I'm all about recycling old manuscripts. I just dusted one off from 2013 that had good bones. Love this post! Recycling rocks!
Love this post. I have a bunch of old notebooks that need a little recycling attention.
Thank you Alli for posting at this time. Good idea to eavesdrop, and do a bit if dusting off the old idea books to see what goodies pop up.
I just opened an old draft on something I wrote and found some hidden gems in there. Sadly, that promotes my "Don't throw anything out" habit. 🙂 I like thinking of it as recycling. Thanks!
I love recycling, and I have to admit eavesdropping! 😉 Thanks for sharing and the inspiration!
Do I dare admit I LOVE eavesdropping. I get some interesting ideas to play around with later.
I love the idea of recycling old ideas and manuscripts. Great post.
Recycling is an excellent idea all around. Thanks, Alli, for your helpful suggestions to eavesdrop and play with words! Also, thanks for the book about Marlon Bundo, which I really enjoyed and appreciated.
Thank you! Awesome post! I'm into recycling and eavesdropping :).
I do love eavesdropping! I'm off to recycle my old ideas that I didnt think worked first time around – thanks for the encouragement!
The verve with which I read "Old ideas!" was a little bit scary.
OOOH, what a fun prize. I'm a recycler — thanks for keeping the cycle going. I am going to look for more ideas to recycle. Thanks and best of luck to you!
Alli – Thank you for the practical, hands-on advice. I am a die-hard recycler of plastics, bottles, cans, paper, etc. Now I will add words and ideas to the list.
I have done recycling with words once and did not know that is what it was called. My son said something and I got an idea for a book.
I will watch people AND eavesdrop! Great ideas! Thank you!
Great ideas, Alli! I really like the suggestion of twisting words into new ones!
Thank you, Alli. I am all for recycling. I keep special notebooks just for brainstorming. An idea that I may have discarded two years ago might resonate with a new experience today. Great idea…and I love the pug.
Great idea. I'm going to mash up words and see what I get.
Recycling, reusing, reimagining… Today This Kid Said. I'm on it!
Love the idea of going back to old ideas and making them new. I have so many journals of old writing, there must be a treasure somewhere. And ease dropping and playing with word associations will be fun.
I love the idea of playing with words and recycling old ideas and words to generate new. Thanks for the great post.
Thanks, Alli, for these eco-friendly tips.
previous ideas could be paired with a new idea and recycled.
The best part of this great post is "put your ego aside" Yes! Great reminder. Recycle, Word play, and Ditch that dang Ego, got it. 😉 thanks Alli!
Thanks for your advice. I need to do this more often with my oldest.
Usually during Storystorm I do go through my old notes to see what jumps out at me, but I haven't done that yet, so thanks for the reminder.
There are definitely some things that take a LONG time to find a way to repurpose… Or that maybe just ought to go into the smelter or the compost pile. Like the pieces of tin foil that you've re-used 83 times that is now more wrinkles than foil.
Oh wait — that's the perfect cat toy!
Recycling! Never thought of it quite that way. LOL.
Sorry. I didn't mean to post twice. I got an error message the first time and thought it didn't post.
So funny- I was just looking through old ideas and stories to try and find a plot my character-driven story!
Great advice for my chest full of old manuscripts! Thanks!
Wow, Alli, thank you for this substantive piece, brimming with quality ideas! I love the way one word, even misconstrued, can trigger a spark to the point of recycling an older story or inspiring a whole new one! And word play is SO delicious on the tongue!
I love the idea of going with the flow. Who knows how many diamond swords might be hiding within the junk?
Thanks for the tips. I'm feeling green today, maybe I'll go dumpster diving through some old manuscripts!!
Thanks for the inspiring post Alli! Recycling always has good results!
Thank you for reminding us that no writing is ever wasted. I have lots of abandoned stories waiting to be recycled.
Thanks for this! Great way to think about wordplay, and going back to old ideas and bits and pieces that haven't found a home yet.
Your post started me on an idea train from a programme I saw earlier today featuring 5 year old children – and I didn't edit as I went along and am amazed at where I ended up. I'll give it a few days and come back to that idea and see if I'm still excited about it. Thanks Alli.
Love your recycling analogy and enjoyed your editorial help I used on a ms:) thank you!!
Great post. We should always revisit old ideas. Thanks for the encouragement to bring old ideas back to life.
Recycling is a good thing!
Absolutely great advice here! Thanks!
This is great, makes me feel better about all those random snippets jotted down on envelopes, notebooks, .txt files, google keep, etc. Time to go trolling.
Love the recycling analogy. We recycle. We even compost. And I created a cooperative board game, Race to Recycle, that encourages working together to recycle. I'll keep your suggestions in mind. Thanks!
Love the word play!! Thank you!
Great reminder that we can turn "idea trash" into idea treasures…Thanks for the inspiration!
Alli is great! good advice.
Time to stark recycling. Thanks, All!
Good reminders of some great ideas!!!
I've recently been digging through my own 'writing compost pit' and found a few seeds that have grown. And my kids provide ideas for new picture books every day! Thanks for reminding me to listen.
Recycling and free writing are fabulous ways to keep the juices flowing …thanks for the reminder!
Thank you, Alli, for reminding us of those story idea gems that are heard and misheard.
Great advice–I could do more of both! Thank you.
I agree that word play can spark a plethora of ideas. Believe it or not, crossword puzzles are a great source of words used in offbeat ways. And there's always reading the dictionary!
This is great! Thanks for sharing. I get lots of ideas from talking with my kids and watching them play.
Love this! Diamond Sword 🦖👍🏻😂 Relly good inspiration today-thank you.
Love the idea of recycling ideas! Thanks!
Listening to my kids, and the funny things they say, has been one of my favorite ways to cultivate ideas. Love the reminder to look back at old ideas and see what they spark!
Some terrific reminders to eavesdrop, revisit & recycle from old idea lists and engage in word play. Thank you!
I'm all about recycling! And I love the word play! Thank you for sharing this post!
Love this metaphor Alli, thank you!
Time to cleanup those old files and repurpose them.
Eavesdrop and recycle. I do this all the time.
Being a good steward of the Earth is important to me. So I appreciate the analogy to revisit and review my PiBoIdMo journals filled with ideas.
Hi Alli. In this area of idea generating I feel like I have an advantage… age! Sometimes my eyes and ears hear and see something completely different than what was actually printed or said. I blame age for such mistakes, now Ill celebrate age for these small gifts!!!
Make new. I embrace this recycling and word play post. Thanks for sharing, Ali.
Love the word play idea!
Great idea to recycle our ideas. And great rec to use some word play. Thanks for the inspiration!
I have often written unexpected poems while in a cafe–unintentionally eavesdropping, all the while trying to write something completely different and then giving up and simply recycling the nearby loud conversation as a prompt or dialogue or narrative. Ha-ha! Thanks for that reminder!
Love this! Thank you for sharing these great ideas!!
Eavesdropping sounds like fun. Thanks for making it legit!
Ali, I unearthed my ideas back to PIBoIdMo and recycled a story the other day. Hurray. A very good tip. And, yes what kids say out of nowhere is golden. TY.
Thanks Alli! Just yesterday I ran across a notebook and in it I stored ideas. I forgot they were there but it definitely put a smile on my face. I'm looking forward to putting these old ideas to work.
Looks like I'll be the lady digging through the dumpster of old ideas! Thanks for the reminder.
Great idea! Don't we all have plenty of old things written down that just need refurbishment?
Great post! My two girls give me story ideas all the time just by funny things they say!
I love your recycling analogy. Maybe I'll go sit near a playground with my notebook in hand.
It's my dream to be a recycling queen. Thanks so much, Alli!
Great advice! I love it when I misunderstand something to the point that it generates a fun idea – I'll even read a book title wrong…which sometimes leads to an idea for a story!
Thank You for your inspiring post! Eavesdropping, Recycling, Combining Ideas=Refreshing, New Ideas!
I love looking back at old journals. Time to take a second look!
I've got a few stacks of old journals I'll be cracking open again!
Thanks for the encouragement, Alli. I was just doing a bit of writerly recycling myself. I love mining new ideas from the old ones.
