I Have No [Chat] and I Must [Brainstorm]

ElJeffe

takyris wrote: »

ElJeffe wrote: »

tastydonuts wrote: »

Really? Congrats. I'll have to try doing that writing thing soon.

PS: You want those responses by the end of July, right? I'll try and start chipping away at it tomorrow... I hope. it's just been weird here.

End of July would be nice. I've gotten a couple bits of really strong feedback, and I'm developing a sense of where the next draft needs to go. Anything further I can get will be extremely helpful in establishing trends, since there's some discrepancy thus far in what's rubbing people the right and wrong ways.

translated: taky still a dick, then injured himself so cannot continue conversation

At least you didn't tell me I'd succeeded at doing something bad, again. I'm making progress!

takyris

ElJeffe wrote: »

takyris wrote: »

ElJeffe wrote: »

tastydonuts wrote: »

Really? Congrats. I'll have to try doing that writing thing soon.

PS: You want those responses by the end of July, right? I'll try and start chipping away at it tomorrow... I hope. it's just been weird here.

End of July would be nice. I've gotten a couple bits of really strong feedback, and I'm developing a sense of where the next draft needs to go. Anything further I can get will be extremely helpful in establishing trends, since there's some discrepancy thus far in what's rubbing people the right and wrong ways.

translated: taky still a dick, then injured himself so cannot continue conversation

At least you didn't tell me I'd succeeded at doing something bad, again. I'm making progress!

was actually trying to think of follow up response. now that i'm thinking clearer, may try again.

Fearghaill

Edcrab wrote: »

Guys... something incredibly weird and inexplicable happened to me.

I was walking home in the pouring rain- but it was still blindingly hot- and took the decision to cross through the park.

Suddenly, I'm accosted by some homeless and/or addict guy. Tall, probably in their twenties, dishevelled, scabbed-over face, terrible teeth (even by British or Edcrabian standards) and leaning towards me wheezing at me demanding a tenner while repeatedly prodding my shoulder.

Just while I'm pondering what the hell I'm going to do I notice someone shambling out of the mists. Stocky black dude with a heavily stained and creased leather jacket, an ancient rainbow sweater that's now the colour of rotting meat, thick wispy dreadlocks like giant grey caterpillars.

He rushes the junkie, delivering a right hook that sends the guy splattering into the soaking grass. Junkie groans, makes a choking sob, and retreats.

Hobo Batman looked at me, grinned, went "Woooo-AHHH!!" and staggered off into the [strike]night[/strike] sunny rainshower.

...

...what?

This is all I can think of when I read this.

Edcrab

I had forgotten the magic of Hobot...

Evidently Hobo Batman is one of their supporting cast members in the Hobo Justice League!

tastydonuts

that is an odd story indeed.

TF2 wasn't awful, but it wasn't exactly good either. I left it feeling the same about it before seeing than I did after, "meh."

and this little kid turned around and looked at me when I rattled my plastic bag of candy even though he was randomly talking to his mom the whole time. ._.

DarkHawke

tak, I just read that post on your blog, and

a bit like starring in porn for a fetish you don't share.

actually made me laugh out loud. Which doesn't happen all that often when I'm reading things on the internets.

Good to hear you're semi-okay, now keep getting okayer.

spcmnspff

Surgically improved tak should upgrade to an avatar.

Muncie

spcmnspff

I was going to suggest a contest, but clearly you've won.

Raziel

Y'aw jus bin MUNCIED.

Edcrab

So that Canelo dude seems nice enough

Can we keep him?

nhrn

Edcrab wrote: »

Guys... something incredibly weird and inexplicable happened to me.
Hobo Batman looked at me, grinned, went "Woooo-AHHH!!" and staggered off into the [strike]night[/strike] sunny rainshower.

...

...what?

It was either a scam to try to get reward money, or Hobo Batman is a belligerently territorial guy who saw someone on his turf. Anyway the majority of hobos I know/have seen are brilliant, there is a millionaire hobo near me who rarely stops walking from morning to really late at night, he is a local celebrity.
Onto writing related things, how the hell do I get over writers block? I can't even seem to think coherently about writing recently.

MKR

nhrn wrote: »

Edcrab wrote: »

Guys... something incredibly weird and inexplicable happened to me.
Hobo Batman looked at me, grinned, went "Woooo-AHHH!!" and staggered off into the [strike]night[/strike] sunny rainshower.

...

...what?

It was either a scam to try to get reward money, or Hobo Batman is a belligerently territorial guy who saw someone on his turf. Anyway the majority of hobos I know/have seen are brilliant, there is a millionaire hobo near me who rarely stops walking from morning to really late at night, he is a local celebrity.
Onto writing related things, how the hell do I get over writers block? I can't even seem to think coherently about writing recently.

Hug a puppy.

Raziel

Edcrab wrote: »

So that Canelo dude seems nice enough

Can we keep him?

Long as he writes something.

nhrn

MKR wrote: »

Hug a puppy.

Good idea, but how do you suggest I avoid being arrested whilst stealing myself a puppy?

Muncie

I don't believe in writer's block. I believe people get paralyzed by fear, or they don't want to write they just want the trappings of being a writer, or they just want to be perceived as a troubled artist, but writer's block I can't buy into.

Motivation: what's yours?

I set hard deadlines for myself. If I miss the deadline, I chop off a digit.

MKR

Our modern consumer-driven world is immolating itself.

nhrn wrote: »

MKR wrote: »

Hug a puppy.

