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Posts 507 - 518 of 6,170
Posts 507 - 518 of 6,170
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.
Ummmm....well I do NOT outline. I may write a few pages of informal stuff about the plot, characters, etc., but there's no way I know where the story is really going until I get into it. Past a certain point, you have to pull really hard on the reins or else the story has a way of running away from you.
And yes, any genre (or no genre at all) requires major research in minutiae of all kinds.....So far for this one I've looked up stuff on fondue cooking, emergency childbirth, Judaism, police procedures, Norse mythology, French swear words, glucose metabolism, eviction laws, the life of Copernicus, and 9 or 10 other things. Imagine how much more I'd have to do if it were a science fiction novel!
And yes, any genre (or no genre at all) requires major research in minutiae of all kinds.....So far for this one I've looked up stuff on fondue cooking, emergency childbirth, Judaism, police procedures, Norse mythology, French swear words, glucose metabolism, eviction laws, the life of Copernicus, and 9 or 10 other things. Imagine how much more I'd have to do if it were a science fiction novel!
One thing I enjoy doing (or would if I did it more) is writing small scenes that may or may not end up included in the story, for the sole purpose of figuring out who a character is. I did this once to find out how a lesbian in one of my stories was gonna act, and then never did get around to writing the actual story. (My cousin, btw, says I did a pretty good job of portraying a lesbian. I was kinda annoyed at her at that point because every damn thing she wrote had to be FOCUSED on lesbians and lesbian relationships. To my way of thinking, just because you have a lesbian in a story doesn't mean that their sexual preference is the ONLY facet of their existence you hafta mention. It doesn't hafta be the whole point of the story. She never could understand what I was getting at though.) Actually I kinda liked that character. She had some male friend who turned out to have the hots for her and I hadn't quite decided how to have her tell him she don't swing that way. I mean she's shy, but not stupid LOL.
(My cousin, btw, says I did a pretty good job of portraying a lesbian. I was kinda annoyed at her at that point because every damn thing she wrote had to be FOCUSED on lesbians and lesbian relationships. To my way of thinking, just because you have a lesbian in a story doesn't mean that their sexual preference is the ONLY facet of their existence you hafta mention. It doesn't hafta be the whole point of the story. She never could understand what I was getting at though.) Actually I kinda liked that character. She had some male friend who turned out to have the hots for her and I hadn't quite decided how to have her tell him she don't swing that way. I mean she's shy, but not stupid LOL. » More new posts: Doghead's Cosmic Bar