I love this! I try to recycle story ideas when I can. I also have lots of interesting lines and snippets of overheard conversations written down. It just takes a while to organize them since they're written on various napkins, scrap paper, post-its,or my hand.
Such good advice and absolutely true – eavesdrop, recycle, and play with words. Thanks, Alli.
Thank you. (Word)Recycling is great! Love it.
I like this! Thanks for the tip to listen to the funny word combinations that can spark new stories.
I've had several great ideas after doing a little eavesdropping. Time to go back and look at my note and do a little recycling.
I'm stuck on "Spying lord / Lying gourd" and hoping you wrote that book. If not, please do! Heading off to pick through my recycling bin now. Thanks for a great post, Alli!
My son has given me quite a few ideas. Thanks for the post.
I need to go hang out at a playground, but I don't want to appear too creepy either since I would be there without children!
Listening and playing with what you hear is a good idea and fun!
Love the going back to old journals idea.
I love poking around in the old storystorm idea journal. Many ideas were dismissed with reason, but some ideas are fermenting beautifully and just waiting to be folded into something new.
Thank you very much Alli Brydon. I am diving into my old PiBoIdMo notebooks to look for some gold.
Eavesdropping! Word Association! Recycling! So many great nuggets here, thanks for the suggestions!
Great ideas here — thank you!
This year I put my StoryStorm ideas from the past into an Excel spreadsheet so that I can look over them. Looking back, I am kind of "What was I thinking?" on some, "Oh yeah!" on others, and "What if…" on a few.
It is the "What ifs" that I look at and come up with a new story idea. The premise or characters may be the same, but I come up with a new, better use for them!
Thanks for the post, Ali! I do this with my 7-year-old son ALL the time. And….he's really good at giving some old MS's a workover with ideas. Some are great…some not…but it's a terrific resource!
Thank you for spotlighting two classic sources for stories. On my index card for today's Storystorm, I jotted down a way to recycle AND add word play into a PB I began two years ago. WOW! DOUBLE WOW! Spot-on ideas, Alli! Best of continued success in the publishing world.
WE take recycling very seriously here in Portland, Oregon. We also like to keep it weird, so your advice resonates.
You call it recycling, I am calling it stuff diving! Thanks for sharing.
Hope you are enjoying the UK. My husband is a Brit The accents are really to die for. The vocabulary can be a challenge- English vs American. LOL!
Reuse, repurpose, rearrange, redirect, restore, redefine, recover, redesign, reinvent, reorganize, refresh, re-energize, rewrite. You got my mind churning on recharging old ideas. Thanks, Alli.
Word association is great for sparking ideas, thanks!
Thank you for your inspiring post. I love to recycle.
Love this post. Truly concrete examples I can apply. Thank you!
Eavesdropping, love it! Kids are a gold mine.
I am always hearing little bits on interesting conversations that I want to remember. Great idea to put them in a journal.
Thank you, Alli! I love the idea of recycling. Redeeming stuff that others may think is just junk. Fusing together old ideas is a helpful idea, too. I have only one Story Storm under my belt but I am planning to go back and revisit those ideas to see if there's any treasure hiding in there.
For years I've written down silly sayings by my nieces and nephews, and I find some do creep into my writing. I also like the idea of word association. Thanks, Alli, for sharing.
I have done this before (esp. the eavesdropping & mashing 2 "failed" old ideas together), and I will do it again! Thanks for the suggestion, Alli!
A great reminder that looking at old ideas and manuscripts might reveal ways to make discarded stories better.
Great post! I love eavesdropping on kids' conversations.
I'm a fan of recycling and eavesdropping, but I haven't tried free writing yet. Thanks for the post, Alli!
Interesting idea and when I am in the mall shopping I hear a lot of children moaning and playing and begging their parents to do things. I never have a place to sit and write them down and my memory for exact words is not helping.
Great idea — recycle – repurpose!
It reminds me of peanuts cartoon where one of the characters says ' gladly my cross eyed bear ' in prayer.
In the song your so vain, for years I sang his topic was Africa until I saw the lyrics. 'His scarf it was apricot' at least I think it was that way round.
Cheers / cheese/ ears ?
Love your idea and the reminder of the amazing things kids say. Thank you.
All those poor unused ideas just sitting in my journals, lol! Thanks for this post! It's great to be reminded to pay attention & to recycle those ideas!
I love the idea of recycling, especially some of my earliest attempts at manuscripts. I think there are ideas there ready for a reboot. Thanks, Alli!
The one thing that I've learned about writing is that it can be improved with time. I'll be taking a second look today. Thanks.
Thank you! Thumbing through those PiBoIdMo journals!
Thanks! Recycling day! Time to hunt through mess of old notebooks. And maybe there's a PB idea in Minecraft somewhere.
Love the re-cycling, and also the eavesdropping. You can catch some great gems listening in on conversations among children!
Thanks for the great advice Alli!
Love recycling, composting and l even looked at last year's storystorm ideas to maybe rescue them? Thank you for the post!
Mis-hearing words in conversations is a great way to generate ideas for manuscripts. The other day, my husband thought I said, "Get some Jesus at the grocery store." Um, sure, hon. Jesus is gathering disciples over by the Brie and Gouda.
Love the eavesdropping idea. My son and his friends do say the funniest things!
Thank you for a great post! I hope to one day read about the lying gourd.
Great idea! It's like autocorrect for your brain. Thank you for sharing.
So, so many journals full of half baked ideas. Maybe today's the day to revisit them. Thanks, Alli!
Great ideas. Thanks for the post!
Thanks, Alli! With recycling, sometimes two not-quite-right manuscripts can be melded together to form one just-right manuscript!
Enjoyed this post! Recycling old ideas is a great idea! Thanks, Alli!
I just looked at our recyclables pouring over the recycled box last night and thought….ugh. I have a whole new outlook. I will look through my recyclable ideas and let my husband deal with the box in the kitchen. Win win!
Some of my best ideas come from listening to what my daughter says.
Thanks for the encouragement. I have been saving my granddaughter's nighttime quotes to use as fodder for a book. I will be pulling them out soon.
Recycling and reconfiguring – always!
I "eavesdrop" all day for snippets of inspiration. Love that you call it recycling!
Dare I say, I love eavesdropping on children. They always come out with the cutest things, and provide the best inspiration. Thanks for the post!
Yes, my 3 and 5 year old are often at the heart of my new story ideas!
Thank you, Alli. Sometimes as writers I think we feel more confident when someone gives us "permission" to try new techniques. Your blog post does exactly that. Much appreciated!
I DO recycle my produce waste and toss cans into the bin…LOL. Thanks for the visuals (in my head) to get me thinking of recycling ideas. Happy brainstorming!
I love your eavesdropping tip. Listening to kids' conversations can produce some hilarious ideas. I wish I'd written down the comical things I've heard. Thank you!
See, THIS is why I NEVER throw away anything I've written lol And OH how I love word play 😀 Great post, Alli!
I think I'll take out a manuscript from last year (which was already a melding of two ideas). I knew it'd come in handy, one day! Thanks for the tips.
Word associations and idea mashups: brilliant!
Thank you, Alli, for the great reminders. There's gold in there (anywhere!) somewhere!
I was stuck for an idea today until I read your post, and it got the wheels moving again in a recycling mode. Thank you!
Super helpful!!! Thanks for the recycling ideas!
Yes, kids are hilarious! I love eaves dropping on them all the time.
Thanks for sharing! I enjoy recycling and rewriting sleeping mss.
Thank you, Alli 🙂 Recycle those old snippets into something new!
Can't wait to weed through my old box of #Piboidmo bits. Thanks for the tips!
Great ideas! And working with children, I get a lot of gems to write down!
Thank you, Alli I will recycle every time I hear my children playing. I have gotten a lot of ideas from them already.
Good tool. I don't use it enough… I see it in action a lot – when I ask my dog (rhetorically), "Do you want a spankin'?" and she thinks I'm saying (not rhetorically), "Do you want some bacon?" and she zooms into the kitchen and faceplants against the refrigerator.
Word associations are so fun!