Good idea, but how do you suggest I avoid being arrested whilst stealing myself a puppy?

Animal shelter! You could volunteer and hug a lot of puppies.

nhrn

Muncie wrote: »

I don't believe in writer's block. I believe people get paralyzed by fear, or they don't want to write they just want the trappings of being a writer, or they just want to be perceived as a troubled artist, but writer's block I can't buy into.

Motivation: what's yours?

I set hard deadlines for myself. If I miss the deadline, I chop off a digit.

My motivation is sleeping, I can't sleep unless I've at least worked on something during the day, but I now seem to be stuck.
edit: MKR It's 2AM here but I suppose I could volunteer tomorrow, however Saturday is the day I help drink all of the pubs beer

tastydonuts

Muncie wrote: »

I don't believe in writer's block. I believe people get paralyzed by fear, or they don't want to write they just want the trappings of being a writer, or they just want to be perceived as a troubled artist, but writer's block I can't buy into.

Motivation: what's yours?

I set hard deadlines for myself. If I miss the deadline, I chop off a digit.

Yep, this is why Muncie supports himself by being a spokesperson for Nuance's Dragon speech to text software!

MKR

tastydonuts wrote: »

Muncie wrote: »

I don't believe in writer's block. I believe people get paralyzed by fear, or they don't want to write they just want the trappings of being a writer, or they just want to be perceived as a troubled artist, but writer's block I can't buy into.

Motivation: what's yours?

I set hard deadlines for myself. If I miss the deadline, I chop off a digit.

Yep, this is why Muncie supports himself by being a spokesperson for Nuance's Dragon speech to text software!

Get drunk enough and turn the mic on, and you're bound to end up with something.

Muncie

It works for Glen Beck. oooooo

Muncie

Let's play a game called "find the most bizarre post ever in H/A by a first time poster."


ANNNND GO.

Baron Dirigible

ooh, I'm good at this game

Zsetrek

Terrifying.

Iriah

Baron Dirigible wrote: »

ooh, I'm good at this game

you're good in the way the living are good at breathing

bsjezz

well i got some writing done today

sadly it was the wrong writing, but i'm going to try not letting that get in the way of a satisfied night's drinking

Raziel

Baron Dirigible wrote: »

ooh, I'm good at this game

Psh, I got that in a spam e-mail.


Mokay, writer's block. It's a convenient excuse and there's nothing sexier than staring pointedly at a blank page in a coffee shop exclaiming "Dear god... I'm BLOCKED!" to anyone who will listen. Not every word can be brilliant, or we'd see a whole lot more Eragon novels. amirite.

ElJeffe

I think one can legitimately sit down before a computer (or typewriter, I guess, if people actually still use those things) and not be able to generate a damned word, for a number of reasons. You can be grumpy, you can be exhausted, you can be distracted by other issues. I suppose you can write anyway, but I've always had difficulty plowing ahead on something that I know is going to be such shit I won't even bother with the Save button.

I think if this is an ongoing thing, though, there's something internal getting in the way, be it fear or doubt or a drive to fail.

ALifeCalledKarma

I believe in having difficulty coming up with an idea for a story, but I don't believe in not being able to write if you have an idea. I'll admit that there are times when I'll sit down for an hour and produce a few sentences of pure crap, but if I know the outline of a story and where I want it to go I refuse to let myself just sit there.

Alternately, when the words don't come, it's often because I just don't want to be writing. I hate being the typical writer, but a few drinks and some music really do help the words start to flow.

DarkHawke

Local welder suffering from welder's block

cj iwakura

Most of my writing is done through GMing and or STing.

I guess that's not very productive.


I can get lots of original ideas if I'm working with some source material, but straight original work, not so much.

tastydonuts

cj iwakura wrote: »

Most of my writing is done through GMing and or STing.

I guess that's not very productive.


I can get lots of original ideas if I'm working with some source material, but straight original work, not so much.

A lot of the "writing" I've done over the years has been GMing or "lol ima games maker" related. Be it just flavor for world building or the sections of the games themselves.

I'd say it works two ways with me though. One of the things I'm doing now is more a fleshing out of a backstory I'd had written a while ago... which was based off a failed construction of a setting... which for some reason just kept tugging at my "physically impossible" string. I think that I'm able to work with the idea now shows that I'm a lot less of a spaz than I was before, rofl.

Even what I posted a while back had some relation to that same general project. a very loose one, but it was there. I'd say GMing and STing is a good way to tumble your ideas around. I wouldn't suggest directly adapting what's done through it, but it gives you a much better understanding of the what goes on in the minds of your characters and stuff.

Quoth

Muncie are you the one in Tampa because you should come hang with me in Ybor. This band is not great and I need someone to whine at.

cj iwakura

I went to college there, but I never once went to Ybor. Clubs aren't really my thing.

Baron Dirigible

dear people who work at the same place I work

you have communication issues

also

you have a folder on your desktop called "resume stuff"

what's that all about

love

me

Zsetrek

Using work resources to search for a new job is pretty much the only job satisfaction some of us have left any more.

Edcrab

Maybe the folder was their way of leaving themselves a reminder.

They come into work, read the message contained in the folder name, and remember "oh, yes, I need to resume stuff".

Baron Dirigible

this is the best news story I have ever seen

bsjezz

wake in fright is a book that everyone needs to read

at least every australian

Samba

what was in the resume stuff folder?

stuff or resumes?