Just post whatever comes to mind.
Please refrain from excess venting in this thread. Talking about negative emotions is fine but it's best not to dwell on them for too long. TV Tropes is not suited to deal with mental health situations.
If Oscar Wilde had lived in our time, he would be a /b/tard.
Actually, scratch that. He does, and goes by Jethro Q Walrustitty.
Edited by GastonRabbit on Nov 11th 2022 at 8:59:26 AM
Edited.
edited 2nd Dec '15 3:31:37 PM by SolipSchism
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I'm freezing! Send help!
...nuked
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Uh-uh you didn't even edit your post lazy it says "...nuked"
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le fail
edited 2nd Dec '15 3:47:27 PM by BaconManiac5000
what do you mean I didn't win, I ate more wet t-shirts than anyone else
Bah, writing fantasy novel rules! Time-keeping, distance-measuring...
I hate details. I just want to get to the story.
Hm, that reminds me, don't I have stories to work on?
Wasn't I wanting to work on a reboot to that thing I used to do
wasnt I drawing something?
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Rollin' rollin' rollin'
Then just say screw you to details and do the story! Most of your audience won't care and if they do they can lick a cactus!
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Or that!
edited 2nd Dec '15 4:10:28 PM by Zarek
"We're home, Chewie."
Also, you can totally just fudge the details while writing it, and then when you're done go back and tweak everything to be technically consistent.
The cacti in my world have no spines.
...;p No, you're right. It's just hard building up a world and then mucking it up with plot.
Makes me wish sometimes that I was more of an artist than an author...
^That's the better way to write. Build up a skeleton and then add in some muscle.
edited 2nd Dec '15 4:11:30 PM by Keybreak
Rollin' rollin' rollin'
That's the thing about worldbuilding. It works better if you have the story and build the world around that.
Unless you are building a world for a game (tabletop or video). If you like things like D&D you could always do that — just make the world for players to explore in.
Then you can basically outsource the plot-writing to people playing the game since playing a tabletop game is basically about making a story with a bunch of folks!
"We're home, Chewie."
The only time the details really matter while writing the story is if something relies on them in the story. Like, if you are running two plots at once, you should probably keep track of how long the events are realistically taking, so that it doesn't seem like the characters are in parallel universes that run on Narnia Time.
But to be perfectly honest most readers will probably just chalk that up to the MST3K Mantra and not worry about it even then.
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Fantasy stories without magic or wizards are interesting.
New theme music also a box
K J Parker is a God of that type of writing.
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need bigger friends
Ulti, your reputation is built on being as pointless as possible. And that post had some purpose behind it.
Get back to work.
Try imagining how far the universe extends! Keep thinking about it until you go insane.
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I had this random thought as I was driving home from the cafe.
Why is it called "rapid eye movement sleep" if your eyes are closed when you're asleep? You're not watching a cool movie; you're just lying there. :S
I smell magic in the air. Or maybe barbecue.
Because your eyes are moving.
It's because of dreams.
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There is actually no solid link between visual imagery within dream and eye movements. Also, it's not really related to seeing anything in general, since even blind people are observed to display such behaviors.
Source: "Dreaming and the brain: Toward a cognitive neuroscience of conscious states"
I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.
Correction: It's when you have your most vivid dreams.
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Retconned
edited 2nd Dec '15 3:21:48 PM by StarBee