{"id":421,"date":"2016-03-31T11:22:41","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T10:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/?p=421"},"modified":"2016-03-31T11:22:41","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T10:22:41","slug":"alphaday-10-season-xii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/alphaday-10-season-xii\/","title":{"rendered":"Alphaday 10 &#8211; Season XII"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Alphas,<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to Alphaday 10. I hope you\u2019ll make the most of it as this is the last one this season with a full agenda. There are three more Alphadays left: partly to wind up to the grand finale \u2013 and partly to wind down towards the well-deserved rest we get after a season well spent.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll try not to keep using that word, but the <em>last <\/em>challenge of the season is coming up. Let\u2019s see if we can get everyone to sharpen their pencils and their wits to take part in this one.<\/p>\n<p>After that I\u2019ll ask you some pertinent questions as usual. We may be way above such petty concepts as \u2018customer satisfaction\u2019 but we can still try to assess the success or otherwise of the season\u2019s activities. So have a look at today\u2019s agenda and start getting ready with your critiques and suggestions for improvements.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the agenda for Alphaday 10. As usual it\u2019s packed full of enticing goodies:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This bulletin from me<\/li>\n<li>The results of the poetry challenge from me<\/li>\n<li>The collated entries for the phobia challenge from Stephen<\/li>\n<li>The brief for challenge 10 from CCG<\/li>\n<li>The Writers\u2019 Reads column from Morgen<\/li>\n<li>The Log, edited by Sally<\/li>\n<li>Perhaps a showcase piece from Suzanne\u2019s collection of your contributions? (6 \/ 17 writers have shown up so far. There\u2019s still time for lots more!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That should keep you entertained for a while and as usual we look forward to your reactions as you absorb the Alphaday 10 news.<\/p>\n<p><u>Alpha news:<\/u><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve got delightful news for you this time. Get the confetti and the bubbly out and congratulate Rose on her marriage. All our best wishes to you, Rose, for a long and happy future!<\/p>\n<p>Rose was married last Alphaday to her fianc\u00e9 who hails from Mexico. They were married in Tokyo in the first of three wedding ceremonies. There will be another one in Mexico, and yet another one in Rose\u2019s native Canada. After that I believe she will be well and truly wed to her husband\u2026 how wonderful is that?<\/p>\n<p><u>General news:<\/u><\/p>\n<p><u><\/u>I\u2019d like not to dwell on the fact that this world is becoming a frightening place to live in. Where can we find happy places to visit?<\/p>\n<p>Literature is the answer, of course: real books that you can pick up and browse through before turning to the person next to you to ask for their opinion.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve all seen the jokes about youngsters meeting sociably in coffee shops where they immediately reach for their mobiles and amicably text. We had a publicity entry along those lines, too, you may remember.<\/p>\n<p>Now they\u2019ve opened a bookshop in London called \u2018Libreria\u2019 where customers are not allowed to use their mobile phones and tablets. They call it a \u2018digital detox zone\u2019 and the idea is to encourage conviviality and the love of physical books. There are talks and displays arranged in unconventional ways to cause \u2018serendipity\u2019 or \u2018creative collisions\u2019. It\u2019s a reaction to the \u2018digital deluge\u2019 we\u2019re submerged in and a triumphant contradiction of the wet blankets who claim that the printed book is dead.<\/p>\n<p>It most certainly is not.<\/p>\n<p>Accessibility? Now there\u2019s the rub! It\u2019ll be a while before there\u2019s one round the corner from where most of us live. So we\u2019ll have to cheat and create a similar convivial space here in Alphaland.<\/p>\n<p>Christine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Alphas, Welcome to Alphaday 10. I hope you\u2019ll make the most of it as this is the last one this season with a full agenda. 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