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Places we’d like to visit
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Not that I’m a fountain of interesting things but I’ll try starting this one. (Apologies if I am mistaken in thinking I’m first)
Even though summer’s over now, where are some place you all would like to go at some point? Why?
For me it’s:
Japan
Washington (state)
Northern Europe (Finland etc)
Scotland
Ireland
My explanation for Japan would take too long. The other places are mostly because I want to see/feel the scenery. I saw some pictures of people in Finland once while journal hopping and the sky seemed so clear and blue and bright there. Washington seems very nice too, and Scotland and Ireland as well!
Venice (but you all know that, right?)
The British Isles (everywhere)
There was more…
Greece (FUN!)
Canada
Australia
The East Coast (ooh, specific)
France
Santa Barbara
I still think there were more, but I can’t think what they were, so I’m not going to try to dredge them up.
I want to go to Venice because it seems very eerie and old and crumbly, not to mention it’s on the water. I want to go to the British Isles for too many reasons to put down here. Nice scenery. I want to go to Greece because it’s the Mediterranean and because it has nice things growing there and it looks beautiful. I want to go to Canada for reasons I’m not really sure of. The only one I can pin down is the unpronounceable names of towns in French Canada and the beautiful scenery in Victoria, and we have both those here. I want to go to Australia because it’s . . . different there. Different animals. Different words. I want to go the East Coast so that I can a) see the Atlantic and b) meet some Musers. I want to go to France because of the scenery. I want to go (back) to Santa Barbara because it’s utterly gorgeous and the air smells like flowers.
Then add all the numerous places I’ve seen in kayak videos and pictures, and Greenland on principle because the nicest paddles come from there, and I have enough to keep me going for a lifetime.
I’d like to go to some big city with my mom someday, and go to lots of museums and big stores.
Places I’d like to visit:
Maine
Cuba (this will probably not happen but my mom was born there)
An island in the Caribbean, besides Cuba
Quebec
Greece
Japan
Sweden
California
London
Greenland
Switzerland
Places I’d like to revisit:
France (I went to Paris, but I’d like to go to other parts too)
Cape cod
Cambridge, MA
Chicago (preferably not stranded in a holiday inn with no clothes? airlines, could you do that for me?)
Florida (I went there when I was 4…)
That’s all I can think of now. but there’s more, I’m sure.
place I would like to vist:
tokyo disney
sweden
paris
Hawaii
that is all I can think of…
YAY for Canada, best country in the world. please excuse me, i love my county. it probably isn’t the best country in the word but i love it anyways.
I want to revisit england and ireland again, france too. germany would be fun it is ssoooooo beutiful.
Has anyone seen hot fuzz? it is one AWESOME movie. i was in the town where it was filmed many years ago.
can the gapas put this in post 0: places we want to go.
I don’t know. Costal Conneticut suits me fine. I’m not much of a traveler, I guess.:neutral:
I forgot Alaska, Hawaii, and Ireland in my previous post.
5- I’ve only been to Canada once, so I wouldn’t know…
Hmm.
The Cavern Club.
CBGB (unfortunately, it’s a bit of an impossibility, as it closed last October).
All of Europe and the Mediterranean.
The Kalahari.
Palau.
Japan.
Disney Paris.
Alaska.
Nevada (unpopulated area).
Provincetown.
New York City.
Haight-Ashbury again.
Australia.
The moon, and space in general.
The cannabis culture shop in Toronto.
Glass Onion.
The National Museum of Spam.
Iceland.
Harvington Hall.
More of the United Kingdom.
Burmuda.
Canada is love.
I want to go to these places in order:
Paris (ooh la la!!!)
Versailles
Ireland
Scotland
London
I will think of more later probably.
Places I wish to visit in no particular order:
Argentina!
Spain
Panama
Chile
Peru
Okay, South and central America
and Mexico.
Not that Spain’s in the Americas anywhere…
Scotland, Wales, England, Ireland eee british isles!!!!!
Europe
Venice (whee! canals!)
Italy
I know I’m being rather redundant here at times…
New York City as I’ve never been there before
London
Edinburgh!!!!! (did I spell that right?)
