Oh boy. I've got a piece that I wrote for a flash contest and never submitted that either needs to be beefed up or pared down and I'm not sure which. But it's kind of an autumn-y piece, so maybe I should save it for later. And it's kind of "this is my crazy life" which is what I just wrote last week.
Hm. I'm not really intimidated by the idea of an open topic, but I can definitely see why people would be, or might be.
I've had a concept in my head since around the first week of Idol, and I've been dying for it to fit one of the prompts so I could write it, so this might be my chance finally! XD
I know with me it's not so much being intimidated than it is the limitlessness of it. As Gary said, people tend to want choices rather than being given full rein. It's like looking up at the sky out in the Midwest and gasping at its vastnesss (which, incidentially I did more than once the only time I was in Texas).
Nothing as meta as last week, that's for sure. On the bright side, almost everything I can possibly write is the opposite of what I wrote last week, so the sky's the limit.
I think using 'open' might be a little too obvious, though. So I'll have to mull it a bit. It might be back to the serial novel for me this week, but I'm not certain there ....
I don't know what I'm going to write this week. I'd joke about writing time-travel, but I've done that recently. Something else, maybe. We'll see. I like open topics-having the freedom to just write is always nice-but I'm feeling a little burnt-out after mentoring undergrads today, so...no ideas as yet. There was something about "conceptual cities" talked about last week-I might take that and run with it.
Tardigrades are able to survive in extreme environments that would kill almost any other animal, including:
...Pressure - they can withstand the extremely low pressure of a vacuum and also very high pressures, more than 1,200 times atmospheric pressure. Tardigrades can survive the vacuum of open space and solar radiation combined for at least 10 days. Some species can also withstand pressure of 6,000 atmospheres, which is nearly six times the pressure of water in the deepest ocean trench, the Mariana trench.
There was a little talk about incorporating the tardigrades into a story about space-travel. :)
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Ugh.
Choices.
Yay!
Choices.
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I've had a concept in my head since around the first week of Idol, and I've been dying for it to fit one of the prompts so I could write it, so this might be my chance finally! XD
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On the bright side, almost everything I can possibly write is the opposite of what I wrote last week, so the sky's the limit.
I think using 'open' might be a little too obvious, though. So I'll have to mull it a bit.
It might be back to the serial novel for me this week, but I'm not certain there ....
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You are permitted to use if it strikes you hard in the face.
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I don't know what I'm going to write this week. I'd joke about writing time-travel, but I've done that recently. Something else, maybe. We'll see. I like open topics-having the freedom to just write is always nice-but I'm feeling a little burnt-out after mentoring undergrads today, so...no ideas as yet. There was something about "conceptual cities" talked about last week-I might take that and run with it.
Where do everyone's ideas come from?
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Most notably:
Tardigrades are able to survive in extreme environments that would kill almost any other animal, including:
...Pressure - they can withstand the extremely low pressure of a vacuum and also very high pressures, more than 1,200 times atmospheric pressure. Tardigrades can survive the vacuum of open space and solar radiation combined for at least 10 days. Some species can also withstand pressure of 6,000 atmospheres, which is nearly six times the pressure of water in the deepest ocean trench, the Mariana trench.
There was a little talk about incorporating the tardigrades into a story about space-travel. :)
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