Month: July 2019

Eat This!!!

Or, really, please, please don’t. We need that. You know, for the rest of the game. And hopefully the many to come after. Because throwing burritos at your friends is too much fun to pass up.

Throw Throw Burrito items - 2 squishy burritos, a stack of Burrito Bruises, and a Fear Me token

Yes, you read that right. Throwing burritos. Yes, I’m serious. No, are you crazy? Of course they’re not real burritos! Do you know how much of a mess that would make?

Throw Throw Burrito is a fun speed game that involves collecting sets of crazy cards, and sometimes throwing fake burritos at your friends, in a variety of ways. You can duel with one other (like a good old Western back-to-back, walk, turn and draw), battle between just two, or have an all-out war, giving someone else (hopefully) a Burrito Bruise!

But that’s only if you get three cards of that type and color. Otherwise, you’re collecting other types of cards in groups of three, looking to gain points to become the Burrito Master, to be feared by all. There are no turns, just drawing from your deck and discarding on top of someone else’s, and occasionally drawing from the pool decks. So, you know, points for points and burritos because… throwing stress burritos at people is lots of fun? I mean look at those! They’re adorable and squishy and so much fun to peg Mom with. Repeatedly.

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Writing Competitions

I wrote “For All Time” (parts 1, 2, and 3 here) for a short story contest. I told you about the contest in the first of the three posts linked above. What I didn’t tell you was how I found out about that contest.

My editor/publicist/manager/mother also writes, largely short stories, and at some point she stumbled across Almond Press and their list of writing competitions. What they do is make a list of creative writing competitions that other groups have set up, take the highlight information and a link to the page, and they put them all in one place for easy access. This is how I found out about the Felix Dennis competition that I wrote “For All Time” for.

When I say “highlight information,” I mean just that. They have the competitions ordered by deadline, with their name/title (unsurprisingly), followed by where they’ll accept entries from, the entry fee, if there is one, the maximum word count, and the top prize. Each block doubles as a link to more information about their corresponding contest, with more about the theme and requirements. That page has a link to the website that’s actually running the competition for entry.

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Writing Prompts

You could call this a writer thing, but I look at it more as a source of entertainment and less as an actual influence in my work. Thanks to a certain personalized media platform, *cough* Pinterest, I am consistently bombarded with what have become one of my favorite things to read on the internet.

The types of my prompts vary wildly – some are serious, some are uplifting, some are downright hilarious. Some of them make you want to think about them for hours and some stand alone. Some of them are long, and some are only a sentence. Some include a response from someone else who has written a short story based off of the prompt. But all of them are great. Below I have included one of my “Fun” ones, a serious one and a happy one. Enjoy!

Switch villain and hero to ensure it goes un-creepily tho
This is how mermaids are born
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Soundrown

Soundrown is one of those small, obscure internet programs that turns out to be immensely helpful. It is exactly what it sounds like: a site for sore ears. Tired of listening to a conversation when you want to be reading? Soundrown! Want the calming effect of listening to a coffee shop on fire with birds in the background? Soundrown! Want to write and need the right sounds to get in the mood? You guessed it… Soundrown!

Okay, in all fairness, I think the only intended purpose is the last one. But hey, they’re all fun. And you can relax, it isn’t like they recorded a coffee shop on fire. What they do have are multiple audio tracks you can listen to, multiple at a time if you’d like. Presently, these are Coffee Shop, Rain, Waves, Fire, Birds, Night, Train, Fountain, White Noise, and Playground. Each has its own volume bar, so you can adjust them accordingly. They have a random button if you don’t want to select one yourself, as well as music, which is currently in Beta and has exactly one song. I’ve listened to that song a lot.

They also have links to a couple of articles in the Menu, Knowledge section. Quite honestly, I haven’t gotten to reading them yet, but they look interesting and I’ll likely be reading them soon. I mainly use this site for the song; it’s just under six minutes of gentle instrumental music, which I’ve found to be the best music for me to read or write to without getting distracted.

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