Nepal! (My uncle’s been there a bazillion times and it’s really cool!)
Egypt
Botswana
New Zealand
Japan
Sweden! (I know someone who is there right now! She’s studying abroad!)
Places to re- visit
Paris, I’d like to see more than just the big landmarks
France in general
Costa Rica!! I love it there! Especially in the Monteverde Cloud forest preserve
Seattle as I only got to spend a day there and it’s an amazing city
Madison, Wisconsin. One can never have too much Madison, Wisconsin.
Random places where my relatives live (yes, this does include Madison. (Madison, Portland, Santa Barbara, DC, LA etc… etc…)
Although everyone thinks I’m NUTS, I want to go to North Dakota. I actually used to want to live there, but since then I’ve gotten some sense in my head, and I now would just like to see it.
I might get to go to China…someone sorta off-handed invited me. That would be pretty cool. I’d rather go to Russia, though. That is where my sister is right now…I would love to be with her!
I’d like to go to England to see the Tower of London
Venice. Definitely want to go to Venice while I’m still young.
I want to got to;
Ireland, (music)
Scotland, (music)
England, (music)
Wales, (not sure why…)
And a lot of other places, but I can’t think of them right now.
Wow, that went fast! Thanks GAPAs!
16- please pay cholkit to the popopo. that was a popo
9- i’m so glad you think so.
10- you could go to paris thent ake the bbike tour of versailles.
you should all come up to canada. yay.
I want to go to NYC again. if any of you are passing through there go to the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MoCCA).
15-Ireland and Wales would be sweet. let’s have a kokonvention there
17-thanking the GAPAs is never pointless
i’m going to the UP again next summer. first time in 4 years! we used to go every year. then we kind of went to every other, then when we moved to ohio we kind of just stopped. we went to BI for two years before we moved and we’ve lived here for 2 years. so i’m really excited to go up there again. we rented a cabin in the bottom part of the keewenaw, right by the bay.
sooo fun yay
Hmm. I would like to go to Russia, Africa, and Australia.
I would like to revisit the Grand Canyon, Florida, Hong Kong, and some places in China that I went to earlier this summer. I was there for 16 days with a group of 40 people. It was amazing and it all went so fast that it didn’t hit me how far from home I was until I got on the plane back to LA. I have some pictures of myself reading Muse in the Forbidden City. I’ll send one later. Is the e-mail GAPA @ musefanpage.com?
The e-mail for the magazine is muse @ caruspub.com. Here on the blog, we’re gapa @ musefanpage.com . We might have to change that address soon, as we’ve started getting tons of spam. We’ll let you know if that happens.
21-Thanks! I’ll send pictures to both of them then as soon as I figure out where the pictures are on my dad’s computer.
21- I would go with kokopelli @ musefanpage.com.
out of curiosity: is there a steriotypical image of canadians? I’m sure you know the steriotypical imige of americans. just wondrin’ what the other countries thought of my great nation.
24- playing hockey, then whatching hockey, then shovoling snow.
21- or gapas at musefanpage dot com
17- that’s more pointless than the post you think is pointless. Pointless posts are more like “OMG LOLZ RANDOMNESS!!!” than “thanks GAPAs!” As Ebeth says, thanking GAPAs is never pointless
India
Kokokino County
Ireland
Sweden
Bhutan
and lots more…
24~ice skating from birth
Gapas, has the magazine gotten a postcard from Australia? or would you know?
(27) We don’t know. We don’t work for the magazine.
Kokokino County
Ireland
France
China
etc…
24- Freezing to death.
28- what!?!?!?!?!?! you work for them! you do the Q&A! or has that been killed off??!?!?!
I’m planning on visiting every one of the fifty states, so far I got 28 that I have already visited…
30-It’s a part-time thing, and they don’t really get to make decisions much from what I understand.
Two people spelled Kokonino county wrong!?!?!?
we up in frozen canada wear our big buffalo hide coats to school every day, our buses get canceled ’cause of the yeaar ’round snow. we shovel so much of it it’s not funny. lacross is our national sport, they have to fight their way through blizards to win.
