Writer's Block Daily

Just found Writing Excuses and Wiki dpad. Wiki dpad is your own Wiki own your hard drive. I'm going to use it to finally categorize my many works. There are a lot that I can't even remember the titles of.

Finally got my ship to leave (Propellors, sails and a big push-off, combined with gravity magic and wind control.)

Now, to find a way to stop dragons killing them.

They should have taken the Dragonturtle.

Several characters in unrelated stories make a point of avoiding the press. If more than one is published, this may be taken as... a statement.

I don't think any of my characters have yet encountered the press. But they probably will, so I need to think how they'd handle it.

Anhelia's first instinct would be to "No Comment" them and push them aside, but I think the less martial ones in the group could persuade her to the cause of good publicity.

In my real-world, present-day story, Victoria will I think eventually be faced with a reporter; her tenant, and eventually girlfriend, is the widow of "California's Bernie Madoff" (as the press have dubbed him), so they'll no doubt be snooping around.

Well. One is from an influential wealthy family, who moved to a tiny cottage in the country for evasion of the press. The other is a war hero who ended up moving to a neutral country and applying for dual citizenship, sooooo.

edited 8th Apr '11 11:24:17 PM by Leradny

That's quite a bit of avoidance! I don't think mine will go that far, but I think in either case their first instinct is to say no with the threat of violence ...

They are both naturally reclusive—so for them, at least, it's not much effort at all. :P

Ah, good point. Both of my leads are naturally a touch pugnacious when cornered, and too stubborn to hide when not ...

"Ask Politely And Carry A Long Sword" is a title I must write an entire story around post-haste.

Hmm, I'm having trouble deciding how to write this script. It's almost all visual, and while there is dialogue...Hmmm, but scripts usually have action right?

Depends on what kind of genre you're writing for. Intellectual films like Inception or comedies, those have tons of dialogue. Adventure films have tons of action.

Well, today is going to suck. Nothing quite like a personal life to gut morale.

I learned that my opening scenes apparently are boring, and probably so when I think about it.

Oh, and that I use commas as much as William Shattner, though I sometimes talk like him in real life...

I hadn't noticed this thread until yesterday. Neat.

Today, I wrote a bit of dialogue for my most recent story idea. It was pretty fun. Some of the inspiration came from the interactions between me and my friends. Hopefully the rest of the story is as fun to write.

edited 9th Apr '11 7:31:17 PM by Everest

Okay, Generation Kill is giving me a lot of ideas on how to make a wacky fighting unit actually fight.

This—is; an; example; of; how—I—use; punctuation—and; I; know; it;...!

Thinking of starting a new story, to help me past my current writer's block.

Breakthrough today. Woooooooot.

Good news, Mellon!

That might work, Cygan; while one shouldn't ideally have too many projects on the go, it's still better to be writing than not writing because you're blocked.

It will only be my third story.

It would probably end up being posted here, actually, in its' raw format; no editing beyond what I do at 3AM.

Just so I can see what I have to work on when producing my raws, hopefully leading to doing less edits in the future due to suck.

Work on my Naruto fanfiction continues apace, enjoying immensely.

Work on my wuxia story has been held up due to frustration at lack of interesting characters.

Work on my science fiction story has basically stopped, but ideas still trickle into it. Work on my superhero webcomic is similar.

Hit a block recently with my current story, which didn't really help the suckage that was yesterday. I did manage to eek out a temporary solution however, so hopefully the writing part won't stall too much.

Also need to start up on my fight scene exercises, though I'm still not sure where to begin on that. Will probably resort to rolling dice or something.

edited 10th Apr '11 3:21:53 AM by Dec

I don't know if this is the right place to put it, but I just started reading the all-dreaded Twilight. I read the first chapter, and I'm not sure if it's good or bad yet, but Bella sentence's parse strangely. I mean, there's a lot of "-" and ";", more than I use my "()", which I tend to overuse. Combinded with the formal language...it's a weird style. It's not partically bad, but it's weird.

This... is not the place to put it.

We have a literature board you can discuss Twilight on.

Does that hold, though, if you're talking about the book's style instead of the story? I don't go to the literature section, so I'm not sure if that's something they'd talk about over there very often. It does seem like something that can be applicable over here, though.

Also, question: by "-", do you mean a longer em-dash, like "—", or something else? I haven't read Twilight, so I'm kinda curious — especially since I use em-dashes like breathing myself.