This sounds like a fun game! I want to play!
So many ideas to sift back through, and now more ideas to combine them and play with the words. Thanks Alli!
I like the idea of combining two storylines and see what you get!
Thank you for upcycling such a simple idea and sharing it.
Love the analogy! Thanks for a great idea and fun post!
Thanks Alli for reminding me to go back through old lists. I need to be a little more organized about where I keep them all. Nonetheless, I will find them!
Since I now have a Story Storm Journal where I keep all of my zany ideas, I have a wealth of "junk" to look through! And I always do!
I often eavesdrop but usually don't write down what I hear. Need to write down those could-be gems!
Lying gourd lol! Thank you for sharing!
That's a great idea to go back to old lists and mash two together! Off to do that now! Thank you!
Thanks for the post! And I love the critique give aways!!! So exciting.
Must word associate to exercise my brain! Thanks for the tip.
These are great ways to recycle. I also sometimes twist or misinterpret words in news headlines for hilarious results. Thanks for the inspiration!
These are helpful suggestions to think about going back in old notebooks to see if we can combine two ideas or make something new from something old. Thank you!
Thanks Alli. Tuning up my ears and freeing my mind.
Ooh, I like this post! My old story storm/piboidmo ideas are right above this years so I'll have to go back to look and rediscover. Thanks!
I'm a great fan of recycling. Also composting… for those old, stinky remains of ideas that were left at the back of the fridge for too long. Compost is cool – give it a year and new ideas sprout from it.
This is great. I love the idea of fusing two older ideas. Definitely gonna do that. And I am now working on a manuscript I wrote some 15 years ago. I actually like it and am working on revising. Everything old can be new again.
Love your tip. I think I'll pass it along to Adelaide as well.
Great recycling tips, thank you!
Word association as recycling = clever.
But I wonder… is this all REcycling or UPcycling?
Jackpot! You've found your plot!
Thanks for sharing your great ideas about digging into old notebooks and then melting and melding ideas.
Thanks Alli. Great advice. I eavesdrop a lot – especially when kids are talking. Like the other day when my granddaughters where talking and and the five year old said to the four year old – "If the fairies don't come I'll just have to knock out a tooth!" You never know where the bits you overhear will lead you.
Great post! I love when old ideas take on new twists.
I love this post. It's great to recycle when you face writer's block!
I have a few lines that I love, can't part with, from old manuscripts that will never be what I intended. But yes, I will recycle those beloved lines.
Thanks for a great post! I've gone through some old ideas and recycled them into even better ideas!
I have oodles of old ideas – you've encouraged me to go have a fossick!
Old piboidmo notes coming up!
Thank you Alli for your words from experience! Looking forward to trying it!
My favorite is when I write down something completely obscure (and if written in the car – at a stoplight – equally difficult to decipher.) I look at it later and have no idea why that was important! So, I'll keep those notes from now on. Thanks, Alli!
Lots of great tips here. Hanging around kids is SUCH great inspiration!
This post reminded me that I have a couple of 'classics' from words my children have sung along to … that are totally wrong, but very very funny. Writing these down now!
I need to be recycled so I'm picking myself up, dusting myself off, and getting back in the game. Thanks, Alli!
Thank you, Alli, I have PILES of old ideas and quick drafts. I just sorted some of them. Now to get to work.
Great ideas! Time to sort through the file cabinet!
Thanks for the great idea! Going to look through old things!
Awesome post! I actually keep a book of "funny things my kids say" and it's helped quite a lot with ideas!!
Fantastic idea! Thanks for sharing, Alli!
Freewriting can be invaluable. Thanks for the reminder.
I love listening to kids! They say the best things!
I would love to show you my work – Thank you for sharing your ideas and offering a critique!
Thanks for sharing. Those are some great tips.
Thank for your encouragement to listen, to eavesdrop, and to recycle those words and great ideas! Great post.
Alli, you gave me new ideas on how to recycle. I love listening to my grandchildren talk and now I will start jotting down their gems.
Love your creative approach for tapping the recycle bin to generate new story ideas. Thanks, Alli!
I love to recycle! Thanks so much for reminding me how important it is with my writing, Alli!
This is great. I made my theme for this year, "Use what you have." I have ideas from last year's Reforemo, drafts that have never been revised, and lately a collection of small pieces of plastic and glass collected from the beach. I love to recycle and compost. I am going to pull these all together and create something new and wonderful.
I love this. I hear things wrong, but never thought to recycle them into a story. This morning I decided to throw out some old drafts…not now. I'll combine, recycle, reuse, reinvent, and re imagine them. Thank you.
I just overheard a child today saying something that wasn't exactly accurate but it made me giggle!
Great reminder that nothing in writing is wasted!
Great ideas! Thanks for this post!
I found some old story storm note books when spring cleaning, so I'll be recycling the ideas in them soon.
Thanks! Like your idea of a recycling center.
Enjoyed your post about recycling words to make them your own.
I love how you're making what was old, new again.
Your anecdote about mishearing your son's words makes me think of a similar experience — when I glance at a headline and misread a word, changing the meaning to something really bizarre! Thanks for sharing.
I love eavesdropping on my kid's conversations. They are hilarious. I should take note. You never know when an idea pops up! Thanks for sharing.
This helps a lot. I need to go back through all of mine and see what else might be there.
Word recycling is the best!
Recycling is a wonderful thing! I've even had two ideas from different Storystorm years collide with one another to create a whole new premise! Love it! Thanks for the great article.
An excuse to eavesdrop? if you say so!
Thank you for the brilliant post. The wheels are turning!
Love the suggestion of taking a fresh look at old ideas and maybe even fusing different things together ina new way. Thanks!
ALLI: I LOVE the idea that our brains are "recycling center." I'm feeling some wheels turning. THANK YOU for the inspiration!!!
People watching is great for story ideas. I love my friend's stories about the cute things his niece's say. Thanks for the reminder about recycling. It's great finding old ideas to be useful in something totally new.
Love the connection between word association and recycling–great suggestion for getting the brain going!
I think I'll dig out my old notebooks and see what I can recycle! Thank you for the great tips.
Always a good reminder to go back to to that back lost of ideas. I know I have a ton of them and couldn't tell you what most of them are. There may be a hidden gem in there. I guess it's time I found out….
Fresh eyes on old ideas . . . time to mix and meld!
Time to pull out my list of old ideas!
I love all your suggestions! I especially liked your suggestion to use word associations. Thank you!
Thanks for introducing a fun way to generate ideas!
I love the concept of recycling!
I have to admit, I am love to eavesdrop. One can pick up great info sometimes. Thank you for validating my listening to surrounding conversations.
I love the idea of recycling words and ideas!
I love it when the words flow.
Love the thought of recycling ideas. Thanks!
Great ideas! I need to look through my old lists and see where I can combine things. Thanks!
Thank you for recycling tips! A critique would make me nervous but it'd be great to win one. Good luck, Storystormers.
It does feel look subconscious junk flow sometimes.
Recycling words and ideas! What a fun exercise! I can't wait to do it!
I love your hint of recycling ideas and old manuscripts or pieces of writing you've forgotten about. Maybe now they could be used in a story. Thanks for the tips.
What a great idea. Chances are, we've forgotten what some of those old ideas were, and will come up with new ideas just trying to decipher our own notes!
Love the idea of recycling in one way or another. Thanks for sharing this.
Melding two ideas into one new story is genius! Thanks so much!
I'm always amazed at what I find when I look through my old notebooks. Did I write that?! (She said with wonder… or horror.) Thanks for the reminder to go mining!
Great post Alli! Recycling is always a good idea! Thank you for sharing!
Absolutely! Lots of ways to spin the yarn. Thanks for the reminder!
Thanks for the stamp of approval on turning junk into treasure. In the middle of a recycle on a past story right now… and hoping it works, and can sparkle one day soon.
Thank you. I like reading through my old Storystorm notebooks to recycle ideas.
I love when this happens. Seeing ideas transform and grow is so magical!
I love this idea to look at old story ideas and recycle them :-).
Great idea! Planning to read through my past StoryStorm ideas to see what can be recycled or combined into something new.
