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  • tastydonutstastydonuts Registered User regular
    Stop getting bombarded by phones, Kamar!

    err... chat thread didn't refresh on my browser. carry on.

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    "a good leader can make an okay group great..."
  • XagarathXagarath Registered User regular
    So, I wrote one word in the last week, then got bogged down in researching London addresses. Progress!

  • tapeslingertapeslinger utter Yog-Sothothery mmm, soulsRegistered User regular
    it is too hot to live right now. the AC at my job is fighting a losing battle and I am just sitting here waiting for it to just give up any second now.

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  • BEAST!BEAST! Adventurer Adventure!!!!!Registered User regular
    the AC at my apartment doesn't exist

    BEAT THAT

  • VanityPantsVanityPants Registered User regular
    Don't listen to him, Tape.

    That's what @BEAST! tells all the ladies.

  • tapeslingertapeslinger utter Yog-Sothothery mmm, soulsRegistered User regular
    I don't want to beat you, BEAST! I just want to feel the sensation of being cold again and our weather patterns seem to be trying to fight this experience for me.

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  • EmptyGlassEmptyGlass Registered User
    No AC? Where do you live? It's literally 100 degrees here and with the humidity it's like 3,000.

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  • BEAST!BEAST! Adventurer Adventure!!!!!Registered User regular
    I live in nyc...it was i think 101 today with i don't know the humidity...last i remember seeing it was over 110 heat index though?

    We are going ok enough in here, it's finally like 88 outside so i'm able to open the windows and get some outside air in here, hopefully cool the place down tonight.

  • MagellMagell Registered User regular
    EmptyGlass wrote:
    No AC? Where do you live? It's literally 100 degrees here and with the humidity it's like 3,000.
    I ain't got no AC in Northern Michigan, but it's only unbearably hot for about 2 weeks which doesn't really justify a need for AC.

  • tapeslingertapeslinger utter Yog-Sothothery mmm, soulsRegistered User regular
    it is now 79F in nexus's apartment yay

    it's been approximately 82 since around 10pm... for me 82 is that exact temperature where I can't get cool enough to be comfortable but I am not sweating like rain either. It stays so humid and miserable though. ugh. I don't think it has been this hot in the city since I moved here in 2005. That was another hellacious summer.

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  • BEAST!BEAST! Adventurer Adventure!!!!!Registered User regular
    was 86-87 most of the day in here..fun times...flapjack was PANTING at one point but that was in the computer room which is way hotter because computers are hot

    oh also, so uhh..writing..do you guys do that?

  • chiasaur11chiasaur11 Never doubt a raccoon. Registered User regular
    Eh.

    Sometimes. When there aren't movies about Captain America stomping the hell out of Nazis to watch.

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  • OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    i had an idea the other day for a series of pulp novels based on the waste land. is there anything like that extant?

  • tapeslingertapeslinger utter Yog-Sothothery mmm, soulsRegistered User regular
    even if there were, @Orikaeshigitae, I think it would be worth the effort of doing some prenovel writing/outlining as I am sure there's a lot of potential there. @BEAST! daww poor you (and poor Flapjack!) it looks like rain here but does not feel like it will rain yet. I am going to knitting group this afternoon because we are going to the tasti d-lite, yay. @chiasaur11 everyone says the movie is pretty great, I think nex and I are going to see that some night this week when it is too hot out to do anything else. as for writing... got a few background scenes that aren't useful for my novel but might work as a *shudder* flashback if it ends up being a part of the story that needs referred-back-to later on. Yay for useless words!

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  • ElJeffeElJeffe Super Moderator, Moderator, ClubPA mod
    It is 3:30 in the morning and I'm pretty sure I can hear pigeons fucking on my balcony.

    Bastards keep building nests out there which I have to kick down ad nauseum, which is especially depressing when they've actually laid eggs and I have to murder their poor little rats-with-wings embryos.

