The AH Coffee Shop and Reading Room 09

[Bomberaw]

Well, chapter 3 done, just waiting for my fiancée to proofread/edit tomorrow.

I think I also figured out my pacing now, went from around 2k words to almost 3.5k, and went a good bit more descriptive. Still feel like I'm a decent ways from where I want to be tho.

 

[Rustyoznail]

Good evening all. A late for a coffee, but I could do a nice Earl Grey.

Things are starting to settle down at work. We've been trying to get a design engineer and a GIS officer for years, and finally have employed people. Not sure why this time is different to the last four or five times we advertised, but I don't care. I can think about doing what I was employed to do.

I just can't remember what that was...

 

[iwatchus]

I pushed submit on my latest almost an hour ago. What's taking so long, Laurel? I should start a complaint thread...

I also got my class stuff published this morning. Before the did it for me. After heat wave last week and getting the heat pumps installed, it was 46 when I got up this morning. Windchill out there is still in the 40's. A good day for hot tea -- thanks CK.

Okay, second reading of a draft, finish @THBGato wonderful On A Wing and a Prayer and figure out to write next, while I work on my alt's mood piece. Maybe I will try to write The Great Cupcake Caper for Crime and Punishment. Make it a light-hearted sex romp after the weepy romance I just finished. Have to see if I can make that all work in my head.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

I pushed the button on my Delete request over 24 hours ago. Even though that's probably a simple step, I guess they're still busy and may not place much priority on it.

 

[GrantBricksly]

I’m very slow to get started this morning. Maybe a cup of old TxRad’s blackest will help, I trust we still make it like he did?

I’m not a morning person. Back-to-work weeks are taxing for me.

I have a story waiting to post, though, and that’s nice since it’s been forever since the last one. It’s in the Born to Run event so it’ll drop on the 25th.

You're getting a late start? I am only just waking up....haven't even bothered to get dressed yet...and probably won't start writing for another hour still... If even then....

 

[TheRedLantern]

I'm a morning person. I've already been to the gym, showered, had coffee, gotten some work done, wondered if I need to evacuate for the bomb threat, and reviewed another author's WIP. Now it's lunchtime.

 

[TheLobster]

I'm a morning person. I've already been to the gym, showered, had coffee, gotten some work done, wondered if I need to evacuate for the bomb threat, and reviewed another author's WIP. Now it's lunchtime.

Hopefully the only explosive thing there was the WIP.

(Or maybe the lunch, too, if you like living spicy).

 

[MrPixel]

...haven't even bothered to get dressed yet...

Yep. If anybody asks - nobody does, I just get looks - I figure to tell them, "I've been retired for 12 years. I'm at home. I don't need to go anywhere. Bathrobe is because I'm out here picking up the mail. Any other questions?" The mental image alone should put a lid on any other comments.

 

[iwatchus]

On nice days, I will write on the screen porch from 6-ish until 10AM or so, wearing my bathrobe.The porch is off the back of the house but partially visible from the street. I used to not wear anything under it, but with my son and his partner living with us now, I have adjusted that. This is not a T/I household.

 

[Omenainen]

I pushed submit on my latest almost an hour ago. What's taking so long, Laurel? I should start a complaint thread...

I know this feeling. I mean, my story is accepted for the 25th when the event stories come out, and I still check regularly to see if maybe Something Happened To It or maybe it posted already

You're getting a late start? I am only just waking up....haven't even bothered to get dressed yet...and probably won't start writing for another hour still... If even then....

I'm at GMT+2, don't remember at what time I made that post. Are the timestamps on "my time" or the website's time? Hmm.

Too late for more coffee, but I'll have some of those donuts now.

Also, I envy you guys for whom it's an option to be naked. Up here, it's almost always too cold. I don't particularly like clothes but even less I like being cold.

 

[NotWise]

Heavy work is done for the day. I raked out the former sweetcorn bed, turned it, and raked it out again. It won't take much more work before it's ready for the fall cucumbers. The cucumber seedlings are starting to show their first true leaves, and the broccolini seedlings are starting their second.

