What is your relationship with numbers?
Sunny Side UPdates with TBIN || Week 33!
Welcome to week 33 with The Brain is a Noodle! I really like paired, repeated numbers — there’s something beautiful about even pairings to me.
Week 33 feels just the same — twin 3s.
Do others have this feeling? Do you have certain numbers that you like more (8???) than others (4???)? Are there numbers that are lucky or unlucky in your culture that you internalized more often?
Shortform Theme of the Week
This week’s shortform theme is: What is your relationship with numbers? Do you have a favourite number? Are there desirable and less desirable numbers?
Submit your shortform piece (<150 words) now to share your thoughts! (For prompt-based pieces, you may exceed the 150 word limit, but aim for 150 words if the idea of a longer piece overwhelms you!)
This is just a guideline for inspiration! You may submit shortforms related to other concepts if other ideas come to you! :)
✍ May & June Interview Challenge
Come join me in the monthly interview challenge! In this challenge, I’ll give you 5 reflection questions, 5 top five lists and 5 “prompts” to promote your articles!
Excited to get to know you as writers and overall cool human beings!
This challenge is open from now until May 31, 2021 — ⚠ One day left!
This challenge ( #June2021TBINInterview ) is open from now until June 30, 2021.
🌠 Ongoing Adventure Fiction Series!
I’ve finally launched a project that my child self has always wanted to do: create a collaborative never-ending story with branch-offs into multiple different storylines!
I’m so excited to see what direction this story will take so please don’t be shy on submitting!
Here is chapter 1!
For the most recent chapters, search “#OngoingAdventure” below! (PC users, CTRL+F is your friend. Mac users, 🤷♀️, I’m going to guess it’s CMD+F?)
The Brain is a Noodle*
*This is factually incorrect. Please absolutely do not go out and eat brains.
🍜 Piping Hot New(dle) Pieces of the Week
Challenge: *highlight* the ones you bookmarked/ read and make sure everyone gets highlighted at least once! ❤
🧠🍜 [1] Serving The Dead Or Alive by Pretheesh Presannan ‘serving the alive is more like serving the process serving anything one is engaged with it could be thinking (imagination), cooking, practicing a skill, learning a new thing, etc. with attention, we are serving the alive.’
🧠🍜 [2] Bib Up Burrito! by Carolyn Hastings ‘When it comes to burritos, I reckon one in the hand is worth two on a plate. That’s because the mix of flavours and textures is lost when you resort to scooping forkfuls of deconstructed burrito from plate to mouth.’
🧠🍜 [3] Under the El by Avi Kotzer ‘My boots crunch soft snowflakes turned gritty gravel on slushy streets after nature’s latest assault on our windy city,’
🧠🍜 [4] Tokyo — A Prompt Response About an Odd Place by A.M. Radulescu ‘Businessmen come and businessmen go but what is the businessmen’ business? Surrounded by towers made of concrete and dressed in a penguin’s stolen robe,’
🧠🍜 [5] Dark Nights by Warren Brown ‘The night was cold and it was dark,’
🧠🍜 [6] Sweet Enough by Coco Joan ‘I want always — To be loved like the rose-gold hour between day and night, But that is the color of becoming, And what is becoming, becomes.’
🧠🍜 [7] My May Interview Challenge by The Dozen ‘When I was ten, I rode my bike for hours every evening, and I practiced Karate three times a week. I do none of these now and haven’t in years.’
🧠🍜 [8] A Moment’s Reflection by Jupiter Grant ‘A quiet respite for a moment’s reflection’
🧠🍜 [9] Crashing A Poetry Prompt Party by Will Hull ‘Though not invited With Mexican food sighted If I walked by My taste buds would cry Me and favourite food re-united’
🧠🍜 [10] #Ongoing Adventure: Drive Off Quickly by Jennifer McDougall ‘“This isn’t right!” you shout almost hysterically, as Gail stares open-mouthed for long enough that she could catch a whole family of origami cockroaches.’
🧠🍜 [11] Will I Never Get No Satisfaction? by Jupiter Grant ‘It seems I’m never satisfied, no matter what I’ve got. Though I proclaim, “I don’t need much”, I always want a lot.’
🧠🍜 [12] A Poutine Haiku by Will Hull ‘I was reading about the 8 steps to becoming a Canadian citizen last night and, being in a world of chaos and uncertainty, I thought it worth consideration. The above haiku is my answer to Question #une.’
