@bluejay
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BlueJay posted an update 9 years, 7 months ago
@clairec @kate-flournoy @anna-brie @sarah-h @spradlin
Please excuse and spelling errors in the thing I just sent you guys. I posted it before I proof-read it. *silly me* -
BlueJay posted a new activity comment 9 years, 7 months ago
@hope No, you’re not wrong. It is a sea shell. I feel as if I need to find one and experiment with it. 😉
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It would have to be a pretty thin sea shell to break when dropped on a wood floor. I have small ones and they’re pretty tough, though if it were stepped on… But a large one wouldn’t be stepped on, and if it’s large then it’s probably thick so if it broke, it might just break in half…?
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BlueJay replied to the topic Art Sharing and How to Do It in the forum Art 9 years, 7 months ago
@hope I’m sneaky I know. *pauses for moment to wonder whether I should be proud or not.* *cue evil chuckles* 🙂 😉
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BlueJay replied to the topic Art Sharing and How to Do It in the forum Art 9 years, 7 months ago
@hope I’m sneaky. *cue evil chuckles* 🙂 😉
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BlueJay posted a new activity comment 9 years, 7 months ago
@corissa-maiden-of-praise You’re prying! You just want to know what happens don’t you??? 😉 *suspicious stare* It gets whacked on someone’s head. *A hard head* 🙂 *sniggers*
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BlueJay replied to the topic Hi Everyone in the forum Start HERE 9 years, 7 months ago
@corissa-maiden-of-praise I’m sorry. I’m not even going to pretend I understand you. Loony bin? Funny farm? What?
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BlueJay posted a new activity comment 9 years, 7 months ago
Rather than just a high tinkling or cracking sound, but like the sound of glass or a branch?
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BlueJay posted a new activity comment 9 years, 7 months ago
Can you give it a comparison @hope?
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Rather than just a high tinkling or cracking sound, but like the sound of glass or a branch?
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*winces* *rubs forehead* Let’s see…
I’m assuming it’s not an egg, or else it would just give a mushy splat. (Though I may be wrong…tell me if I am.) The problem is I’ve never actually heard a shell breaking, but if I were to take a guess I might compare a shell breaking to brittle crunch, the shattering of thin glass, or the cracking of a stone…
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@hope No, you’re not wrong. It is a sea shell. I feel as if I need to find one and experiment with it. 😉
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It would have to be a pretty thin sea shell to break when dropped on a wood floor. I have small ones and they’re pretty tough, though if it were stepped on… But a large one wouldn’t be stepped on, and if it’s large then it’s probably thick so if it broke, it might just break in half…?
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BlueJay posted a new activity comment 9 years, 7 months ago
*grins back* Shhh…it breaks before it hits the ground. It is the good old solid wooden floor. @corissa-maiden-of-praise.
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@BlueJay Well, that changes things. *ponders* Perhaps… well, how does it break then? We must take that into account if we are to accurately describe the sound. 😉
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@corissa-maiden-of-praise You’re prying! You just want to know what happens don’t you??? 😉 *suspicious stare* It gets whacked on someone’s head. *A hard head* 🙂 *sniggers*
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Goodness, this sounds terribly exciting. I can’t wait to read it! 🙂
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BlueJay replied to the topic Hi Everyone in the forum Start HERE 9 years, 7 months ago
Well since you returned the chocolate I will sympathetic. Poor @corissa-maiden-of-praise. *rubs a cool cloth on your forehead*
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BlueJay replied to the topic The (Awesome) Summer Writing Club! in the forum General Writing Discussions 9 years, 7 months ago
@overcomer I think I said something crazy like writing 10 short stories. Hmm…in a sense I was probably close as I wrote at least three longer stories plus lots of writing prompt stories. I also got lots of poems written.
So I’m very happy with what I got done. 🙂
(And I salute all of you who are about to head into winter. I shall think of you…[Read more] -
BlueJay replied to the topic Hi Everyone in the forum Start HERE 9 years, 7 months ago
@kate-flournoy That’s fantabulous that you made up a new word. *giggles*
@corissa-maiden-of-praise If you end up with a tummy ache don’t turn to me.