Thanks for the great recycling suggestions. I love the word associations!
Recycling! That's why we should never throw away/ delete ANY idea, no matter how bad or useless it may seem. You never know what idea it might spark!
Oooooo. A critique. I've got a few stories to recycle into a critique-able story. Thanks for resharing this idea.
Recycling! What a neat way to look at things. Why throw out what can be used again? Thanks for sharing!
As a firm believer in reduce, recyle and re-use, this struck home with me, going through all my pocket "just in case I get a flash" notebooks and mining for gems…wiping of the slime of failure is another kind of freedom! Let's try this one THIS way! Thanks Alli!
Grabbing my pen and paper now – thanks for the inspiration!
Maybe not recycle, but upcycle! Dust it off, make edits and have something better than where you started! Thanks so much for the ideas!
Your post makes me want to play! And got me thinking about one of my first manuscripts. Thank you!
Some of my best ideas have come from my kids!! Thank you for this post!
If I'm not being inspired by my own kids, I'm being inspired by their friends at school or the library…keeping eyes & ears open is always good advice!
Thanks for the suggestions, Alli!
I love your example of eavesdropping! Funny! Thank you.
I write down the interesting words, phrases, motions, and weird situations that I hope one day will make it into a manuscript.
Thanks for this post! I love the part about the freedom of word play.
Keeping in tune to old ideas, and what kids say is so true. Some of my successes have came from these, thanks for the reminder.
Recycling. Good for the planet. Good for your writing. Great reminders!
I love the part of writing down ideas – sometimes it's gems, but sometimes it makes no sense (usually the ones that wake me up in the night and I quick jot something in my phone notes)!
Great ideas to recycle and look at old ideas too! Enjoyed your extended metaphor.
Yes! The best idea I've had yet this Storystorm came from combining the ashes of a failed manuscript years ago with a recent family member's Facebook post about her kids. I think there might actually be something there.
I love this idea! Eyes wide, ears perked, and thoughts recycled. Thank you!
Great advice! Thank you, Alli!
Paying attention and playing around with possibilities. Great story stuff! Thanks.
I love to recycle, and I do it with my writing too. Sometimes what doesn't work in one format fits well in another. I've also developed some story ideas from eavesdropping, and from connecting different overheard conversations and/or observed actions together. Thanks for the great post!
I love the idea of taking two ideas from Storystorm and melding them together!! Who know what could happen?
Recycle! Recycle! Recycle! Yes! Dusting off my old journals 😁 ♻ ❤! Thanks for the tip, Ali.
Thanks for your advice. There are some old notebooks and scraps of paper I need to look at!
Great suggestions! Time to look at my old notes/ideas.
Love your recycling idea – pulling out past Storystorm lists to sift through with that in mind. Thank you!
I definitely am going to dust off an old manuscript and give it new life. Thank you for the inspiration.
This is a great reminder to look back through my notes ; ) Thanks!
I love the ideas of recycling (and especially re-purposing). Thank you.
Love the post. Recycling and repurposing can become magic in a manuscript.
Meld. Fuse. Raking through my old ideas to see if I can repurpose or reimagine them. Thanks, Alli.
This is one of my favorite ways of finding new ideas. Thank you, Alli.
Your post got me thinking about a story that I had to shelf years ago. Now I see a new way that the story can work–and be much better than before. Thanks for the inspiration!
I really liked these ideas! Thank you!
Great suggestions! I'm off to go eavesdrop on my little one.
Being a retired environmental engineer, your post stimulated creative juices. Time to go back to some of my environmental roots and my old notebooks! Thanks, Alli!
All great suggestions, Alli! Hope you are enjoying the UK.
I like this approach. Thanks for the ideas.
Thank you for the great post Alli.
Great reminder to keep our ears open and to peek through some past ideas to see what sparks new ideas.
Recycled words and ideas–I love that!! I need to go back and look at my old list of ideas again! I can't wait to twist out new story gems! Thanks!!
YES! For some reason this just clicked with me! Thank you! Opportunities everywhere for recycling words.
Time to pull-out all of my old writing journals and get busy recycling those choice words and phrases. Thanks for the reminder! Glad I never threw them out.
Thanks Alli. Recycling is important. Looking back on old ms is imperative. That's how we learn and improve our craft.
My old PiBoIdMo/Storystorm notebooks are a great source of inspiration – there's always a few ideas that can be fleshed out a bit more every time I look through them. Thanks for the post!
I have several recycled manuscripts. Ha. And I am ready to send off two of them. After learning so much more than I thought possible I had the tools to remake those stories. Thanks so much for the post.
I love these ideas and the reminder to use what's right in front of us and recycle or revisit old ideas/manuscripts. Thank you!
Great post, thank you. I agree – it's amazing how we can see things so differently when we look back at old notebooks and papers later on, and see ideas in a completely new light.
Totally using this idea. I found some Pibomo ideas that need a breather and new life! Totally taking this.
Recycle and revise and voila! Thanks!
Thank you for opening the for to more ideas.
Alli, thanks for this inspiration. I'll be recycling through my old #storystorm lists. Great post!
Alli, thank you for the generous offer.
A good day always starts with a bit of recycling! Thank you for this!
Inspiring post! I'm about to dig out some old notebooks and give it a try.
Love this. I'm always getting ideas from my son and his friends. Thank you.
I love hanging out in the children's section of a bookstore and eavesdrop. I haven't done that in a while – thanks for the reminder!
This is a very good reminder that the old notes may turn into treasures some day.
OMG baby goats! Ahem, I mean, thanks for your advice.
Recycle, reuse, and repurpose. Time to look at some old stories.
love word associations but need to practice my eavesdropping!
I love composting and recycling! Thanks for the great ideas.
The best advice is to look back over old journals from time to time. You can find some gems!
Love those misheard words & sayings. One day, that really cool (non-working) old idea will either become a story or spark the genesis for one. Thanks for the reminder to go back and look at them.
Thanks for the reminder to do word associations as regular "practice" especially with the idea that nothing has to come of it right away.
Wonderful post! Thanks for the encouragement to sift and sort through old ideas… and to keep it green!
I hang onto everything. I always think that random ideas may fit somewhere else.
I'm an avid recycler–have to think even more of doing it with my writing.
Recycle and up-cycle! Great tips to keep us continually sifting through our creative output. Thanks!
I love the idea of generating more misheard words – fun. Thanks.
I've been in a slump the last few days, but I love to recycle! Recycle ideas? I can do that. Thanks.
I love recycling ideas by banging the old ones up against each other, making something altogether new.
I've been a professional eavesdropper since childhood. I'm excited to look back through some old journals (often filled with one-liners from forgotten conversations) and *fingers crossed* find some inspirational gems!
Love all these tips. Sometimes, I recycle old ideas without even realizing it…an idea just sits in my mind and shows up in a couple of different ideas until it finally takes root in the right manuscript. Thank you for this post!
Good idea! I have so many former ideas that might be ready to develop now that I have worked on my craft. Thanks!
I liked your statement, "Word association/word play unlocks your subconscious brain and turns it into a recycling center." Thank you.
This is a great idea. I have five notebooks full of Storystorm ideas. Hopefully I have some buried treasure in there somewhere.
Old ideas…..they can actually become GOOD ideas when you take a fresh approach to them!
Did find a lot of old stories while closet cleaning and have old notebooks from PiBoIdMo. And I do recycle, so now notebook ideas, beware!
Thanks! I can't wait to revisit my list from PiBoIdMo past, see what I've got there, dust off an idea and, see how I might rework it….Or even just work it.
Hmmm. I like to recycle!
Great ideas! I love that each of these suggestions flexes a different creative muscle. Looking forward to combining as well. Thank you, Alli!
Love this! I always get discouraged when I can't think of a full-formed story idea, but I really should look into recycling old ideas of mine and fusing them together!
Eavesdropping on children is genius! I need to offer to babysit my friends' children. Thanks!
I love to eavesdrop on kids' conversations in my class, on the playground, in the lunchroom (if you can hear them) lol and anywhere children are talking to each other. Great post on how to find new story ideas from your old ideas too!
I love eavesdropping on kids. They say the best things.
