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Started by Rosella, July 15, 2010, 02:53:57 AM

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GrahamRocks!

 :stabs: -Editing the latest chapter of KQ5, just when I thought it was done. Pacing: My worst enemy!

Delling

pre-emptively :stabs: GRC meeting... Just so it knows what's what!! >:( ::) :P

Quote from: writerlove on June 06, 2012, 02:58:16 PM
:stabs: Writers block
:stabs: How incredibly stupid this article sounds. It always sounds so much better in my head.
Writers often feel that their own writing sounds terrible. ;) It's probably fine. You can't always self-read for the subjective stuff, but you should be able to be certain that it conforms to standard grammar (or at least to the registers you intend to use if you are using a mixture). :P
Noli me tangere! Nescio ubi fuisti!
Don't touch me! I don't know where you've been!

Marquess of Pembroke
Duke of Saxony in Her Majesty's Court
Knight of the Swan for Her Imperial Highness

...resistance was obviously useless against a family that could invent italics.

"Let the locative live."

http://my.ddo.com/referral/Delling87

Haids1987

Quote from: GrahamRocks! on June 06, 2012, 04:28:46 PM
:stabs: -Editing the latest chapter of KQ5, just when I thought it was done.
The last chapter of KQ5? For a wiki or something?
STATUS:
-Drinking water
-Checking the forum. 

Perpetually. ;D
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Deloria

I think he means his fanfic. :)
 
Holy Roman Empress
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Précieuse and salonnière! :D
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GrahamRocks!

Yes, the latest chapter which is chapter 4. I THOUGHT I was done, until I posted it in a message to Delling, who told me I need to work on my pacing on the fight in the desert... and for the past couple of days, I've been trying to edit it somehow so it flows better. And, I still feel stuck. I want to move onto the Gypsy scenes badly, but I also need to work on this. *exasperated sigh* :stab:

Oh, and for the record, I'm a girl. And yes, Cray has offered to put this (and I think my QFG fanfic too?) on his wiki once it is done.

Deloria

#145
Oh, I'm so sorry. :( That was embarrassing.  :-[

:stabs: Food poisoning. :( We went to a lovely place for lunch; it had a turret and a bell tower and cameos on the walls and a baroque garden and was terribly expensive, but we were celebrating my paper and presentation. Dessert was white and milk chocolate mousse. :P
 
Holy Roman Empress
Queen of *all* Albion
Précieuse and salonnière! :D
"In cases of doubt about language, it is ordinarily best to consult women."-Vaugelas
Space! :D Extraterrestrium! :D Espace! :D

GrahamRocks!

It's alright, Deloria! :)

*sigh* maybe I should just post the chapter anyway and move on?

Rosella

Don't feel like you need to write everything sequentially. If you want to write the part with the gypsies, write the part with the gypsies. You'll be happier and more productive and after that's done, you can go back and work on more revising. Write whatever you feel inspired to write and don't get stressed if it's not perfect the first time through. It shouldn't be. :)
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GrahamRocks!

I guess I can save it for a second draft? *is slightly hopeful*

crayauchtin

I almost never write anything in sequence. The plus side is it helps curb writers block.... although I tend to write in scenes and chunks and then at the end I go "Oh... wait.... there's nothing between when they're here and then later when I wrote this clever line...." :P

And the great thing about the Internet is everything is editable!
"If your translation is correct, that was 'May a sleepy hippopotamus lie down on your house keys,' but you're not sure. Unfortunately, your fluency in griffin-speak is too low."

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KatieHal

With my latest personal writing endeavor, a novel I'm working on, I've made great efforts to go in order, straight from start to finish, because that's something that's been quite hard for me, actually finishing! I'm great at getting a few chapters in, setting things up, but when the task of getting into the plot comes along is where I often falter.

It's taken a while, and without having semi-regular deadlines of submitting work to my writing group, I wouldn't have been able to make it, but I'm actually getting close to the end! Of course, I've changed dozens of details and will need to go back and rewrite and adjust the whole damn thing plenty once I am done, but I'm glad I'm finally reaching the 'endgame' section.

Keep pushing, GrahamRocks, you can do it!

Katie Hallahan
~Designer, PR Director~

"Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix." Christina Baldwin

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Delling

Quote from: KatieHal on June 08, 2012, 06:55:51 AM
With my latest personal writing endeavor, a novel I'm working on, I've made great efforts to go in order, straight from start to finish, because that's something that's been quite hard for me, actually finishing! I'm great at getting a few chapters in, setting things up, but when the task of getting into the plot comes along is where I often falter.

I find approaching the plot as a logistic problem/project (like organizing an event) is helpful for this, but then getting the actual story written that interconnects those points is often still very difficult for me. :-X So, using lots of organizational tools like timelines, etc.,

Another problem is that actual works often DO have breaks in time where several months or years pass with only a note that this has happened at the start of a paragraph or so (IF WE'RE LUCKY!!), and I find that really difficult to do... I find it really jarring. When I enter "story-writing" mode, I want to write EVERYTHING. ::)
Noli me tangere! Nescio ubi fuisti!
Don't touch me! I don't know where you've been!

