Writing Exercise
I often Steal from myself
I often steal from myself it’s a way for me to continue stories that have been finished or I’m done with or just haven’t worked out. I’ve talked often about my days at Yahoo Groups working on Vampire the Masquerade post role play. That’s play by post in case your wondering, I post they post I post it’s like answering with roleplay. I’ve taken from this time many story bits that have turned into completely different things.
By WrittenWritRalfabout 2 hours ago in Writers
From Inspection Logs to Quality Intelligence
Abstract Work Inspection Requests (WIRs) sit at the interface between field verification, construction quality assurance, and controlled project information, yet their registers are commonly treated as administrative logs. This study asks how routine WIR metadata can be transformed into quality intelligence for workflow visibility and evidence-based closeout. A retrospective descriptive analysis was conducted on 1,364 anonymized WIR records from a major infrastructure project in the Philippines, covering 24 December 2025 to 4 November 2026. The analysis examined status, discipline, open-item aging, document-to-submission lag, revision behavior, monthly intake, and metadata integrity. Although 1,218 records (89.3%) were submitted on the document date or the following day, 1,015 (74.4%) remained open at the snapshot; 499 had aged at least 31 days and 241 at least 61 days. October intake reached 512 records, 81.6% above September, while civil works accounted for 88.4% of the register. Revised issues recorded materially longer lags than initial issues, and duplicate identifiers, missing status data, negative date intervals, and absent closure dates constrained traceability. The paper therefore distinguishes fast front-end capture from controlled end-to-end closure. Its principal contribution is an integrated WIR quality-intelligence framework that combines a multi-state workflow taxonomy, minimum metadata requirements, explicit accountability, evidence-linked closure, and actionable performance indicators. The framework extends construction quality management by treating document-control metadata as an operational assurance resource and offers a replicable, low-cost pathway from passive registers to auditable decision support.
By Domingo Añasco-Gaces Samontina, Jr.about 22 hours ago in Writers
Speak Lower
"Speak slower. And lower." That's the line I'm stealing. I said it eight years ago, on the morning I turned thirty, to the first people who talked to me after a week of saying nothing. This year I've been writing a book about that week, and the sentence keeps turning up in the drafts like a sock in the wrong drawer. Every time I tidy it into a chapter, it gets smaller. So I'm taking it out of the book and putting it somewhere else.
By Gautam Atmakuriabout 23 hours ago in Writers
Black is the New Red
The blackened putridity of my primordial swamp form didn't so much flow like a river across the barren wasteland. Instead, my formless mass of water, of hydrogen, ammonia and methane with lipids, sugars and amino acids crawled. It clawed at the rocks and gravel, slipping down between cracks and clinging to the edges.
By Paul Stewart3 days ago in Writers
From Pull Up Bars to Poetry and Beyond (No, Disney, you don't own the rights to that tiny bit of one character's catchphrase)
I originally wrote this as a comment on Bell's article. But following L.C.'s example, I decided to publish it as a separate piece. There were also a fuckton of spelling mistakes and autocorrects.
By Paul Stewart8 days ago in Writers
Second Best
Ray Dalton had finished second eleven times that season, and the whole county knew it. They knew it at the gas station, where the kid behind the counter called him "Silver" and thought he was being clever. They knew it at the diner, where the waitress set his coffee down and said, "Maybe this week, hon," the same way she said it every Friday. They knew it at Mass on Sunday, where Father Mike shook his hand after the final hymn and told him second place was still a gift, and Ray smiled and said thank you and did not believe a word of it.
By Overdrive Records10 days ago in Writers
