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Team Severus Snape
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Yes, they do take a while to read. My library doesn't have a copy of the book so unless that changes I can't get a copy. It's too new for me to request from a library outside of my county. Maybe they will get a copy though. I'll check again before then.
I think you may have me as reading Words of Radiance. I'm not sure I'm going to get to it. If you want to put another book in for brown cover over 500 pages that might be a good idea. I'll read it eventually but at my current speed it might not happen before the end of TT.
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Sure thing!!
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Options for brown cover from our completed books:
All of these are 500+. Which one do you think would be best for our brown cover task?
I wouldn't go with the first one as it looks a little orange to me. The others look brown.
Eldarwen wrote: "You're off to a great start!Option 1 is definitely a good idea! Needs a little more fluffing up to make it an actual essay but definitely workable :-D
Would you mind giving us a few more options..."
Does it have to be longer? One title per sentence? I thought it was minimal use of other words and making sure titles connected smoothly... like title poetry. Coz this thing was pretty popular with bookstagram.
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Just needs to make sense and be creative :-)
(Probably should have added that for that particular Dear Emily sequence, I would have fluffed it a little to make it more dramatic and give it an extra flair.)
Eldarwen wrote: "Decision time again ;-)Options for brown cover from our completed books:
..."I think the second option is best. Not sure the 3rd one is quite 50%
Do we still need divination tools?I just started listening to last Iron Druid and lady sees a future using patterns of curdling and coagulation while making cheese *laughs out loud* (she is tyromancer)
Just saw a note that was added to Lilac Girls BOM thread from the mods. They said go with default version that is 512 pages. I don't think I used that version when I created my completion post. I listened to the audiobook. I will update my post to reflect the 512 pages they said I should have. It may take me a while to get to the update though.
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I just started listening to last Iron Druid and lady sees a future using patterns of curdling and coagulation while making cheese *laughs out loud* (she is tyroma..."
Aahh... what??? Do I want to know what on earth Atticus is getting up to in that book?? ;-)
But no, as it stands, we don't need any more divination tools. Those slots have all been filled! :-)
Though it never hurts to add the information haha. It might just be too good not to use :-p
(Besides, if we end up switching things around, it's always good to have options!)
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Options for brown cover from our completed books:
[bookcover:Wives and Da..."Second one it is! :-)
Thanks guys!
I'd like to offer a darker narrative for our history of magic. I was going to let Kathleen do it since she volunteered first. However, after seeing hers I started thinking about the titles and was writing one before I even saw the full list of titles. Doing this reminded me how much I enjoyed writing in the past. I don't think I followed the rules as well as Kathleen though. Thought I'd share since I had it.When Darkness Comes, The Emperor's Blades sing and magic flairs Down Among the Sticks and Bones. Thus began our dark years. Wildfire ragged and Every Note Played called the armies. Many years after the darkness fell, a small child raised a hand pointing at the sky. She called out an old nursery rhyme passed down from mother to child, "Star light, star bright, First Star I See Tonight, I wish I may, I wish I might, Have this wish I wish tonight." And with that wish The Darkness lifted.
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Would you mind continuing with that story? ;-)
(Do you do NaNo?)
Eldarwen wrote: "Annalisa, can you add Hello Stranger to your TT shelf, please? Thanks!"Added it to my shelf.
Eldarwen wrote: "Oooh, I like!Would you mind continuing with that story? ;-)
(Do you do NaNo?)"
I don't know what NaNo is...I guess that answers that question. As for continuing the story I have no idea where it would go, but I will certainly think about expanding it. If I did I'm sure I would change the opening...about 10 more times.
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LaurLa,found little error in spells - under U in Imerpuis you have Madeline Urban as character but that's author :)
I love it Annalisa!!! Lets go with it!
Eldarwen wrote: "Oooh, I like!Would you mind continuing with that story? ;-)
(Do you do NaNo?)"
Just realized you might have meant National Novel Writing Month? If that is what you mean, every year I tell myself I'm going to do it this year and then I don't. I would like to though.
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Would you mind continuing with that story? ;-)
(Do you do NaNo?)"
Just realized you might have meant National Novel Writing Month? If that is what you mean, ever..."
You should definitely try it at some point.
It's crazy but it's fun :-)
Wow, great job Annalisa & Kathleen on those essays! Definitely not something I would be able to do :P
Have you participate Eldarwen? I'd be curious to hear about it. I wonder if I'd have enough time to do it and keep working and having any kind of life.
❀Tea❀ wrote: "LaurLa,found little error in spells - under U in Imerpuis you have Madeline Urban as character but that's author :)"
Thanks - I'll double check them.
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I'd be curious to hear about it. I wonder if I'd have enough time to do it and keep working and having any kind of life."
I have!
It's doable despite work and having a life. Not always easy because sometimes life does get in the way, but doable.
