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Posts 505 - 516 of 6,170
Posts 505 - 516 of 6,170
I had trillian for a while, but then one day it stopped loading right. I've reinstalled and reinstalled, but it keeps performing an illegal operation(perhaps statutory rape).
I got trillian again, and it seems to be working... My name is STRMKirby in pretty much all messengers.
By the way, now that I have trillian, I resurrected my old, much better AIM name, STRMKirby. So I have two AIM accounts: llilliill and STRMKirby.
Well, now I'm gonna scare ya. I think I've finally decided what I wanna do with my life, or at least part of it.
I think it'd be really fun to have ppl send me manuscripts to critique. I could get another email address from my ex and be able to have em send me stories of any length, and insert my comments on em in another color and stuff. I could also have em mail me *gasp* actual hardcopy too, but I think I'd prefer doing it on the comp cuz then I could sit here doing some of the same stuff I'm used to doing, and besides then the comp and internet and such would be deductible.
Of course I'd hafta get a PO box and figure out how to deal with taxes and all that crap, but that's a small price to pay for doing something I wanna do that'd also make me money. I mean, there's not very many independent critiquing services, and the cheapest one we found charges $2.50 a page. Take a 300 page novel and that's $750 just for reading and giving someone a piece of my mind, 2 of the things I like doing the best.
Of course there's still a lotta stuff to work out, but I just thought you'd enjoy the shock of me finally deciding not to be a bum.
I think it'd be really fun to have ppl send me manuscripts to critique. I could get another email address from my ex and be able to have em send me stories of any length, and insert my comments on em in another color and stuff. I could also have em mail me *gasp* actual hardcopy too, but I think I'd prefer doing it on the comp cuz then I could sit here doing some of the same stuff I'm used to doing, and besides then the comp and internet and such would be deductible.
Of course I'd hafta get a PO box and figure out how to deal with taxes and all that crap, but that's a small price to pay for doing something I wanna do that'd also make me money. I mean, there's not very many independent critiquing services, and the cheapest one we found charges $2.50 a page. Take a 300 page novel and that's $750 just for reading and giving someone a piece of my mind, 2 of the things I like doing the best. Of course there's still a lotta stuff to work out, but I just thought you'd enjoy the shock of me finally deciding not to be a bum.
I analyze what is good and what isn't good in many things, so I'd make a pretty good critic for a variety of things, but I don't want to. I'd rather be a writer or a comedian.
Being a comedian would be easy. Just get my family up on a stage somewhere, give us some coffee, and just let us jabber.
That sounds like an excellent profession, Onyx. Hell of a lot better than waiting tables, and makes a better use of my English degree.
If you find an overabundance of budding novelists with $750 burning a hole in their pocket, send a few over to me.
If you find an overabundance of budding novelists with $750 burning a hole in their pocket, send a few over to me.
Speaking of novels.....I can't decide whether hanging around here is helping or hindering my writing! <g>
Every time I start writing some dialogue, I hear bots talking to each other. Then I walk around downtown and hear people talking, and they all sound like bots too. They're everywhere! AAAAAAAAAA!
Every time I start writing some dialogue, I hear bots talking to each other. Then I walk around downtown and hear people talking, and they all sound like bots too. They're everywhere! AAAAAAAAAA!
didn't you know that onxy of borg has a conspiracy goin on. They plan to take over the planet. prepare to be assimilated.
I'm not even writing science fiction! But I have slipped a little bot stuff in anyway. Mostly jabs at Alice and Eliza....
I always preferred fantasy to sf anyway. Except regardless of what I decide to write, it involves research. Even fantasy I'd hafta find out stuff about taking care of horses, what various rarely-mentioned parts of armor are called, and the biggie, how the hell long it takes to get from point x to point y walking, on a horse, in a boat, etc. I suppose I could convert D&D stuff, but that seems a bit like robbing Peter to pay Paul and probably isn't particularly accurate anyway. I keep getting snippets of ideas for modern day stories, but considering I do nothing except sit on my ass that'd require yet more research. I've never been out of town on my own, I have no idea what it's like in London or Vegas or Timbuktu (not that I'd hafta use a real town, but it'd give me more to work with), and the only people I know what they act like in real life are cutthroats and retards and benevolent nuts like my family. For some reason I'm obsessed with having a character who uses an old defunct fridge for a bookshelf, and stuff like that, but that doesn't mean I can make a story out of it. That's my main problem...nothing I can think of would really be worth writing a story about.
Just outta curiosity, for those of you who write, how do you prefer to do it anyway? Outline to death, just start writing and see where it goes, or somewhere in between? I tend to write best when I just start writing, not necessarily with any idea of what my first sentence is even gonna be, and take it from there. I like creating moreso than writing down crap that's been in my head for ages.
All of this is a large part of the reason I've decided to read other ppl's crap instead of writing my own.
I keep getting snippets of ideas for modern day stories, but considering I do nothing except sit on my ass that'd require yet more research. I've never been out of town on my own, I have no idea what it's like in London or Vegas or Timbuktu (not that I'd hafta use a real town, but it'd give me more to work with), and the only people I know what they act like in real life are cutthroats and retards and benevolent nuts like my family. For some reason I'm obsessed with having a character who uses an old defunct fridge for a bookshelf, and stuff like that, but that doesn't mean I can make a story out of it. That's my main problem...nothing I can think of would really be worth writing a story about.Just outta curiosity, for those of you who write, how do you prefer to do it anyway? Outline to death, just start writing and see where it goes, or somewhere in between? I tend to write best when I just start writing, not necessarily with any idea of what my first sentence is even gonna be, and take it from there. I like creating moreso than writing down crap that's been in my head for ages.
All of this is a large part of the reason I've decided to read other ppl's crap instead of writing my own.
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