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ramuf Electric Heart from the Shining Throne Since: Jan, 2013
Electric Heart
#328677: Oct 13th 2014 at 9:35:55 PM

I don't get demotivated by great writers.

I just try to learn from them and make myself better.

Yeah, I'm no Nabokov or Joyce or Austen. But I don't need to be.

eldritchseer all the loose ends from Cocytus Since: Mar, 2019
all the loose ends
#328678: Oct 13th 2014 at 9:36:20 PM

no do it

a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step

and it's best to finish what you start

Prometheus136 What's eatin' you, chief? from Yoknapatawpha County Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: It's so nice to be turned on again
What's eatin' you, chief?
#328679: Oct 13th 2014 at 9:37:04 PM

What do you mean

Faulkner's prose is so beautiful and poetic

and he perfectly captures the chaos and order of the human mind, hell, each character has different prose and different syntax

absolutely fucking brilliant

War is God.
GameSpazzer The Beta Male from Against! The! Wall! Since: Jun, 2010
The Beta Male
#328680: Oct 13th 2014 at 9:37:10 PM

No

just

this is not even close

I started that fic when I was fourteen so it's especially bad even though it's miles better than most fanfiction. Even if that's not much to brag about.

I'm putting this link in my sig and I'm never taking it out.

Prom, give it a click.

MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon Alchemist
thespacephantom Jamais vu from the smallest church in Saint-Saëns Since: Oct, 2009
Jamais vu
#328681: Oct 13th 2014 at 9:37:24 PM

joyce was a hack

a hack i say

[up]rewrite it

edited 13th Oct '14 9:37:40 PM by thespacephantom

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eldritchseer all the loose ends from Cocytus Since: Mar, 2019
all the loose ends
#328682: Oct 13th 2014 at 9:38:15 PM

seriously

do it

i swear it will be good for you as a writer and as a person

SR3NORMANDY Problem Child from N/A - In constant flux Since: Jul, 2012
Problem Child
#328683: Oct 13th 2014 at 9:38:18 PM

Yeah, Spaz, being the best isn't what matters. I'm still going to write Roomstuck, even though the only options I have is either write something worse than the original or write something equal/better (at which point you ask why I would bother trying to copy somebody else in the first place).

But I keep going because that's what I want to do. That's the story I want to tell. It's not totally original, or groundbreakingly inspired, but it's me. The story is me, and you guys as well.

So yeah.

What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?
Prometheus136 What's eatin' you, chief? from Yoknapatawpha County Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: It's so nice to be turned on again
What's eatin' you, chief?
#328684: Oct 13th 2014 at 9:38:32 PM

I don't read fanfiction

War is God.
ramuf Electric Heart from the Shining Throne Since: Jan, 2013
Electric Heart
#328685: Oct 13th 2014 at 9:39:10 PM

Forcing yourself to finish things isn't always necessary.

Sometimes you just gotta realize some concepts won't pan out.

I mean, that's not an excuse to give up. Not at all. But some things just don't work.

MobileLeprechaun (: from Grayrock, TX Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
(:
#328686: Oct 13th 2014 at 9:39:20 PM

well I suppose I will see you after nuclear armageddon from dissing classical literature in Prom's presence has dissipated, adios

Here is this, though.

make it through this year if it kills you yet | 2001-2019
eldritchseer all the loose ends from Cocytus Since: Mar, 2019
all the loose ends
#328687: Oct 13th 2014 at 9:39:59 PM

It really stands by itself as a narrative. It's barely even fanfiction.

GameSpazzer The Beta Male from Against! The! Wall! Since: Jun, 2010
The Beta Male
#328688: Oct 13th 2014 at 9:40:23 PM

It's not a link to my fanfic. I have more dignity than that.

[up][up][up]I've got other projects I want to work on anyway.

Like that VII novelisation I keep promising I'll work on but then I never do.

edited 13th Oct '14 9:41:06 PM by GameSpazzer

MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon Alchemist
thespacephantom Jamais vu from the smallest church in Saint-Saëns Since: Oct, 2009
Jamais vu
#328689: Oct 13th 2014 at 9:40:59 PM

it's more important to

tell your story

the unique story that is distinctly you, shaped by your own experiences, thoughts and ideas

than to try to be the best at writing a thing

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GameSpazzer The Beta Male from Against! The! Wall! Since: Jun, 2010
The Beta Male
#328690: Oct 13th 2014 at 9:41:32 PM

But it suuuuuucks.

MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon Alchemist
thespacephantom Jamais vu from the smallest church in Saint-Saëns Since: Oct, 2009
Jamais vu
#328691: Oct 13th 2014 at 9:42:04 PM

n o don't say thaaaat

y o u a r e a g o o d w r i t e r

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SR3NORMANDY Problem Child from N/A - In constant flux Since: Jul, 2012
Problem Child
#328692: Oct 13th 2014 at 9:42:18 PM

I still can't quite fathom what kind of human is able to write that kind of metatext.

What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?
Trip Since: Mar, 2012
#328693: Oct 13th 2014 at 9:42:21 PM

perhaps me writing at midnight is not a good thing

Prometheus136 What's eatin' you, chief? from Yoknapatawpha County Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: It's so nice to be turned on again
What's eatin' you, chief?
#328694: Oct 13th 2014 at 9:42:43 PM

You don't fucking dis Faulkner

but Joyce

meh

Reading him is like trying to make sense of

something that doesn't make sense

Faulkner's prose is... so beautiful... every single line is like poetry. It may not make much sense, but it's so gorgeous. It's the human mind. The mind is jumbled. He has every single character. Every. Single. Character. Express themselves differently. You can notice a huge difference between each not just in prose, but in syntax.

Some characters are more curt, others far far more rambling. Some more verbose, others more terse. Some have huge vocabularies, others don't. Some have deliberate misuse of punctuation and spacing.

War is God.
ramuf Electric Heart from the Shining Throne Since: Jan, 2013
Electric Heart
#328695: Oct 13th 2014 at 9:44:20 PM

Eunice scares me.

eldritchseer all the loose ends from Cocytus Since: Mar, 2019
all the loose ends
#328696: Oct 13th 2014 at 9:44:30 PM

also there was a yeats reference in it

i forget the exact text but it was a reference to the second coming

there were lots of really advanced and intelligent references

thespacephantom Jamais vu from the smallest church in Saint-Saëns Since: Oct, 2009
Jamais vu
#328697: Oct 13th 2014 at 9:44:57 PM

i liked the yeats reference

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Trip Since: Mar, 2012
#328698: Oct 13th 2014 at 9:45:13 PM

this is going to be something i regret why

all of you berate me

jam call me out on this

spaz ban me

duff shit on me

jesus loves me amen

also space throw your shades at me

GameSpazzer The Beta Male from Against! The! Wall! Since: Jun, 2010
The Beta Male
#328699: Oct 13th 2014 at 9:45:21 PM

Not that good.

Also, "Sonic doesn't swear" does he?

god that show sucked

MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon Alchemist
thespacephantom Jamais vu from the smallest church in Saint-Saëns Since: Oct, 2009
Jamais vu
#328700: Oct 13th 2014 at 9:45:30 PM

no they're mine get your own

[up]that's not the poiiint

edited 13th Oct '14 9:45:56 PM by thespacephantom

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