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  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    what.

    why the dickens

  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    Shorty wrote: »
    what.

    why the dickens

    Come on it's probably better than Dickens at least

  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    edited May 2013
    well I'm not getting paid by the word so it's not inflated as fuck like Dickens

    if anything it's far too compressed

    the first two chapters cover ten months and years of backstory

    (I know this is a problem, it will be fixed eventually)

    Shorty on
  • Crimson KingCrimson King Registered User regular
    i write but i hate talking about writing

    what is there to say, really

    surely any time you spend discussing writing could be better spent actually writing

  • Crimson KingCrimson King Registered User regular
    shorty i will read the heck out of your novel

  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    <3

  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    Shorty wrote: »
    I am writing a novel right now

    it is a pile of unmitigated bullshit

    but I will see it through to the end

    Want to trade shitty novels?

  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    i write but i hate talking about writing

    what is there to say, really

    surely any time you spend discussing writing could be better spent actually writing

    There's not much point in talking about writing in general.

    There's a million reasons to talk about any individual piece of writing.

  • satansfingerssatansfingers Registered User regular
    i've never really written much fiction, but i've been doing a lot of live comedy lately and i feel like i should give it a go because why the hell not

    it's daunting, but i have some good ideas i think

  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    what is a joke, besides very compressed fiction?

  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    sarukun wrote: »
    Shorty wrote: »
    I am writing a novel right now

    it is a pile of unmitigated bullshit

    but I will see it through to the end

    Want to trade shitty novels?

    perhaps when it is done

  • ButlerButler 89 episodes or bust Registered User regular
    I'm working on a text adventure game in Inform 7. I've got the basics for all the puzzles planned out and a decent story, and I'm near the end of the first stage which is laying down some descriptions for the main locations. I can only work on it on my days off though, since I seem to have settled into a work pattern where I have to exhaust myself of distractions first.

  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    Because of this thread I'm now actively working on my article.

    Good work thread.

  • LalaboxLalabox Registered User regular
    I have to do a bunch of writing for uni. At the moment I have just finished up a small analysis of the Convention on Cluster Munitions, and now I have to work on an essay about whether communalism in contemporary india is the product of colonialism.

    Last weekend I wrote about whether the idea of a resource curse is an adequate explanation for the widespread poverty in the democratic republic of congo.

    It's all incredibly interesting, but there's never enough time.

    I kinda look forward to doing an honours thesis in a few years.

  • TonkkaTonkka Some one in the club tonight Has stolen my ideas.Registered User regular
    I write.

    I am really bad at it.

    Steam: evilumpire Battle.net: T0NKKA#1588 PS4: T_0_N_N_K_A Twitter Shirts and such HELP!
  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    me too!

    h5

  • TonkkaTonkka Some one in the club tonight Has stolen my ideas.Registered User regular
    Look at that syntax, terrible.

    Steam: evilumpire Battle.net: T0NKKA#1588 PS4: T_0_N_N_K_A Twitter Shirts and such HELP!
  • QuothQuoth the Raven Miami, FL FOR REALRegistered User regular
    Being bad at something you enjoy is a good reason to do it more often

  • ArangArang HUEY LEWISRegistered User regular
    I enjoyed If I Wanted, I Could Crush You so much that I still remember it three years later. I don't know why

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    strongly considered making the title do any of you white

    twitter https://twitter.com/mperezwritesirl michelle patreon https://www.patreon.com/thatwronglove michelle's comic book from IMAGE COMICS you can order http://a.co/dn5YeUD
  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited May 2013
    Larlar wrote: »
    I just joined a Vancouver writer's meetup to devote some time each week to not not writing.

    I'd like to start creating a solid outline to this story idea I've had for a good ten years so that when I finally try to write it again one day I don't get about three chapters in before throwing my arms up and deleting everything.

    then you should write it

    each bit of time i dont spend writing is gathering ideas for writing, eating, farting off, and dropping a deuce or showering

    good way to actively stay on your own ass about ideas you may get which in turn keep you writing crap is notes. all smartphones got note or memo functionality. if a girl is shitfaced at karaoke and talking about her boyfriend in a shitty band "Not Never Gonna Be No Pantera" then thats a note

    somebody talked about a McDonalds in a hospital and i said "Just beat cancer? Did somebody say McDonalds?" baby thats a note

    good writing comes from firsthand shit, so it stands to reason if you accumulate a lot, a real wealth of it you want to offload it somewhere

    Calamity Jane on
    twitter https://twitter.com/mperezwritesirl michelle patreon https://www.patreon.com/thatwronglove michelle's comic book from IMAGE COMICS you can order http://a.co/dn5YeUD
  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    edited May 2013
    King Riptor on
    I have a podcast now. It's about video games and anime!Find it here.
  • UrielUriel Registered User regular
    edited May 2013
    I need classes or some kind of instructional books to learn some better creative writing techniques.

    Also what is some better software than notepad/wordpad?

    Uriel on
  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    edited May 2013
    Double post my old foe

    King Riptor on
    I have a podcast now. It's about video games and anime!Find it here.
  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    Word or one of its free brethren

    I have a podcast now. It's about video games and anime!Find it here.
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  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    oh right, i did help create a comic strip for Whomp

  • UrielUriel Registered User regular
    edited May 2013
    Holy heck Scrivener is slick as heck.

    This might just help me organize well enough to get a bit more done.

    Uriel on
  • DirtyDirtyVagrantDirtyDirtyVagrant Registered User regular
    I do a bit of writing.

  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    I write

    but I never show my writings to anything

    I used to and it made me worried about writing for some reason

    now I write for me and it is a lot more enjoyable

    one day I'll finish something I think is good and then maybe let someone else read it

  • HeadCreepsHeadCreeps NOW IS THE TIME FOR DRINKING! Registered User regular
    I try to write, but I get discouraged far too easily and wind up quitting before I ever really get started.

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  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    Uriel wrote: »
    I need classes or some kind of instructional books to learn some better creative writing techniques.

    Also what is some better software than notepad/wordpad?

    scrivener, as mentioned, seems to be pretty boss

    but if you don't want to spend any money, openoffice is adequate (albeit just barely)

  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    i write

    BUY MY COMIC

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    i also juggle at least four stories at any given time

    right now it's:

    weekend road warrior
    the hidden bestiary of chester a. arthur (el chupacabra 2)
    the murderhouse salesman
    i was a teenage bloody mary

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  • QuothQuoth the Raven Miami, FL FOR REALRegistered User regular
    My last story was Earth's Top Super Model

    Before that was Always Have an Exit Strategy

    The novel I just finished is Handyman but that may change, or get an added subtitle or something

  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    novels are something i never much could do

    i need to bounce between stories AND make headway

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    also i get.bored with ideas quick

    so many aborted stories that coulda been something

    snuff film romantic comedy alone

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  • QuothQuoth the Raven Miami, FL FOR REALRegistered User regular
    I'm trying to stop not finishing stories

    Clearly I am writing short stories to completion, but definitely the longer the story, the more likely I am to wander off

    I still need to finish two serials I started writing, and a couple of short stories, and like seven novels

    Also I still own sentryduty.com and reflexagent.com for stuff that was happening and then didn't happen but I keep hoping will come around someday

  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    so angry about sentry duty, still

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    also i would stop dropping stories, but i always have something new, and thjs progress train ain't know how to reverse.

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