The Long Walk 1: Fools' March

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Capntastic: Jan 13, 2005; A dog begins eating a dusty old coil of rope but there's a nail in it.

sebmojo posted:

Here's a for 5k of delicious wordsnot by 30 April, 2359 PST.

Indubitably.

# ¿ Mar 31, 2015 05:32

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 20:14

Capntastic: Jan 13, 2005; A dog begins eating a dusty old coil of rope but there's a nail in it.

^^^ Haha, look at this "I'll do the bare minimum" guy up there ^^^

# ¿ Mar 31, 2015 05:38

Capntastic: Jan 13, 2005; A dog begins eating a dusty old coil of rope but there's a nail in it.

I guess I can submit to that with a slightly modified version of my thing

Edit: Which I'm making progress on for real

# ¿ Apr 11, 2015 04:19

Capntastic: Jan 13, 2005; A dog begins eating a dusty old coil of rope but there's a nail in it.

crabrock posted:

man, writing a little bit, even if it's only once every few weeks, really adds up after a while.

That's pretty neat; I am bad with spreadsheets, how did you set that up?

# ¿ Apr 14, 2015 03:56

Capntastic: Jan 13, 2005; A dog begins eating a dusty old coil of rope but there's a nail in it.

Thanks!

Edit: Made the mistake of having too many ideas today. Will need to focus on one thing before trying to write a different thing.

# ¿ Apr 14, 2015 04:51

Capntastic: Jan 13, 2005; A dog begins eating a dusty old coil of rope but there's a nail in it.

SH is probing minds and engraving our sins into a radioactive slab

# ¿ Apr 19, 2015 03:29

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 20:14

Capntastic: Jan 13, 2005; A dog begins eating a dusty old coil of rope but there's a nail in it.

If we're counting TD stuff add 1.3k to that.

AFTER ACTION REPORT FOR MONTH ONE:

Most of what I've done is tried to sketch out the one major scene that each chapter hangs on.

The hardest part for me was getting past the prep work of structuring a much longer work than I'm accustomed to. All sorts of cool flashes of "oh man I can really polish this motif and that subtext and have all these connections" ended up dragging me down, solely because I was putting together a very complex web rather than, you know, jamming words out. Sitting down and opening the text file was the most valuable action to take. Procrastination is an obvious issue, I think many people here would agree. Worldbuilding is easy and fun, but textbuilding is where the action is.

I had to keep on myself that I can always go back and make things more clear, and that getting a rough draft to even work on at a later date was more important.

As an aside, a personal goal I've set for myself is to use Scrivener's tools to make an objective effort to ensure every portion of the story has a clearly defined obstacle. Anyone who's read my TD stuff knows that my conflicts are almost always introspective intangible watery things that have no real power to them. I'm make a conscious effort to slam past that.

# ¿ May 1, 2015 04:05

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