Writer's Workshop General Chat Thread

[adiosToreador]

“How was your day, despite the fact that you found out you have cancer?”

o.0

That's...a little blunt.

[Gama]

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[The Jingster]

The voting thread is up, time to cast yer votes for reviewer and newbie

[ectoBiologist]

yay voting day.

[TheLlama]

So today is constitution Day in Norway. 198 years of semi-independence (and 107 of actual independence), wohoo!

Love how there's Norwegians (or people with such ancestry) all over the world celebrating it with parades and god-knows-what.

[ectoBiologist]

lol, champagne for any norweigans? on the fourth of july (signing of the declaration of independence in america for all those foreigners who don't know), i usually go to the beach and hang out with my family and drink champagne and shoot firecrackers xD. i don't normally drink underage, but when i do, i get crazy.

[TheLlama]

I bet there's a lot of champagne :P Aside that we have HUGE parades in every city, town and village (and everywhere else in the world there's Norwegians {fun fact: there are more Norwegian-Americans than there are Norwegians}), school bands play everywhere, this year's graduates party hard (and I mean hard), and the rest is all about the kids; May 17th is a day for children first and foremost.

Oh, and don't forget our epic national dress, the bunad.

As far as I know it's not actually illegal to drink while underage in Norway x) (though it is illegal to provide minors with alcohol)

[Tophat Dragoneye]

I drank a glass of champagne once, when I graduated from the gymnasium, even though I don't drink and never had, i decided to skip my self-imposed rule just once for the occasion.

In other news, the septic tank where I live is right now... how should i put this... filled up with s(beep)t, and we can't use the toilet until someone comes and empties it. As for the smell, well... I'm close to be like this whenever I walk outside the door:

[ectoBiologist]

ohhhh that's gotta suck. xD. i remember that happened with my house. good god it was terrible.

[Flaze]

I just wanted to wish everyone good luck for the judging portion of the awards, may the best writer win.

[Kelleo]

Yeah, good luck to all. I probably won't win. Like my Zelda fic will stand up at all to something as popular as Lady Lucifer's story. xP

[The Jingster]

Popularity has nothing to do with it, in fact, that's why its decided by a judging panel, so that they may judge by the quality and merits of that work.

-sage nod-

[LightningTopaz]

I'm touched "Life From the Fireside" was nominated, but I'm not expecting it to win.

Speaking of which, I have a new tale in that...

[TheLlama]

Hmm. It would be nice to win "best newcomer", but since I don't have any active stories I'm not keeping my hopes held high into the sky :P

So what are people spending the day with? I've been debating politics and philosophy all day, now I'm spell-checking and putting the finishing touches (finally!) to my new fic. It's a kind of lengthy first chapter, heavy on introspection and introducing this and that, but I've gotten a fairly green light from my two betas, so I'm hoping it will be to your liking when it gets up (and if you read it :P)

After it's up, I'm shifting to reading a few people's fanfics and drafts, betaing and reviewing a few stories.

[LightningTopaz]

I've been reading over nominees in my category and posted a new episode of "Live from the Fireside"