33- Riiiiiight. You’re the expert, I guess, but I don’t believe any of that except the lacrosse.
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34- wow, did you take the genius test? I’m kidding ofcourse. the lacross bit is true. buuuuut, the mounties used to wear big buffalo hide coats that were heavy and hot but really heavyduty. then they got rid of them.
35- this is not a therd on which you post a long string of one word.
33- Ha. that sounds like what people say about my state! (I live near the northernmost non alaskan point in the US) and they seem to think *we* have year round snow. Silly people don’t realize that we have summers too! Do people say such things about canada?
New topic! Our aliases (not the secret ones): Who are they, what do they do, and other things.
I have many of them, and I will reveal them all in time.
39- can’t we just morph this topic? that is a good topic tho…
Yes, morph this topic. What did you think I meant?
I just like saying morph!! morphmorphmorphmorph. But enough of that. Say, do you like pie?
By the way, I want to go to Kokonino County with a huge army of rabid pink bunnies. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A newbie! *jumps out of the lotus position, scattering veils everywhere, with a most un-oracular look in her eye* *reaches into her robes, draws out a pie, and lobs it at Koko’s Evil Brother* I predict that you will be very sticky in a short time!
I want to visit every single country except Russia, Germany, China, Brazil, Spain, Argentina, Egypt, France, England, India, Austrailia, Austria,Mexico, Algeria, (wherever that is), Canada, Italy, Indonesia,Greece, blahblahblah,ZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Well, you get the point.
41- no you were just making a new topic.
how about the topic be “solving writes block”
a way I solve writes block is to read nonfiction. I get good Ideas from nonfiction. it is strange.
45 ~ Why not those? Or are you just saying you never want to go anywhere?
38- yeah, people *coughamericanscough* think we live in igloos and wear parkas and watch hokey.
45- WHY DON”T YOU WANT TO VISIT CANADA??:????????????? *pies* *pies* *pies* take no offense, i adore my country. heeeyyyyyy……. so many of those countrys are awesome places ( ESPECIALY CANADA) somehow your coment has angered my soul. *Kagys soul rears up in anger*
50- Um, really? That’s a little stereotypical of them, isn’t it?
50- Igloos are in alaka, not canada! but don’t you watch hokey and wear parkas?
ooh. alter ego’s. What, goes on thus? Who doth annoy me with silly topics? I suppose you all want to challenge me, with sword!*Swings foil around menacingly*
45- *hperactively scratches Argentina off the list*
I want to go to Ireland. Because they have pretty horses. o-o What? Aye, of course 3/4 of the reason I want to go anywhere is because of horses. Except maybe Kokonino County.
51- yeah but i don’t care too much.
52- in case you didn’t know igloos are in Canada too. if you look on the map you will notica that a large portion of my country is the arctic. loads of people watch/play hokey and loads don’t. the Inuit wear parkas and warm clothing because they live in the arctic.
45- are you new?
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Japan
toyko
irland
all by flight simulator
i love it
I want to basically “do Europe”. Climb the stairs to the top of the Eiffel Tower, drive on the Autobahn, get an official Italian espresso (or “flavored Italian mud”, as my mom and I call it)…the list goes on.
Try Wales. Wales is pretty. Well, the pretty bits are, anyway.
58-Lol…that makes sense, I suppose.
I’ll come visit you, too!
just asking, why is the random thread closed?
i wanna go to prince edward island again! it was sooo pwetty!
59 – Right you are. I’ll get a new teapot.
new topic
how about writer’s block?
That’s really annoying. Especially when you know what you want to write, but can’t figure out how to say it.
I think there are three types:
1. beginning block (can’t come up with a start)
2. mid story block (can’t keep writing)
3. see post 63.
I don’t have writer’s block so much as writer’s laziness. Or laziness. Or I just get fed up at how horrible my writing is being. That’s why I like NaNoWriMo, because I’m almost forced to write. Not that I got very far, anyway. But still…
I love Canada. I want to become Canadian. Or Scottish.
That’s my current ailment. I feel like I want to write, but I can’t. You know, when you feel the story but it’s not ready. So I draw. Basically post 63.
