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| added at 11:44pm I still have 6 Dark Dreamscapes Poetry Contest entrants to review. So far I entry poem I chose not to review but rather went to the author's Portfolio and reviewed one of his other Poems--So although I've finished 14 member reviews, I've really only reviewed 13 Dark Dreamscapes Poetry Contest entries. April 13, 2014 at 1:58am + 2,000 points from The Gift System. These 2,000 GPs are from "Daily Review Rewards". You gave 13 qualifying reviews on 04/12/14. Four Times GPs given through March 31st, 2014! Hmmm, this is April, right? I hope I don't lose 1,500 gift points for yesterday's effort just because someone forgot to roll over the date for bonus gps. I had to look up how the gp system worked. 1-2 reviews will be awarded 25 gps (not 50 for 2 reviews--25 total): however, with the bonus awards at 4 times, 2 reviews per day is awared 100 gps. The next jump is 3-4 reviews are awarded 75 gps so 4 reviews are awarded 75gps or with x4 bonus=300gps Then 5-9 reviews receive 150 gps (9 reviews receive 150gps or with x4 bonus=600gps) The last jump rate is 10 reviews or more receive the incentive of 500 gps. I performed 13 reviews April 12th and because there is an on running 4x bonus going on I received 500x4=2,000 gps. Personally, I don't mind that after 10 reviews there isn't another tier level of gps. 500gps for 50 reviews in a day (that would be one reviewing machine I tell you!) would still be rewarding. Like I said in yesterday's entry, I learn more about the craft with every review I perform because I am exposed to a full run of what is in the writing world both good and awful. Self-editing is my eventual goal. the more I learn of what doesn't work for others the more I will be able to see what won't work for my writing. |
I just finished 8 of 22 reviews for the "Invalid Item" . (There are 22 entries besides my own). I'm going to take a break, but I will get 22 reviews finished before the weekend is finished.  now onto other projects... added at 8:01pm My earlier reviewing turned out to be rather profitable--I've received an extra 2,126 gift points for 8 reviews given--the majority of the reviews were to writer's whom I've not reviewed before. 200 gps each given at this time. (1400 gps)(100 gps for a qualifying review) 375 gps were given by a some writers as a gift for my reviewing their work. And one was an auto reward of 251 gps. At the end of the day, I will receive another 800 or so gps for having done 8 qualifying reviews (or more if I do more reviews before midnight WDC Time). Not only am I thankful of the gift point boost, but for every review I give, I increase my own critical eye for when I edit my own writing. I concentrated on how the poem made me feel (I believe poetry should incite emotion otherwise, what's the use?). How smoothly the poem reads. Is there a natural rhythm, meter, flow--however you wish to call it. And how I interpret what is being said in the poem. Some examples of today's reviewing--all can be found on the Public review page--are: Review of "Death"  , Review of "Beautiful Space" , Review of "THINGS OF NIGHTMARE'S DREAMS" , and Review of "Shattered Crystal Fragments" .Funny thing--I got to looking at my past reviews and then noticed in the header that I had 65 reviews by other authors that I hadn't responded to.  Well, that is just rude--right? I mean if a reader goes through the trouble of commenting on something you've written the proper thing to do is respond to the comments. So, I clicked on the header Pending Response and started reading the reviews that were given to me over time which I hadn't responded to. What I didn't do was check out the dates these reviews were originally written--well, not until I had responded to the very last one, any way--the date? You may have guessed it--was in April of 2006. This was when the response to reviews tracker was first installed. Every review before that date had no tracker to record if any response was given or not. So, I basically responded to port raids by sponsored port raiding group members between the years 2006 and 2012. I guess from 2013 til today I have formed the habit of responding to every review I receive. Earlier today, I managed to clean up a folder that shouldn't have anything within it for more than a week--the Reviews: Pending Response folder. By the time I finished reading all those fantastic reviews, my ego was so uplifted, I nearly tore both my ears off walking through my bedroom door (Head was a bit swollen--get it?) And I had the best sleep ever in a very long time. I wouldn't recommend not responding to reviews just so you can get that ego booster when you happen to be low on ego--However, you can go back and reread those reviews under the header--Reviews: Received. Every review I've ever received is there--the first review I've ever reveived was a Private review in Aug 2, 2001 at 3:06am by a now past member 'pallasathene'. She reviewed my poem "Ashamed" and posted it on the Suicide Challenge page where it was exposed to a select group of writers and readers on what was then Stories.Com. This exposure helped me to clean my poem up so that Ashamed now looks like a poet wrote