🧠🍜 [13] Scenes Around Me by Imad ‘I wander alone, my shadow, my only company I walk in search for an unknown entity, inspiration maybe, for lately, I have struggled to find the words to express the feelings locked up inside of me.’
🧠🍜 [14] Break The Night by LS ‘We’re gorgeous when the charm turns on and confident when the lights are off blissful when we’re on our drugs and proud of the silly things we’ve bought’
🧠🍜 [15] The Art of Satisfaction by Courtenay S. Gray ‘The art of satisfaction is individual to you. For example, food is satisfying to us. It is often used as a literary device to bring characters together in one scene. You’ll often see this method used in various films such as Harry Potter, Lady and The Tramp and Pretty Woman.’
🧠🍜 [16] The Toledo Burrito by Dave Logan ‘Once again, I would like to thank the almighty Will Hull for tagging me and constantly challenging me to expand my writing abilities. If it wasn’t for him, you wouldn’t get this tasty, yet smelly limerick :)’
🧠🍜 [17] Summertime Memory by Thalia Dunn ‘Tucked in Kyoto, oasis of green delight’
🧠🍜 [18] Acceptance by Shivangi Patel ‘I question every move, I question everything I stay in a room full of doubts and I blame the world For its ignorance’
🧠🍜 [19] will I be a good father? by Keegan Roembke ‘My nana learned algebra so she could teach the kids’
🧠🍜 [20] It Was A Snackcident! by Nada Chehade ‘Have you ever done that? Just eaten off someone’s plate you weren’t supposed to. Man, fuck. OK. Full disclosure, I’ve done it — more than once.’
🧠🍜 [21] Nirvana by Courtenay S. Gray ‘She sat with her emerald dough eyes by the crackling fire with her homework book on her lap. The teacher had requested that the pupils write a poem about things they find to be beautiful. ‘
🧠🍜 [22] Flawless by Rachel Ramkaran (she/her) ‘The clouds mimic lilacs plunging into a liquid gold ocean, propped up by the pink sand seafloor falling over the horizon.’
🧠🍜 [23] Who Cares by Divina Grey ‘When I think of acceptance, my mind immediately goes to whether or not I’m accepted by my family (i.e., my parents), friends, classmates (and soon-to-be colleagues), and gym mates’
🧠🍜 [24] My Blood or My Laptop? by Will Hull ‘This writing thing Ain’t bringing the bucks The heat’s still on And the cold really sucks’
🧠🍜 [25] Making Snowballs with My Kids by B.R. Shenoy ‘These delectable treats are made from sugar, butter, and flour combined with chopped nuts and then rolled in powdered sugar.’
🧠🍜 [26] The Ruby Dares Me by Laurie Perez ‘Colors don’t lurk in you, needing to be turned this way and that, begging harsh light to call them forth.’
🧠🍜 [27] Regret by Himanshi B ‘Walking down the road, Minding my own, Sides filled with piles of leaves, Saw a bird sitting on top of it, Strange to see that it wasn’t reacting,’
🧠🍜 [28] Laughing Muses by James G Brennan ‘Stop throwing muses at me! I can’t keep up, just one, or one at a time even. It’s a web of intricate lines you want me to follow, but I keep losing my way and getting strung out!’
🧠🍜 [29] Eating comes after cooking by Kyomi O'Connor ‘I love eating and cooking. I love to cook whatever I love to eat. It is more than a hobby but like my habit. It also serves as practical management of my own well-being.’
🧠🍜 [30] June Interview Questions with The Brain is a Noodle by Dave Logan ‘New ideas seem to constantly bombard my brain. I carry a recorder with me a lot of the time just so that I can record little notes for future story ideas. Sometimes I’ll read something or hear a song that sparks ideas as well.’
🔊 Voices to Amplify
We don’t have to leave it to the algorithm to suggest our favourite pieces! Here are some of my archived faves!
Thank you to Aditi Ramaswamy, Samedra Carter, Dennett, Allison Gaines, Meenal Gupta ✨
The Eggcademic Corner
🥓 Quick brEGGfast Bites
What I’ve consumed:
What I’m watching: Grey’s Anatomy
What I’m reading: The Midnight Library — Matt Haig
What I’m listening to: ITZY “마.피.아. In the morning” M/V
S🍳mething to chew over
🎊 Top 3 articles of the week
Celebrate with me!
😭 Flop 3 articles of the week
Give these a little love, will ya?
https://readmedium.com/chocolate-mayonnaise-cake-4e3c371215ec
🧠🍜 Thank you to the Noodle Team!
challenge: pick 3 writers you haven’t met yet and get acquainted with their pieces!