Marquess of Pembroke
Duke of Saxony in Her Majesty's Court
Knight of the Swan for Her Imperial Highness

...resistance was obviously useless against a family that could invent italics.

"Let the locative live."

http://my.ddo.com/referral/Delling87

Haids1987

:stabs: Tummies. They suck. Right Cray? >:(
STATUS:
-Drinking water
-Checking the forum. 

Perpetually. ;D
Erica Reed is Katie Hallahan.
Leader of the "I <3 Doon" Fanclub

Deloria

Do what I do: Eat at most once every other day. :P It's how I avoid oxycontin's adverse GI effects. :P It's much more pleasant when people think you're anorexic than when they think you're bulimic. :P

:stabs: My life.
:stabs: Getting high for the second time today because I'm having contractions and contractions really, really suck. :'(
:stabs: Not being able to eat.
 
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Queen of *all* Albion
Précieuse and salonnière! :D
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writerlove

Quote from: Delling on June 07, 2012, 04:17:03 AM
pre-emptively :stabs: GRC meeting... Just so it knows what's what!! >:( ::) :P

Quote from: writerlove on June 06, 2012, 02:58:16 PM
:stabs: Writers block
:stabs: How incredibly stupid this article sounds. It always sounds so much better in my head.
Writers often feel that their own writing sounds terrible. ;) It's probably fine. You can't always self-read for the subjective stuff, but you should be able to be certain that it conforms to standard grammar (or at least to the registers you intend to use if you are using a mixture). :P

That you are right :) Luckily I'm not the only editor on the Four Winds so one of the other ones helped me out tremendously. Still not 100 percent happy but it sounds okay.
"Love can't be banished, even from this place. ... still less can it be banished from my heart."
"ENOUGH! Burden me not with thy poetry."-KQ6

crayauchtin

Quote from: Haids1987 on June 08, 2012, 09:06:22 AM
:stabs: Tummies. They suck. Right Cray? >:(
Tummies and intestines. The worst. You don't even know :( I'm having a really painful day today. Probably sat upright too much when I was downstairs on the couch yesterday.

Probably not helped by the argument I'm having with my guild leader in WoW....
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And the fact I'm running out of money for my bills and I haven't heard anything about my TDI since I applied for it.
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And most of my friends are up in Boston for Boston Pride this weekend. Without me. :(
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And I'm bored out of my mind.

Oh, and two more things...
:stabs: people who say "I feel your pain" -- particularly if they're talking about very ordinary menstrual cramps. No. You don't.
:stabs: people who say "I thought you were in remission. I didn't know it could come back." Uhm, that's why it's called "remission" and not "cured".
"If your translation is correct, that was 'May a sleepy hippopotamus lie down on your house keys,' but you're not sure. Unfortunately, your fluency in griffin-speak is too low."

We're roleplaying in the King's Quest world: come join in the fun!

GrahamRocks!

:hug: 'Sir Cray' * as I call you now.

crayauchtin

Quote from: GrahamRocks! on June 08, 2012, 11:59:55 AM
:hug: 'Sir Cray' * as I call you now.
Inappropriately in the wrong thread!  :stabs: :P
No, I'm kidding, thanks. :)
"If your translation is correct, that was 'May a sleepy hippopotamus lie down on your house keys,' but you're not sure. Unfortunately, your fluency in griffin-speak is too low."

We're roleplaying in the King's Quest world: come join in the fun!

Deloria

Quote from: crayauchtin on June 08, 2012, 11:54:38 AM
Oh, and two more things...
:stabs: people who say "I feel your pain" -- particularly if they're talking about very ordinary menstrual cramps. No. You don't.
THIS!!!! Normal people do not habitually very nearly bleed to death because they don't ovulate normally and therefore can't stop the process. They do also not lie awake at night or wake up screaming because they're having contractions that never seem to end. They do not have their cycle suppressed because they would otherwise bleed to death or be hospitalised for pain management. They do not have monstrously large uterine blood clots that they have to give birth to. And they don't take narcotics every single day because they would otherwise be incapable of functioning because the pain is just too bad. People who have "bad periods" have NO IDEA what I go through every day and that have nothing to do with how my cycle is.
 
Holy Roman Empress
Queen of *all* Albion
Précieuse and salonnière! :D
"In cases of doubt about language, it is ordinarily best to consult women."-Vaugelas
Space! :D Extraterrestrium! :D Espace! :D

GrahamRocks!

#159
 :stabs: Sir Cray's and Haids' tummies

:stabs:  :stabs: :stabs: :stabs: :stabs: Deloria's daddy and her pain in general

And for me? Three words: :stabs: The. :stabs: Triple. :stabs: Crown. :stabs: