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user228700
6:23 AM
Hello :-) What is this room for..?
 
BESW
BESW
@Kaumudi.H [wave] Ostensibly it's for talking about our writing and helping each other with it, with weekly writing exercises.
In practice, it's a pretty free-ranging chat for various topics that circle more or less around writing but sometimes at a good distance from it.
 
user228700
Ah, I see. Thanks :-)
 
BESW
BESW
My pleasure. The chat's activity is kinda erratic, though. You can see charts of average activity on this page.
 
 
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Tiny TrEs-2b
Tiny TrEs-2b
1:26 PM
Would it be possible to write a novel without using the word "The"?
 
BESW
BESW
1:40 PM
Gadsby (novel)
Gadsby is a 1939 novel by Ernest Vincent Wright written as a lipogram, which does not include words that contain the letter "e". The plot revolves around the dying fictional city of Branton Hills, which is revitalized as a result of the efforts of protagonist John Gadsby and a youth group he organizes. Though self-published and little-noticed in its time, the book is a favourite of fans of constrained writing and is a sought-after rarity among some book collectors. Later editions of the book have sometimes carried the alternative subtitle 50,000 Word Novel Without the Letter "E". In 1968, the novel...
There are all kinds of gimmick novels. Most of them are notable only for their gimmick.
Lipograms usually serve more as practice or play than as an end in themselves.
 
 
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Lauren Ipsum
Lauren Ipsum
7:40 PM
Okay, I have to salute whomever designed the 6 hat icon — classic Sesame Street callback to Bert singing "My favorite number is 6!" :D
 
 
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BESW
BESW
9:12 PM
Kids in the 50s wrote to CS Lewis about Susan not getting into Narnia. In 1960 he wrote back to one of them, saying Susan isn't in The Last Battle because...
> I could not write that story myself. Not that I have no hope of Susan ever getting into Aslan's country, but because I have a feeling that the story of journey would be longer and more like a grown-up novel than I wanted to write. But I may be mistaken. Why not try it yourself?
I like the alternate universe where she goes to the US and joins SHIELD. XD
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Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
@user34445 Without googling I couldn't name any place that's UTC+13 or +14. But the date line isn't straight and timezones are usually devised for political/practical reasons rather than pure geography, so if you have two islands who are somehow related, but one timezone apart, they might choose to be on the same side of the date line, even if that means their timezone is unnatural.
 
BESW
BESW
Kiribati, Samoa, Tonga, Tokelau. They did it to jump the dateline for logistical reasons.
And Fiji, New Zealand, and parts of Antarctica bump into UTC+13 for part of the year because of daylight savings adjustments.
And, yes, Kiribati did have a "not all our islands are in the same time zone" problem for a while.
But Kiribati also did it as a tourist gimmick.
 
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
oddly there's no -13 or -14
 
BESW
BESW
9:30 PM
(Protip: don't try to pronounce Kiribati from the spelling alone. Not even all the online pronunciation guides are anything close to correct.)
 
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
I'll keep that in mind :)
 
 
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BESW
BESW
10:56 PM
Also, re: UTC+14:
in RPG General Chat, Oct 14 '15 at 12:38, by doppelgreener
Thus, the seed: those islands are actually genuinely literally at the futuremost point our planet experiences, and are solely responsible for fending off existential threats and saving the world on a regular basis before anyone else can even find out about it, let alone be affected by it.
in RPG General Chat, Oct 14 '15 at 12:51, by eimyr
@doppelgreener Can we invert this idea too? Say, UTC -12 lags behind time. While the +14 dudes defend Earth from dangers of the future, these guys have a couple of hours before the time catches up to them to correct mundane but disastrous events.
(The only problem is, The Journeyman Project already did it.)
 

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