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#291812 05/07/22 09:48 AM
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I came across an interesting web site just now. what3words.com divides the world into ten meter grids and assigns random three-word phrases to
each square in the grid. These words remain consistent.

The idea is that if you are, for example, trying to meet someone in a park, you could give them the three-word phrase of your location and
they could use it to navigate to be within ten meters of you.

So your mission, should you choose to accept it: Pick a place in the world -- it could be your home, your favourite vacation spot, or somewhere at random -- and start looking at the three-word "phrases" it and its nearby squares generate. Once you find a triplet that strikes you in some way, use it as a story prompt.

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I just used it. The place where I live didn't give me any good prompts. Then I looked for the house I work in. One of the combinations was "kiss, feel and - the last word could be translated as "to enter" or "embarressed" (strange language, huh?) Anyway, if I take " embarrassed" this fits my current WIP quite perfectly cool

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And if you chose the "to enter" translation, you would have a story for the nfic side of the boards.

Thanks for playing my prompt-generating game. smile

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Originally Posted by Lynn S. M.
And if you chose the "to enter" translation, you would have a story for the nfic side of the boards.

The German word for enter is "betreten". Since "treten" means "to kick" I'd rather not see this nfic-related. Thank you very much. wink. But I'm intending to post the story on both sides of the boards, anyway. laugh


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Ah. I see. Yeah, that wouldn't exactly be my cup of tea, either.




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