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Lasty Lucaruka!! from Auld Lang Syne Since: Jan, 2010
Lucaruka!!
#1726: May 31st 2011 at 8:46:41 PM

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

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melloncollie Since: Feb, 2012
#1727: May 31st 2011 at 9:55:55 PM

@ 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. [lol]

edited 31st May '11 9:57:17 PM by melloncollie

chihuahua0 Since: Jul, 2010
#1728: May 31st 2011 at 10:11:50 PM

725 words. Not as much as the last two days, but that's three pages. I'm rewriting my scene yet again, adding an out-of-body experience aspect of it, instead of being straight forwards at first.

EldritchBlueRose The Puzzler from A Really Red Room Since: Apr, 2010
The Puzzler
#1729: May 31st 2011 at 10:30:34 PM

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.
Leradny Since: Jan, 2001
#1730: May 31st 2011 at 10:34:16 PM

I write! I have about seven projects in varying degrees of half-finished!

The idea threads bother me too. Whenever I can't stop myself from posting in one, I minimize the feeling of uncleanliness by posting one or two lines at maximum.

GIG Forever livid from Where I want to be Since: Feb, 2010
Forever livid
#1731: May 31st 2011 at 10:35:26 PM

Hey, everyone's gotta rant every now and then. Be glad it happened on the internet instead of at the dinner table.

QQQQQ from Canada Since: Jul, 2011
#1732: May 31st 2011 at 10:42:02 PM

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

FreezairForALimitedTime Responsible adult from Planet Claire Since: Jan, 2001
Responsible adult
#1733: May 31st 2011 at 10:53:12 PM

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." ~Madrugada
MrAHR Ahr river from ಠ_ಠ Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: A cockroach, nothing can kill it.
Ahr river
#1734: Jun 1st 2011 at 2:32:45 AM

Random 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.

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Cakman READ THE 13TH SAGE. from whence he came. Since: Feb, 2010
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#1735: Jun 1st 2011 at 8:06:20 AM

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.

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melloncollie Since: Feb, 2012
#1736: Jun 1st 2011 at 8:11:17 AM

Neh, 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 [lol]

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

Dec Stayin' Alive from The Dance Floor Since: Aug, 2009
Stayin' Alive
#1737: Jun 1st 2011 at 11:17:27 AM

^^^ 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. wink

10 words. Had some stuff to do this morning, so I've barely started.

edited 1st Jun '11 11:18:27 AM by Dec

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MrAHR Ahr river from ಠ_ಠ Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: A cockroach, nothing can kill it.
Ahr river
#1738: Jun 1st 2011 at 11:19:59 AM

—blink—

I have almost no memory of writing that. I think I wrote that because I was cleaning my ears at the time...

hrm.

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GIG Forever livid from Where I want to be Since: Feb, 2010
Forever livid
#1739: Jun 1st 2011 at 2:06:40 PM

Bah! Summer school is messing with my urge to write. To any underclassmen out there, don't dick around in your studies. Remedial courses make everything suck.sad

animemetalhead Runs on Awesomeness from Ashwood Landing, ME Since: Apr, 2010
Runs on Awesomeness
#1740: Jun 1st 2011 at 2:08:28 PM

[up] 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.

No one believes me when I say angels can turn their panties into guns.
GIG Forever livid from Where I want to be Since: Feb, 2010
Forever livid
#1741: Jun 1st 2011 at 2:19:08 PM

Yes, it's good for that, but the monotony is killing me. Staring at a computer screen for four hours is not fun. Not to mention the whole internet is blocked and the computers don't let us use our thumb drives, so no working on my notes.sad

MrAHR Ahr river from ಠ_ಠ Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: A cockroach, nothing can kill it.
Ahr river
#1742: Jun 1st 2011 at 2:19:39 PM

I can only ever write when I'm at school.

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Wheezy @TheCSJones on everything else. from West Philadelphia, but not born or raised. (Elder Troper) Relationship Status: How does it feel to treat me like you do?
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#1743: Jun 1st 2011 at 2:50:51 PM

I can't write anything.

Novel progress: The Adroan, 110k; Yume no Hime, 98k; The Pigeon Witch, on pause at 40k.
honorius from The Netherlands Since: Jun, 2010
#1744: Jun 1st 2011 at 2:52:06 PM

You just did smile

If any question why we died/ Tell them, because our fathers lied -Rudyard Kipling
Wheezy @TheCSJones on everything else. from West Philadelphia, but not born or raised. (Elder Troper) Relationship Status: How does it feel to treat me like you do?
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#1745: Jun 1st 2011 at 2:57:09 PM

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.
honorius from The Netherlands Since: Jun, 2010
#1746: Jun 1st 2011 at 2:59:49 PM

Write down another scene later in the plot if you have clear ideas for it.

If any question why we died/ Tell them, because our fathers lied -Rudyard Kipling
GIG Forever livid from Where I want to be Since: Feb, 2010
Forever livid
#1747: Jun 1st 2011 at 3:18:04 PM

Screw this, I'll write tomorrow. My motivation to write has flat-lined for today.

Dec Stayin' Alive from The Dance Floor Since: Aug, 2009
Stayin' Alive
#1748: Jun 1st 2011 at 3:20:19 PM

^^^ 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.
Wheezy @TheCSJones on everything else. from West Philadelphia, but not born or raised. (Elder Troper) Relationship Status: How does it feel to treat me like you do?
@TheCSJones on everything else.
#1749: Jun 1st 2011 at 3:43:36 PM

STILL CAN'T THINK OF SHIT.

Oh well. I'll try later.

Novel progress: The Adroan, 110k; Yume no Hime, 98k; The Pigeon Witch, on pause at 40k.
MrAHR Ahr river from ಠ_ಠ Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: A cockroach, nothing can kill it.
Ahr river
#1750: Jun 1st 2011 at 3:44:38 PM

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.

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