Diaries || What's on your mind?

I've been neglecting to post my sunday exercises. So, here's one from a few months ago that I haven't posted before.

If you're interested in doing a bit of just-for-fun prompted writing, stop in channel #writing on irc.slashnet.org either with your favourite IRC client or here at 10AM Pacific time (1PM Eastern time) on Sundays. There are typically three prompts with 10 minutes allotted for each, and you can do whatever you want with them. I usually run them into one story, as I did below.

Well, I finished my stint up north some time ago, flying home after my last run on hallowe'en, and dove straight into my new position in the head office. Now I'm splitting my time between office work and a pilot plant about a 45 minute drive from home.

A sequel to my pre-NaNo internal dialogue, now that November is over.

In which the author muses about the experience of writing a second novel-in-a-month.

A page of remarkably cogent advice for story writers...

I hear voices in my head. They're telling me to write.

No fighting. No yelling. No swearing. No drinking.

Well, the "no swearing" rule seems to be enforced only as "no swearing at somebody", because I hear various bilingual swear words constantly. I've probably heard some inuit swear words too, but I wouldn't recognize one of those unless somebody explained it to me.

The other rules are strict. You break them, you're banned from the site (and usually fired). Period.

And yet I'm learning to fight?

So the other day my boss asked me if I could borrow a noise meter to see how noisy our little plant is.

I wandered into the industrial hygienist's office to ask about it, and next thing I knew I was being wired for sound and was agreeing to drive him back into town after he did the measurements my boss asked for.

We were down unexpectedly but now we're back and the site is even upgraded! The wiki will come back later.

New features inside...

Kinda quiet around here. Opinions sought.