Writer's Block Daily

I don't think I even have to give my opinion on that by this point.

Researching the Friendly Neighborhood Robber Barons for my Industrial Revolution fantasy. My, but those fellows were stinkers of the highest order.

I think I was trying to fill in a plothole by making "prophets" people who have the blood of elder gods and the elder gods are trying to get them back into the fold, but the messages are just too confusing and there are too many for humans to interpret. So now I'm just imagining Lovecraftian terrors trying to get humans to do stuff a la Twitch Plays Pokemon.

The problem with giving a villain a certain disease that can only be contracted by specific and very unpleasant means but never mentioning that is that most readers won't get why she has such extreme mood swings, experiences constant tremors, or has sporadic fits of uncontrollable laughter.

Some of my ideas are so terrible, it makes me consider working for the Sy Fy Channel.

Do it, their movies are amazing in a So Bad, It's Good kind of way,

Love it

Yes, but I'm a human being who deserves some dignity for the stuff I work on.

Dignity and artistic integrity over So Bad, It's Good crap any day of the week.

Besides, in my opinion Sy Fy's stuff is mostly So Bad Its Horrible. Remember, these are the people to whitewashed Earthsea.

edited 14th Apr '14 5:07:15 AM by Kesar

I'm new to the TV Tropes forums here, but I've hung around the Wiki for a decent while. Recently I've picked up the courage to start turning a few of my scrapped ideas for video games (that's the career I'd love to get into after college) into novelizations instead. And boy, is it hard to keep track of details, huh? I had to keep a freaking binder for all the content I did so far, and it only amounts to about 30 pages, 14 cue cards, and 7 maps. Now I'm just transferring that stuff to my laptop. I'm planning on writing several series that take place in a concurrent universe (several concurrent universes within the same continuity and meta-existence), similar to the Marvel Cinematic universe, with heavy influences from TV Tropes itself and media I enjoyed. I'm just torn between how exactly to start off the universe with. Based on my own notes, my choices of starting idea include a Doctor Who/Hitchhiker's Guide type story, a collection of short stories that are A Day in the Limelight of a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits, A Harem Anime Parody, or a Fantasy/Romance parody. Would anyone have a recommendation to start on? (Wish I knew how to do internal linking to the articles, by the way...)

Done with the second draft of my story. Whoo whoo.

Hey there!

Those of you writing time-travel stories, here's one way to make your time machine more interesting:

Make it a cannon.

I've attempted to write one time-travel story, at least outside of my childhood.

It was, naturally, a horror story with cosmicist and absurdist overtones.

So, yeah, no cannons.

Welcome Purpletowel. I do all my writing on the computer, and I dont take notes, so my experience is a little different from yours. On the other hand, maybe I should.

Linking is easy, how you do it depends on what you mean by "article". For pages on the wiki, you just type the title of the page, if there is more than one word you run them together. It links automatically.

Example: two brackets, then the title, then two close brackets: {{ Nanomachines }} (except without spaces between the open and close brackets and the page title) Thus: Nanomachines

You can find a list of instructions when you click the "Add a Post" button over in the left hand sidebar.

edited 15th Apr '14 11:59:50 AM by demarquis

Do you know what I mean by a cannon being the time machine?

edited 15th Apr '14 12:11:50 PM by BiggerBen

Not really, because all cannons are time machines.

I meant that it would be a special cannon that fired people backwards in time.

Yeah, I got that. It's very Saturday morning cartoon-ish.

Oh god yes.

What?

All cannons are time machines if you wait long enough and believe in yourself.

But are time machines cannon?

Yes, in the sense they will immediately have one used on them.

So that means there will be a cannon that is canon.

Will a cannon spontaneously materialise to destroy the time machine? Does the cannon itself have a time machine function to explain its appearance out of nothing (particularly in time periods where cannons are unlikely to exist)? And does that too mean that the cannon will in turn have a cannon turned on it, creating an infinite recursion of cannons like some explosive ouroborous?

It raises more questions than it answers...