Word association is always so fun!
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I love recycling! In fact, I just recycled a picture book manuscript and think my recycling paid off!
Great ideas, Alli! I'm going back through all my old StoryStorm journals now!
I love the idea of recycling words. So fun, and a great way to come up with new ideas. Thank you!
Yes, thanks you. I have several notebooks I haven't looked at in a while.
Your comments are so clever and thought provoking. Thank you!
I hate to part with notebooks, so this gives me a totally new way to look at them. And. potentially use them! Thanks so very much. P.S. I love to people watch-this now gives me 'permission' to people listen!
Thank you for your creativity boost with making connections and going with a new flow.
Time to dust off the old notebooks (okay keyboards since everything's on the computer) and look at old stories that didn't work for one reason or another the first time around. I needed to hear this.
Thank you for the great tips. Word association is so hard for me to just let go and do, but I'm willing to give it a go.
Thanks, Alli, for all the recycling tips. Old ideas may just need the right home to sparkle. I love word play and melding words together, even if it means spellcheck will have a fit.
Old picture book ideas deserve to be given a chance and tried one more time and I'm sure everyone has a pile. Thank you.
I have hundreds of story ideas that just aren't going anywhere. I need to look at them again and see how they can be recycled into something I love.
I get at least a B- in easedropping on kids. They do say the funniest things.
Yep, I've still got some of those old ideas. Ha you reminded me of when I popped in to a hardware store a couple of days ago and the little cute Asian girl (about 2-3) was yabbering away to her dad in Chinese swinging on the end of his hand and after seeing me walk past she suddenly burst into singing "Old McDonalds Farm" as clear as anything in English. Made me smile.
Never thought about recycling words before, thanks!!
Such a fun analogy! Thanks!
Ah, you've brought back some ideas from the past. Thanks for the memories!
Eavesdropping on conversations feels wrong. Except that it's a great way to get ideas!
I have piles to recycle. Thanks for the suggestions.
I'm hoping you wrote the lying gourd story! It's fun to look back on past lists.
I can't count how many ideas have come from eavesdropping on my kids and their friends in the backseat of my car 🙂 One of the few times when I enjoy being ignored by my kids!
I'm sure I've got some manuscripts from YEARS ago that I'd like to recycle into a "working" story. Thanks for the inspiration.
Hope to someday read about your diamond sworded dinosaur.
Recycling for hidden gems mixed with a little eavesdropping…. oh, the possibilities.
What a wonderful post! Hidden gems in our recycling piles. I love this! Thank you!
Recycled writing! I love it.
Thanks for sharing! I loved your Diamond Sword word play!
Love the Minecraft reference, Alli! This totally resonated with me! I'm all for recycling, especially with my story ideas!
I find myself writing on my hand a lot when I happen to overhear people saying things that would make a good book idea.
I am just discovering the joys of recycling my "bad" ideas into a new theme. I think my subconscious did not want to give them up. Thank you for your insight that gave me a "pat on the back" confirmation.
Love this idea! I'm still pulling ideas from my 2018 Storystorm journal. And listening to children is always a great resource. Thank you!
Recycle… only use the stuff yourself. Reinvent. Repurpose. How about an old story from a contest about the Statue of Liberty?
Great post — and welcome to the UK!
I always like the storystorm posts reminding us we can reuse our old abandoned ideas.
I'm going to start jotting down all of the things I mishear my students saying.Thanks for the idea of word association.
I love word play and recycling. Perfect! 😉 Thank you!
Thank you for the wondering ideas!
Thanks for sharing this. Mishearing words or phrases can be a great and funny way to get ideas.
I have so many old ideas and manuscripts. Thank you!
"…throw it all out there and onto the page, single-stream recycling style." This is such great advice. Thank you.
Word associations/word play is a great idea!
I love listening to what children have to say. Looking forward to revisiting old ideas!
Thank you, Alli! I'm constantantly hearing my daughters say the most hysterical word combinations and I've been hoping to incorporate them in a MS. This gives me hope and drive. Thank you!
Great ideas! I still have some favorite words that my kids said when they were little. Think I'll write them down! Thank you!
Love the idea to take on some old ms and perhaps make them into something fresh.
I love recycling! Thanks for the tip.
Fabulous; it's true that people say the darndest things, which can be a goldmine of amusing story ideas! Thank you!
I love listening in to other's conversations in coffee shops, grocery stores, playgrounds. Great post! Thanks.
I have lots of ideas/stories that I could possibly recycle…..
I'm ready to recycle ideas! I've got lists to go through.
So you're telling us it's okay to listen to others' conversations? YES!!! Thanks for the fun post!
Recycle! Yes! I love to recycle, so I'll try recycling my old lists! Thanks for sharing. I've never really tried eavesdropping, but maybe I'll give it a shot too.
Eavesdropping, always. Watching body language, more so. I'm off to scour old journals now. What an idea.
How wonderful to get so many pro tips from somewhat with such vast experience in the children's book industry. Thanks so much!
What kids say is precious and certainly could make for good picture book material. Thank you.
Children can give us so many wonderful ideas. Thanks for this reminder to slow down a little and listen.
Some of my best ideas have come from eavesdropping on my children's conversations/games. Great tip! Thank you for sharing!
Thank you so much for this post. It's a very good idea.
Alli – thank you for this post. I have so many notebooks and many half written manuscripts to revisit.
Recycling is great. I do this with old sketchbooks of drawings too. Sometimes something you didn't notice years ago really clicks now.
Thank you for sharing this concept of 'recycling' and your tips for doing it.
Love this. I mishear things all the time. Now I can use it for good!
Great advice. A few years ago, I had an idea for a character for a character-led story or series.
In this year's Storystorm, I had an idea for a series and it may be an opportunity to revive that character from a few years ago in a different context.
Oh-oh-oh! Excited by this post. Hoping to win your critique. I will for sure visit your website. Thank you for reminding us to revisit our ideas!
A great idea to recycle your words.. thank you!!
I have tons of snippets of my kids' conversations. Precious–all!
Great analogy! I need to revisit my old PiBoIdMo/Storystorm lists and recycle and match up some old ideas. Thanks All!
I looked back over several years of PiBoIdMo ideas and was able to spin a few new ones. thanks!
Great post! Will definitely look back!
Wonderful ideas! Thank you for the post!
I think I will dust off some previously rejected items and see if I can breathe new life into them. Thanks!
I do, in fact, get a lot of ideas by listening to my kid!
I need my inner editor to read this post lol.
Great ideas that are simple to implement and can reap huge rewards! Thank you!
Thank you for a great post and a generous giveaway Alli.
Eavesdropping is one of my super skills. HA!
Love this! I definitely hear some weird words from my kids. I'll have to write down more of those.
I like this "recycling" analogy to the picture book writing process… most great art is an amalgamation of ideas from elsewhere. Mash yours up to see what you get in the form of something new. Thanks for sharing!
I've been using the same notebook to capture my StoryStorm/PiBoIdMo ideas since 2015. It'll be easy to go back and recycle! Great idea!
What a wonderful twist to the idea of recycling. Thank you.
Your eavesdropping and word association exercises are an active and fun way to jump right into a story. Life from a kid's perspective is always fun and enlightening. I'm taking your ideas to heart and getting busy. I already have one idea just from reading your post! Thank you!!
Mishearing is my favorite idea generator. It allows the imagination to take over.
I love to eavesdrop on my students! I'm going to incorporate word association in my daily journaling. Thanks for the ideas!
I like the thought of recycling old ideas!
I love word association and often generate ideas from words or phrases that sound similar and yet mean totally different things. How fun! Many thanks for sharing!
Word association exercises are the best!
I'm in my own head so much, it's hard to remember to eavesdrop. Such great gems just waiting to be found! Thanks!
Thanks for the motivation to revisit ideas I've put aside.
I need to pull out my old PiBoIdMo notebooks. The writing was crappy back then, but the ideas could have merit. Thanks for the reminder!


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I've been watching this show off and on since it started. The show centers around a woman trying to rebuild her life after severe and complicated marital issues, but this week's episode brought an interesting angle that is rarely portrayed on television, how important is salvation in your life?