You see @zcpeterson We are all nuts here. *and naughty, glares at Corissa* -
BlueJay posted a new activity comment 9 years, 7 months ago
You’re not the only one to drop glasses. *I managed to drop a jar of Vegemite once. It was rather a mess*
Yes, I’m wanting a comparison. Originally I had, “the sound of a thousand stones falling to the ground.” But I don’t think it would shatter like that or make that sound. -
BlueJay replied to the topic Writers' Corner 2 in the forum General Writing Discussions 9 years, 7 months ago
@anna-brie I’m leaving now. How’d you go?
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BlueJay posted an update 9 years, 7 months ago
Need a bit of help here. Now I don’t want to say too much because of spoilers, but HELP!
*ahem, ahem. What noise comes to your mind when you think of a shell (reasonably big) breaking and falling onto a wooden floor?
But you have to make sure that your audience doesn’t know what has happened?
@kate-flournoy @faithdk @emma-flournoy @christi-eaton @d…[Read more]-
Like shattering glass, perhaps with a duller ring to it as the wood would absorb a lot of the sound and the shell is hollow, besides.
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Hmmmm… I’d have to agree with Kate. It doesn’t quite have the tinkling resonance you’d expect from glass (because I have dropped many a glass in my days). Almost like what I’d imagine a pot shattering would sound like, if you want to use a comparison.
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You’re not the only one to drop glasses. *I managed to drop a jar of Vegemite once. It was rather a mess*
Yes, I’m wanting a comparison. Originally I had, “the sound of a thousand stones falling to the ground.” But I don’t think it would shatter like that or make that sound.
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Well, it also depends on the type of wood floor it is. Is it actual, solid wood? (unfortunately this seems to be becoming rarer, at least in my area) Or is it laminate wood floor? The sound would be different if it is.
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Oh yes, and just to clarify, it breaks after it hits the wood floor, right? The way you worded it kind of suggested it breaks before hitting… *grins mischievously*
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*grins back* Shhh…it breaks before it hits the ground. It is the good old solid wooden floor. @corissa-maiden-of-praise.
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@BlueJay Well, that changes things. *ponders* Perhaps… well, how does it break then? We must take that into account if we are to accurately describe the sound. 😉
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@corissa-maiden-of-praise You’re prying! You just want to know what happens don’t you??? 😉 *suspicious stare* It gets whacked on someone’s head. *A hard head* 🙂 *sniggers*
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Goodness, this sounds terribly exciting. I can’t wait to read it! 🙂
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@bluejay, Ahhh! This is a really hard question. I honestly can’t think of anything except what everyone else has already said, so, um, yeah! 🙂
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Thanks @winter-rose That was what I was thinking too, but I wasn’t sure that a clay jar fitted as an example, so I reworded it and I ‘think’ I’ve got it.
@corissa-maiden-of-praise Glad you think so. One day…-
@BlueJay Whenever anything is cracked over someone’s head, you can generally count on the story being exciting. 😀
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@bluejay, sounds like you’ve got it already, but I agree with the others—like pottery, just a little clearer and harder.
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BlueJay replied to the topic What is an assonance? in the forum Poetry 9 years, 7 months ago
*Boohoo.* I haven’t seen that movie, but I can guess….. Number three of Narnia. I’ve only seen the first two. Three is in waiting. I’m dying to watch it. *falls to the floor sobbing her heart out.*
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BlueJay replied to the topic Writers' Corner 2 in the forum General Writing Discussions 9 years, 7 months ago
@jess I am going through and editing a story for its second time. 🙂 Lots of fun. 😛
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BlueJay replied to the topic Art Sharing and How to Do It in the forum Art 9 years, 7 months ago
Then let me try and explain how I put a photo on here from my laptop. @julia-r
You know how you can change your profile picture? Pretend you are going to change it and put the photo you wish to upload there instead. (PLEASE DON’T SAVE IT)
On the right, you have a little box which shows you what your picture will look like.
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BlueJay replied to the topic Art Sharing and How to Do It in the forum Art 9 years, 7 months ago
Then let me try and explain how I put a photo on here from my laptop. @julia-r
You know how you can change your profile picture? Pretend you are going to change it and put the photo you wish to upload there instead. (PLEASE DON’T SAVE IT)
On the right, you have a little box which shows you what you’re picture will look like.
Right hand click on…[Read more] - Load More
Can you believe it, I managed to put one in that post. It should be “any” not “and”. 🙁
@bluejay I’ll be praying for her. 🙂 (Sorry about the out-of place comment)
@sarah-h No worries about the placement of the comment. 🙂 Thank you so much.