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For those of you just tuning in:

This was Alice’s idea, sort of a cross between RRRs and RPGs with a touch of epistolary novel. Here’s how she described it:

Everyone makes up one character (made up, mind you!) and we decide on plot, time, etc. just like usual. Then we start. It would be in the form of letters or e-mails, and we would say at the top of our post who the letter was to.

Everyone would have to read all of the posts, though, to prevent conflicting plot twists, but their character wouldn’t know about whatever the letter said unless it was addressed to them.

Get it?
If not, then phooey. That was hard to explain.

Here are images of Alice‘s sheep.

Elizabeth‘s photos are below, posted in comment #31.
Also, see kt the gr8‘s artwork at comment #23.

NaNoWriMo’s new sibling debuts today. The challenge: write a 20,000-word script or screenplay in 30 days. So far, 6 10 11 MBers (+ 1 GAPA) have signed on. Others who want to participate, go to scriptfrenzy.org for details.

MB Participants:
Alice
biblioRose
Capricious the Great and Terrible
Ebeth [Whatever Her Current Title Is]
grnqween2011
pen,/ta/to’/nikk (adj)
purplefinch
Purple Panda
Sweet Melpomene
Taiwan Hippo Fan
Zyka
Lady Bunniful

So, Frenzyers, what are you writing about? What are your strategies? Come celebrate, commiserate, advise, or procrastinate. Most of all, have fun!

O’er the glad waters of the dark blue sea,
Our thoughts as boundless, and our soul’s as free
Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam,
Survey our empire, and behold our home!
These are our realms, no limits to their sway-
Our flag the sceptre all who meet obey.
Ours the wild life in tumult still to range
From toil to rest, and joy in every change.
Oh, who can tell? not thou, luxurious slave!
Whose soul would sicken o’er the heaving wave;
Not thou, vain lord of wantonness and ease!
whom slumber soothes not – pleasure cannot please –
Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried,
And danced in triumph o’er the waters wide,
The exulting sense – the pulse’s maddening play,
That thrills the wanderer of that trackless way?
That for itself can woo the approaching fight,
And turn what some deem danger to delight….

— George Gordon, Lord Byron, after six threads worth of Ships’ Logs, as overcome as the rest of us

Continued from part 6.

Alice’s idea, sort of a cross between RRRs and RPGs with a touch of epistolary novel. Here’s how she described it:

Everyone makes up one character (made up, mind you!) and we decide on plot, time, etc. just like usual. Then we start. It would be in the form of letters or e-mails, and we would say at the top of our post who the letter was to.

Everyone would have to read all of the posts, though, to prevent conflicting plot twists, but their character wouldn’t know about whatever the letter said unless it was addressed to them.

Get it?
If not, then phooey. That was hard to explain.

Continued from Part 1.

Does practice ever make perfect?

Continued from 2007.2, as you might have guessed.

Alice
Anata ChinTsu
Beavo the Great
Capricious
Cat’s Meow
Cinnamon Moon
Curious + questioning/Dodecahedron
dark duke of darkness
Donaldo the supercoolio awesome nerd
Dotty-kay
e~a
Ebeth
emmatheduck
E2MB
Glassboro
grnqween2011
Jadestone
Julieb
Kiki the Great
kt the gr8
Margaret
NatTheCat
Paul
Penty
Piggy
Potato Chip
purplefinch
Purple Panda
Red-tailed HAWK
Rebecca
Robert
Rosanne
Shadowkat
SuperSaiyan424
SupremeMuser2000
Sweet Melpomene
THF
T.N.Ö. Lilbro
The Skipper Nancy
Traggle
Vendaval
wingnut

The artwork will be posted as soon as possible — probably sometime this weekend — before we upload it to CaféPress so we can be sure we have all the correct signatures.

The inevitable.

Continued from Part 3.

Always among our favorite things.

Continued from Books and Reading, Part 3, of course.

Prarilius Canix has been quietly laboring on a story thread that began almost a year ago. The current story began in April, inspired by Robert’s Muse/Harry Potter Fanfic (which can be found here and here). PC describes his tale as “the Muses wreaking havoc in the world of Eragon.”

Alice has also started a story “of how the Muses made a time machine, went back in time, and found the lost tenth Muse of literature.”

Please note: these are not RRRs but solo projects which share the same thread. Start your own or just stop by and visit. Writing doesn’t have to be a lonely business, at least not on MuseBlog.

Continued from https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=793 .

Here’s how to participate:

1. Create your signature, using whatever “natural” or digital media you like.
2. Scan the results, if necessary (preferably at 200 or 300 dpi)
3. Send by email to gapa @ musefanpage.com (except without the spaces)
OR if you have no way of scanning your signature, you may send it by U.S. mail to Rebecca Lasley c/o P. O. Box 3, Jamestown NC 27282.

