I'm all ears about yours! ;-)