http://notebored.com/noteblog NoteBored News Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:30:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This saddens me to say. I am no longer allowing comments to this blog. I think it would be an ideal way for readers and authors to connect, but due to the amount of spam I have to dig through and delete - it's too difficult to find ... http://notebored.com/noteblog/?p=221 This month, I’d like to spotlight one of the members of our writing community, Wil Ogden, also known to us as Pantros. He has been very helpful in creating some of the documentation that surrounds the operation of NoteBored, including the page here on this blog that describes how ... http://notebored.com/noteblog/?p=218 The winter months have slowed down activity on NoteBored. I think what did the initial slowdown was in November when National Writing Month hit our board. Many of us holed up in our computers and wrote an insane 50,000 words in one month. It took us time ... http://notebored.com/noteblog/?p=216    Coming Soon The Wolf's Sister: a tale of the Holtlands -- from Samhain Publishing (11th November, 2008) A love transcending race and culture…a secret that could cost everything. Elite Fey’na warrior Shan is driven only by hatred for Gilliad, the Lord of River Holt, the human responsible for the brutal slaying of his ... http://notebored.com/noteblog/?p=214 http://notebored.com/noteblog/?p=215 Use one or more of these three triggers for your stories:This month's theme is: Water Quote: Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink. Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.-Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" 1798  Picture: http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/view-image.php?image=157   One or more of these words: Grotto Hot Spring Glacier ... http://notebored.com/noteblog/?p=212 Poetry Challenge #19 strayed from the norm just a bit. Usually we are asked to provide our best, most beautiful and polished work, but this time the trigger required bad poetry, and I do mean BAAAD. Those accepting the challenge were asked to write "the worst poetry you can think ... http://notebored.com/noteblog/?p=211 You know the saying, “Everything is bigger in Texas.”  Well, that must be true, for Mike has went for big.  He submitted Haruah a set of three poems and stated that he would like to accepted or rejected together.    I do believe that this is the first of such requests ... http://notebored.com/noteblog/?p=210 Isaiah13 has done it again.  This time at market that is difficult to get into.  The magazine, Flashquake, has accepted his flash piece titled, “Waterspouts,” for their spring issue (March-May).    Congratulations, Isaiah13, on the difficult sale! http://notebored.com/noteblog/?p=209 RFLong of Dublin, Ireland has made her first sale.  She joined us in April of 2005.  Her sale was to Haruah: Breath of Heaven.  Haruah has published her poem, “Incubator: for Emily.”  But since then, Haruah has become a paying market.    Haruah has now paid for RFLong’s story, “Anything for ... http://notebored.com/noteblog/?p=208