Daily Count reminder

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How is the writing thing going for you? Any bumps or hiccups in remembering the days you're accountable for?

If not, great! If so, that's still great! We're going to help you with that!

Here are the next 7 people for the month! Let's cheer them on to get those words!!


FR 22 – skargasm
SA 23 – idabbleincrazy

SU 24 – apachefirecat
MO 25 – cmk418
TU 26 – agdhani
WE 27 – Dreamy
TH 28 – skargasm


Happy continued writing!

Drabble/Icon Challenge 2022: Day 7

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How are you doing with the challenge so far? I hope you're finding some prompts that work for you.

Here are Day Seven's prompts:

Three Things: Winter, English, Alive.

Bucket List: Spend New Year's Eve at Times Square.

Random: Bananas

Phrase: That wasn't what I was expecting.

Good luck, and have fun!

Word of the Day 04/21/22 Picaresque

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Picaresque (adjective)
picaresque [ pik-uh-resk ]

adjective
1. pertaining to, characteristic of, or characterized by a form of prose fiction, originally developed in Spain, in which the adventures of an engagingly roguish hero are described in a series of usually humorous or satiric episodes that often depict, in realistic detail, the everyday life of the common people: picaresque novel; picaresque hero.
2. of, relating to, or resembling rogues.

OTHER WORDS FROM PICARESQUE
un·pic·a·resque, adjective

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH PICARESQUE
picturesque

WORDS RELATED TO PICARESQUE
anecdotal, disjointed, digressive, disconnected, discursive, incidental, irregular, occasional, rambling, roundabout, segmented, soap opera, sporadic, wandering

See synonyms for picaresque on Thesaurus.com
OTHER WORDS FOR PICARESQUE
2. prankish, rascally, devilish, raffish.

Origin: First recorded in 1800–10; from Spanish picaresco; see picaro, -esque

HOW TO USE PICARESQUE IN A SENTENCE
That choice fits the comic’s loose, rambling picaresque, where getting too serious too often would harsh what’s compelling about the story, which is a group of characters bonding during the end of the world.
THE TRICKY TRANS POLITICS OF FX’S Y: THE LAST MAN|EMILY VANDERWERFF|SEPTEMBER 27, 2021|VOX

Like its groundbreaking predecessor, “Subsequent Moviefilm” is a raunchy, sharply political picaresque through the American heartland.
MOVIES ARE RUSHING TO IMPACT THE ELECTION. DON’T ASK WHETHER THEY’LL WORK. ASK WHETHER THEY’LL LAST.|ANN HORNADAY|OCTOBER 30, 2020|WASHINGTON POST

That said, Waters has come a long way since the picaresque adventures of Nan and Kitty.
SARAH WATERS’S NEW NOVEL REWRITES THE RULES OF LOVE|LUCY SCHOLES|SEPTEMBER 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST

The picaresque escapades and legendary extravagances of the brothers are indulged with a collective wink.
HOW THE SULTAN OF BRUNEI VIOLATED HIS SHARIA LAW WITH ME|JILLIAN LAUREN|MAY 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST

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