{"id":380,"date":"2015-11-19T17:12:35","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T16:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/?p=380"},"modified":"2015-11-19T17:12:43","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T16:12:43","slug":"alphaday4-season-xii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/alphaday4-season-xii\/","title":{"rendered":"Alphaday 4 &#8211; Season XII"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Alphas,<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to Alphaday 4, Season XII. We\u2019ve had a busy three-week interlude now that all our activities are up and running. I hope you\u2019re looking forward to continuing at this breathtaking pace for the rest of the season. I\u2019m sure it\u2019ll be filled with useful exchanges on a variety of topics \u2013 all of them of writerly interest ranging from essentials to trivialities, from the serious to the wildly esoteric.<\/p>\n<p>In other words: like all writing at its best.<\/p>\n<p>This Alphaday agenda offers a mouth-watering selection of treats, as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This bulleting from me as per usual<\/li>\n<li>The results of the dialogue challenge from Olaf<\/li>\n<li>The collated entries for the \u2018save our planet\u2019 challenge from Morgen<\/li>\n<li>The brief for Challenge 4 from Sally<\/li>\n<li>The Log from Sally<\/li>\n<li>The Writers\u2019 Reads from Morgen<\/li>\n<li>Perhaps \u2013 if you\u2019re lucky \u2013 a showcase item from Suzanne<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As you can see, a couple of our members have been working overtime providing not just one, but two slots for your benefit. I\u2019m afraid I can\u2019t promise to change that in the immediate future, but I\u2019m working on it. The Alpha idea is that everyone should volunteer to set and run one of the ten challenges, including and actually favouring the rank and file members.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t worry newbies! Your turn will come next season. We will of course also have rank and file members doing their stints this season. It\u2019s just that coincidences happen!<\/p>\n<p><u>Alpha news:<\/u><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve already given you an update on progress with the Decade Book. I still need a couple of pieces in and I\u2019m confident these will very soon materialise. I\u2019ve had excellent cooperation from those involved in this venture, and I\u2019m very grateful for your help. I\u2019d welcome any further comments on the latest chapters.<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t wait to move on to the next stage where all my accumulated separate pieces of the jigsaw will be put together to form one pleasing (??) whole picture.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve had plenty of spirited exchanges on matters that sort of fell of the back of an Alpha slot. Writers grow animated, tangential and verbose on the subject of books; that\u2019s normal. The Log is our \u2018outside Alpha\u2019 line of info and that\u2019s where the \u2018inside Alpha\u2019 is intended to encourage us to go. It helps us along in the desired direction.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t forget to send your showcase items to Suzanne. As a writers\u2019 group this is an important step for us all: sharing a piece of writing with our writing friends and getting feedback. Just a few words would be welcome. When it\u2019s your turn to share your writing I\u2019m sure you\u2019ll appreciate comments. We get ample feedback practice with the challenges. That acquired skill could be put to good use for the showcase pieces.<\/p>\n<p><u>General news:<\/u><\/p>\n<p>Upsetting. Very upsetting. Carnage in Paris and a Russian plane full of tourists. Such a shameful waste.<\/p>\n<p>TS Eliot: The Waste Land: (a beautiful poem that I come back to often)<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026so many,<\/p>\n<p>I had not thought death had undone so many.<\/p>\n<p>Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled,<\/p>\n<p>And each man fixed his eyes before his feet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Good news about writers gaining recognition for giving readers a different view of the world is preferable by far.<\/p>\n<p>Christine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Alphas, Welcome to Alphaday 4, Season XII. We\u2019ve had a busy three-week interlude now that all our activities are up and running. 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