I picked New Mexico chiles this morning for the first time. They weren't enough to put up, so they'll go into the fridge until I have more.

I rewrote the setup for the last sex scene in my WIP, then completely scrapped the opening part of the scene. I have a few changes to make in the rest of the scene, then I'm down to proof reading.

Now I'll just sit here and sweat.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

^^ I didn't do any of that.

 

[GrantBricksly]

I'm at GMT+2, don't remember at what time I made that post. Are the timestamps on "my time" or the website's time? Hmm.



Also, I envy you guys for whom it's an option to be naked. Up here, it's almost always too cold. I don't particularly like clothes but even less I like being cold.

On my screen it showed your message being around 1 in the morning, so, definitely listed in my time. As I am gmt -5.

Yea, My kids (except my oldest) are with their mother on Mondays. The oldest is here, but sleeping. Plus my wife and I haven't left our bedroom. So, naked works for us. And in 3 hours, the oldest goes to work until midnight (8 hours) and we'll have the whole house to ourselves!

 

[TheRedLantern]

I'm working on my first entry for the upcoming "Baked Goods / Pastries" category that I'm sure the site can't help but create. Let me know if you see any major plot holes.

We open on a girl with a vanilla cupcake. She looks like Scarlett Johansson or, if she is available, Zendaya. She's walking out of "Sweet Cuppin' Cakes" and is about to take a bite when goons from a rival bakery around the corner kidnap her and her cupcake. They take her to their hideout and lock her in a cell. She can see her cupcake in the adjacent cell, but can't reach it through the bars.

She makes a daring escape, rescuing her cupcake and breaking out onto the street, where the police arrest her and the cupcake gangsters. Again she's thrown in a cell and again her cupcake is just out of reach. She tries to escape, tries to talk her way out, and tries to dig under the bars, but nothing works.

When she goes to trial for Racketeering (Vanilla) in the First Degree, the cupcake is introduced as evidence. She lies on the stand intentionally, and the district attorney waves it in front of her while challenging her credibility.

She snatches it, gets one bite, and with the burst of energy from the sugar rush, escapes the courthouse and becomes a fugitive from both the law and the cupcake gangsters.

Outside the courthouse, a black car with tinted windows drives by and screeches to a halt. Two men in suits grab her and her cupcake and throw her into the back of the car, speeding off just as the bailiffs get outside the courthouse.

A man in a tuxedo sits across from her, stroking a tray of un-iced muffins. "We are the Pastry Mafia," he says. "You have violated the Sacred Peace and must now undergo the Trial of Strudels and Cream. You have forty-eight hours to prepare."

The throw her out of the car miles outside of town. And throw the cupcake onto her as she lies on the side of the road.

"Worth it," she says, taking another bite of that sweet vanilla icing.

 

[NuclearFairy]

I'm working on my first entry for the upcoming "Baked Goods / Pastries" category that I'm sure the site can't help but create. Let me know if you see any major plot holes.

We open on a girl with a vanilla cupcake. She looks like Scarlett Johansson or, if she is available, Zendaya. She's walking out of "Sweet Cuppin' Cakes" and is about to take a bite when goons from a rival bakery around the corner kidnap her and her cupcake. They take her to their hideout and lock her in a cell. She can see her cupcake in the adjacent cell, but can't reach it through the bars.

She makes a daring escape, rescuing her cupcake and breaking out onto the street, where the police arrest her and the cupcake gangsters. Again she's thrown in a cell and again her cupcake is just out of reach. She tries to escape, tries to talk her way out, and tries to dig under the bars, but nothing works.

When she goes to trial for Racketeering (Vanilla) in the First Degree, the cupcake is introduced as evidence. She lies on the stand intentionally, and the district attorney waves it in front of her while challenging her credibility.