    Riley: "You're a marsupial!"
    Maddie: "I am not!"
    Riley: "You're a marsupial!"
    Maddie: "I am a placental mammal!"
  • EdcrabEdcrab Registered User
    Around here the only noises I have to worry about are dogs and screaming children

    Both of which strike me as entirely unnecessary creatures, I might add

    EDIT: Oh, and some arsehat who revs his bike up at four in the morning

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  • tastydonutstastydonuts Registered User regular
    Sparrows used to invade my bedroom windowsill. It drove me nuts... Fortunately, I think (hope) I fixed that problem, but hasn't been an issue lately.

    Racoons, possums, and cats + neighbors either not using cans for their trash and putting it in their yard, or not properly securing them even when they're empty is also a fun combo for late night noise.

    "a good leader can make an okay group great..."
  • blaze_zeroblaze_zero Registered User regular
    I'm in a rut. What's wrong with me?

  • SkutSkutSkutSkut Registered User regular
    So I'm trying something with keeping the main characters gender a secret from the rest of the characters, wasteland setting with a no rules world basically, but I keep stumping myself when that character needs to do something that would need a "raised rifle to his/her shoulder" kind of stuff. I'm kind of tempted to scrap it and just have men and women doing whatever the hell they want solo or in any sized group but I was wanting to do that with the setting after this short is finished. Something like short story-gap of time-novel/novella.

    Any tips? I was thinking a gender neutral "their" would work, but want opinions on it. Using "their" seems kind of "OBVIOUS FEMALE IN A MANS WORLD" though.

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  • blaze_zeroblaze_zero Registered User regular
    pulled the rifle to about shoulder's height and then caressed the trigger slowly.

  • SkutSkutSkutSkut Registered User regular
    That could work, I'll just have to get used to writing like that for a good chunk of the story. I did get 154 words down without really trying and I haven't written in weeks so at least the setting flows easy.

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  • WankWank Registered User regular
    Guys does anyone here have experience writing for other people? I am writing my grandmother's memoirs for her this summer as a sort of side-project. I keep wanting to cut out all the nonessential stuff she adds to what is, truly, an amazing story. (Fleeing the Ukraine in WW2)

    But I don't want to "take over" the whole thing, either. So hard.

  • tapeslingertapeslinger utter Yog-Sothothery mmm, soulsRegistered User regular
    I would write a draft totally packed with everything she wants to include, and then whittle it down into something tighter, but that's my style of writing. On the converse, some of this stuff might seem like it's not necessary now but might tie into something later. This is less likely in reality than in fiction, but it's worth noting.

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  • blaze_zeroblaze_zero Registered User regular
    Well, you might also gleam some things like personal ticks or habits from writing everything down. You can learn a lot from just the way they word and portray things. Which, in turn, can give it much more character.

  • VanityPantsVanityPants Registered User regular
    Well.

    My computer died in the middle of working on a novella. Luckily I don't think it was the HDD and rather was the motherboard, but we'll see.

    Still, I am now left with just my netbook which has been overheating and shutting down lately. Why does everything break at once?

  • VanityPantsVanityPants Registered User regular
    Magell I tried to do what you said and now I just have ink all over my hands and clothes and I am crying.

    Oh god, the tears are making the paper rip apart.

    Why would you do this to me.

  • chiasaur11chiasaur11 Never doubt a raccoon. Registered User regular
    Magell wrote:
    For my own twisted satisfaction, now you need to go buy a typewriter, or a scribe.

    The scribe will catch the black plague.
    Spoiler:

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  • VanityPantsVanityPants Registered User regular
    I tried to buy a typewriter but I couldn't figure out where to plug in the monitor.

    I refuse to buy a scribe because slavery is wrong, Magell.

  • MagellMagell Registered User regular
    I tried to buy a typewriter but I couldn't figure out where to plug in the monitor.

    I refuse to buy a scribe because slavery is wrong, Magell.

