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romanajo123 posting in

tenminutesaday

Word challenge today!

Gold/ silver

Interpret how you want

timemidae posting in

little_details

Hi!

I've been reading up on the historical Catholic school system in Quebec, and I've gathered that until 1960 there were commonly Catholic schools that were supported by public funds (officially ended in the 90's). I've been able to find the names of some of the girl's schools, but haven't been able to easily find the names of any of the mixed or boy's schools below the high school level.

Anyone know any specific schools that could have served a 10-year old, working class, Catholic boy in Montreal or Quebec City ~1940?

Thanks!

formidablepassion posting in

weekendwritingmarathon

Need to get some words in? The Weekend Writing Marathon (WWM) is a writing challenge designed to help you do just that. You set your own writing goal for the weekend and work to achieve it before reporting back to the group on Sunday night.

How do I participate?

1. Reply to this post with your weekend writing plans–be as specific (or not) as you’d like.

2. Start writing on Friday 12:01 am local time. Work to meet your goal by Sunday night at 11:59 pm local time. You can work on whatever you want during this time.

3. Post your accomplishments to the Finish Line post at the end of the weekend (even if you didn’t reach your goal).

How do I report my accomplishments?

A Finish Line post will go up on Sunday. Reblog that post with your final word count/accomplished goal(s) by Monday at midnight local time. Totals from the weekend will be posted on Tuesday.

This challenge is currently running on 2 platforms: pillowfort, and dreamwidth. If you sign up on this platform, please respond to the Finish Line post on this platform.

Let us know if you have any questions!

romanajo123 posting in

tenminutesaday

Maybe should've posted this last night, but I did a thing! Here's what I turned in for the assignment I mentioned last week. But I did save the Document just in case something else sparks.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vLoWB3PgPo5PL4vEPYzIaLb0wSyOun3ikKabVF6fmvw/edit?usp=sharing

Current Mood: accomplished

treefrogie84 posting in

weekendwritingmarathon

what’s a 1k1h?|| time zone converter || 1k1h Calendar

All sprints are run on Discord only. You can find our Discord server here.

Friday ( time zone converter)

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5pm PT/ 8pm ET/ 12am UTC Treefrogie84

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7pm PT/ 10pm ET/ 2am Sun UTC Joe

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7pm PT/ 10pm ET/ 2am Mon UTC Joe

shivver posting in

tenminutesaday

Your challenge today is to do something completely new.

Find a single sentence (just one, no more than that) of prose (not dialogue) that you have written -- anything, whether it's been finished and posted or it's a work-in-progress -- and that is at least twelve words long. Rewrite the sentence in some way you've never done before.

Some ideas:
* Emulate the style of an author whom you've never tried to emulate before.
* If it's a drama, imagine instead that it's a comedy and make the sentence humorous, or vice-versa.
* Write it as a line in a poem. Bonus points if it's a sonnet and you do a rhyming couplet in iambic pentameter.
* Switch the viewpoint to second-person present tense. (This assumes you've never written second-person present tense before.)
* Look up synonyms for every word in the sentence and rewrite it using them.

romanajo123 posting in

tenminutesaday

( Wooo! 475!)

It’s novelizing time!! Take a scene from a movie/ TV episode / maybe an audio and try novelizing it. Try doing a scene that has action or some kind of plot .

Use action verbs. Here’s a good list if you need help. https://jerryjenkins.com/powerful-verbs/

formidablepassion posting in

weekendwritingmarathon

FINISH LINE

YOU MADE IT!

I hope your weekend treated you well, but even if it didn’t, we’re here to celebrate your marathon achievements. If you posted anything you’ve written during the weekend challenge don’t forget to add it to the monthly fic round up here!

Please reply with your numbers for the weekend–word count, number of pages edited, outlining work–whatever you accomplished. Include what you feel should be included, but please remember that we love numbers almost as much as words.

Thank you for writing with us this weekend!

treefrogie84 posting in

weekendwritingmarathon

what’s a 1k1h?|| time zone converter || 1k1h Calendar

All sprints are run on Discord only. You can find our Discord server here.