The deadline is end of blogging day, May 15 (that is, it should be there by the time we check the mail the next morning.)

No last names on the signatures, please–blognames and/or first name plus last initial only. Plain or embellished, as you prefer. Take a look at the first edition to get the idea (see comment #8 below).

You will also notice some show up better than others. Here are some tips:

LINE WIDTH: the graphics will print best if the lines are not too thin or light. For drawing with natural media, something at least as thick as a “fine” Sharpie (not “ultra fine”) is perfect, though you may have to write larger letters than you’re used to. Pencil and fine point pens will simply get lost, especially when reduced to fit on items smaller than shirts. For digital, use a medium or large brush (at least 5 pixels, 10 or more is better, for those programs which allow you to specify).

SIZE: make it big. Probably bigger than you think. There are so many variables, it’s hard to be specific, but if the file size is smaller than 80k, it’s likely too small. Most of those that proved easiest to work with last time ran from 150k up to 1 MB. No one has ever sent anything too big. It’s much easier for us to reduce a graphic cleanly than it is to enlarge one that is too small. If you can, print a copy to see how it looks.

FILE FORMAT: Most graphics programs will support the following: jpg, bmp, png, or gif. (When you save the file, look for “save as” or “export” in the file menu). If you use Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, CorelDraw, Corel Painter, or Paint Shop Pro, you can send a file in its native format. PDFs are also fine. Ask if you have something else.

IF THESE INSTRUCTIONS DON’T MAKE SENSE TO YOU, DON’T WORRY. Just do what you can and send it in. We’ve learned a trick or two since last time and will find a way to make it work.

The old one is too cumbersome to load, so in answer to Alice’s request, here’s a fresh slate.

The original idea came from Prarilius Canix, who requested “a thread for Musers who have written/are writing/want to write books… a place to bounce ideas off of other people who share that interest.”

The first draft of the first part of RRR 2007.2 is now complete.

The current version can be found here.

A new installment of a time-honored MuseBlog tradition, by request of Bob and E2MB. Take a look at version 2006.4 to see how it works.

Random Dark Cloud suggested this topic: “My world history teacher seems to hate the internet and most other technology. Could we have a thread on the reliability of Wikipedia, Google and other search engines?”

Do those who live by Wikipedia die by Wikipedia? How do you look, what do you find, how do you judge? Where do you go from there? A hitchhiker’s guide on how not to be roadkill on the information superhighway. * (But say it without links, please.)

*a term which, of course, Wikipedia describes as “now obsolete”

ADVENTURES IN THE MUSIVERSE
Chronicles of Museica, Part the Fourth (recommended by Glassboro)
Pie Isle, Part 2 (Dotty-Kay)

WRITING
RRR 2006.1, Part 4 [the original] (Penty)
RRR, v. 2007.2 (Science-fiction) – Part 3 (E2MB)
RRR, v. 2007.3 (Capt. Pye & Co.) (Alice)
RRR, v. 2007.4 [fractured fairy tale]) (Alice)
RRR, v. 2007.5 (spirits/evil things) (Glassboro)
TERRA formed, Part 1: The Edit (E2MB)
Books in Progress, v. 2007.2 (Alice)
Poems & Songs (Penty)

SILLY FUN
Alliteration (E2MB)
SSSS [“Stupid Senseless Smiley Stories”] (Lady Moonstar)
Random Factoids, v. 2007.1 (E2MB)
The Polling Place, v. 2007.1 (Purple Panda)
Living History (Alice)
Pie War 2007, Part 4 (agagabagabag)
Riddles, Part 2 (Alice)
Muse RPG, v. 2007.1 (agagabagabag)
Alter Ego Thread, v. 2007.2 (agagabagabag)

OTHER THINGS WE LIKE
Harry Potter, v. 2007.1 (grnqween2011)
Manga, Anime, and Graphic Novels, v. 2007.2 (Axa)
Music, v. 2007.2 (Jadestone)
Questioning the ‘Net (RavenHawk)
Song Lyrics (Red-tailed HAWK)
Español (Glassboro)
Quotations 2007.1 (Green Qween)
Books and Reading, Part 4 (widdershins (e~a))

CELEBRATING GLORIOUS MOMENTS GLORIOUS BUNNIES FAMILY PHOTOS

As suggested by Capricious the great and terrible, a thread “where Musebloggers can write the name, how to pronounce, and description of an object that they ‘found’, and other Musebloggers can read it and tell them what they think.”