@ GIG: No problem, glad I helped ^__^
Currently pondering over an impending dilemma, but it probably won't be solveable until I get to that bridge.
Sounds pretty cool to write under a waterfall. Would it be feasible to bring an umbrella? Oh, that probably wouldn't help with mist. Write with your pen and paper in a plastic bag.
edited 31st May '11 9:57:17 PM by melloncollie
Part of me feels disgusted by all of the idea threads* floating around on Writer's Block. How many individual tropers are posting on this sub-fora? How many are actively writing? I'd really like to figure out the ratio between the two after my summer classes, because I feel that it is a bit skewed.
I am thinking about generally avoiding these idea threads from now on. I've found them a waste of my time, and preventing me from my precious writing time. However if you feel like I would have something to contribute to such a thread, then pm me. It doesn't guarantee that I will post or continue to post in said thread, but I will at least look.
That said I have the utmost respect for those who actually write something, even if it is just notes. Those who post their works thus far doubly so.
I hate being frustrated.
So much for posting about my writing project now. -_-
Has ADD, plays World of Tanks, thinks up crazy ideas like children making spaceships for Hitler. Occasionally writes them down.Perhaps the people who post idea threads tend to do so to garner premature attention from other people more than anything. Affirming attention, perhaps. But that time inefficiently spent 'brainstorming' I think could be better placed in refining storytelling methodology - finding inspiration from the greats of fiction.
And I have found my renewed determination to complete my serial Dramatine, now that I have realized the direction to take my story. The frustration I felt then is the motivating drive, once sparked by imagination, then fed through comments - that readers are comprehending my vision. But it is not the number or frequency of tropers giving comments, it is that you have taken them in your journey, wherever you head.
Now if only I can automagically handle me studies fast, so I can get to Libre Office straight away.
edited 31st May '11 10:46:35 PM by QQQQQ
So me and my best friend decided to start going through our Old Shame today, as part of the prep for rewriting it. We got through three chapters of 42. We probably would have gotten farther if not for the constant hysterical laughter.
It just. Oh my god. To be fair, I was better than a significant portion of other teenagers back then, but my god, the purpleness. Also, the ludicrous emoness of Nick, one of the primary protagonists.
On the other hand, we did find some good things. Like we both realized that my characterization was good even then, and that Alicia (a Chekhov's Gunman who becomes more important in the second book) was thankfully totally likeable even in her short appearance.
I was just really bad at telling instead of showing back then, although I clearly understood the concept (lots of subtley-hinted at emotions and stuff). And really bad at writing meaningless scenes because I thought they seemed cool.
On the plus side, I am totally psyched for re-writing it now.
"Proto-Indo-European makes the damnedest words related. It's great. It's the Kevin Bacon of etymology." ~MadrugadaRandom though of a writer: Cleaning someone else's ear with a q-tip is prime Does This Remind You of Anything? material.
Or at least, that's what my groggy mind told me.
Read my stories!To half-quote melloncollie earlier, AHR, if your sex involves scraping along the inside of whatever canal you have chosen to engage in, you're probably doing it wrong.
Even worse is the idea of cleaning an ear with a q-tip in the way a person actually does have sex. That would be unpleasant for all parties involved.
My only goal in life is to ensure that Mousa dies of a stress-induced heart attack by the age of 23. READ THISNeh, I would say it depends on how you write it. Use of q-tips isn't typically painful, right?
However do note that the circumference of a q-tip is much smaller than that of the ear canal. Those proportions would be very awkward in actual sex.
I will second Cakman's second paragraph
So... perhaps comparing it to actual sex isn't good, but there could probably be a sexual element to it. I'm not going to elaborate any more 'cos then that would be TMI.
edited 1st Jun '11 8:13:16 AM by melloncollie
^^^ I'm overly ticklish, so the first thing I thought of while imagining someone else cleaning out my ear is me shrieking like a ninny and flailing around until the q-tip burst my ear drum.
So yeah, I guess you could call that a decent analogy for sex.
10 words. Had some stuff to do this morning, so I've barely started.
edited 1st Jun '11 11:18:27 AM by Dec
Nemo enim fere saltat sobrius, nisi forte insanit Deviantart.—blink—
I have almost no memory of writing that. I think I wrote that because I was cleaning my ears at the time...
hrm.
Read my stories!
I rather enjoyed summer school. I'd have made straight A's if they let me take one class at a time all day and finish it in 11 days.
OK. To clarify:
I can't write anything for my webcomic script. And my deadline for chapter one was supposed to be June 17.
I've written the first two pages, but all I can think of after that is "the protagonist and her parents go somewhere, then someone says stuff, then more stuff happens, and that starts the plot, I guess."
Novel progress: The Adroan, 110k; Yume no Hime, 98k; The Pigeon Witch, on pause at 40k.^^^ In Medias Res — skip to the part when plot starts happening. If you still need all that other beginning stuff, fill it in later — the stuff that happens when the plot starts might help inform on the parts you're stuck on now. If that doesn't work, think up a way for more than one thing to be happening in the parts you're stuck with, condense it all together into a single chunk, or add something to make those parts more interesting in general. That's usually what I do, so I hope it helps.
I'm still paranoid from watching all of Marble Hornets yesterday. Every other unexpected noise manages to spook the shit out of me, and its friggin' windy today. This is totally why I don't seek out things that actually scare me that often.
900 words. Trying to get to the end of the chapter #2 subplot, running headlong into "don't know WTF I'm doing" territory again. Editing this is gonna be hell…
edited 1st Jun '11 3:21:48 PM by Dec
Nemo enim fere saltat sobrius, nisi forte insanit Deviantart.That happened to me once. I ended up getting so frustrated, I posted the last excerpt I had, the outline I had, and asked the internet what they thought.
I got an answer, and continued on writing.
Read my stories!

Well, yeah, that's kinda where I was but it still throws so much mist everywhere. Eventually I just moved to a rock further down the river.
Not nearly as awesomely-zen.
edited 31st May '11 8:47:18 PM by Lasty
Cry for the moon!