Writer's Block Daily

I am working on a board game for one of my classes revolved around engineering strategy games. I used my writing skills to add some flavor text to the rulebook.

Don't ask what type of school I am in.

I am slowly working my way back to doing 2,000 words a day. Last night, I wrote 1,800, which is good enough for me.

"Proto-Indo-European makes the damnedest words related. It's great. It's the Kevin Bacon of etymology." ~Madrugada

Awesome! I'm slowly working my way up to to a decent quota (300 at the start of the year, I might move up to 500 once I'm done Script Frenzy), and I'm really happy because my old writing schedule was non-existent— the old "I'll write when I feel like it!" technique, which mostly ended with me producing 1000 words one day and not writing anything for a month. I like now's quota better. :P

Say, Freezair, would you mind if I asked you a couple of questions about your writing in PM?

Thanks for the all fish!

I was writing too!

Though it was an essay for school and not actual writing... drat.

I should not name things.

Coming up with a name for something is probably the hardest thing for me. I'm really hoping something just jumps out at me while I'm writing.

No one believes me when I say angels can turn their panties into guns.

I'm usually good at titles, but my latest pet project has me stumped. I want to call it "So You're the Son of a Sex God," because it's a fun story about the son of a sex god. But if I call it that, there goes The Reveal that I've been planning for the first third of the novel. Mind, it's a really heavily foreshadowed reveal, but a reveal none the less. Tentatively, I've started calling it "Ethan Drake, Unfortunate Son," but I don't like that nearly so well. Ho hum.

Thanks for the all fish!

I seem to be having trouble writing anything other than really stupid conversations.

@Ronka: PM away. :D Being a writer, I can talk endlessly about my own stuff, so I don't mind at all. Beware that Self-Deprecation follows naturally as well, though.

"Proto-Indo-European makes the damnedest words related. It's great. It's the Kevin Bacon of etymology." ~Madrugada

I just tried writing a vignette to "match" the main theme to Howls Moving Castle.

Depressing.

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How so? /howlfangirl

"Proto-Indo-European makes the damnedest words related. It's great. It's the Kevin Bacon of etymology." ~Madrugada

You might be disappointed because it really has nothing to do with what happened in the movie.

A girl remembers her old lover, who danced with her all the time and played the piano. He died in battle and she dances herself out of a window, hoping that he will catch her.

edited 26th Apr '11 8:14:42 PM by snowfoxofdeath

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Can I read?

Uggh, I'm working on my board game and checking TV Tropes at the same time.

EDIT: Well, at least I have gummy bears to eat since I am using them as steampunk workers.

edited 26th Apr '11 8:40:38 PM by chihuahua0

I still havnt written anything in ages now but when I get back to it I think I have an idea for a short story that came in a dream.

It will probably be for myself though, it is going to be a blatent story of wish fulfillment, but it isn't going to have any sues.. as strangely I do not desire sues in this fantasy. (non sexual fantasy mind you)

as of the 2nd of Nov. has 6 weeks for a broken collar bone to heal and types 1 handed and slowly

:D

Well, I edited it a bit, but it's still in a rough form. Actually, I'm thinking about including this one in my English project. It will be exposed to the jaws of the Troper Critique Club before then.

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Cool. I'll probably check it out in a bit.

"Proto-Indo-European makes the damnedest words related. It's great. It's the Kevin Bacon of etymology." ~Madrugada

yay im actually writing something now

as of the 2nd of Nov. has 6 weeks for a broken collar bone to heal and types 1 handed and slowly

If I were to replace all of my chapter names with joke ones, this could be one of them, except that the "sex god" is more of a nightmare fetishist taken to the trope's literal extreme, and he would die of awkward if someone ever called him a sex god. Except he's already dead, so I guess the awkward would bring him back as a zombie, which would be all ironic because slaying zombies is his thing. And he would make the most dangerous undead man since the introduction of "fast zombies". So actually, the joke chapter titles would be a terrible idea.

edited 26th Apr '11 9:34:14 PM by SPACETRAVEL

whoever wrote this shit needs to step on a rake in a comedic fashion

I admittedly have put some jokey chapter titles in my works, such as "It Followed Me Home. Can We Keep It?", "This is the Gross Chapter," and "Book 'Em, Nicko."

"Proto-Indo-European makes the damnedest words related. It's great. It's the Kevin Bacon of etymology." ~Madrugada

@Post 665: Wow, that was good. If it was expanded to a longer short story, I bet it would be very intense.

However, I think you should change the reason why her husband was killed. It's just a little too cliche. An illness would suffice.

Would her brother murdering him be even more cliched?

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You know, I might change my chapter titles to joke ones for real sometime, for a single download file. The names change almost every time in it, anyway.

whoever wrote this shit needs to step on a rake in a comedic fashion

I love joke titles. I haven't been using chapter titles, but you guys have given me an idea.

About a thousand words tonight, and I'm done.

@whoever wrote the vingette — the reason for death is fine. People die in wars, the end. In fact, I think illness would have been a worse choice. also, that tinypaste site is neat! I've never seen it before, and I'm still not entirely sure what it does, though...

edited 26th Apr '11 10:03:04 PM by OhSoIntoCats

^ You put in text, they generate a URL. Free Text Host does it as well and it's a more popular choice, probably because of tbe font or some other feature I'm not aware of. Tinypaste is quite minimal.

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Just wrote down a huge-ass outline of a gruesome short story about a sapient alien who eats humans. Now, if I want to, I can write it sometime. I am not posting the summary here because it is too long, and I'd rather this be a meatspace story as opposed to one publicized online.

whoever wrote this shit needs to step on a rake in a comedic fashion