The husband in the story is a politician and wants to hire a pastor to improve his political image. He cheated on his wife and participated in some shady activities and found himself in jail, a series of events that not only placed his career in jeopardy, but also his family. The pastor refuses to play the political game and offers the man true salvation. In this episode, the husband starts getting interested in prayer, working with the pastor towards truly making a change. The episode ends with him inviting his wife to church, and it remains to be seen if he actually means it or if it's just another scheme.
I found it very interesting, because unless you are watching a proclaimed Christian program like "Touched by an Angel" or "Little House on the Prairie", it is rare to see a national network actually embracing Jesus as Lord and Savior as the way to change your life. Kudos CBS!
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Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew
On March 4, 2010 By Naty MatosIn Inspirational Thoughts7 Comments
Tonight was the season finale of this show that shows some celebrities' at the most vulnerable moments in their life while recovering from their addictions. I'm sure some of the audience of this show wants to know the intimate secrets of these famous people, others watch as part of the inspiration of their own recovery process regardless of their personal type of struggle. It's at moments like this when you realize the blessing of the anonymity. I can't even imagine how hard it is to face your greatest demons in front of a camera. These are real human beings with real struggles and in a way it's very admirable that they have place themselves in the same position of being icons, but this time to show their strength through their weaknesses.
Before the final episode, they showed some of the episodes from the previous weeks. The episode "Family Weekend" showed the mother of Layne Staley, former lead singer of Alice in Chains who passed away due to drug use, giving a very moving speech to those in rehab. The part that moved me the most was when she said that the best life they could live was to live ordinary boring lives. It reminded me about a lot of the reflections I've been doing this week about enjoying the simple things in life.
It's not a matter of not having aspirations; it's a matter of not idolizing those aspirations and enjoy the journey towards our goals. Once again, stopping to smell the roses and enjoy the color in them, including the thorns. Yes, those painful experiences in our lives that come to teach us valuable lessons. Slow down the pace. LIVE! Life is not just the enjoyments and pleasure of the moment or our possessions. Life is every moment in our life, every minute, every second, every relationship, every tear, every breath, every heartbreaking moment and every smile. We only have one shot at this ride; let's live the true meaning that our Creator intended for our lives!
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"Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness…" (Ephesians 6:14).
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This verse appears after John reminds us that Jesus is merciful and just to forgive and cleanse us if we confess our sins (I John 1:9). As we follow Jesus, trust in His sacrifice on the cross for our salvation, and turn to Him in regular confession and repentance, He will guard our hearts and protect us from the attacks of the enemy. Jesus will be our breastplate of righteousness.


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Griz Return Home to Take on Southern Utah for What Could Be the Last Time
Nick Chrestenson Published: October 28, 2021
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Our Montana Grizzlies are returning home this weekend to face the Southern Utah Thunderbirds for the first time since 2016 and what could be their last time as Big Sky Conference foes. The number 11th ranked Griz enter the game fresh off a seventh-straight rivalry win over the Idaho Vandals last weekend. Montana retained the "Little Brown Stein" with a convincing 34-14 win in Moscow.
The Griz will be back in Washington-Grizzly Stadium on Saturday and the game will kickoff at noon. The Thunderbirds are 1-7 on the season and are 0-5 against Big Sky opponents. The Griz are 5-2 on the season and are 2-2 in the conference. The Thunderbirds joined the conference in 2012 and are set to depart for the WAC in 2022.
Southern Utah is giving up nearly 39 points per game, which is good news for Montana's offense. Freshman quarterback Kris Brown has started the past three games for the Griz and the offense is starting to click at the perfect time. Brown threw for 256 yards last week against Idaho and 145 of those yards went to junior wide receiver Mitch Roberts. The last time Montana and Southern Utah played was in 2018. In that game, the Griz gained 635 yards of total offense and eight touchdowns in a 57-14 slaughter.
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Saturday's game marks the first of two Griz games this season to be broadcast nationally on ROOT Sports. The annual "Brawl of the Wild" game against Montana State will also be broadcast on ROOT Sports. In Missoula, ROOT is available on Spectrum cable channel 60 and HD channel 560, and on DIRECTV channel 687 and 688.
"Voice of the Griz" Riley Corcoran and analyst Greg Sundberg will bring you the action live from Missoula right here on KGVO, the flagship station of the Grizzly Sports Radio Network. You can listen to the game on 98.3 FM, AM 1290, online at newstalkkgvo.com, or on the FREE KGVO APP.
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Borough of Bedford
Borough and unitary authority in England
Borough and unitary authority
Bedford Borough Hall
Coat of arms of Bedford Borough Council
Bedford shown within Bedfordshire
Coordinates: 52°8′0″N 0°27′0″W / 52.13333°N 0.45000°W / 52.13333; -0.45000
Ceremonial county
Administrative HQ
Borough Hall, Bedford
• Governing body
Bedford Borough Council
• Executive mayor
Dave Hodgson
• MPs
Richard Fuller (C)
Nadine Dorries (C)
Mohammad Yasin (L)
(mid-2019 est.)[1]
• Ethnicity
85.5% White British
8.1% British Asian
2.9% Black British
1.3% Chinese or other
2.2% Mixed
British Summer Time
ONS code
UKH22
www.bedford.gov.uk
The Borough of Bedford is a unitary authority area with borough status in the ceremonial county of Bedfordshire, England. Its council is based in Bedford, its namesake and principal settlement, which is the county town of Bedfordshire. The borough contains one large urban area, the 71st largest in the United Kingdom that comprises Bedford and the adjacent town of Kempston, surrounded by a rural area with many villages. 75% of the borough's population live in the Bedford Urban Area and the five large villages which surround it, which makes up slightly less than 6% of the total land area of the Borough.
The borough is also the location of the Wixams new town development, which received its first residents in 2009.
2 Council and cabinet
3 Wards and civil parishes
4 Freedom of the Borough
4.1 Individuals
4.2 Military Units
Formation[edit]
The District of Bedford was formed on 1 April 1974 as a merger of the existing borough of Bedford, along with Kempston urban district and Bedford Rural District. In 1975 the district was granted a royal charter granting borough status as North Bedfordshire. The borough was renamed as Borough of Bedford in 1992. Over half of the former municipal borough of Bedford is unparished. However, Brickhill is a parish. The rest of the district including Kempston is parished.
The Department for Communities and Local Government have reorganised Bedfordshire's administrative structure as part of the 2009 structural changes to local government in England, meaning that Bedford Borough Council became a unitary authority in April 2009. This means Bedford Borough has assumed responsibility in areas such as education, social services and transport which were previously provided by Bedfordshire County Council.[2][3][4]
Council and cabinet[edit]
See also: Bedford local elections
Unlike most English districts, Bedford's council is led by a directly elected mayor of Bedford, who has been Dave Hodgson since 16 October 2009.[5]
The first elections for the new unitary Bedford Borough Council were held on 4 June 2009 when 36 councillors in addition to the mayor were elected. Since an electoral review which came into effect for the local elections in 2011, Bedford Borough has had 40 councillors in addition to the mayor.
