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We all get lots of advice–especially people Musers’ age. Unfortunately, even well-meaning people can steer you in the wrong direction. When has that happened to you? How can people recognize bad advice when they hear it? How can they keep from giving bad advice themselves?

Special stay-on-topic thread number 1, inspired by Mothers’ Day.

We all have them. What is yours like? Big or small, concentrated in one place or spread out over several continents? Do you keep in touch with your first cousins? Second cousins? Third cousins? Does your family keep track of its history? If so, how far back in time?

The accepted spelling is “Mother’s,” with the apostrophe before the “s.” But Robert has long felt that as more than one mother is involved, the word should be possessive plural.

Anyway, unlike such bogus holidays as Presidents’ Day, this is one we all have some idea of how to celebrate. What do you do?

You’ve given a lot to the blog (772 posts in seven months, and a whole generation of MuseBloggers, among many other things), and we have learned a lot from you.

Namárië.

She announced the idea on the Tenth Anniversary thread:

I’m working on an extra muse issue for the off – months that would consist entierly of matirial written by readers (that sounded really weird). I’ve asked people to contribute some articles and poems on the latest writing thread. Type “for By the Musers” at the top and end with the name you want the article/poem to be attributed to if it’s published. The magazine will be published three times a year, giving Muse a 12 issue schedule without much work for the editors, and giving musers a chance to have their articles published. Like???

NOW combined with “Stupid Senseless Smiley Stories.” Sheer silliness. So send some soon.

When Musers pool their collective wisdom, something is bound to happen. Here’s where.

(Copper Bigfoot’s idea.)

You MBers certainly love to write! Here’s the latest incarnation of this ever-popular, ever-surprising thread: a place to talk about writing, or post things you’ve written and see what other Musers think.

The old P&S thread was getting a bit long and hard to find, so here’s a fresh notebook to write in.

*Round-Robin ‘Riting. No reason not to have versions .3 and .4 going at the same time. Here’s a place for one of the stories that didn’t jell on 2006.3. If anyone wants individual threads for still other story lines, just say the word.

Your ever-obliging

Administrators

That’s right: in January 2007, the Magazine of Life, the Universe, and Pie Throwing will be 10 years old. How should Muse mark the occasion? If we get our ideas in soon, there’s a chance the editors and publisher might have time to do something with them. (Unfortunately, there isn’t time to make a movie between now and then. If only…)

You can post ideas here for discussion, but make sure they also reach the magazine at muse@caruspub.com or via this handy online form at the official site.

Idea by Emogrl, who says she has 713 theories of her own. Not all at once, please.

Gwendolyn had something to do with the inception of this thread, too, but we’re too lazy to go back and find out exactly what.

Keep an eye on “Dates to Remember,” and post your greetings and glyphs here. Coming up later this month:

05-09 Axa’s birthday (1992 – natural blues)
05-15 Qween Mae’s birthday (1992 – dusty pink)
05-23 Parmandiriel’s birthday (1989 – silver)
05-28 MemyselfandI’s birthday (1992 – blue)

(Parmandiriel doesn’t come around much nowadays, but she was a faithful Muser for many years and deserves honor.)

For those who haven’t done it before, round-robin ‘riting is like a relay race. One person writes for a while, then stops and lets someone else take over for a while. You can find examples in earlier RRR threads. It helps to decide in advance whether to agree on an overall leader to keep the story on track, and whether certain characters “belong” to certain writers as in a role-playing game. Beyond that, anything goes.

Now: who’s in, and what’s the story?

Nancy Kangas’s birthday is Sunday. Felicitations, O incomparable Musewriter!

(*Her name in Ble. Not “Naka”–we misremembered.)

There have been complaints that birthdays are taking over the blog. What do you think? Should we just post a monthly thread for everyone born in, say, May? Any other ideas? We’re all ears. (That’s a weird expression, when you think about it.)

It’s in this week’s issue of that other magazine several MuseBloggers like. What do you think of the editors’ choices? What would a Muse 100 look like?

(Thanks to Erato for suggesting this thread.)

All we know is that she was born in May, and that we’re glad she was.

[Our mistake. See you in July! –Admin.]

High Member of the Triad’s idea. There seem to be a lot of you out there.

Step right up to receive your welcome pie and ask the old hands what’s going on around here. First, though, please read The Rules. You might also glance at The HG2MB (Hitchhiker’s Guide to MuseBlog).

Their letter in the May issue declared that Muse is for nerds and could seriously damage one’s social status. Some of you think they’re clueless. Others think they’re kidding. Shriya Jeffica thinks they deserve a thread all their own. We’re not sure about that but are willing to give it a try.