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Digest - 1 Oct 2012 to 2 Oct 2012 (#2012-192)
Tue, 2 Oct 2012
There are 4 messages totalling 132 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. WAR: Re: War: How long will we talk? (2)
2. War:Real life vs. fun (2)
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Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 02:11:09 -0400
From: g4akl@c.......
Subject: Re: WAR: Re: War: How long will we talk?
At 03:56 PM 10/1/2012, Greer wrote:
> >>Every time this gets raised, someone suggests that we have a
> one-week war. However, the shorter the war, the more condensed
> everything has to be. How are we going to fit in everything that
> people have come to expect?
>
>In other words, a one-week war is a no-hoper. Two weeks (plus a
>little lag time for late posts) is pretty well the minimum--and
>also, if you look at old wars, a fairly typical length. Much
>longer, of course, and RL becomes intransigent in its own demands.<<
I agree with Geer. This past war was *scheduled* for less than 2
weeks and it got extended .. I think ... 3 TIMES ... so that it,
indeed, lasted the normal 2 weeks.
The only restriction, I think we need to watch out for, is November
is NaNoWriMo month and far too many of the fkwar participants are
also participants in that writing challenge ... and TWO writing
projects scheduled at the same time leaves our fkwar without some of
its best writers.
Arletta
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Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 23:49:26 -0700
From: Bast Ankhsenet <bast_ankhsenet@y.......>
Subject: WAR: Re: War: How long will we talk?
I also think it should be for 2 weeks. I don't think it's possible to have a
war in a shorter amount of time.
I'm pretty much up for war at anytime really.
Most of my posts will be done late at night (EST) since I work second shift,
so there may be a delay in any replies/messages/emails/posts from my end,
but I WILL post/reply! :-)
~Bast
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I agree with Geer. This past war was *scheduled* for less than 2
weeks and it got extended .. I think ... 3 TIMES ... so that it,
indeed, lasted the normal 2 weeks.
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Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 04:32:34 -0500
From: Cousin Tok <tokaara@c.......>
Subject: Re: War:Real life vs. fun
At 10:18 AM 9/30/2012, questinc@AOL.COM typed these words:
>The Enforcer would like to play but from October to the end of the
>year my job has me working 6 day weeks on and off until New Year's
>so my participation could be spotty if we War up anytime between now
>and the end of the year. So...flying up from Texas (and yeah my
>arms will be tired <grin>) but not sure how much I'll be doing once
>I make it to Toronto!
>I'm keeping an eye on all the War talk so when things get going I
>can see where I can jump in!
I know there are some people here (myself included) who participate
in NANOWRIMO (National Novel Writing Month), which takes place in
November. It would be difficult if not impossible to conduct a War
at the same time for me.
Cousin Tok
and the Cousinly kitties
tokaara@c....... / Yahoo messenger tokariel
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Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 09:04:58 -0400
From: Brenda Bell <webwarren@e.......>
Subject: Re: War:Real life vs. fun
At 05:32 10/2/2012, Cousin Tok agreed with Arletta:
>I know there are some people here (myself included) who participate
>in NANOWRIMO (National Novel Writing Month), which takes place in
>November. It would be difficult if not impossible to conduct a War
>at the same time for me.
It's also NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month) and last year,
NaHWM (National Health Writers Month), meaning that those of us who
blog, and especially those of us who blog in the
health/e-health/m-health/e-patient space have our hands full writing
and researching more than usual (many daily bloggers take the
weekends off, and many patient bloggers write about more than just
our particular health conditions). It's also American Diabetes Month,
which means that my for-pay blog requests us to post more frequently
than usual (though NOT daily), often on specific themes.
For me, that's at least as much extra work as participating in War (I
presume the workload hasn't changed much since War 11, for which I
was mostly on the sidelines while Nicolas de Bearbant (aka "the
Vampbear") had a bunch of crazy adventures, requiring me to learn
more about the Salvation Army than I ever thought I'd need to know...).
The other thing about a little-advance-notice war is that a number of
the more prolific writers used to have to schedule their vacations
around War so they'd have enough time to write and research. Most
people can't take off two weeks from work without *some* advance notice.
Brenda F. Bell webwarren@e....... UA, PoCBS, FKPagan;
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