She snatches it, gets one bite, and with the burst of energy from the sugar rush, escapes the courthouse and becomes a fugitive from both the law and the cupcake gangsters.

Outside the courthouse, a black car with tinted windows drives by and screeches to a halt. Two men in suits grab her and her cupcake and throw her into the back of the car, speeding off just as the bailiffs get outside the courthouse.

A man in a tuxedo sits across from her, stroking a tray of un-iced muffins. "We are the Pastry Mafia," he says. "You have violated the Sacred Peace and must now undergo the Trial of Strudels and Cream. You have forty-eight hours to prepare."

The throw her out of the car miles outside of town. And throw the cupcake onto her as she lies on the side of the road.

"Worth it," she says, taking another bite of that sweet vanilla icing.

If I could I'd give you two reactions, but since I can't I'll quote this whole post and give you emojis instead.

 

[GrantBricksly]

So....I just realized (pun intended...you'll all get that in a second...) something...

I use multiple different programs to run spell checks and grammar checks on my stories... why? because different ones catch different things. Only, I just today realised (hehe...pun intended again) something very interesting. Some of those programs catch words based on American English spelling (Such as "realized") and some go by British English spelling (Such as "realised") (hehe...see? get the puns now? hehehe)

So, I ran my story through a spell check, and and it caught one instance where I spelled "realized" with an s....but then when I ran it through another, it thought ALL instances were wrong, because it wanted the british English version WITH the s, and not the American version with the Z....

Crazy world... There are several things like this I've found...where there are actually 3-4 different 'correct' ways to spell it, depending on either preference, or region of the world... and different spell checkers seem to use different preferences...lol

 

[NuclearFairy]

I managed to write two sentences today.

 

[Bomberaw]

Crazy world... There are several things like this I've found...where there are actually 3-4 different 'correct' ways to spell it, depending on either preference, or region of the world... and different spell checkers seem to use different preferences...lol

Yeah! I've had that happen many times with "grey" and "gray"

 

[Bomberaw]

I managed to write two sentences today.

Yayyy XD Better than nothing

 

[NuclearFairy]

Yeah! I've had that happen many times with "grey" and "gray"

The crazy thing with that one is my grade-school teachers telling my whole class that it doesn't matter which way you spell it.

Yayyy XD Better than nothing

Yeah, that's what I figured too. =D

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

The crazy thing with that one is my grade-school teachers telling my whole class that it doesn't matter which way you spell it.

Yeah, that's what I figured too. =D

Yeah! I've had that happen many times with "grey" and "gray"

I've been told .... maybe here on the AH .... that is E for England and A for America.

 

[NuclearFairy]

I've been told .... maybe here on the AH .... that is E for England and A for America.

Maybe, but that same teacher also told us that while it was okay to use the British spelling when writing to our Canadian pen pals that we should make sure to otherwise use the american spelling for schoolwork.

Although, teachers aren't infallible, so it's always possible that that was a word that she could no longer remember how it was supposed to be spelled.

 

[GrantBricksly]

I managed to write two sentences today.

I got a very late start...even when I finally got started, I didn't start writing right away...I started editing, and otherwise dicking around...cause I just wasn't super motivated....but eventually, I got the itch...and have managed 2300 words for chapter 10. Which I am happy with (and I think I may be done for the day.

But there have been days, where I got 1-2 sentences done...and then the next day, deleted them and started over. The important thing is you tried, and something happened.

 

[NuclearFairy]

I got a very late start...even when I finally got started, I didn't start writing right away...I started editing, and otherwise dicking around...cause I just wasn't super motivated....but eventually, I got the itch...and have managed 2300 words for chapter 10. Which I am happy with (and I think I may be done for the day.

But there have been days, where I got 1-2 sentences done...and then the next day, deleted them and started over. The important thing is you tried, and something happened.

It's a much better feeling than writing and deleting three words over and over.

 

[iwatchus]

I was hoping to get reading, commenting and outlining done this afternoon, but I just worried and fumed instead. Maybe I can be productive tonight.