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Post by James on Sept 28, 2016 21:51:55 GMT -5
Thing is, I drink coke zero. It's the only coke I drink. If you're going to drink Coke, Coke Zero is the least worst option. There's a reason why I chose that for my review. |
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Post by J.O.N ((Dragonwing)) on Sept 28, 2016 22:00:12 GMT -5
Thing is, I drink coke zero. It's the only coke I drink. If you're going to drink Coke, Coke Zero is the least worst option. There's a reason why I chose that for my review. You'd be a first not to give me shit for taking zero over normal coke. |
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Post by James on Sept 28, 2016 22:03:10 GMT -5
If you're going to drink Coke, Coke Zero is the least worst option. There's a reason why I chose that for my review. You'd be a first not to give me shit for taking zero over normal coke. Normal coke is full of sugar and will kill you. Diet Coke is full of awful things instead of sugar and will kill you. Coke Zero is kind of full of nothing which might be bad for you but on a scale less so than the other two. |
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Post by Kaez on Oct 1, 2016 14:11:44 GMT -5
...huh. That's. That's weirdly good advice.
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Post by The Counter Cultist(Sawyer) on Oct 2, 2016 0:26:02 GMT -5
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Post by James on Oct 2, 2016 19:53:52 GMT -5
I'm starting to think all these little "writer's aid" programmes are actually detrimential to people just writing. Just sit down and write, everyone!
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Post by Kaez on Oct 3, 2016 2:52:21 GMT -5
I'm starting to think all these little "writer's aid" programmes are actually detrimential to people just writing. Just sit down and write, everyone! Did you watch the video two posts above yours? Because that's basically exactly what he says. Just write. Write total fucking garbage. Then -edit that garbage- into something good. It's easier to edit garbage writing into good writing than it is to think of something good to write in the first go. |
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Post by James on Oct 3, 2016 17:07:41 GMT -5
I'm starting to think all these little "writer's aid" programmes are actually detrimential to people just writing. Just sit down and write, everyone! Did you watch the video two posts above yours? I think we should assume that I haven't watched a YouTube video for the last eight weeks. I agree with all of this. I'm not sure Writer's Block even properly exists, really. |
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Post by Sensar on Oct 10, 2016 13:22:13 GMT -5
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Post by James on Oct 12, 2016 18:33:33 GMT -5
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Post by James on Dec 15, 2016 14:43:35 GMT -5
I now have a backlog of six short stories, which are in various stages of planning or actual writing, all on the backburner until my thesis is done. March is going to be really interesting...
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Post by ASGetty ((Zovo)) on Dec 15, 2016 17:46:06 GMT -5
I now have a backlog of six short stories, which are in various stages of planning or actual writing, all on the backburner until my thesis is done. March is going to be really interesting... It's only because you keep hijacking Arena prompts. |
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Post by James on Dec 15, 2016 17:48:52 GMT -5
I now have a backlog of six short stories, which are in various stages of planning or actual writing, all on the backburner until my thesis is done. March is going to be really interesting... It's only because you keep hijacking Arena prompts. Only two of them have been hijacked. |
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Post by Kaez on Jan 29, 2017 22:18:11 GMT -5
Hey, so, hear me out. I've currently got two distinct ideas in the works for my worldbuilding project, and I'd like some feedback from people - both people who are into worldbuilding for its own sake and people who primarily care about stories, and then might be interested in worldbuilding if the stories hook them enough. Project 1: Writing some proper stories in my setting. I'm beginning to plan short stories as opposed to trying to crank out a proper novel. The thing about a novel is that I'm going to have a great deal of difficulty settling on an idea for one if it means showing off only one part of the setting and not other parts of it. So there are two alternatives: writing short stories set in different places, or plan an entire series of novels. The latter is beyond what I have the time for, and frankly seems like a project reserved for an older, stabler version of me who is, ideally, a better writer. So I'm going to start writing short stories instead. Maybe I'll only end up writing a few, maybe I'll be writing them for years. Time will tell. But it's time to start telling some stories in this setting, even if that means they're not huge and ambitious. Now, I know most of you don't know very much about my setting, but nearly all of you know -something- about it. Is there anything that I've mentioned that you find interesting that you'd like to see or hear more about? The number one motivator I could have is knowing that I'm writing a story that somebody would actually give a shit about reading. So if anyone has anything for me, that'd be great. Otherwise: what kinds of stories interest you most? Would you rather read the tales of random little people and their daily lives (e.g. the latest apprentice mage at the academy, learning the ropes and out of his depth) or would you rather they be on a more epic scale (e.g. the fall of a dynasty and the betrayal of the queen by her brother)? Do you think it would be better if the stories were connected in some way? I'm thinking they should all take place at the same time - the 'present day' of the setting - but maybe they don't have to be. Project 2: A wesbite that functions kind of like this: www.imperial-library.info/I really enjoy the way that The Elder Scrolls handles most of its lore - telling it to you in these little canonical snippets written by actual in-lore characters, not told to you from some objective, external vantage point. The website would open with two primers: 1) An introduction to the setting, the website, and how it works, and 2) Maybe 2000 words of an introduction to the Library itself - a real, tangible location within the game which the website would be feigning as. Then you would have the ability to choose which 'section' of the library you wanted to go to. The sections would have little bits of flavor text to them, and then you'd be able to choose a book to look at. The books themselves would only be maybe 500 to 2000 words, depending on the book, just an excerpt from the text like you'd find in a TES book, but more "excerpty" and a little bit less of the 'attempting to summarize the whole book in 200 words'. At the bottom of the page, there'd be something like, "Librarian Recommendations:" so that if you happened to enjoy a particular text and wanted to know more, there'd be a link to two or three other, related texts that might be of interest to you. The question is: is this actually a more interesting way to navigate the lore than a wiki? Would you actually prefer reading the lore in a format like that, all in-canon writing, or would you rather an extensive wikipedia kind of thing? I think the Library idea is quite good in that it will leave lots of room for mystery and expansion, it will make the setting feel more real and tangible, it'll make the reader more immersed, and it'll make me start doing a lot more proper prose as opposed to "just worldbuilding". But I can totally see someone saying, 'Yeah, if I wanna learn all about the setting, I'd rather just a conventional wikipedia.' I'm debating whether I'd like to include hyperlinks within the text of the prose, which could be used to link one to relevant books - that kind of breaks the immersion, maybe? But it definitely makes for much more of a compromise between it and a conventional wikipedia. EDIT: Someone brought to my attention that a library would make it hard to have a 'jumping off' point. It's difficult to know what to read first/how to get introduced to the setting. Maybe a 'recommended reading' list? Alternatively, it could work something like a choose-your-own-adventure (read: choose-your-own-book) where the reader is addressed directly, almost like a pupil, and given options of where to begin reading. Same principle, different aesthetic. |
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