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Post by theredbaron on Oct 29, 2010 22:04:52 GMT -5
THERE WILL BE AIRSHIP PIRATES AND MACHINE GUN BOTS AND AIR SAILORS AND CHAINSWORDS AND MAGIC AND TECHNOLOGY ON CITIES AND EMPIRES AND WAR AND ACTION AND GENETIC POWERS AND EVIL MEGACORPORATIONS AND GUNS AND 20TH CENTURY RETROFUTURISM AND LOVE AND ROMANCE AND SELF DISCOVERY AND FUN WRITING FOR 30 STRAIGHT DAYS IN LESS THAN THREE DAYS.
OMYSAUCE.
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Post by Matteo ((Taed)) on Oct 30, 2010 0:25:36 GMT -5
You should just write that. One long, really long, 50,000 word sentence listing everything that you would like to write about.
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Post by Kaez on Oct 30, 2010 1:20:19 GMT -5
You should just write that. One long, really long, 50,000 word sentence listing everything that you would like to write about. It'd require about 20,000 word of purely actual subject matter -- the nouns and verbs about which he wants to write. ... that'd be a daunting, daunting task. |
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Post by James on Oct 30, 2010 1:28:35 GMT -5
I hear Billy Joel is keen for it...
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Post by Kaez on Oct 30, 2010 1:47:03 GMT -5
I hear Billy Joel is keen for it... I suspect that to get that reference, I'd have to like Billy Joel quite a bit more than I do. |
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Post by James on Oct 30, 2010 1:49:04 GMT -5
I hear Billy Joel is keen for it... I suspect that to get that reference, I'd have to like Billy Joel quite a bit more than I do. I only know the reference purely due to Ricky Gervais' Politics. |
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Post by Matteo ((Taed)) on Oct 30, 2010 10:25:24 GMT -5
Really? That's a great song. I probably know every word.
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Post by Jenny (Reffy) on Oct 31, 2010 8:29:15 GMT -5
NEARLY THERE! I'm going to fall behind for the first 4 days because of exams, but then it's go time! I'm going to be horribly stressed and time consumed for most of November (especially for the first week) what with the disasterous family life ... but I shall be doing my best to keep up! (Still haven't done the time-line! Whenever I sit down to do something writer-ish Mum finds something new to panic about or there is an argument >.< I cannot even read without her constantly fucking talking! I should have finished, "Making Money" Pratchett, last week but she interrupts EVERYTHING. By the way: TOTALLY recommend "Nation" by Pratchett - to everybody - yes, you! I see you reading this  ) Any who's ... enough of me bitching! HERE'S TO ALL THE AWRIANS GIVING NANO A GO!!! THE MINUTE YOU WRITE A SINGLE WORD YOU ARE A FUCKING WINNER! <3 !!! GOOD LUCK AND SEE YOU AT THE 50K FINISH LINE!One more nights sleep before all hell and insanedom is freed. Say hello to more sleepless nights, lots of coffee and chocolate, and blowing things up in your plot because you hit a brain-jam! Going to write as much as possible on day 1 so I have a buffer. Dunno what your plans are? |
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Post by Matteo ((Taed)) on Oct 31, 2010 9:52:24 GMT -5
HERE'S TO ALL THE AWRIANS GIVING NANO A GO!!! THE MINUTE YOU WRITE A SINGLE WORD YOU ARE A FUCKING WINNER! Ohhh ..... don't say that. I'm already a chronic procrastinator. Someone tell me that if I don't finish I'll contract leprosy and have to duel Darth Vader with a cardboard tube instead of a lightsaber. |
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Post by NotAlice on Oct 31, 2010 11:11:39 GMT -5
*Puts on serious face* Taed, if you don't finish you'll contract leprosy and get blue and purple spots all over and have to duel Darth Vader with a cardboard tube instead of a lightsaber wearing a cat woman costume. ...  *sniggers and loses serious face* You know what, forget the cat costume, you'll have the cat's costume. |
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Post by theredbaron on Oct 31, 2010 15:13:27 GMT -5
So, uh, having a little trouble with my story. There are two sides in the conflict ahead. The Church vs. The Government. In my world, robots are pretty much replacing humans in nearly every menial task imaginable, from cashiers, to waiters. Something akin to the Great Depression is setting in, where no one's buying anything, the stock market's gone to hell, more than 15%, and growing, of the population is unemployed, and the only thing keeping capitalism alive are businessmen creating industries for things that cost nothing to make, the poor's willingness to work for downright stupid amounts of money in gruesome factory jobs, and the fact that some jobs are just handled better by humans (doctors, and chefs, for example). No one disagrees that something ought to be done about this situation, but what to do is where the opinions diverge. And this is where I get stuck. I know the Church's basic tenets are hard-work, self-discipline, and creativity, so their ideal solution to the problem would probably be something like keeping a perverted form of capitalism around, and build a lot more robots, while the Government would probably start the economy from scratch, put most of the population on welfare, and have all of society revolve around a class of citizens devoted to keeping the robots in working order. But that obviously doesn't solve the problem, make sense, or really bring the two sides into conflict, so I need something else. . . more differences. . . better solutions. . .  |
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Post by Jenny (Reffy) on Oct 31, 2010 15:43:13 GMT -5
Ohhh ..... don't say that. I'm already a chronic procrastinator. Someone tell me that if I don't finish I'll contract leprosy and have to duel Darth Vader with a cardboard tube instead of a lightsaber. Oh, please! You'll be fine Just set yourself mini-on-reaching-XYZ-goal-treats :] Or better yet: set yourself harsh-punishments-for-not-reaching-XYZ-goal I'm still pondering about that damned time-line! Luckily some of it can be written out of sequence though. So if I get stuck I can just skip a chapter and come back to it later. I know most of Chapter 1 and 2 since its already been written several times (although it'll be in a different country and time-period this time ... thinking latter end of the medieval period! Woooo! :] ) |
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Post by NotAlice on Oct 31, 2010 16:30:28 GMT -5
Changed. Idea. At. 11:35am. Holy. Fuck. What. Am. I. Doing? What. Have. I. Done!? Eek!
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Post by Jenny (Reffy) on Oct 31, 2010 16:32:54 GMT -5
Changed. Idea. At. 11:35am. Holy. Fuck. What. Am. I. Doing? What. Have. I. Done!? Eek! ALICE!!!! *SQUEEEEEEEEEE!* :] Hehehe. Ridiculously excited here but too tired to stay up for a write-in. What is the new idea? Tell-tell-tell!!!!!1!!! |
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Post by James on Oct 31, 2010 16:40:50 GMT -5
I'm nearly eleven hours in! NO WORDS!
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Want to write a thousand this evening after my exam, blasted afternoon exams.
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