it. (I've never called myself a poet--I'm more of a prose writer with  poetic moments.) This kept me busy until well after 8am MDT//10am EDT. I have in my review cache 198 reviews. The majority of the reviews are on my poems. The majority of my poems are free form--I'm a prose writer, remember? I'm sure I've received more reviews than the 198 shown, but over time items have been deleted from my portfolio and I'm thinking the reviews oninvalid item are purged from the system to maximize room for valid reviews. It just makes sense. Oh, did I respond to pallasathene's review even though she is no longer present on Writing.Com? Yes, I did. Call it walking up to a marker with a name on it and telling the person whom the marker represents, "Thank-you for taking the time to comment on something I'd written, and thus helping me to improve both my written item and my grasp of the craft of writing." Afterall, I'm the writer I am today, only because of all the help I've recieved from other writers yesterday. Oh, you get to the reviews page by clicking on the blue number in the upper left corner of your page marked reviews: ### found under the portfolio numbers. |
| Dawn is at hand--still dark outside--but the birds are singing and my eye lids are getting heavier and heavier---Will be back later. added at 6:10pm I'm all caught up with my daily documentations...now to catch up with bills . Will be back when finances are settled down to their natural state of forever present hovering in the background; rather than the present state of screaming for attention and being a major distraction.added at 11:04pm AAAAAHHHH. Okay pending bills mailed. Budget envelopes stuffed. First quarter budget reconciled with an income/expense deficit I'd really prefer not to discuss. Basically, my grocery budget has been slashed--once again--to meet the other expenses that cannot be slashed but rather keep going up. Things like gas for the vehicle to get me to work so I can pay for gas that keeps going up. .Now a big deep cleansing breath--out with the bad--in with the good--again... I'm ready to write--it's the weekend and time to expand beyond reality  |
| Temps were back to normal for this time of year--55 degrees F for the high and 34 degrees for the low. Yesterday was a warm spring teaser. |
| Wow. 70 degrees F today and 50 degrees F on the way home at 4am. And last week it was 32 degrees F on my wayhome in the a m. |
| Just checked in to keep up with mail and projects |
| wrote a discussion about a story I had written in 2001 and am endeavoring to write/edit into a second draft. did a review and literally did some house cleaning. at 3:14pm I entered a poem into the Dark Dreamscapes Poetry Contest last weekend and today I'm ** Image ID #1985466 Unavailable ** |
| Sweet. Dialogue regarding book revision established. Had a good day at home and now will see what I can see on WdC. |
I'm excited. The weekend begins and I am looking forward to assisting MichelleWriteMeow   with learning how to revise a first draft and then assist through the editing process. Of course, this weekend is just the start--the process will be taking up April at the very least lol (and May and...) |
| And the Plot thickens--at work that is. My IS was at work and that prooved to be interesting in itself. No confrontations or heirarchy changes to this date--which I am very happy about. I don't mind waiting for the fireworks. At the beginning of the shift, she did something 'her' way even though everything had already been prepped by myself and the Night Shift Super last night (ended up making extra work for me)...It didn't set well with the NSSuper and he confirmed (when she was out of the room) that she 'may be' out of the supervisory position sometime soon. Meanwhile, I'm keeping as low a profile as I possibly can. Hmmm--low profile isn't difficult, I'm not that tall. lol |
I had an interesting night at work. All but the last four hours (10.5 hour work day) was April Fools. The Universe started out with gifting me with my IS (Immediate Supervisor) calling in sick. What a pleasant gift, too. I had a very stress free night at work. And guess what? I easily met the priority set for packaging tonight. Without me knowing it, the #3 boss of the whole plant watched my activities for the first three hours and told the overall night shift supervisor there needs to be a change in night packaging supers. Um well, there are only two of us working packaging at night. That leaves only me who is qualified to stand into the supervisory position. Unless, someone on days is placed on nights to supervise and I really don't see that happening. But--APRIL FOOLS!--I suppose if it were the Universe playing games, a third person could come onto nights just to fill the super's position. So short story long--I may be asked to fill the night shift packaging supervisor slot and my present super will be asked to step down. I will have to kill her with kindness if this happens. She isn't the kind of person who is friendly when her ego is hurt. One good thing about this whole mess, I've got 2 years more experience in the job and I'm possibly 10 years older than she is. My attendance record is better than hers (she calls in sick a lot) and I live closer to the work place than she does. These things give me a bit of an advantage in perspective. It is a funny thing--I'm excited about the prospect of a promotion and maybe I'm a bit foolish, but I'm not really worried about how the present night packaging super will take the demotion. Nothing is official until a final decision. I think the Bosses want to speak to my IS before deciding for sure on switching. But, #3 boss is at present very unhappy with my IS. SWEET! with today's blog entry I have posted in my blog 60 days straight without a miss--WOOT! |
