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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Are you going to throw another nuclear bitchfit, sithsaber? Too busy lifting 4 da btchs. Bye
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you already said that, how do we know we can believe you this time bby pls don't go
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General Battuta posted:Thanks
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Oct 10, 2014 03:41
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Sithsaber posted:Too busy lifting 4 da btchs.
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Sithsaber posted:Too busy lifting 4 da btchs. 
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magnificent7 posted:That was maybe the hardest thing for me - seeing, reading, and heeding the advice instead of explaining why they didn't get it. I hated everybody for ripping my poo poo to shreds, but there's only one instance where I knew for a fact they were wrong. (you CAN put a wire coat hanger over your head bitches.) Every other snarky piece of advice has been dead on. I said your protagonist would have to bend the hanger out of shape before she could choke a dude with it, and I stand by that.  I'm glad you've stuck with writing, mag7.
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Oct 10, 2014 03:50
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General Battuta posted:Thanks Oh yeah, if it's like that, I definitely feel you. I haven't been able to write a word in a couple months because of how my job right now has been grinding me into the dirt. And that's just trying to do it for fun. That's like 100% reasonable. You'll be fine. 
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Oct 10, 2014 03:53
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Kaishai posted:I'm glad you've stuck with writing, mag7.
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Oct 10, 2014 03:54
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Sithsaber posted:Too busy lifting 4 da btchs. I haven't given you my credentials!
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SurreptitiousMuffin posted:+1. Your writing's a long way from perfect, but it's definitely getting somewhere. I've been enjoying watching The Ascent of Mag. i cant wait for you all to witness my grand descent from mediocrity into that part of your brain where you go: "lou? huh, whys that name familiar?"
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Oct 10, 2014 03:59
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Aww shucks people. I'm pretty happy with my improvements. I'll never be where I wanna be, but that's just because I don't write. I talk about writing. And the bendy coathanger murder was implied. 1,000 word count don't leave room for extrasplanations.
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Oct 10, 2014 04:00
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LOU BEGAS MUSTACHE posted:i cant wait for you all to witness my grand descent from mediocrity into that part of your brain where you go: "lou? huh, whys that name familiar?" I do really want to read more set in the blood-prediction world though so that's pretty awesome. ALSO WHY IS THERE NO APOSTROPHE IN YOUR NAME MOTHERFUCKER. AND WHO SPELLS IS 'MUSTACHE' YOU gently caress. AAAAAAAAARG.
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Oct 10, 2014 04:04
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SurreptitiousMuffin posted:
I don't think anyone spells 'is' as 'mustache' Muffin
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Oct 10, 2014 04:07
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SurreptitiousMuffin posted:I have judged you twice and given you a DM and an HM. Your name is familiar because you're "that guy whose stories vary wildly in quality". you cant use apostrophes in usernames, did they not teach you in your ten word country that spells mustache wrong?
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Oct 10, 2014 04:10
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Sithsaber posted:That was 3 or 4 months ago, people. The long term memories here are ridiculous. When someone walks into the room, squats down, pulls their buttcheeks apart with their hands, and drops a loaf on the proverbial linoleum, it tends to stick in people's memory.
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Oct 10, 2014 04:20
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Grizzled Patriarch posted:When someone walks into the room, squats down, pulls their buttcheeks apart with their hands, and drops a loaf on the proverbial linoleum, it tends to stick in people's memory. You should be liftin' 'steada bitchin'.
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Oct 10, 2014 04:38
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The Saddest Rhino posted:I haven't given you my credentials! I'll take them, I could always use credentials. When I started writing it was unironic Elders Scrolls fanfiction (yes, of course it was about cat people do you even need to ask). My problem was I wrote a story in school once and my English teacher made me come to his CW lunchtime club. Pride does terrible things to a man. I knew a guy once who was a bit older than me so his chest of old stories was a literal old chest of stories, and one day (after he got published) he went out and burned them all in his garden. Maybe not a bad idea.
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Sithsaber posted:You should be liftin' 'steada bitchin'. When you actually have any writing or anything constructive whatsoever to contribute to this subforum, I'll gladly stop "bitchin." Right now all you are doing is demonstrating why nobody is taking you seriously. I'm not sure I have the time or the crayons to explain that in a way that will get through to you, since you seem absolutely intent on plugging your ears to any and all feedback, but if you spent a fraction of the time writing that you did whining about people in this thread, you might actually improve.