I've had years where I had a lot of time at work, so I snuck in a lot of writing time at work and just typed my daily quota there and had my evenings to myself, or to write some extra words to have a little buffer. I've also had years where work did not let me write at all and I wasn't getting a lot of words written in the evening where I pushed myself over the weekend to catch it all up on those two days. I'm a fast typer, which helps sometimes hehe.
The community is huge and crazy but it's an interesting challenge for those who like writing. The one thing you should not do though is dwell too long over what you've written and just keep going, and not edit - unless it's to go back and add a scene because you had an awesome idea and want to put it in the correct order, but no removing, no perfecting etc until you're done.
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Fuel for Fire has a man on the cover that you'd like to transform into a pig *grin*
We do not have a pig at this moment but Jamie just finished a book with a bunch of animals on it. Maybe one of them catches your fancy?? :-)
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Well done, team!!
As it stands, we have two books with "moon" and two books with "star(s)". If you're reading a book with a title that contains a different kind of celestial object, we might switch those out so that we end up having 7 different objects used for this class.
The doubles will then be used either for a different class or for spells.
Nice work!! Keep it up :-D
(A few other classes are close to being finished as well.)
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found little error in spells - under U in Imerpuis you have Madeline Urban as character but that's author :)"
Thanks - I'll double check them."
Fixed that one since I'm tinkering with classes just now anyway. :-) Thanks Tea!
I have an audio titled Mars we can use for celestial objects.Also for Fantastic Beasts it qualifies for 40 BR points - Sonia's message #40 on the What's Coming thread (sorry can't link right now).
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Eldarwen wrote: I have!It's doable despite work and having a life. Not always easy because sometimes life does get in the way, but doable.
The one thing you should not do though is dwell too long over what you've written and just keep going, and not edit - unless it's to go back and add a scene because you had an awesome idea and want to put it in the correct order, but no removing, no perfecting etc until you're done. "
Don't dwell to long over what you've already written...I think I've heard that before many many times. I started out writing mostly poetry, dwelling over each word is important there. That transferred over into the short stories I eventually started writing. I can normally write about 10 pages before I get the urge to go back and fix that sentence that I wasn't liking. And once I'm in edit mod there is no getting me out. I think that would be the hardest part for me. I'm going to really think about participating this year. It seems like it would be fun, and I really do enjoy writing.
Eldarwen wrote: "LaurLa wrote: "❀Tea❀ wrote: "LaurLa,found little error in spells - under U in Imerpuis you have Madeline Urban as character but that's author :)"
Thanks - I'll double check them."
Fixed that one..."
Thanks, E and Tea
Eldarwen wrote: "LaurLa!Fuel for Fire has a man on the cover that you'd like to transform into a pig *grin*
We do not have a pig at this moment but Jamie just finished a book with a bunch of anim..."
Was just putting it out there as an idea! If a great cover pops up of something truly worthy of turning a man into, we can go for it...
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Please link your TT shelf and if you have any questions, feel free to ask :-)
All important links and information are on the first page of the team thread.
Once you have a few minutes, please update our Books Read Thread with completion posts for all your books started and finished since the beginning of the challenge, i.e. every book you've started on or after May 12th. Thank you!
Eta: Oh, and put them on your TT shelf as well, of course. :-)
I added Artemis to my shelf. Not sure why I keep forgetting.
Hello, team Severus Snape! So excited to be here :DHere's my shelf tt-vi
This is my first time doing Tower Teams but I'll try my best to catch up with everything going on. Is there anything I should know about before I pick up my next book?
Meanwhile I'm gonna try to have my completion post put up by the next couple hours :)
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On the classes tab on the spreadsheet, in case you prefer not to work with tasks, you'll see what kind of letters we'll need for spell-outs. LaurLa gave us this recap of letters (lots of vowels!) that could come in handy:
A 11
E 10
I 14
N 7
O 16
P 7
R 9
T 10
U 10
Otherwise... any fat book is always good hehe, those give extra points for pages.
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could you please tell me which of the editions for What Einstein Didn't Know: Scientific Answers to Everyday Questions is the correct one?
You shelved this one with 240 pages:
but on the books read thread you posted this one with 168 pages:
.Thanks! :-)
yes sorry about that! I got a bit mixed up, but now it's fixed: I read the ebook with 168 pages count
also for summoning/banishing charm, do you suppose i can link
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to summon/banish the thunder? though i might just read it anyway due to its size
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Unfortunately the book has a graphic novel tag, which technically makes it invalid for this challenge. Seeing that it seems to be an odd hybrid of half writing, half drawing however, I wanted to double-check with them.
On a similar note, poetry books unfortunately are not allowed, so we will not be able to use your poetry book. Sorry!
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If not this weekend, then the next, I'll do another browse through what we have (and what LaurLa left over after the spelling spree hehe) and then I'll give you another update if some of you want to read for something more specific.