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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Fuck Shui Edition
« on: December 02, 2013, 05:26:13 pm »
Quote from: Graknorke on December 02, 2013, 05:03:42 pm
Quote from: i2amroy on December 02, 2013, 04:59:55 pm
just keep trying and you'll get better eventually.
Comments like this always make me as-close-to-angry-as-I-get.
When people who are good at things assume that anyone can be good at a thing.
Because of this.

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Other Games / Re: Ultima Ratio Regum - roguelike/exploration/Borges, v0.3 released!
« on: December 02, 2013, 05:15:44 pm »
Quote from: Edmus on December 02, 2013, 05:02:13 pm
I find it sadly amusing that my English class focuses so much on analysing texts, that we have no idea how to use simple punctuation. <<Case in point, I don't even know what I've done wrong there.
It's just that one comma that you got wrong. The comma in your second sentence is correct.

I come from the fiction side of writing where it doesn't really matter if you're entirely correct in your comma usage in certain applications. It's an established convention to use commas as a single breathing pause in dialogue. It bleeds over into my own post writing where I subconsciously insert a comma at the natural breath point unless I stop myself.

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Creative Projects / Re: NaNoWriMo 2013- It Begins!
« on: December 01, 2013, 10:15:41 am »
Quote from: Darkmere on December 01, 2013, 04:40:41 am
Actually since the seed of my novel came from these forums I should probably repost one of the drafts here, once it's done. Unfortunately now that deadline's over I'm pretty irked at what I've done and it needs a lot of edits...like, lots...
The time for edits is a week or two after you've finished the first draft, even if there are book breaking problems. Make a couple of notes to yourself about what you want to fix (or a few pages of notes) and move on as if you made those. Having a complete first draft will give you the perspective you need to make major edits that having half a completed manuscript never will, and it will make your editing job a little easier.

--

Started PeFNFiNaNoNoWriMo at midnight, and got 1,182 words before I had to go to bed. So I've got a lead right now. Unfortunately, there is the slight problem that I am working six days this week, something I didn't know about when I decided to kill myself to do this. Work killed NaNo for me, will work kill PeFNNaNo???'

--

Edit: Forgot to say this before: Congratulations to the victors! It was no easy task, and you pulled it off.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Fuck Shui Edition
« on: November 30, 2013, 10:22:51 am »
Quote from: Helgoland on November 30, 2013, 10:16:01 am
-snip-
If I were you, I would seriously consider redacting that kind of language out of the post.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: November 29, 2013, 12:49:52 pm »
Quote from: Graknorke on November 29, 2013, 12:47:05 pm
I have been feeling nauseous every morning for the past couple of weeks. After I've eaten lunch I'm generally fine, but before that it's awful.
I actually used to have this problem too. I went to the doctor about it, and never got any conclusive answers. It went away after a couple of months.

The only thing that really helped was eating saltine crackers when I got up, IIRC.

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Creative Projects / Re: NaNoWriMo 2013- It Begins!
« on: November 28, 2013, 11:12:58 pm »
Yes, it is two days until PeFNFiNaNoNoWriMo begins for me.

(Penance For Not Finishing NaNoWriMo Novel Writing Month)

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Creative Projects / Re: NaNoWriMo 2013- It Begins!
« on: November 21, 2013, 03:27:38 am »
Quote from: Sappho on November 21, 2013, 03:20:08 am
I'm not officially diagnosed with bipolar disorder but I've suspected for years that I have it.
Real talk from someone with undiagnosed-but-very-likely-anxiety-issues, get your mentals evaluated by the pros as soon as reasonable. These are the sorts of things you want to know positively, especially when help is available. I'm definitely going to be taking my own advice on this.

At some point.

Okay, this isn't a very good advice session, imma go to bed.

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Creative Projects / Re: NaNoWriMo 2013- It Begins!
« on: November 21, 2013, 02:44:20 am »
I have some good news, and some bad news.

The bad news is that I'm not going to hit 50,000 words in November.

The good news is that I'm going to hit 120,000 at some point. I'm hoping February. Actually, I'm hoping January, but that seems a little optimistic unless things change. Mostly: I've had a rough week when it comes to writing, and to make up for it would require more time and energy than the presumption of this being a running thing allows for. But I am still in love with what this book is supposed to be, and it's still the best thing I've ever written. I can't keep working until I'm burned out, and then writing until I'm burned out on my days off. This is a perfect recipe for throwing the book away after the month is over.

