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He took his arm. "You just had a few too many Dry Tortugas."
The captain glared at his mate, eyes bloodshot. "Aye. Them Tortugas sneak up on ye!"
"Well, they are just rum…"
"Rum!" the captain bellowed. "A tot of rum for all hands!"
The men cheered.
"Aye-aye, Cap'n," his mate sighed. (2/2) #wss366

"Arr!" bellowed the captain to his men. "Batten down the hatches!"
"Look out, Cap'n!" called the first mate, seizing the captain to arrest his fall.
"The seas be wild tonight!" the captain roared. "The deck she pitches awful fierce!"
"We're on dry land, Cap'n," the first mate said. (1/2) #wss366

#ScribesAndMakers Do you see art in everyday objects?

Some of the art from my chapbooks of haiku…

Poŝtmarkoj el Esperantujo you can read for free via Google Books. The others are available via Amazon.

#KpopMonday #LetItSnow SUPER☆GiRLS / 夜空にMerryX’mas https://youtu.be/7YVQoZOBlW4

Thanks to all the #wss366 folks who came to our solstice meet up. I'm very gratified to have met all of you and to get to read your writing. Getting to chat with you in real time adds yet another dimension to the experience that I will always treasure. Thank you!

There's a new kind of sloppy writing… Or, why I don't use AI. https://stevendbrewer.com/sloppy-writing/

Waiting for the winter solstice sunrise at the #UMass Sunwheel. #SilentSunday #WesternMass

Bob and Al carried their drinks down to watch the sun set over the ocean. Shades of orange and red crept across the sky as the sun sank down toward the horizon.
"Today was a #perfect day," Bob sighed, sipping his rum punch.
"I dunno," Al said. "Just another beautiful day in paradise…" #wss366

#WritersCoffeeClub Do your stories come to you fully formed? Or do they only develop along the way?

I generally start with a character or a setting — rarely a whole scene — and then I start to write and see what happens. This was how I did all my writing originally.
I started to worry that I would write myself into a corner and began outlining to create a set of guardrails. But I found that I would still crash through the guardrails as I wrote. The outline still helps assuage my anxiety though.