{"id":256,"date":"2014-05-17T17:22:13","date_gmt":"2014-05-17T16:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/?p=256"},"modified":"2014-09-17T15:01:02","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T14:01:02","slug":"alpha-season-x-alphaday-11-bulletin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/alpha-season-x-alphaday-11-bulletin\/","title":{"rendered":"Alpha Season X &#8211; Alphaday 11 Bulletin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Alphas,<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to Alphaday 11. We\u2019re definitely approaching the summer break now. Summer? Well, there\u2019s a lot of vegetation activity out there and it looks gorgeous\u2026 especially when the sun shines and it\u2019s reasonably warm. But we don\u2019t call it the \u2018summer\u2019 break in Alpha lingo anyway, because for some of our members the seasonal flow is inverted. The \u2018fallow period\u2019 will do. We\u2019ll be idling, just ticking over while we wait for the next season to start.<\/p>\n<p>This Alphaday\u2019s activities are reduced. There won\u2019t be another Alpha challenge until September. That\u2019s going to be hard. We\u2019ll have to concentrate on our personal writing!<\/p>\n<p>The following is on today\u2019s menu:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This bulletin from me<\/li>\n<li>The Log from Margie<\/li>\n<li>The results of the jealousy challenge from Clare<\/li>\n<li>The compiled entries for the diamond ring challenge from Geoff<\/li>\n<li>The ongoing and ever-growing collection of showcasing pieces from Clare<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One of the usual items may be missing from the list, but there\u2019s still a nice lot to get on with.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sure we all appreciate the work that the above-mentioned members have put into organising the stimulating writerly experience that our Alphaday is. And, of course, everybody who entered a challenge contributed as well.<\/p>\n<p>Our group works because everyone puts their shoulder to the wheel.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next month or so I shall sort out responsibilities for next season. I shall also ask you for ideas about how to improve the group\u2019s activities. New ideas are important; we don\u2019t want to get stuck in a rut and risk going stale.<\/p>\n<p>We need volunteers to take responsibility for certain tasks. I\u2019ll go into details later. But while there\u2019s no challenge to write perhaps you could formulate your ideas and send them to me. That should set the ball rolling and will be very helpful.<\/p>\n<p>First of all right now: Enjoy the Alphaday menu which includes the final lot of challenge entries for Season X.<\/p>\n<p>General news:<\/p>\n<p>Shakespeare would have been 450 years old on the 23<sup>rd<\/sup> of April \u2013 had he lived. Happy birthday to you, Old Bill! In fact he\u2019s still very much alive through his works.<\/p>\n<p>Gabriel Garcia Marquez has just died and he, too, is very much enjoyed by many readers the world over. Will he last into the 24<sup>th<\/sup> century? Who knows?<\/p>\n<p>Gabriel Garcia Marquez is said to have started the genre known as \u2018magic realism\u2019. I know I mentioned \u2018genres\u2019 in the last bulletin, but this is one genre that I very much admire. Putting magic into reality is, in my view, the one thing that gives fiction the edge over reporting and takes a story into the true dimension of fiction where we experience that mysteriousness that we can\u2019t see with the naked eye. Salman Rushdie does it superbly. And I love Joanne Harris\u2019s novels as well. Not to mention Shakespeare! The Tempest is my idea of perfect magic realism.<\/p>\n<p>Christine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Alphas, Welcome to Alphaday 11. We\u2019re definitely approaching the summer break now. 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