herein lie the creative musings of stackers

07/19/2025 --

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an excerpt

Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me – The Carriage held but just Ourselves – And Immortality.

― Emily Dickenson

had some fun with this earlier in the week

REMINDER

to submit your entry to the BEST UNDER 400 contest this week (or try out your ideas for feedback below).

some notes

the first issue of "Bemused: A Weekly Newsletter," was put out today, where i announced the prize for this week's contest.
i submitted a piece (to my own contest, yes), which i may do from time to time. every time my piece 'wins' or ranks highest among the entries, then the prize will carry-over to the next week. i think this shakes things up a bit! what do you thinK?
Plebpoet proposed collaborating with this territory for a section in SNZ. the obvious thing would be to feature my contest winner sometime, but perhaps we can do better. ... i will think on this.
my submission to ~BooksAndArticles made reference to the chilean group, los jaivas, which, if you were curious, you can listen to here

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0 sats \ 5 replies \ @unschooled OP 19 Jul

/cc: @PictureRoom love your photos, and i'm thinking about using one as prompt for my contest sometime. would this be ok with you?

0 sats \ 4 replies \ @PictureRoom 20 Jul

Hey, thank you. I'm not sure what you mean as for a "prompt". Can you explain more?

21 sats \ 3 replies \ @unschooled OP 20 Jul

yes. so i'll be holding weekly writing competitions in this territory called the BEST UNDER 400 where each week i'll provide a different prompt for contestants to base submissions on, similar to "fiction month" in~BooksAndArticles, but more frequent and with a higher turnover rate. i thought it would be cool to feature some of the work happening in ~Photography. so instead of a phrase, i would provide a photograph as a creative "restriction." As a side note photo essays are also welcome - just so long as it remains under 400 words and adheres to the weekly prompt. any thoughts on this? im open to other ideas also.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @PictureRoom 20 Jul

Sure, I'm always down to collaborate. We would be able to set the post so that a percentage of credits is shared with me

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @unschooled OP 20 Jul

Of course, id be happy to! may I suggest zapping you after the fact, though, so you can get sats and not ccs (forwarding only will send ccs). id be glad to zap 10% of the territory's revenue for that week, if you'd be ok with that! (For reference, that would have been about 484 sats this week) and you can decide on a photo of yours you consider to be 'prompt-worthy.' what do you think?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @PictureRoom 18h

Sounds great, let's do that! Zapping, you mean over Nostr correct? Let me know what you need from me moving forward! Thanks again for the opportunity to collaborate on this.

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