Monday ( time zone converter)

5am PT/ 8am ET/ 12pm UTC Mrsimoshen

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11am PT/ 2pm ET/ 6pm UTC LittleMissTPK

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5pm PT/ 8pm ET/ 12am UTC Treefrogie84

7pm PT/ 10pm ET/ 2am Tues UTC Joe

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11am PT/ 2pm ET/ 6pm UTC PreciousAnon

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7pm PT/ 10pm ET/ 2am Wed UTC Alec

9pm PT/ 12am Wed ET/ 4am Wed UTC NotTooLateForTheGame

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5am PT/ 8am ET/ 12pm UTC Mrsimoshen

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11am PT/ 2pm ET/ 6pm UTC PreciousAnon

1pm PT/ 4pm ET/ 8pm UTC Treefrogie

5pm PT/ 8pm ET/ 12am UTC LittleMissTPK

7pm PT/ 10pm ET/ 2am Thur UTC Alec

Thursday ( time zone converter)

5am PT/ 8am ET/ 12pm UTC Mrsimoshen

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1pm PT/ 4pm ET/ 8pm UTC Treefrogie

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7pm PT/ 10pm ET/ 2am Fri UTC Alec

9pm PT/ 12am Fri ET/ 4am Fri UTC NotTooLateForTheGame

Friday ( time zone converter)

5am PT/ 8am ET/ 12pm UTC Mrsimoshen

8am PT/ 11am ET/ 4pm UTC Max

11am PT/ 2pm ET/ 6pm UTC LittleMissTPK

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5pm PT/ 8pm ET/ 12am UTC Treefrogie84

7pm PT/ 10pm ET/ 2am Sat UTC Alec

silvercat17 posting in

justcreate

ysabetwordsmith posting in

goals_on_dw

We made it to the end of May! \o/ If you have completed some of your short-term goals or subgoals, and/or you're still chugging away at your ongoing goals, then pat yourself on the back. You worked hard for that. We've also passed through of spring. If you're doing seasonal goals, hopefully you have finished the spring one(s), so you can look ahead to the summer batch.

This year I'm trying something new, continuing to track goals at the end of each month. So far it seems to be helping, so that's encouraging. I'm looking at my goal list more often and trying to keep ticking off more of them. The main drawback is that this update becomes more of a chore each month.

These are the previous check in posts:
New Year's Resolutions Check In January 4
New Year's Resolutions Check In January 10
New Year's Resolutions Check In January 17
New Year's Resolutions Check In January 24
New Year's Resolutions Check In January 31
New Year's Resolutions Check In February 28
New Year's Resolutions Check In March 31
New Year's Resolutions Check in April 30

For more ideas on New Year's resolutions in this community, see:

2025 New Year's Resolutions and Other Goals

New Year's Resolutions for 2025

Signup Post: Accountability Buddies in 2025 (1 seeker)

Our most popular challenge is:

Signup Post: Fannish 50 in 2025 (53 participants)

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Current Mood: accomplished

shivver posting in

tenminutesaday

Sorry for being really delinquent on posting challenges. Things have been a bit of a mess lately, but, well, excuses are just excuses.

Today's challenge: Write a couple of paragraphs describing an animal or a group of animals doing something. It could be a horse eating in a pasture, or a basket of hamsters scrambling to get out, or a mother whale swimming with her calf, or whatever. Your goal is to really make the reader see what's happening. Note: these should be real animals, so they shouldn't speak nor think like humans do.

formidablepassion posting in

weekendwritingmarathon

How do I participate?

1. Reply to this post with your weekend writing plans–be as specific (or not) as you’d like.

2. Start writing on Friday 12:01 am local time. Work to meet your goal by Sunday night at 11:59 pm local time. You can work on whatever you want during this time.

3. Post your accomplishments to the Finish Line post at the end of the weekend (even if you didn’t reach your goal).

How do I report my accomplishments?

A Finish Line post will go up on Sunday. Reblog that post with your final word count/accomplished goal(s) by Monday at midnight local time. Totals from the weekend will be posted on Tuesday.

This challenge is currently running on 2 platforms: pillowfort, and dreamwidth. If you sign up on this platform, please respond to the Finish Line post on this platform.

Let us know if you have any questions!

treefrogie84 posting in

weekendwritingmarathon

what’s a 1k1h?|| time zone converter || 1k1h Calendar

All sprints are run on Discord only. You can find our Discord server here.

Friday ( time zone converter)

5am PT/ 8am ET/ 12pm UTC Mrsimoshen

8am PT/ 11am ET/ 4pm UTC Max

11am PT/ 2pm ET/ 6pm UTC LittleMissTPK

1pm PT/ 4pm ET/ 8pm UTC LittleMissTPK

5pm PT/ 8pm ET/ 12am UTC Treefrogie84

7pm PT/ 10pm ET/ 2am Sat UTC Alec

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SUPER SPRINT SATURDAY! 24 hours of sprints starting at midnight Eastern.

