My Writing Workshop at Milk Wood!

Lizzie Gudkov

You're invited to the workshop I'll host at Milk Wood, in Second Life, for the Virtual Writers!

Let's kick-start NaNoWriMo!

Title: The Naming of Cats – tips and tricks!

The naming of characters and locations in your story can be a difficult matter.

I will suggest a few ways to make this task much easier.

When: November 1st, 8am SLT (Second Life Time), 3pm Lisbon/UK Time.

Event: In voice and text in local chat.

Duration: 30 minutes followed by a 30-minute writing/research session.

I'm a former language teacher from Portugal. I have published my work online in several blogs, including my own, and I actively participate in my writing community, the Virtual Writers, hosting and taking part in writing sessions.

“The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter”

T.S.Eliot

So, to make things easier, do join me this Tuesday, November 1st, for a ton of ideas about naming your... cats!

What Happens Next?

Ingerstall

It was damn dark.

She unblocked the phone with his finger.

"The cheating bastard. That bitch will never get the jewels."

She buried his hand. The rest of the body was somewhere out there, floating in the cold river.

So, what happens next, she thought.

"Get the damn jewelry box, that's what happens next."

Total silence.

"Fancy house, he bought her."

She roamed about in the bedroom.

"Ah, here it is."

When she opened the jewelry box, she gasped. A bullet?

When she turned around, it was too late.

Damn, it was dark and she had killed the wrong twin.

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Remote

 

Roche

The remote is not working. I cannot change the colors. What? We always change the colors. Summer, Autumn, Wint... Why not? But we just need a new remote. Well, you're the Creator. That's your job! Mine is to change the colors. OK, whatever."

No Autumn this year.

Then, he sneered.

"No help from above?! OK, then. I'll be God for a season!"

He painted all the houses red. The fences became bright orange and the stones of the pathways golden.

People smiled, amused.

He spread his wings, waved and smiled back, proud of the village he was in charge of.

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NaNoWriMo November 2022

 

NaNoWriMo

November is right around the corner and today I have announced my project.

The Door Between Us will reflect my life path in the past few months. I am unsure whether it'll turn into a novel inspired by real life events or if it'll remain an account of what has been happening. I'll make the final decision after the first week of writing.

As always, I'll work at Milk Wood where my writing community, the Virtual Writers, gathers daily at 8am SLT (Second Life Time).

If you're in Second Life and are doing NaNoWriMo, feel free to join us.

Thumbs Up

Tatty Soup

Thumbs up to the guitar player and his song and his hair and his boots and his eyes, contacts, and... No, this doesn't work. She stretched. The damn guitar was more interesting than everything else put together, and it wasn't even a nice guitar. Why did she have to praise the guy and pretend the whole concert had been amazing? No. She was going to be honest, brutally honest if need be. She opened a new message. "Thumbs up to the guitar player and the song and the hair, wow! And the boots, nice!" She sighed. Yup. Perhaps next time.

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Invitation! A Road Paved with Women's Words

I invite you to join me at SLEA2!

Writing has been both a passion and a lifeline for me.

When Kisma K. Stepanich-Reidling (kismaksr inworld) invited me to take part in The Temple of the Divine Feminine, I accepted the invitation immediately!

What a thrill to join women from different corners of the world, different ages, different walks of life, all sharing their creativity at the SLEA2 - photography, painting, sculpture, videos, readings, and writing!

One of the events of this remarkable project is "A Road Paved with Women's Words", a discussion panel that will bring together three women writers in Second Life, myself, Jami Mills - Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the online RezMagazine and Angela Thespian - Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the online FOCUS magazine. Our moderator will be Kisma Reidling.

For more information, check the official website of the Second Life Endowment for the Arts and for a detailed tour of the SLEA Region 2, drop by Tara's blog post.

My talk is titled "When Two Words Become a New Path in Life" and I'll take you on a journey of hope and healing, creativity and empowerment. I will tell you how virtual reality and words, many words, can change your life.

Date: Friday, 14 October 2022

Time: 1pm SLT

Location: The Temple of the Divine Feminine

Event: In voice and text in local.

Speediest

Tierra de Fuego

"Grab your passport and run." Good advice from the boss.

When his underboss took me to the airplane, I looked unsure. I was the only passenger and I seemed frightened. He nodded. I grabbed my notepad and showed him my notes. "I'm just a journalist." He nodded some more.

When he grabbed his gun, I smiled. He was confused. I clicked the button and the plane exploded, underboss included.

I'm not sure why I needed the passport, but who am I to question the boss. After all, whatever he decided was the speediest way of getting your life significantly shortened.

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January Code

 

Tatty Soup

Millions in the bank. She laughed, the fire pit crackling.

The safe. She had cracked it open so easily.

And the code. It was right there for her to grab.

She just walked out of the office and no one noticed.

Doing that boring secretary job for six months was worth it.

The new generation bought the code from her for a fortune. Smart kids. Nothing like their mobster fathers.

It was much better to be in the cottage than in that horrible office.

They were looking for her, of course. But money buys a lot of things, including silence.

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