Still going to use November as a motivation tool for reaching toward 50,000, just being realistic in the fact that I am not actually going to hit it. I'm thinking 40,000-45,000 right now.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: November 20, 2013, 06:47:30 pm »
I've been seeing the word used in other contexts on this board to refer to other children as well, and it's bothered me. I'm trying to see if I can buck this problematic trend.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: November 20, 2013, 05:48:22 pm »
Quote from: GiglameshDespair on November 20, 2013, 05:30:49 pm
Quote from: Lord Shonus on November 20, 2013, 04:12:03 pm
So, my dumbass sister's pregnant again. I'M raising her first kid, since she lost the job I got her because she was too lazy to go. But she still has custody, because I couldn't really afford the legal costs of obtaining custody if her first baby daddy tried to contest it. To make matters worse, she'stalking about spending Thanksgiving in Florida, where she has been hinting heavily about planning to move to. If she goes down there, she probably won't come back, which would make obtaining custody virtually impossible.

Couldn't you point out the fact you're raising the spawn instead of her and try to get custody before she moves? I don't know anything about how that sort of thing works, but surely you being the one raising it has to count for something.
Could you please not use such a derogatory word for children? I realize you might be child-free and used to deriding people for their reproductive choices (or possibly not?), but you're blaming the victim rather than the perpetrator with your use of language even if that were the case. We do try to be at least semi-respectful here, I think.

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Creative Projects / Re: NaNoWriMo 2013- It Begins!
« on: November 14, 2013, 09:24:40 pm »
Quote from: Willfor on November 07, 2013, 08:29:51 pm
Spoiler: OLD (click to show/hide)

"Huh. This is actually pretty good stuff. You've actually found your legs here. I'm not sure how you're going to fit this into less than 130k words, but according to your plans you're actually getting something kind of fascinating going on."

".___."

"What?"

"I'm so tired from working ALL THE TIME, and coming home and I just don't. I just don't. Want to write. At all."

"But you love this thing. Like, I can palpably feel your love for this thing. The first six chapters are irredeemable exposition, but this is still the best fucking thing you've ever written. And I'm the one who's never on your side! Come on! I know you love it, I am you, I can literally feel the love within you for this story!"

"ugggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"

And so I plow forward. 1,200 words so far today. I really need to double that tonight, and pull another 3,000 words out of my ass tomorrow. I need a buffer because my work schedule is going to pound me in the face.

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Creative Projects / Re: NaNoWriMo 2013- It Begins!
« on: November 11, 2013, 10:59:20 pm »
Dear self, don't put yourself in a position where you have to do this again. It hurts.

Spoiler: But it works (click to show/hide)

:|

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Creative Projects / Re: NaNoWriMo 2013- It Begins!
« on: November 11, 2013, 04:18:05 pm »
Some things got better, some things got worse. I've got my motivation back, I think. Though I just hit a chapter break, which always tends to break my flow a little. I'll recover. Unfortunately, every time I get into a good pace writing, my shoulder starts acting up, and preventing me from writing for a minute. It's enough to break me from 1200 words an hour to 800 words an hour.

:(

I think it's coffee time.

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Creative Projects / Re: NaNoWriMo 2013- It Begins!
« on: November 11, 2013, 02:16:31 pm »
I've had a very rough couple of days. Today, I started out very well though, and it was looking like I was going to recover what I'd lost time on. But then after about an hour of solid, good work, I looked at my word count, and it was still so far away from what it needs to be that I've taken a solid hit to my motivation.

That, combined with the fact that it physically hurts to write right now due to my everything being sore from work -- especially my arms and shoulders -- is making it very hard to focus on writing right now.

The only thing I've got going for me right now is the fact that I am in a very easy to write part of the book.

Ugh.

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Creative Projects / Re: NaNoWriMo 2013- It Begins!
« on: November 08, 2013, 10:59:06 pm »
Over the past few years, publishing companies have started shifting their submissions to agents. Basically, agents have taken on the job of reading through the slush piles that publishers used to, and then they work with the writer to get it closer to something worth sending in. Then the agent uses their contacts to get the right editors to read it and start bidding on it -- hopefully getting them into a bidding war to get you a better negotiation position for an advance. But possibly not. Then if all goes very well, you'll be picked up by an editor who will go over your manuscript with you again to refine it to a state in which it is publishable.

Unsolicited submissions have become a very hard way to get picked up. Though, getting an agent is not a whole lot easier. On the plus side, their entire job is to make sure that you don't get completely screwed over. So. Kind of worth it, really.

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