Also, editing block where you don’t know what to change/add. That’s what I have.
I usually am inspired by passages of great description that look like they were fun to write. I think “hey, I want to write this!” and then I go and write something random.
I get writer’s so much. Not the first kind but the other 2.
Ugh. This is a little off topic, but 2 preps were just sitting on my computer, harassing me.
Anyway, I have no trouble starting stories, I just never finish them
64 – There’s a fourth type. It’s usually at least 30cm square and 10cm thick (otherwise it wouldn’t qualify as a block). Some writiers swear by it, but I’ve never really seen the advantage. I do most of my writing on a computer, and when I do resort to a pen, a table, acting in a material support role, suits me admirably. And a block isn’t exactly portable, either. Too perishing heavy. I wouldn’t bother with one, if I were you.
69-Oh, yes, I see your point. It’s really too bad, as the fourth type are quite quaint.
69 ~ That made me laugh in a pathetic stuffy nose kind of way that sounded so incredibly stupid that my nose cleared up. Or something. Interesting.
64 ~ I’m a type I.
69- hahahahahahaha!
63- Ugh. Victim of type 2 here.
69- I quite agree. Now how big is a centimeter again? Oh yeah, it’s a sixth of my thumb. ‘Kay, thanks.
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I’m almost always type #3 – Can’t figure out how to say what you want.
I’m also a victim- no, I’m a volunteer for laziness. That’s why I’m not in all advanced classes, and that’s why I get slightly below average grades. Smart, but lazy.
After much dedicated and infuriating study (aka an english class in which we discussed how to write essays) I have decided that Type 3 Writer’s Block is an affliction that stems predominately from actually thinking to much about what you want to say, because, you see, thinking hard about what you wish to say leads to wordiness.
Type 3 WB can generally be cured by a quick rewriting of an exert from a favorite book or RRR. Usually.
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Yeah, when you get too brainy, you lose everything you had thought, because you’re too busy trying to be a brainiac. Just write down what you want, don’t let anything else stop you!!
I just have trouble thinking of starts to stories, and expressing what i want to write… (1,3) (…4) I once took a wooden block, dipped it in ink, and wrote with it. (it doesn’t work well unless you write with the corners.)
Wow…that sounds almost as hard as painting with a torn sponge (which I had to do yesterday)
I’ve sort of cured my WB by making a spreadsheet with the characters in the book and how they are related to each other. I also made a few nice relations that weren’t there before to spice things up. Seamus has a nice interesting history now, which will give Thomasina and Sara a way out of the dungeon, and Maria’s mother is actually working against Makepeace, using Andrew as a spy. (Andrew is not the most reliable spy, but whether or not that will factor into it I’m not sure. He sort of decides whose side he’s on by who’s offering the greatest reward/punishment at the moment, and counts on pure charisma and lying skills to get himself back into the good graces of those he betrayed.)
hmm. Writer’s block. Frequent problem. That’s why I like RRR. Always someone to freshen it up.
80- ‘Zackly. But it’s a bad habit. I find it very hard to write without someone to freshen it up now.
78- Last year my art teacher told us to paint with paper clips. Most of us ended up tearing our paper and painting normally.
65- yes, Canada IS awesome isn’t it.
80- I like RRRs too.
I don’t get writers block. I just lose interest and stop writing.
83 coments how pathetic. no one posts anymore.
84- how is that pathtic? this is sopost to be slow.
78- a sponge? hmm, you would get a weird texture, but if you made somthing with that, it shouldn’t be too hard, right?
82- heh heh.
83- heh, me two.
83- If so, how many stories do you actually finish?
85- usualy there are loads of posts. now there’s under 100.
87- well, all the one i do for school and one extracuricular and it was really crapy.
88- at lest we have only had one stringofwordsjustrepeting.
90- true, true.
I find it so hard to finish stories. I get almost to the end, and then I can’t figure out how to write the last sentence without it sounding cheesy.
91- ah, yes. at least you get that far. any ways, just write, and then the editor will help it ound less chessy. thats what there there for.
Um, what editor?
Hmmmm……. writers block. Yes, I do suffer from this, and yes, it is extraodinarily annoying. I get it when my stories become too cliché.
