Spooky Monday!

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Happy Halloween!  It’s my favorite time of the year, too.  Hoping you all had a great week last week and are raring to go for this first week of November!  How on earth we got here, I’ll never know, but here we are.

Reminders:

1. Flash Challenge!  Your flash challenge prompt is: tipsy.  Give me 100 words or a graphic and I’ll reward you with my undying love and admiration.

2. Last week’s challenges:

Word of the day
Weekend Challenge
A to Z
Numbers
Really Random

3. Big Buddy is at 100%.  How did you do?  We won’t get into my pathetic count in public, mmkay?  New signup post is here.

asphaltcowgrrl –  15,000
agdhani –  50,000
blackrose_17 –  50,000
flipflop_diva –  25,000
itsanonyx – 1,200
apachefirecat –  41,000
skargasm – 15,000
shanachie_quill – 5,000

4. The Daily Count challenge is about to restart.  New signup post is here.

5. The current long challenge is Three Sentence Fics!  The intro post is here and be sure to check the tag for regular prompt updates.  This is a great challenge to get words in a short amount of time.

Not much exciting happening on this end of the world.  My boss did randomly buy tickets for my daughter and I to see Brad Paisley though, so that will be my Friday night.  Ought to be a fun night out for us.  Chime in below and let us know what kind of awesome you have planned for the week.

Word of the Day 10/31/22 Forfend

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Forfend (verb)
forfend [ fawr-fend ]

verb (used with object)
1. to defend, secure, or protect.
2. to fend off, avert, or prevent.
3. Archaic. forbid.

Also forefend [fawr-fend, fohr-].

WORDS RELATED TO FORFEND
avert, block, dampen, daunt, discourage, dissuade, forestall, frighten, hinder, impede, intimidate, obstruct, preclude, prevent, prohibit, restrain, scare, stop, ban, cancel

See synonyms for forfend on Thesaurus.com

ORIGIN: First recorded in 1350–1400, forfend is from the Middle English word forfenden.See for-, fend

HOW TO USE FORFEND IN A SENTENCE
Heaven forfend that change in any shape, whether of embellishment or of decay, should fall upon that cottage!
HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE, NO. VII, DECEMBER 1850, VOL. II|VARIOUS

God forfend that she should come home to-night and find you here!
THE BLACK DOUGLAS|S. R. CROCKETT

Unless they actually set fire to the steeple, which Heaven forfend, we can laugh at them.
THE YOUNG CAVALIER|PERCY F. WESTERMAN

Is it not rather the blind brute instinct of self-protection, forfend what may?
CANADA: THE EMPIRE OF THE NORTH|AGNES C. LAUT

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

Three Sentence Fic...Day 16

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What is the Three Sentence Fic?

This is a challenge (that will go from Oct 16th to Nov 30th) where you answer a prompt with a fic consisting of only three sentences.

Simple right?

The sentences can be as long or as short as you like and it's open to all fandoms.

Each day I will leave a prompt and hopefully, the prompts will inspire your three-sentence fic. Link your creations to the daily post where you found the prompt - either by posting the entire fic in a comment or just by a link (also in a comment) back to wherever you've posted it.

Thems the rules! Everything else is up to you! I will give you a prompt every day, and you can do with it as you will, so long as it is 3 sentences. Any genre, any characters, any fandom, or none!

Today's prompt: Halloween

There will be another prompt tomorrow!

daily count to...

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I finished up the month with some amount of words. Grammarly told me something like 4200 words this month!

Passing it to apachefirecat for the start of November. good luck!




Don't forget to update your word count!
written words
graphic words
other creative endeavours

Welcome to the November Daily Count Challenge!

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Behind the cut, you will find a list of everyone participating in the Daily Count Challenge and their day. I'm 99% certain I got everyone who signed up and put them on the correct days, but if I messed up, or a day doesn't work out, comment on this entry and let me know.

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Every Monday night I will put up a reminder post for the next week. If someone forgets to post that they've done their writing for the day, the next person will know it's their turn and can post after they've done their writing.

For example, it's 05 November and shanachie_quill hasn't made a post saying that they've done their daily writing, on 06 November, agdhani can post when they've done their writing to keep things moving on.

I think I've covered everything, but if not, please let me know.