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Grizzled Patriarch posted:When you actually have any writing or anything constructive whatsoever to contribute to this subforum, I'll gladly stop "bitchin." Right now all you are doing is demonstrating why nobody is taking you seriously. I'm not sure I have the time or the crayons to explain that in a way that will get through to you, since you seem absolutely intent on plugging your ears to any and all feedback, but if you spent a fraction of the time writing that you did whining about people in this thread, you might actually improve. You the only one whinin'. I be shinin' wid muscle sweat. Ps. You're seriously blowing things out of proportion. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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hey all, lets all not be mean to each other and talk about grammar why do you think that books that use lots of adverbs manage to be so popular in books intended for younger audience???????????????????? thanks.
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Sithsaber posted:You the only one whinin'. I be shinin' wid muscle sweat.
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Sithsaber posted:You the only one whinin'. I be shinin' wid muscle sweat. You should try lifting a book.
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Grizzled Patriarch posted:You should try lifting a book.  Dude trying to avoid the criticism by flexing your "muscles" is the most hilariously dumb thing. Nobody believes you, and it wouldn't matter anyway.
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Jagermonster posted:False. Cyberpunk is the worst. WHAT TH oh right you are correct cyberpunk is the worst I have written basically nothing outside tdome apart from recaps for my role-playing group so I guess I can post those if we are doing a schadenfreude challenge?
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I don't know if this is more fiction advice or just life advice, but I've been having some heavy motivation issues lately, and I'm just wondering what people use to focus and get their writing done. I think last time, you guys had suggested setting aside a certain amount of time each day, which I've thought about but never managed to put into practice. Do people have anything else they've found to motivate themselves (in general, or in specific for writing)? I feel like I should note it's not that I don't like writing, it's just that it ends up being a lot lower-effort to browse forums and play Dark Souls. I deleted Dark Souls from my hard drive today, at least.
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*sitting here looks frantically around for a change of topic* Um UM Hey guys I think that Straight White Americans write the very best PoC/LGBTQ characters how bout you ^_^;
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Djeser posted:I don't know if this is more fiction advice or just life advice, but I've been having some heavy motivation issues lately, and I'm just wondering what people use to focus and get their writing done. I think last time, you guys had suggested setting aside a certain amount of time each day, which I've thought about but never managed to put into practice. Do people have anything else they've found to motivate themselves (in general, or in specific for writing)? I feel like I should note it's not that I don't like writing, it's just that it ends up being a lot lower-effort to browse forums and play Dark Souls. always x time, go into a separate PLACE (coffee shop, porch, kitchen etc) from where you do dumb stuff, remove distractions the moment you do. this forces you to write, and eventually you associate the time/place with writing. the place thing really helped me a lot. i think it just eventually sent a division in my brain that goes "its writin time"
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Djeser posted:I don't know if this is more fiction advice or just life advice, but I've been having some heavy motivation issues lately, and I'm just wondering what people use to focus and get their writing done. I think last time, you guys had suggested setting aside a certain amount of time each day, which I've thought about but never managed to put into practice. Do people have anything else they've found to motivate themselves (in general, or in specific for writing)? I feel like I should note it's not that I don't like writing, it's just that it ends up being a lot lower-effort to browse forums and play Dark Souls. Kind of in the same vein as setting aside time, but creating "deadlines" helps me, even if there aren't any actual stakes. Often reading a great story or seeing the work of another creative person inspires me, whether they are a writer or not. Seeing people chase their dreams, and in some cases succeed, kind of gets me pumped. Sometimes I feel like I am more afraid of succeeding at something I enjoy doing than failing, for whatever reason, so a little external pressure can go a long ways. I don't think it's uncommon to have fallow periods, though. I know everyone tosses around some daily number of words you must write to be a "writer," but there are tons of great authors that don't, and I think the pressure of trying to adhere to that can be detrimental to some people. Once you feel like you are behind, it's a lot easier to rationalize giving up or putting it off. Steven King has a funny little apocryphal story about Joyce: quote:“A friend came to visit James Joyce one day and found the great man sprawled across his writing desk in a posture of utter despair.
