!!! IIce Station Zebra !!!

[rayheinrich]

ha, that's what he originally proposed but instead he really dug in and came up with some very odd and interesting challenges,
I think one was write with no E's (or something like that), citing research on what stuff like that does to your brain.
They took a lot of thought and it's fine to wait until Ray, and Lizzie I think, prepare for it.

Ray's the boss, and, dare I say, the talent. I just work here.

Yeah, it's definitely not something that we just throw together slapdash at the last minute.

We're prepared for it, though, that's not the issue.

Oops, just getting back to this, was temporarily called away to have to participate in what "they"
(those voices in the other room) call "the real world" (something I think they make up just to harass me).

But about that move...
In my mind it was it an inescapable necessity if you believe, as I do, that 1. and 2. are true:

1. People only have a limited amount of time.  
2. So holding two events at the same time detracts from both.
3. New Zealand National Poetry Month can't move from October.
4. So PWoF 2017 (sigh) needed to move.


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Now going back to ellajam and Lizzie:
Yes, PWoF was an amazing lot of work last year (as Lizzie attests).
Mostly because of all the stuff that got left on the cutting room floor.
(I have a list of more than 100 topics/techniques/puzzles about half
coming from Lizzie's research.) PWoF doesn't just have topics, it incorporates
different writing/creating/brain-stretching/just-plain-screwing-around techniques
into each "writing challenge". This requires researching the technique, spending way-too-long
reading really extraneous crap on the web (would you believe naked women and balloons
are a big-deal sexual fetish?), finding out who used it first, figuring out how to present it so it's
workable and is accessible to newbies and throwing most of them away because they don't work
given the structure of PWoF... Last year was a learning experience, this year things went/are-going
much smoother. But does it actually work?
Well... both you and I and Lizzie will be able to judge that in January.

But whatever...
Get READY to crown an Ice Princess, participate in a sled race using etymologically
correct worddogs, and take lessons from William S. Burroughs.

    I get to be the ice princess till january then. it's only fair.

Yes, OK, I'm officially crowning you "PWoF 2017 Ice Princess".
There IS one provision before I can award you the crown:
You must be present on January 10th to pass the crown on to the "Ice Station Zebra 2018 Ice Princess".
(And no, I'll give you the crown at the ceremony, no f'ing way I'm gonna trust you with that thing...
it's fragile and subject to corrosion (hey, we don't got much of a budget here).

Oh, forgot to say, the January writing event has been re-named, it's now called: "IIce Station Zebra ".