    You pay him, damn. Unless you best him in combat and then his life is yours and sparing his death earns you his service for life.

  • WankWank Registered User regular
    So, I'm bad with action tags. Is not liking something justification for an action tag? Like so:

    Jinks didn’t like the way he was staring. "Who are you?" she asked.

    Or should it not get its own indent?

  • VanityPantsVanityPants Registered User regular
    Magell wrote:
    I tried to buy a typewriter but I couldn't figure out where to plug in the monitor.

    I refuse to buy a scribe because slavery is wrong, Magell.

    You pay him, damn. Unless you best him in combat and then his life is yours and sparing his death earns you his service for life.

    I am not MADE Of doubloons, Magell!

    I guess I'll have to find a scribe and try to rope him/her into an armed duel.

  • MagellMagell Registered User regular
    Magell wrote:
    I tried to buy a typewriter but I couldn't figure out where to plug in the monitor.

    I refuse to buy a scribe because slavery is wrong, Magell.

    You pay him, damn. Unless you best him in combat and then his life is yours and sparing his death earns you his service for life.

    I am not MADE Of doubloons, Magell!

    I guess I'll have to find a scribe and try to rope him/her into an armed duel.

    Then we need to find a sunken ship and get those doubloons. But a duel also sounds awesome. Either choice is good really.

  • AmaliaAmalia Registered User regular
    Wank wrote:
    So, I'm bad with action tags. Is not liking something justification for an action tag? Like so:

    Jinks didn’t like the way he was staring. "Who are you?" she asked.

    Or should it not get its own indent?

    I do not see anything wrong with that. Jinks is the she who is speaking, yes? In which case, nothing wrong, but you probably don't need the She asked on the end if the context is clear surrounding it that Jinx is the speaker.

    Sometimes I blog. Other times I tweet. But I'm always writing. (and so is that other Amalia)

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  • XagarathXagarath Registered User regular
    Amalia wrote:
    Wank wrote:
    So, I'm bad with action tags. Is not liking something justification for an action tag? Like so:

    Jinks didn’t like the way he was staring. "Who are you?" she asked.

    Or should it not get its own indent?

    I do not see anything wrong with that. Jinks is the she who is speaking, yes? In which case, nothing wrong, but you probably don't need the She asked on the end if the context is clear surrounding it that Jinx is the speaker.

    Agreed, though I'm neutral on the "she asked". Leave or remove it depending on what suits the larger rhythm of the piece.

  • ElJeffeElJeffe Super Moderator, Moderator, ClubPA mod
    Another vote for "It's fine, but lose the 'she asked'."

    Riley: "You're a marsupial!"
    Maddie: "I am not!"
    Riley: "You're a marsupial!"
    Maddie: "I am a placental mammal!"
  • OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    SkutSkut wrote:
    So I'm trying something with keeping the main characters gender a secret from the rest of the characters, wasteland setting with a no rules world basically, but I keep stumping myself when that character needs to do something that would need a "raised rifle to his/her shoulder" kind of stuff. I'm kind of tempted to scrap it and just have men and women doing whatever the hell they want solo or in any sized group but I was wanting to do that with the setting after this short is finished. Something like short story-gap of time-novel/novella.

    Any tips? I was thinking a gender neutral "their" would work, but want opinions on it. Using "their" seems kind of "OBVIOUS FEMALE IN A MANS WORLD" though.

    If it's gendered circles, then you could probably just use male pronouns until the character's gender is revealed because that would be the default assumption for that context. I tried to do a similar thing and it got butt annoying by page 30.

  • ruzkinruzkin Registered User regular
    Agreed with everyone else, why append an 'asked' tag onto a piece of dialogue that already has a question mark? It's as bad as "Go away!" she shouted.

    ...

    "GO AWAY!" she shouted!

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  • EdcrabEdcrab Registered User
    Suddenly, the door opened slowly.

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