Daily Count reminder

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How is your writing going? Have you had any trouble remembering your accountability days?

If you need help, we're here for you!

Let's root for the next 7 people of the month to achieve their writing goals!

FR 15 – Dreamy
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SU 17 – skargasm
MO 18 – flipflop_diva
TU 19 – agdhani
WE 20 – cmk418
TH 21 – backrose_17


Keep writing happily!

Daily count challenge to Dreamy

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Between work and choir practice, it was a very full day today. I was able to keep my little writing streak going with a 264 word drabble for sweetandshort and I'm halfway through their 10 out of 20 challenge for the month.

Handing this off to Dreamy. Wishing you abundant creativity and cooperative Muses in the day ahead.

Happy writing!

Word of the Day 03/14/24 Rampart

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Rampart (noun, verb)
rampart [ ram-pahrt, -pert ]

noun
1. Fortification.
a. a broad elevation or mound of earth raised as a fortification around a place and usually capped with a stone or earth parapet.
b. such an elevation together with the parapet.
2. anything serving as a bulwark or defense.

verb (used with object)
3. to furnish with or as if with a rampart.

See synonyms for rampart on Thesaurus.com
OTHER WORDS FOR RAMPART
2. fortification, breastwork, barricade, guard

ORIGIN: 1575–85; < Middle French, derivative of remparer, equivalent to re-re- + emparer to take possession of < Provençal amparar ≪ Latin ante-ante- + parāre to prepare

HOW TO USE RAMPART IN A SENTENCE
I do think, however, that having won core ramparts for our civil rights, they had to find something else to do and screaming at straight people, and at cis people seems to be the new mode.
ANDREW SULLIVAN DOESN’T CARE WHAT YOU THINK | CHRIS JOHNSON | SEPTEMBER 22, 2021 | WASHINGTON BLADE

In fact the Berlin Wall was called the Anti-Fascist rampart, as I recall.
HOW THE COLD WAR ENDGAME PLAYED OUT IN THE RUBBLE OF THE BERLIN WALL | WILLIAM O’CONNOR | NOVEMBER 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST

The department has not changed since the rampart and Rodney King days.
ROGUE L.A. COP’S FACEBOOK MANIFESTO: ‘YOU WILL NOW LIVE THE LIFE OF PREY’ | THE DAILY BEAST | FEBRUARY 8, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST

And, Denzel Washington and Woody Harrelson as corrupt characters in, respectively, Safe House and rampart.
FLICK PICKS: DENZEL WASHINGTON AS A BADDIE, RACHEL MCADAMS IN ‘THE VOW’ | RAMIN SETOODEH, PETER TRAVERS | FEBRUARY 10, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST

In rampart, Woody Harrelson plays a corrupt, violent LAPD officer.
WOODY HARRELSON ON ‘RAMPART’ | RICHARD RUSHFIELD | JANUARY 13, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST

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