{"id":480,"date":"2016-12-15T10:08:03","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T09:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/?p=480"},"modified":"2016-12-15T10:08:03","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T09:08:03","slug":"alphaday-5-season-xiii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/alphaday-5-season-xiii\/","title":{"rendered":"Alphaday 5 &#8211; Season XIII"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alpha Bulletin 5, Season XIII.<\/p>\n<p>Hi Alphas,<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to Alphaday 5, the last Alphaday of 2016. It\u2019s that time of year when there\u2019s too much clamouring for attention, and we Alphas try to sneak off for the more important things every now and then\u2026 like keeping up with our writing and getting ready for the next Alphaday.<\/p>\n<p>As usual you\u2019ve been busy supplying writerly goodies for us to share today\u2026 that\u2019ll be our Alpha pre-Christmas stocking (surprisingly acceptable to all and sundry incl. Wiccans, Druids, Heretics and radicalised agnostics!) bulging with goodies and so irresistible that we\u2019ll open them all today.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s today\u2019s agenda:<\/p>\n<p>This Bulletin from me<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The results of the <em>Diary <\/em>challenge from Morgen<\/li>\n<li>The collated entries for the <em>Novel Synopsis <\/em>from Rosemary<\/li>\n<li>The brief for Challenge 5 from Christine<\/li>\n<li>A Writers\u2019 Reads prompt from Morgen<\/li>\n<li>The Log from Sally<\/li>\n<li>A Showcase piece from Suzanne (fingers crossed!)<\/li>\n<li>The Alpha Christmas Quiz from Olaf<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As you can see, there\u2019s a once-a-year item on the agenda today. Olaf has concocted yet another delightful \/ fiendish Christmas Quiz for us to enjoy getting our teeth into\u2026 or tearing our hair out over. He\u2019ll explain that there\u2019s a Leaderboard point for the winner.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime Olaf and the special tasks team and the rest of the group for their challenge entries, comments and other contributions deserve a round of applause. Thank you all!<\/p>\n<p><u>Alpha News:<\/u><\/p>\n<p><u><\/u>We are pleased to welcome <strong>Steve <\/strong>into our group. Steve lives in Michigan in the cold and blizzardy north of the US. He has a variety of writings on the go and is looking forward to getting involved in our Alpha activities, just as we\u2019re looking forward to getting to know him through his input.<\/p>\n<p>Of course we now have to make a careful distinction between Steve, our new member, and Stephen, who\u2019s by now one of our stalwarts. With a bit of attention, that shouldn\u2019t cause any problems.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, we\u2019ll have to say goodbye to <strong>Pamela. <\/strong>Reading through her schedule of projects for the coming year I fully understand that she needs all the time she can muster \u2013 and more \u2013 to cope with it all.<\/p>\n<p>We enjoyed your input while you were with us, Pamela, and wish you all the best with your exciting plans for the future.<\/p>\n<p>Steve is included in the address list I\u2019m using for this bulletin. I will also (again) issue a fully updated membership list which I\u2019ll send out separately. Please, could you all make the necessary adjustments.<\/p>\n<p>Other than that I need to remind you that if you check your Alpha Calendar, you\u2019ll see that we\u2019re having a four-week break for the festive season. We\u2019ll stay in touch as I haven\u2019t a clue about how to \u2018lock the office door\u2019 and we have plenty to discuss until Alphaday 6 on the <strong>12<sup>th<\/sup> of January 2017.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><u><\/u><u>General News:<\/u><\/p>\n<p><u><\/u>The solstice will happen on the 21<sup>st<\/sup> of December. That\u2019s good news for those of us who live in the northern hemisphere and who long for the days to lengthen. If you don\u2019t live too close to the arctic circle in the southern hemisphere, you may not consider it too upsetting for your life style.<\/p>\n<p>The solstice is celebrated by most of us in the course of the festive season. It takes many forms, some of them with traditional religious celebrations that are deeply rooted in our culture. Whichever way you celebrate, I hope you have an enjoyable festive season.<\/p>\n<p>Christine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alpha Bulletin 5, Season XIII. 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It\u2019s that time of year when there\u2019s too much clamouring for attention, and we Alphas try&#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-480","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\/480","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=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}