Liberal Democrat
2009[6] 9 7 13 7 0 No overall control
2011[7] 12 12 12 4 0 No overall control
2015 15 14 9 2 0 No overall control
2019 11 11 15 1 2 No overall control
Since the 2019 elections, Bedford Borough Council's executive committee (cabinet) is headed by the mayor and includes 10 members from the Liberal Democrat, and Labour groups, and the Independent. Conservative and Green members sit in opposition on the council.[8]
Wards and civil parishes[edit]
The urban part of the borough consisting of most of the Bedford/Kempston Urban Area is divided into 13 wards, some of which are also civil parishes:[9]
Ward name
Population (2009 estimate)[9]
Percentage from minority groups[9]
Brickhill 8,540 14%
Castle 7,190 32%
Cauldwell 9,170 44%
De Parys 6,840 18%
Goldington 8,360 19%
Harpur 8,370 26%
Kempston Central and East 7,500 23%
Kempston North 4,050 24%
Kempston South 4,370 20%
Kempston West 3,770 15%
Kingsbrook 9,280 25%
Newnham 7,620 18%
Putnoe 7,650 14%
Queens Park 8,470 58%
Total population 101,180 25%[10]
Map of the wards in Bedford Borough
The wards and constituent civil parishes in the rural part of the borough are as follows:[9]
Civil Parishes[9]
Biddenham & Bromham
Biddenham
Bromham
7,460 9%
Clapham Clapham 4,670 9%
Eastcotts
Cotton End
Shortstown
Elstow
Stewartby
Great Barford
Ravensden
Carlton and Chellington
Podington
Wymington
Kempston Rural
Great Denham
Stagsden
Turvey
Pavenham
Stevington
Riseley
Dean and Shelton
Bletsoe
Melchbourne and Yielden
Pertenhall
Swineshead
Thurleigh
Sharnbrook
Knotting and Souldrop
Milton Ernest
Wilshamstead Wilshamstead 2,550 4%
Wootton Wootton 4,480 6%
Wyboston
Bolnhurst and Keysoe
Colmworth
Little Barford
Little Staughton
Staploe
Wyboston, Chawston and Colesden
Total population 56,880 7%
Freedom of the Borough[edit]
The following people and military units have received the Freedom of the Borough of Bedford.
This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.
Individuals[edit]
Etienne Stott MBE: 11 December 2012. [11]
Military Units[edit]
Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment: November 1955
RAF Cardington: 16 July 1959.[12]
287 Regiment Royal Artillery: 5 May 1963.
1st Battalion Royal Anglian Regiment: 1980. [13]
201 (Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire Yeomanry) Battery Royal Artillery (Volunteers): 3 May 1986.
RAF Henlow: 26 September 1992.
774th USAF Airbase Group: 15 December 1994.
134 (Bedford) Squadron Air Training Corps: 1 August 1999.
List of places in Bedfordshire
St Paul's Church, Bedford
^ "Population Estimates for UK, England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, Mid-2019". Office for National Statistics. 6 May 2020. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
^ Unitary solution confirmed for Bedfordshire – New flagship unitary councils approved for Cheshire – Corporate – Communities and Local Government Archived 22 November 2008 at the Wayback Machine
^ County council to be abolished in shake-up – Bedford Today
^ A New Beginning Archived 24 February 2009 at Archive.today
^ "Lib Dem win in mayoral election". BBC News. 16 October 2009.
^ "Lib Dems the winners in Borough Hall elections – News". Bedford Today. 5 June 2009. Archived from the original on 8 June 2009. Retrieved 16 August 2013.
^ "Bedford Borough Council elections – the results – Local". Bedford Today. 9 May 2011. Archived from the original on 12 December 2013. Retrieved 16 August 2013.
^ "Find Councillor | Bedford Borough Council". Retrieved 30 November 2020.
^ a b c d e f g "Ward Profiles". Bedford.gov.uk. 5 May 2011. Archived from the original on 6 May 2014. Retrieved 16 August 2013.
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 16 March 2012. Retrieved 29 February 2012. CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-20664026
^ "RAF Cardington Camp". rafcardingtoncamp.co.uk.
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When a self-obsessed novelist (Jason Schwartzman) has problems with his novel and his girlfriend (Elisabeth Moss), he seeks refuge in his mentor's cottage where the peace and quiet allow him to focus on his favorite subject - himself. Nominated for an Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival. "I can't think of a recent movie that stages with as much joy and wonder the sense of living a life that becomes, directly or obliquely, in action or in idea, the stuff of art." - Richard Brody, The New Yorker
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Posted byJack Canfora May 27, 2020 May 27, 2020 Posted inPlaywriting, Political Theater, Social Justice, Uncategorized, Writing, Mental Health, Performing ArtsTags:1984, AIDS, Angels in America, Arthur Miller, Bay Street Theater, Brecht, Broadway, Clifford Odets, David Hare, Death of a Salesman, Elia Kazan, George Orwell, Jules Feiffer, Larry Kramer, Lori-Parks, Marilyn Monroe, McCarthyism, Neil Simon, Off-Broadway, playwriting, Political Theater, Politics, Social Justice, The Red Scare, Tony Kushner, Waiting for Lefty, Writing
Writing In An Age In Which The World Seems To Be Ripping Itself Apart
No thinking person has to be persuaded of the power of words to sway hearts, minds, and even history. "We declare these truths to be self-evident…" "Four score and seven years ago…" "I have a dream…" "Leggo my Eggo." These phrases still give me goosebumps.
No, I come not bury words, but to ask the age old question of what, if any, responsibility, do writers have to address the political and social ills of a given period? Who knows, Neil Simon may have had a brilliant social satire in him if he'd been so inclined, but by all indications, he seems not to have been. Yet that doesn't lessen his "worthiness" in my estimation. For others, like Brecht, Ibsen, Miller, Kushner, Lori-Parks, Hare, and so many more, their work is inextricable from their politics. Ditto the late Larry Kramer, whose work did a very rare thing: helped to shift the culture in a new direction, and inspire legions of others to build on his foundations.
Write What You Know (You Care About)
I'm a person of rather strong political views, as anyone on my Twitter feed (and why on earth wouldn't you be?) will quickly learn. And I've written a couple of plays that could be considered political in nature. My play Fellow Travelers, for example, ran in 2018 at the Bay Street Theater, and concerned the complicated relationship between (among?) Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan, and Marilyn Monroe. It dealt in great detail about the perils of McCarthyism, and how the different paths Kazan and Miller chose in dealing with those pressures forever altered their close friendship and their work.
Most people seemed to enjoy the play, which was very gratifying, and would often corner me afterwards in a bar (an experience with a wide degree of pleasantness) and remark to me with a knowing look and lowered voice how "timely" a play it was.
I suppose that's true (my guess is in American life, reminding people about political paranoia rarely isn't timely). And although I think it's clear ultimately where my sympathies lie, the story was not written with a political agenda in mind or moral to teach. In fact, I went to lengths to try to give both Miller and Kazan equally compelling arguments for their choices. I wasn't interested writing a play that was instructive or prescriptive in any way. I just wanted to write about smart, complex people under the greatest stress of their lives.
Because, And This May Be Just Me, But It's Just Me
While I have confidence in a great many things (Beatles trivia, Yankees stats…the list thins out considerably from there), I also think of myself as having been absent the day at school the day they taught "How To Live Successfully As An Adult." It's taken me years to realize that, there was no class (at least not at my public school). Despite the desperate appearances many people project, in the words of the great William Goldman, "No one knows anything."
We're all winging it, to a certain extent, every day. It's a realization that, depending on my mood, brings me great comfort and/or great despair. I do not always (read: often) have the answers as to how I should act and behave in the world, let alone feel I can tell others how to. I have a distinct sense that trying to be nice and give people the benefit of the doubt plays a big part, but beyond that, I can't say too much with any sense of authority. But that's my job as a person: to try to continually work at figuring that stuff out better. And sure, my writing, I believe, can help me with that.
But I believe my job as a writer is to tell a story in as truthful and entertaining way as I can muster.
Now, entertaining, to me, is a very elastic word. The Iceman Cometh I find highly entertaining. Ditto A View From The Bridge and King Lear. But also Noises Off, Barefoot in the Park and Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I tend to write dramas that deal with very hard and sad things, but are hopefully a lot of laughs along the way. That's just how it's worked out so far. But, I confess, I don't think there are many writers who can pull off being angry about something, or being desperate to instruct us about something, at the expense of making us emotionally invest in the characters, in a way I find satisfying.
Another Thing I Feel Passionately Unsure About
There's a more pragmatic reason that plays redolent with a MESSAGE tend to make me itchy inside. This doesn't apply as much to television writing (where it's less rare to begin with) as the theater. I mean, aren't the vast bulk of theater artists (artists in general) at least vaguely singing from the same hymnal? I'm sure there's some exceptions to this, but in Fellow Travelers, for example, at no point did I feel the need to show that The Red Scare was a bad thing. I don't think anyone interested in coming to see this play was likely to be on the fence about that.
