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Thursday, May. 1, 2025

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Writing Blog Number 2

by S 🤦

Rated: 18+ · Book · Personal · #2311764

This is a continuation of my blogging here at WdC

This will be a blog for my writing, maybe with (too much) personal thrown in. I am hoping it will be a little more interactive, with me answering questions, helping out and whatnot. If it falls this year (2024), then I may stop the whole blogging thing, but that's all a "wait and see" scenario.

An index of topics can be found here: "Writing Blog No.2 Index"

Feel free to comment and interact.

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10 Most Recent Blog Comments:

Ichabod Crane-writing-reading.

about 3 hours ago
In response to "20250501 External Writerings April 2025"

I want a pizza from Wallaroo's. Clicked each one. Very informative.

Elisa the Bunny Stik

about 23 hours ago
In response to "20250423 Two Songs, One Meaning (Using Similar Story Ideas)"

And here’s the thing – can you think of a recent song about taking your partner and just getting away from a life of drudgery? I mean, released recently, say, last 20 years? I can’t, and I am a music nerd. Why? Maybe we realise there is no escape. Maybe the world has beaten us down too hard.

I also think there are other possibilities. Maybe now it's about running toward something we want rather than away from something. Or perhaps we already managed to run away and we're successful. We don't need songs about running away when we've managed to escape the traps that bound previous generations.

1 Like

Dave Ryan

a day ago
In response to "20250430 World-building - Mountains"

I always thought Tolkien's 'three sides of a box' mountains around Mordor looked completely absurd.

Soldier_Mike

Apr 28, 2025 at 12:46am
In response to "20250428 Songs That Tell A Story"

Good points, all. It seems to me you could fill a History slot (among others) with this one:

'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald' by Gordon Lightfoot (1976)

S 🤦

Apr 22, 2025 at 12:32am
In response to "20250421 Reposting Another Old Blog - Negative Reviews"

To those who have emailed me...

I am serious. He wanted to kill me for making fun of Jesus. The fact I am on the other side of the world and he is a keyboard warrior nowadays would probably make me goad him; back then, I did panic.

So, yes, he wanted to kill me. Seriously.

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Amethyst Angel 💐

Apr 21, 2025 at 1:41am
In response to "20250421 Reposting Another Old Blog - Negative Reviews"

Glad they didn't carry it out! Some reviews totally cross the line. Around here, we get spoiled... I feel peeved when someone gives me three stars. I think I especially hate it when they say "hey, good story..." Without any reason for giving less than five stars, or at least four if it just didn't appeal to them

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Kåre เลียม Enga

Apr 18, 2025 at 2:04am
In response to "20240418 An Old Blog (Story Matters!)"

The advice is really really good. May inspire me to write a 'decent' story. We'll see. My goals are poetry at the moment and establishing new habits.

citruspocket

Apr 14, 2025 at 2:45am
In response to "20250414 Novel #4"

Thanks for the insight - I enjoyed reading this!

I think you must have high standards for yourself. Your "bad" is a lot better than a lot of "good" (published) books out there.

S 🤦

Apr 12, 2025 at 12:24am
In response to "20250409 Australian Publishing 1"

citruspocket - I have a 50 page rule. Within 50 [pages, I give up. But many of these I read to be patriotic or for school or for book clubs.

Never again.

And I hope you enjoyed the Magic Pudding even if the pudding itself was a little scary...

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citruspocket

Apr 9, 2025 at 2:52am
In response to "20250409 Australian Publishing 1"

I decided a long time ago that if I'm bored or struggling with a book, then I'll give it up... there are far too many good ones out there to waste time struggling with a bad one! My opinion was formed by reading a few Literary books which mostly seemed to be about boring adults getting divorced... Now I read a lot of sci fi and fantasy, much more fun

As a sidenote, I have Australian relatives so read The Magic Pudding when I was younger! I remember finding the illustrations of the pudding a little bit scary though...

May 1, 2025 at 12:15am

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20250501 External Writerings April 2025

External Writerings April 2025

That time of the month where I list the writing I have done for Weekend Notes (and any other places that could be bothered publishing me online).

Songs, films, places, events… oh my! One of the reviews got me a tourism award (

)… which was a hearty thank you and no money. So, of course, some of this is going to be completely irrelevant to USians, but remember, you do not have to listen to the songs (though I would be grateful if you did), but every look at the articles from a different IP address with no ad blockers helps me out in my increasingly desperate attempts to make money as a person who writes.

My favourite albums - and there's a lot of them - from the first three months of 2025.

A look at my favourite Val Kilmer performances, following his death.

Reviewing two new artists that caught my attention.

A local café that caught my attention. Great food.

Songs about churches. Yes, churches.

The local Cornish Festival.

We get visitors from around the world, and I am doing a story reading, hopefully helping a book launch, and helping in a guided walk of one of the towns.

6 articles this month. I have to do at least 4 to keep my ranking in the top 25 contributors, so your clicks will also help me in that regard. As usual, if you want a certain topic covered in songs (I can do films and books as well), leave a comment below. I would love to give readers what they want.

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