Writer Storm - A Brainstorming Community

This year during Three Weeks for Dreamwidth, I'm writing about reading as a way of becoming an expert in a given subject. Read Part 1: Introduction to Becoming an Expert, Part 2: Architecture, Part 3: Dance, Part 4: Music, Part 5: Painting, Part 6: Poetry, Part 7: Sculpture.


Three Weeks for Dreamwidth Part 8: Conflict Resolution

Conflict resolution is a skillset for peacefully sorting out disagreements between people. Individual aspects include body language, communication skills, cooperative decision-making, coping skills, emotional awareness, mediation, negotiation, and problem-solving. The goal is to find a win-win solution, or if that is not possible, at least something that everyone can live with. Sometimes you may identify a need for additional resources, reorganzing things, or other stuff that could take a while to accomplish. Conflict resolution is effective when it diffuses the tension of the moment and identifies at least one practical step toward reducing or avoiding future conflicts over the same issue. It's okay if that takes multiple rounds to fix fully. All people experience conflicts sometimes, but different cultures handle this in different ways. Dreamwidth has no conflict resolution communities per se, but you might explore common_nature, goals_on_dw, or thankfulthursday for a few of its subskills.




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A Day Away Spring/Summer 2026 is now up at the Effingham Magazines page.  :D 3q3q3q!!!  If you live in or plan to visit central Illinois, this is the best guide to events and attractions within daytrip distance of Effingham.

Today we went to the May Day and Full Moon Walk activities at Whiteside Garden.

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Today's theme is Movies.

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I have made bingo down the G column of my 4-1-26 card for the Flower Fest Bingo. I also made 5 extra fills.


G1 (Edge of Enchantment) -- "Edge of Enchantment" (Coracle Shores)
G2 (Black Hero) -- "Any Terms You Offer" (Not Quite Kansas)
G3 (Zinnia) -- "Play Off the Energy of the Crowd" (Polychrome Heroics: Broken Angels)
G4 (Lilac) -- "Beautiful, Tough, Shiny, Resilient" (The Blueshift Troupers)
G5 (Devil's Tongue) -- "So DONE with It All" (standalone)

B1 (Request) -- "Their Hidden Source" (One God's Story of Mid-Life Crisis)
B3 (Escape) -- "Someone Who Was Trying to Be Sober" (One God's Story of Mid-Life Crisis)
B5 (Exception) -- "The Grabber" (Monster House)

I4 (Moonlight Sensation) -- "An Equally Valid Way of Being" (The Moon Door)

N1 (Big Smile) -- "Eat It Happily Because It Is Good" (Polychrome Heroics: Shiv)

This year I'm doing Community Thursdays. Some of my activity will involve maintaining communities I run, and my favorites. Some will involve checking my list of subscriptions and posting in lower-traffic ones. Today I have interacted with the following communities...


* Posted "Birdfeeding" in birdfeeding.

* Commented on "Just One Thing" in awesomeers.

* Commented on "Check-In Post - April 29th 2026" in get_knitted.

* Posted "April Monthly Post" in allbingo.

* Posted "April Monthly Post" in birdfeeding.

* Posted "New Year's Resolutions Check In" in goals_on_dw.

This year during Three Weeks for Dreamwidth, I'm writing about reading as a way of becoming an expert in a given subject. Read Part 1: Introduction to Becoming an Expert, Part 2: Architecture, Part 3: Dance, Part 4: Music, Part 5: Painting.


Poetry is a literary art that uses different techniques than fiction, relying on patterns and sounds to charm its audience. Languages use different features to indicate poetry -- sometimes rhyme, or alliteration, or other things. This creates a large range of forms as well as free verse. Here on Dreamwidth, check out 25poemsamonth, books, greatpoetry, haiku_gallery, poetry, thefreaksclub, or words_just_words. There are more Poetry and Writing communities too.




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Today we went up to Champaign-Urbana.

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Today is sunny and mild, a beautiful spring day.  It rained again last night.

I fed the birds.  I heard a bluejay screaming but didn't see it.