Saints and devils bore the hell out of me, and, I think most audiences, too. I was very lucky to meet and briefly talk on Opening Night to Jules Feiffer, who lived through that era and both knew and loathed Kazan for his actions. Mr. Feiffer sought me out afterwards, and was very kind to me when he saw the play, which I was obviously quite nervous about, especially because I go to pains to show Kazan's existential struggle was every bit as real as Miller's. But, being a great writer, he understood what I was at least attempting to do – to create three dimensional, often contradictory characters struggling with their uncertainty and self-interest. He could appreciate the portrayal without abandoning his core convictions that Kazan was in the wrong.
When I Was Younger, So Much Younger Than Today (Actually, I Hadn't Been Born Yet)
Way back when, Broadway was an essentially democratic institution, or at least had the patina of it. Middle class people could go to see plays on Broadway with a fair amount of regularity. It had some cultural currency. Playwrights used to make the cover of Time. I mean. Things have changed, no?
And while these audiences expected to be diverted, they also expected to be challenged on occasion. There's the possibly apocryphal story of the owner of Macy's, on opening night of Death of a Salesman, turning to his wife after the curtain call and vowing to write a memo to his managers forbidding the firing of salesmen because of age.
It's certainly pretty to think so. But today, Broadway, and increasingly, Off-Broadway, have often become destinations out of reach to all but the obviously privileged. And I get the cynical suspicion that many audiences today go to so called "serious" plays, in part, at least sometimes, as a salve to their consciences, or perhaps worse, just to have something to chat about with their peers. "Yes, that is a terrible thing that's happening to those [fill in the blank]," they say as they impatiently wait for their Uber. "I'll definitely have to mention it at brunch next weekend."
And maybe that helps. I'm sure it can and does, in fact. And maybe it's always been thus. Probably. I guess I'm just saying, if being a social justice warrior is your bag, I'm with you! However, if I saw something going on that I felt a burning need to address, there are few less direct or effective ways of doing so than writing a play about it. I mean, 1) if I get it produced, it's possible it will be like five years after I wanted to address the issue and 2) I'm likely preaching to people who agree with me already.
Before I Start To Sound Too Cynical, Let Me Add A Little More
I attended a theater conference last year, which I was excited about: meet seem people, make some connections and friends, perhaps unleash my killer karaoke version of "Caribbean Queen" to a grateful throng. I was expecting workshops and panels on the nuts and bolts of getting your plays done and how to improve your work as an artist. Instead, I found it all a bit alienating. Like a Woke Olympics – with literally more safe spaces than play readings.
Now, I'm White, straight, and a man, so I get that I even though I think I get oppression and systemic marginalization, I know I don't really. I try to be vigilant about this: I sometimes succeed, and surely many times fail. I believe it's long past time to hear more voices in theater from oppressed and marginalized communities (how brave of me). I think, in fact, it's vital for whatever culture relevance theater has left.
I'm just ultimately of the opinion that most – if not every great work of literature, even if overtly political – is successful based on how well we empathize with the characters on a human, non-political level. For all the brilliant political insight of Orwell's 1984, it's the moment when Winston, the rats inches from his face, screams, "Do it to Julia!" that still hits me in the gut most.
That unquestionable masterpiece, Angels in America, written by Brecht acolyte Tony Kushner, employs many of Brecht's techniques in the two plays. Yet, I would argue, it's when Kushner breaks free, and even contradicts some of Brecht's edicts, that make the plays scorch the minds and souls of its audiences. Kushner's ability to make us feel for his indelible characters gives this two play cycle its rightful place in the Pantheon. If we don't feel Prior's fear and bravery, soften to the initially implacable Hannah, respect and fall in love with Belize – hell, if we aren't moved, in spite of all logic, by Ethel Rosenberg and Louis saying Kaddish for the hateful Roy Cohn, the plays don't work. But work they do.
Wait: Scratch That, Reverse It
But then there's the late, great Larry Kramer, whose work as a writer and activist, as I said earlier, truly shook our culture. If it didn't remove the scales from mainstream America's eyes about the AIDS crisis all by itself (and it did more than its share), it paved the way for others to carry the message into the mainstream. Anyone who cares about playwriting, or theater, or the power of activism, or simply human empathy should mourn his loss. Because, despite his palpable rage – maybe because of it – he never lost his power to move with words, and to make clear the issues he was passionate about were deeply human.
I guess, in the end, that's all I'm after as a writer. To try to make what I write about feel recognizably human. I think that's our only non-negotiable job. Even with the characters we don't like or agree with.
We live in an age where people are given permission, indeed often encouraged, by our "leaders" to view other groups of people as less than human. So, rather than aiming for a play in which everyone exits the theater chanting "Strike, strike, strike!" as they supposedly did after watching the premiere of Odets' Waiting For Lefty, I'd just like the audience to see a bit of themselves, or those they care about in the characters. And some humanity with those whom they they don't agree with.
And yes, as I rather glibly stated before, in theaters we're mostly preaching to the choir. But hearing the choir sing words you love and feel deep in your bones feels like a necessity these days.
Actually, in the America of 2020, reminding people of their common humanity is a political act. That's what its seemingly come to.
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Muon track reconstruction and data ion techniques in AMANDA
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A May 2004. 2004NIMPA.524..169A.
Ahrens, J. and Bai, X. and Bay, R. and Barwick, S.W. and Becka, T. and Becker, J.K. and Becker, K.-H. and Bernardini, E. and Bertrand, D. and Biron, A. and Boersma, D.J. and Böser, S. and Botner, O. and Bouchta, A. and Bouhali, O. and Burgess, T. and Carius, S. and Castermans, T. and Chirkin, D. and Collin, B. and Conrad, J. and Cooley, J. and Cowen, D.F. and Davour, A. and de Clercq, C. and De Young, T. and Desiati, P. and Dewulf, J.-P. and Ekström, P. and Feser, T. and Gaug, M. and Gaisser, T.K. and Ganugapati, R. and Geenen, H. and Gerhardt, L. and Gross, A. and Goldschmidt, A. and Hallgren, A. and Halzen, F. and Hanson, K. and Hardtke, R. and Harenberg, T. and Hauschildt, T. and Helbing, K. and Hellwig, M. and Herquet, P. and Hill, G.C. and Hubert, D. and Hughey, B. and Hulth, P.O. and Hultqvist, K. and Hundertmark, S. and Jacobsen, J. and Karle, A. and Kestel, M. and Köpke, L. and Kowalski, M. and Kuehn, K. and Lamoureux, J.I. and Leich, H. and Leuthold, M. and Lindahl, P. and Liubarsky, I. and Madsen, J. and Marciniewski, P. and Matis, H.S. and McParland, C.P. and Messarius, T. and Minaeva, Y. and Miočinović, P. and Mock, P.C. and Morse, R. and M"unich, K.S. and Nam, J. and Nahnhauer, R. and Neunhöffer, T. and Niessen, P. and Nygren, D.R. and Ögelman, H. and Olbrechts, P. and Pérez de Los Heros, C. and Pohl, A.C. and Porrata, R. and Price, P.B. and Przybylski, G.T. and Rawlins, K. and Resconi, E. and Rhode, W. and Ribordy, M. and Richter, S. and Rodr'iguez Martino, J. and Ross, D. and Sander, H.-G. and Schinarakis, K. and Schlenstedt, S. and Schmidt, T. and Schneider, D. and Schwarz, R. and Silvestri, A. and Solarz, M. and Spiczak, G.M. and Spiering, C. and Stamatikos, M. and Steele, D. and Steffen, P. and Stokstad, R.G. and Sulanke, K.-H. and Streicher, O. and Taboada, I. and Thollander, L. and Tilav, S. and Wagner, W. and Walck, C. and Wang, Y.-R. and Wiebusch, C.H. and Wiedemann, C. and Wischnewski, R. and Wissing, H. and Woschnagg, K. and Yodh, G.
AMANDA, Neutrino astrophysics, Neutrino telescope, Track reconstruction
Rolling search for a cascade GRB signal
January 2007. 2007PhDT........10H.
Hughey, B.J.
AMANDA, Cascade, COSMIC RAYS, Gamma-ray burst, Neutrino telescope