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[Louanne Learning]

A game I haven't played in about forty years but that we played a lot in the 1970s and 80s was Rummoli.

My mother still plays it with her friends every Monday afternoon. She always comes away a big winner, with her bag of pennies!

 

[Rath Darkblade]

You are all individuals.

Yes, we are all individuals.

I'm not.

Fantastic story prompt!

I'm sure Rigor Mortis was only quoting "The Life of Brian" (I recognised it instantly, but I'm a big Python nerd). That's why I included a video of that scene.

If she weighs more than a duck ...

... then she's made of wood!

And therefore ... ??

... A witch! A witch!! BURN THE WITCH!!!

It's a fair cop.

 

[Louanne Learning]

I'm sure Rigor Mortis was only quoting "The Life of Brian"

Yes, I understood that.

 

[Set2Stun]

A game I haven't played in about forty years but that we played a lot in the 1970s and 80s was Rummoli.

My mother still plays it with her friends every Monday afternoon. She always comes away a big winner, with her bag of pennies!

My parents loved to play this game at my mom's brother's place down the road when I was very smol (holidays, random weekends). Plenty of family friends and neighbours in the area would join in, and they'd play for hours while us kids hung out in the basement watching their satellite (gasp!) TV. One of those massive dishes from the early 90s. They played with nickels and drank a lot of wine.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

I read that last line as they played with rickets and drank a lot of wine.

Does wine cure rickets?

I think I need to go to bed.

 

[Rigor Mortis]

What is this "The Life of Brian" of which you speak?

 

[Louanne Learning]

One of Monty Python's best bits is the "fish-slapping dance"

 

[Rath Darkblade]

One of Monty Python's best bits is the "fish-slapping dance"

They even incorporated that bit into "Spamalot"!

 

[Louanne Learning]

Somehow it's a bit funnier when it is between two men than between a man and a woman.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

I haven't picked up a book that's compelled me to keep reading in way too long. Four-fifths of the new books at the library are sci fi, fantasy, romance, or mysteries someone cranked out in a couple of months because, ho-hum, it was time.

Feeling grumpy...

 

[GrahamLewis]

I haven't picked up a book that's compelled me to keep reading in way too long. Four-fifths of the new books at the library are sci fi, fantasy, romance, or mysteries someone cranked out in a couple of months because, ho-hum, it was time.

Feeling grumpy...

Read some Woodehouse.

 

[Set2Stun]

My favourite bit from that flick was Biggus Dickus.

 

[Rigor Mortis]

When all is said and done, it is the little things that matter.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

Checking in with nothing to add.

 

[Homer Potvin]

I haven't picked up a book that's compelled me to keep reading in way too long. Four-fifths of the new books at the library are sci fi, fantasy, romance, or mysteries someone cranked out in a couple of months because, ho-hum, it was time.

Feeling grumpy...

Literary fiction is rapidly aging out of the public preference.

 

[Louanne Learning]

Sometimes story ideas come to me from things that I have read -

These two ideas came to me this morning:

"You have betrayed yourself for nothing."

"A path that leads nowhere."

I think these might be springboards for stories.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

Literary fiction is rapidly aging out of the public preference.

Heaven forfend the public embrace something deep, rich, and thought provoking..

 

[Rigor Mortis]

Literary fiction is rapidly aging out of the public preference.

The most depressing thing is that this is probably an optimistic appraisal.

 

[Stuart Dren]

Apparently 2 percent of the fiction market:

Is AI the Bitter End—or the Lucrative Future—of Book Publishing?

As the law fights to catch up to Big Tech, the future of books hangs in the balance. Are writers doomed by “the biggest rip-off in creative history” or could AI offer new ways of making a living?

www.esquire.com

Albazaz tells me that every three to four weeks, Inkitt has a new hit on its hands. (He defines a hit as a novel that generates a million dollars in sales.) “When you talk to old-school publishers, they’re like, ‘Holy shit, how are you guys doing that?’” he says. Galatea is currently focused on romance and fantasy novels, with plans to expand into the other genres that Inkitt supports. (When I asked about literary fiction, Albazaz told me that because it constitutes such a small percentage of the total fiction market—2 percent in the U.S., according to Circana—literary fiction likely won’t be a priority anytime soon. “We’re running a business here,” he says.) Galatea seems to have riffed on the self-publishing boom and turned the dial to hyperspeed.

 

[Rigor Mortis]

Apparently 2 percent of the fiction market:

Is AI the Bitter End—or the Lucrative Future—of Book Publishing?

As the law fights to catch up to Big Tech, the future of books hangs in the balance. Are writers doomed by “the biggest rip-off in creative history” or could AI offer new ways of making a living?

www.esquire.com

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