I'm invited to participate  in the
I will give it some thought. I may not actually participate in the contest, as the deadline is on the third, but it won't stop me from writing a short (1,000 words or less) story along the theme of the contest. Could be a lot of fun added 8:51am I added a new image to my "Images" :"Hawk"  |
| I finished my second poem with the Dark Dreamscape Theme. This one won't be entered into the April Contest as I've already submitted my entry for this round. But it is in my Port for the community to see. Cautionary note: The theme is adult therefore I've rated this poem accordingly. There are no outright obscenities, but it does have adult content. I've added a new item to my portfolio:
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| I searched my port and found remnants of an old story and this is what I've spent my time working on today. "Malyn's Journal Erntener 18" and "Book: Road to Verloren Chapter 1: Settlers//with notes" have been changed in my "freewrites: prompts, scenes, or teasers" I am using the older entry pages to conserve space in my Portfolio and because these writings need a lot of serious rewriting and editing before the story can be published. In all, I have cleared out 10 journal entries where I plan to place older chapter versions (mostly original writings) for the basis of my Alieren's Orb Book 1: Road to Verloren Keep. These copies I am reposting in my journal which were part of my Portfolio back in 2001, 2002, and 2003. I took them out and deleted the original static items sometime in 2005 or 2006 when they had sat inactive forever. Now, I am enthusiastic about resurrecting these old tomes and breathing new life into a very old story. I will be converting my Journal: "freewrites: prompts, scenes, or teasers" into the Book eventually changing the title to reflect the content change and removing the present freewrite entries and saving those on my home computer, or rather saving those writings worth saving.added March 30, 2014 at 9:48pm I entered my new poem
Meanwhile, I am composing another poem as inspired by Prompt #2...it won't be entered into the contest as the rule only one entry per person per contest round So this one will be in my portfolio as a bonus. |
| I'm doing my taxes this weekend so I will be here to vent off stress from that process lmao. March 29, 2014 at 1:57am  AAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHH!Oh Yea. Much better. Well MT State Tax form is all filled out--just have to file it and wait. Now for the Fed...I need coffee! March 29, 2014 at 7:45am    Yup, at least three cups of coffee later, plus several computer reboots which equates to several tax site reboots--both State and Fed eFile attempts completed and confirmed.phwew! done all. Now I can get on with the rest of my Weekend and enjoy this wonderful writing community. March 29, 2014 at 8:14am I think the first thing I need to do is set some goals for the rest of the weekend. Tonight (my Friday, btw) is nearly over--once the coffee I've indulged in has worn off I will be going to bed to sleep the sunlight away. But until then... I haven't written anything new through to completion in quite a while...I'm tempted to try and complete several project stories written this last month, but may be best for me to concentrate that completion effort on only one. Just need to choose which one lol. Lets see right of the top of my head: there is the Prairie Dog campfire entry that needs resolved; then, there is also my campfire bedtime story just before the Prairie Dog; as well as the very first entry depicting the creation myth as told by Pater to the village children. That is three campfire stories that need to be resolved. lol Then there is the story I started, originally thinking I'd complete it by the end of the Month, for the Genre of the Month Challenge--again the Tour stalled and was put aside about half-way into the story. I'm thinking there was another story I've started and was set aside--but I cannot think of what it might be at the moment. Coffee buzz and tax expedition adventure has numbed the thinking portion of my cognitive function. (Hmmm tinny robotic timbre reverberating in the mind's ear on that laswt sentence.)  Well the best thing I can do at the moment is tour my port folders and find the projects unfinished and then decide which one best fits the mood of my writing this weekend. |
| Ho Boy! Goody, Goody, Goody. March 28, 2014 at 7:34am A quote by Les Edgerton: ...a story is a movement from stability to instability to a new stability. from HOOKED Chapter 1, page 11. |
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