{"id":1082,"date":"2022-02-03T13:48:34","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T12:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/?p=1082"},"modified":"2022-02-03T13:48:34","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T12:48:34","slug":"season-18-alphaday-8-bulletin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/season-18-alphaday-8-bulletin\/","title":{"rendered":"Season 18 &#8211; Alphaday 8 &#8211; Bulletin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hi Alphas,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Welcome to Alphaday 8, Season XVIII. We\u2019re moving ahead and each new Alphaday brings us plenty of material to think about, to learn from and to add to our already well-stocked writerly repertory for future use. We\u2019re lucky to be part of such an enthusiastic group of writers, all with different approaches to the art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This time our Alpha team has once more put together a tasty menu for us all to enjoy and take in over the next few weeks. As follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Alphaday 8, Season XVIII agenda:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>This bulletin from me<\/li><li>The brief for Challenge 6 from Rick<\/li><li>The collated entries for The Open Page, ed. 2, Season XVIII, from Christine<\/li><li>The feedback and results of the character \/ dialogue challenge from Francesca<\/li><li>The Alpha Log 4 contributions from Phil<\/li><li>A Writers\u2019 Reads prompt from Christine<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s enough there to keep you busy well beyond the weekend. Enjoy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Alpha news <\/strong>will be presented in the Log and related by the Alphas themselves. Something to look forward to!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>General news: <\/strong>just one little item that caught my attention. It\u2019s about typos \u2013 those dreadful little errors that can ruin your well-crafted piece of writing if you\u2019re careless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UK population is joyfully looking forward to the Queen\u2019s Platinum Jubilee, the exact date of which is the 6<sup>th<\/sup> of February, this upcoming Sunday. The main celebrations and public ceremonials will take place in the beginning of June, when the weather might be a bit more clement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The souvenir industry has been busy manufacturing all sorts of weird trinkets to celebrate the happy event, and one amusing incident caught my attention. A series of mugs and plates had been ordered with inscriptions and a picture of the Queen \u2026 from China. Why China? One may well wonder. Would it not suit the patriotic spirit more to have them made in the UK? Oh, it\u2019s probably cheaper, because they don\u2019t pay their workers much. That would explain it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Was the order placed over the phone? That might explain the typo that crept into the loud inscription on all the objects. \u201cThe Queen\u2019s Jubbly!\u201d it read. Priceless! The firm responsible for this was unfazed. They\u2019d sell the lot as a rare curiosity with an unusual typo in the text \u2013 upping the price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the current inhabitant of No.10 Downing Street is still in residence there by June, he\u2019ll no doubt celebrate the Jubbly with some glasses of bubbly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beware of typos, dear Alphas!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Christine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Alphas, Welcome to Alphaday 8, Season XVIII. We\u2019re moving ahead and each new Alphaday brings us plenty of material to think about, to learn from and to add to our already&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-1082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alphaday-bulletins","tag-alphaday-bulletins-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}