New writers: LS | Jessie Waddell | Dave Logan | Candy Marie | Himanshi B | Zihan | Elle How | K.S. | Sherry McGuinn
Diana Dee | Rambling Rose | Doran Lamb | Avi Kotzer | A.M. Radulescu | Laurie Perez | Paul Mansfield | B.R. Shenoy | Nada Chehade| Coco Joan | Bingz Huang | Shreya Badonia | Kimberly Carter | Las siete y más | Warren Brown | Trista Signe Ainswort | Kyomi O’Connor | Kay Bee | MaggieLaFae | Alex Godley | Haider Jamal | Josie Elbiry | Anthony Jackson | Hannah M. Moore | Michael Hollifield | Yana Bostongirl | TC Hails | Orla Kenny | Samedra Carter | Tatum Hamernik | Thalia Dunn | Nia Simone McLeod | Josie Elbiry | Keegan Roembke | Noorain Hassan, BMS | Humaira Iqbal | Zachary Burg | Bob Pepe | Will Hull | Jason | Courtenay S. Gray | Sahil Patel | Meenal Gupta | Amy Lee Kite | Evan Wildstein | Hilda Carroll | Chloe Hill | Paola Perez | Matt Ray | Wolfie Bain | Dena Ogden | Tasneem Kagalwalla | Yan Huang | Tree Langdon | Stuart Englander | Jennifer McDougall | Aaron Kemp | Rachel Ramkaran (she/her) | LS | Lori Welch Brown | Nicole Jiang | Crystalclearcandace | Em Unravelling | Jupiter Grant | Elle Beau ❇︎ | Suman Sandhu | Adam Deitsch | Mia Z. Edwards | David Majister | JF | Zach Neuman | Chris Mooney-Singh | Toya Qualls-Barnette | Karen Lappa Haas | Alan Henley | Michelle Bonfils | Zach Klebaner | Anna | Deepshikha Bhagat | Carlos Garbiras | Katrina Bos | Lisa Bolin | Sohaib Roomi | The Dozen | Malik Bellamy | Olivia Th | Shaista Malik | Emily Wilcox | Brajendra | Eva Rotolo | Bhavna Narula | Shannon Hugman | Ryan DeJonghe | Ryan DeJonghe | Dennett | Swagat Choudhury | Vivian | Mark Tulin | Arslan Mirza | Amber Carlson | Urfa | Whatsinanaim | Amy Pierovich, Ed.D. | Carolyn Riker | Tally | Shivangi Patel | Giulia | ScienceDuuude | Rachael Ann Sand | Divina Grey | Sarah Paris | DISHA GARG | Jen Kleinknecht | janny’s heart | Penofgold | Blank Voice | Kele Mogotsi | Jessie London | Indubala Kachhawa | Radhika Ghose | Mil H. | Zeno Faber | Maziar Ghaderi | Julia Appa | Campbell Christensen | Allison Gaines | Lori Lamothe | Tima Loku | Kim McKinney | Baye Amina | Tom Fenske | Johannes Mudi | Kasun Ranasinghe | Just a Slytherin hissing | Dr. Fatima Imam | Ntathu Allen | Somsubhra Banerjee | Veronica Georgieva | Life is Amazing with Books and Writers | Dandy Lioness 🌻 | Mindsmatter | Michael Ranjitsingh | Anjali Samaraweera | Krupesh Raikar | Rusty Alderson | Jen | Dr. Preeti Singh | Punch Drunk Cola | Melissa Speed | Ntathu Allen | Denise G | Carolyn Hastings | Tej | Vijini Mallawaarachchi | Amy Marley | Jac Gautreau | Erivaldo Ricardo | Roz Warren | Melissa Bee | Pretheesh Presannan | Daniel A. Teo | Anuradha Wickramarachchi | Niru | Priyanka Mane | Em Hoccane | Synthia S. | Alexandra Forsyth | R. Rangan PhD | Jacobo the First | Connie Song | Fathiyah Zb | Not quite Steve Fisher | Amna Asif | Aimée Gramblin | A Fresh Pot of Coffee | Rebecca Stevens A. | Imad | James G Brennan | Mary Keating | Jay Avery | h.a wadi | Pablo Pereyra | Isaac | jenine bsharah baines | Rochelle Silva | Jade-Ceres Violet D. Munoz | Ruchi Thalwal | Clare Almand | Dana Sanford | Naomi Leilani Acosta | Dr. Jackie Greenwood | Fathiyah Zb |
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