{"id":571,"date":"2017-10-19T10:26:59","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T09:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/?p=571"},"modified":"2017-10-19T10:26:59","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T09:26:59","slug":"season-xiv-alphaday-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/season-xiv-alphaday-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Season XIV &#8211; Alphaday 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Alphas,<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to Alphaday 3, Season XIV. We\u2019ve now got the machinery fully geared up and purring away beautifully. By now you should all feel happily involved in writing, critiquing, assessing and comparing experiences and trying to work out what\u2019s in it for you. If nothing else spurs you on, the mere fact of sharing our common passion for writing is bound to stimulate you into further adventures.<\/p>\n<p>Some of your efforts have been channelled into Alpha activities for the benefit and enjoyment of us all. Today\u2019s agenda is crammed full of writerly treats that I\u2019m sure we\u2019ll all appreciate.<\/p>\n<p>As follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This Bulletin from me<\/li>\n<li>The results of the \u2018Story\u2019 challenge from Rosemary (Already out, and: \u201cWow!)<\/li>\n<li>The collated entries for the \u2018Pride\u2019 challenge from Stephen (already there!)<\/li>\n<li>The brief for the Open Page slot from Christine<\/li>\n<li>The LOG from Sally<\/li>\n<li>A Writers\u2019 Reads prompt from Morgen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As you can see there\u2019s plenty there for you to enjoy. Take your time and by all means let\u2019s have your comments on anything that catches your attention.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no Alpha news from me today, but Sally\u2019s Log will reveal what\u2019s happening in your writing life which is always interesting.<\/p>\n<p><u>General News:<\/u><\/p>\n<p>We should have set up a betting shop to see who put their money on the winner of this year\u2019s Booker Prize. I wouldn\u2019t have run away with the jackpot and I wonder if any other Alphas predicted George Sanders\u2019 <em>Lincoln in Bardo. <\/em>I find the ceremonial ritual surrounding this event very exciting, I confess, and I\u2019m full of admiration for George Sanders and his novel. (I have read one of his collections of short stories, <em>The Tenth of December.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We once had a little discussion about Paula Hawkins and her novels that didn\u2019t seem to appeal to many Alphas. Her latest novel, <em>Into the Water, <\/em>was criticised for having too many (eleven, I think) protagonists that all sounded the same in the narrative.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently <em>Lincoln in Bardo <\/em>has something like 160 characters communicating with Lincoln as he visits his son\u2019s grave. And apparently George Saunders has successfully given each one of these characters an individual voice so that the reader is never confused. Now that is some achievement and it\u2019s no wonder he shot up to the top of the list!<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s certainly a point to bear in mind, isn\u2019t it Alphas? We\u2019ll try our best even if we might shy away from making 160 different characters stand out as clearly distinguishable individuals.<\/p>\n<p>Christine<\/p>\n<p>PS: Who has read <em>Lincoln in Bardo<\/em>? Tell us about it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Alphas, Welcome to Alphaday 3, Season XIV. We\u2019ve now got the machinery fully geared up and purring away beautifully. By now you should all feel happily involved in writing, critiquing, assessing&#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-571","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\/571","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=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}