‘Take a pen in your uncertain fingers.
Trust, and be assured, that the whole world is a sky blue butterfly
and words are the nets to capture it. ‘
That’s my cure all writers block poem.
94- VIXEN! Long time no see! *hugs* *pies*
Lovely poem.
(93) People who write for magazines and book publishers have editors to help them put their writing into final form, just as movie actors have people to dress them and style their hair. MBers, however, are on their own.
I know that, but since when do I write for a magazine?
Unless Muse happens to be hiring…
93- the rest of the blog! on the writing therd!
98-Aha.
95- *huggles and pies* It is good to see you, too.
By the way, I didn´t write the poem, but I can´t remember the author……
Writers block can be cured by reading a phone book. You get so bored you can´t help not thinking of ideas!!!!
100- I find that reading Shakespeare clogs my mind up so much that I just need to rest. Then, I go right back to my usual productivity. Reading Shakespeare is my cure for writer’s block.
100,101- Actually, cleaning house tends to have the same effect. Never tried reading a phone book, though. And I like Shakespeare.
102- I like shakespeare too.
102, 103- Let me rephrase that: Reading Shakespeare without meaning to really understand it; I like Shakespeare when I want to understand it. Just reading through, not thinking a lot about it cures my writer’s block.
G G G GOOD NOONY MUSEBLOGGRS!
hey how is every one? I’m so sorry i haven’t been on but guess what? I broke my arm playing soccer. I mean, come on. Why should anyone be deprived f the computer for SO LONG?
I loooooooooooooove Shakespeare and Romeo and Juliet is the best…So romantic. I do not have writers block at all because i’ve been writing with my good hand this whole time. I’d like to post a story sooner or later. I’ll get back to u on that.
Pies and hwuggs,
Agrrrfishi, Holder of the Diamond Keyboard
You know what? I have writers block right now.
yeah same
Whenever i have writer’s block, i define a word. Yes, i know that sounds strange. But i just pick a word, “dark” for instance, and write down what i think it means, what i think its connotations are, and my feelings about it. That usually seems to help for some reason, at least when i’m trying to write poetry. I don’t write a whole lot of prose, so i don’t know how it would work with that. But anyway, it doesn’t sound like it would work, but it does. For me.
This looks like a lovely topic, writer’s block, that is, but I would like to bring attention to the topic of cognates: words that have a similar origin. Like, telefono and telephone mean the same thing in different languages, yet they look very similar and are pronounced in a very similar way.
I want to know about when you first heard a cognate and what you think of them.
I don’t get writer’s block. What I do get is writer’s clog, which is when you have too many ideas and they build up in the narrow spaces of your mind, blocking the free flow of thought. It’s far more painful and frustrating than writer’s block, particularly in the nether regions of the nervous system. It can be cured by reading Gray’s Anatomy, eating dill pickles, or dousing your brain in dish soap and lye (not recommended).
Of course, I do know a cure for writer’s block. Simply write a paragraph describing mist, and at the end, write about something- anything- emerging from the mist.
i can’t think of any thing to say
I think that perhaps what I get is less like writer’s block than something else. I can always write something, be I in the mood or not, but not necessarily something relating to my current stories. As I am an idealistic person who likes to have no more than three projects going at a time, this is a problem.
I also get ennui, which differs from block in that I could write something, but I lack the will.
I get something else. I can write the beginning and end of a story but I can’t connect them. Bleh.
Hi everyone! *pies*
Goodness, I haven’t been on in months. I see so many new people. PC and Capri, Hi! And Alice and Ebeth and Agrrrfish and groundhog! And anyone else who was on way back then, and everyone else! Well, I’m in highschool now, it’s really hard, and I’m going to Hogwarts! Well, not really, but it’s really similar. Whenever I tell people I’ve already moved out they think I mean college.
As for Writer’s Block, I can write a beginning of a story, and then the middle, and then I don’t know how to end it. I’m pretty good at description, though, but then the writing gets too flowery without any action.
sigh. tomarow is a new therd.
true. *does a sad last post dance*
No!! Sorry… *last post dance*