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LOU BEGAS MUSTACHE posted:always x time, go into a separate PLACE (coffee shop, porch, kitchen etc) from where you do dumb stuff, remove distractions the moment you do. This is 100% essential for me. I cannot write at home. It also creates this feeling of "going to work" in that you have to become presentable, gather your things, travel there, and if you end up opening google docs or whatever and can't think of a single thing to write, you won't just say "hmm gently caress it" and play League of Legends, you'll think, "I came all this way..." and you generally end up sitting there and staying focused on the writing.
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I heard one about P.G. Wodehouse. A friend visits him in his study and asks "so what have you managed today?" Wodehouse says "I added a comma to this one sentence." His friend snorts and leaves. The friend visits again the next day. "So, friend, what's today's progress? Another comma?" "No," says Wodehouse, "I took the first one back out."
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I saw 95 unread posts in this thread and clicked, hoping to see delightful chatter about fiction writing. My novel has been stuck at 4,800 words for the past two weeks and I don't know why.
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Liam Emsa posted:I saw 95 unread posts in this thread and clicked, hoping to see delightful chatter about fiction writing. Are you stuck on one particular scene? If so, it might help to "fast forward" a bit and start fleshing out a future plot element. I've definitely had times where I can't think of a good way to get from Point A to B, and sometimes just picking up at Point C can help create that bridge. That being said, I think everyone has a few moments during the process of writing a longer piece where they start questioning everything, which can definitely lead to stagnation. Some people can force their way through the plateau by sheer will, others need to take a break and work on something else, or get a fresh pair of eyes to give their impression, etc. Is there anything in specific you find yourself struggling with?
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SurreptitiousMuffin posted:In the middle of a scene where a man abandons his dying wife so he can save the lives of his children, you chose to intentionally mis-spell the word 'Hollywood' why exactly? What is the humorous intent here? Dammit Muffin I know this post was from a page or so ago but how can you not see the joke Cache Cab was making. You wrote 'spell mistakes' instead of 'spelling mistakes' and Cache Cab was making a joke about how you couldn't possibly tell whether he had made mistakes with his spells, GOSH.
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SurreptitiousMuffin posted:PYF Terrible Writer confession. You are the Fall Out Boy of poetry.
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Djeser posted:Do people have anything else they've found to motivate themselves (in general, or in specific for writing)? I advocated writing 2,000 words a day a few pages back, and while that's a worthy eventual goal if you want it to be a profession, 1k a day is probably more reasonable progress. Even if you have to open up a separate word document & write complete crap that has nothing to do with the story, the act of writing strengthens the neural pathways involved in producing prose and will make it easier the next day, and the next. Get yourself into a rhythm. Also don't beat yourself up about video games. If you make your entire life work with no play... Well, we've all seen The Shining haven't we. Reward yourself with a bit of gaming if you meet your target. Disclaimer: I have never thunderdomed and am not making any money yet. I am however finding the above advice useful in breaking my own mental deadlocks.
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I find deadlines are absolutely necessary, because I am a hideous procrastinator. On the other hand I once wrote and turned in for English class a self-insert story about New Kids on the Block, so it's all relative.
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SurreptitiousMuffin posted:PYF Terrible Writer confession. It's Bill Watterson you idiot bitch misspeller
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Ooh, crimes against writing. Let's see. I once wrote Blackadder fanfiction for an essay question on the final exam for a college humanities class. Then there were the comedy gangland reinterpretations of certain stories from the Gospels that I did at my very religious high school. (They at least went over well) Then there was the horrible poo poo I was writing in Thunderdome a year ago. (And rather less than a year ago) I am of course ashamed of exactly none of this.
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Confession: I got suckered in by Forward Press as a teenager with 'poetry' based heavily on Manic Street Preachers lyrics. The most embarrassing thing is that my mum still to this day tells people that I was one of the "top 100 poets*" in the country, and has kept all the books. * They released a 'best of' compilation called this. I won £200. I bought a long black coat with it.
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SurreptitiousMuffin posted:
That was the joke. Good news, apparently my computer might be fixed without wiping the data. I'll know tomorrow. I'll leave because of the hostility.
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