WIP Challenge THE LAST DAY!!!

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TODAY is the last day of our WIP Challenge!

Did you complete a WIP? THREE CHEERS IF YOU DID!

Did you dust off an OLD WIP and add more words to it? THREE CHEERS IF YOU DID!

Whatever you managed to accomplish towards your WIPs, please share about them in the comments of this post. Remember, we're all in this together, and we're all so proud of what you've achieved!

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.” ― Stephen King

Weekend Challenge Volunteers, please!

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Hey everyone, I know I've been a bit absent for the last few months, and for that I apologise! I've had quite a lot of family issues to deal with in recent months, but everything seems to have calmed down now, so phew!

Anyhoo, I am here asking for Weekend Challenge volunteers for the next six months. We currently have people scheduled up to the weekend 2-4 August, but nothing beyond that, so if you can commit to anything from 1-4 weekends between August 2024 and January 2025, put your name down here! Let me know how many weekends you would be able to do and any weekends you CAN'T take (please use day in numbers and month in words, because I am from NZ and 2/8/24 means the 2nd August 2024; I don't want to get mixed up because you call that 8/2/24! Thanks!).

I will leave this post open for a while, but I hope to get the new schedule done sometime in the next couple of weeks, so it's ready when the other schedule ends.

Any questions? Ask away! I'll leave it at that, to keep things simple! ;-)

Monday is a Monday

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I am writing this from Monday morning at my Home Office desk; I've scheduled it for tonight because for most of you it's still Sunday! We like to get ahead of things here in NZ (yeah, right! LOL!) Anyway, thought I'd better do it while I was thinking about it, or later I'd forget (story of my life).

Speaking of which, if anyone knows where I put that one Peter Pan handwarmer (I lost the other one at the airport in May), I could use it about now, as I'm currently wearing a wrist-wrap on my right hand because every now and then it's been giving me problems, and then it will be OK, so before I waste untold $$ going to the doctor's for it where he's likely to say 'Use a wrist-wrap for a while; see if that helps', I thought I would try the $20 option. If it doesn't help after a week or so, I will bite the bullet and pay the $$. It's cool over here now, since we are mid-winter while most of you are enjoying (far too much?) heat on the northern side of the planet, and I need to keep my hands warm when temps are down as purple doesn't suit me. Who knew one handwarmer would be useful - wherever I hid it from myself must be a good hiding place... and I know I didn't throw it out because I determined I would make one to match at some point, as I'm like that. ;-)

Right, enough banter about my idiocy! What's new on your writing horizon? Anything fun you'd like to share? I have not written for months, but that's hardly news! I am WAY behind on the monthly count - the last month I counted was March!!! I need to get that fixed, but will probably wait until July ends and do the month-by-month thing then. Make sure you update your figures between now and early August to be counted! I'm excited to find out how we're doing!

Now, our current Long Challenge is a WIP Push (Thanks for hosting, simplyn2deep, you did an awesome job!), but that's about to finish, so I hope you are well onto your goal with that one, if you took part! You still have time to get a few more words in before it ends, right? The next one up is a Drabble/Icon challenge, and I happen to know that angelus2hot has got a lot of awesome posts lined up! Jump on in; I will try to do so myself, since I've missed the last couple of challenges.

Big Buddies, you should all be at around the 48% mark on your goals, so I hope you're there or above! If not, how can we help you add words? Let us know!

Daily challengers - you guys are stars! You are doing so well! Keep up the good work!

Flash Challenge: No cheering from the crowd. Use it how you will! If you have the time, link us to any creation you get from it, so we can all tell you how fabulous you are!

And don't forget to scroll back over the last week, or check out the tags for any of our regular challenges, to pick up any prompts you missed, and use them to ADD WORDS!!! I know you want to!

That's it from me; have a great Monday, and may the rest of your week have you adding words like there's no tomorrow! Let's be creative out there! ;-)

Word of the Day 07/15/24 Fartlek

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Fartlek (noun)
fartlek [ fahrt-lek ]

noun
1. a training technique, used especially among runners, consisting of bursts of intense effort loosely alternating with less strenuous activity.

Origin: 1950–55; < Swedish fart speed + lek play

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