Sunday ( time zone converter)

4am PT/ 7am ET/ 11am UTC PreciousAnon

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11am PT/ 2pm ET/ 6pm UTC PreciousAnon

1pm PT/ 4pm ET/ 8pm UTC Treefrogie

5pm PT/ 8pm ET/ 12am Mon UTC Treefrogie84

7pm PT/ 10pm ET/ 2am Mon UTC Joe

romanajo123 posting in

tenminutesaday

( Yes! I'm actually writing today! :D I decided I'm taking steps and actually going to Get Things Done- whether it's class, fanfic, or finishing my current book. So this is for a class assignment. The assignment was: to get a copy of a newspaper or magazine and look at articles, ads, opinion pieces, even obituaries and write a Nonfiction article or fiction short story based on it. The actual thing has to be about 500 words total, but I'm at least starting and setting my phone for ten minutes. I do welcome feedback!

Since I don't normally read newspapers and get a lot of news off the internet or radio, this is inspired by an ad I've heard several times on the radio for a life insurance. The ad opens asking about " [someone's] three ex-wives and new trophy wife" ... and I feel there's a lot of unanswered questions there)

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( Read more... )

Current Mood: creative
Current Location: living room
Current Music: Building 429

elisheva_m posting in

little_details

I'm trying to write a scene where two co-workers are trouble-shooting a new custom security or encryption routine. Someone else (who isn't present) wrote the code and he will have been careful to ensure it works before sending it to them. So maybe something in the implementation of it?

The scene is dual purpose, showing their interaction growing closer while also hiding something else in plain sight. The tech part of it can be whatever is plausible and easy to convey without bogging it down in details. I am so out of touch with that sort of thing I don't know what's plausible any more.

What could go wrong with uploading the new code into their office network or onto their phones which would need a bit of trouble-shooting? The kind of thing one person might overlook and another catch. Preferably with them being literally close while they do this. And again - easy to convey without bogging it down in details. Jargon is fine.

Edit: Turns out jargon is not fine. Well it would be in the sense I meant, but that's not how it was taken. Am overwhelmed by how much I can't understand well enough to follow here, let alone distill into a few phrases. I know the readers for my lakorn-novel are non-existent but I can't swamp them with details.

Edit 2: Sorry to have bothered everyone. I'm just going to trash this. It was a stupid idea in the first place. Thank you for your time.

formidablepassion posting in

weekendwritingmarathon

FINISH LINE

YOU MADE IT!

Thank you for writing with us this weekend!

treefrogie84 posting in

weekendwritingmarathon

what’s a 1k1h?|| time zone converter || 1k1h Calendar

All sprints are run on Discord only. You can find our Discord server here.

Monday ( time zone converter)

5am PT/ 8am ET/ 12pm UTC Mrsimoshen

8am PT/ 11am ET/ 3pm UTC LittleMissTPK

11am PT/ 2pm ET/ 6pm UTC LittleMissTPK

1pm PT/ 4pm ET/ 8pm UTC LittleMissTPK

5pm PT/ 8pm ET/ 12am UTC Treefrogie84

7pm PT/ 10pm ET/ 2am Tues UTC Joe

Tuesday ( time zone converter)

8am PT/ 11am ET/ 3pm UTC Alec

11am PT/ 2pm ET/ 6pm UTC PreciousAnon

1pm PT/ 4pm ET/ 8pm UTC Xia

7pm PT/ 10pm ET/ 2am Wed UTC Alec

9pm PT/ 12am Wed ET/ 4am Wed UTC NotTooLateForTheGame

Wednesday ( time zone converter)

5am PT/ 8am ET/ 12pm UTC Mrsimoshen

8am PT/ 11am ET/ 3pm UTC Max

11am PT/ 2pm ET/ 6pm UTC PreciousAnon

1pm PT/ 4pm ET/ 8pm UTC Treefrogie

5pm PT/ 8pm ET/ 12am UTC LittleMissTPK

7pm PT/ 10pm ET/ 2am Thur UTC Alec

Thursday ( time zone converter)

5am PT/ 8am ET/ 12pm UTC Mrsimoshen

8am PT/ 11am ET/ 3pm UTC Alec

11am PT/ 2pm ET/ 6pm UTC PreciousAnon

1pm PT/ 4pm ET/ 8pm UTC Treefrogie

5pm PT/ 8pm ET/ 12am UTC Treefrogie84

7pm PT/ 10pm ET/ 2am Fri UTC Alec

9pm PT/ 12am Fri ET/ 4am Fri UTC NotTooLateForTheGame

Friday ( time zone converter)

5am PT/ 8am ET/ 12pm UTC Mrsimoshen

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