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nicksgal:
The little birthday bar at the bottom says that it's also happy birthday to our fearless leader! Happy birthday, Ash! Thanks for putting up with us all these years and keeping our musings safe. :)
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: nicksgal on February 20, 2021, 04:40:36 PM ---How's everyone's writing going this weekend? I sat down to write around 10ish and wrote pretty solidly until 2pm when I realized I hadn't showered or eaten yet today, oops.
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LOL I "wrote" for about the same hours. I put that in quotations because although I did start Chapter 5 and spent four hours staring at my computer, I only wrote 309 words. But hey, it's something, and now that the chapter is started, hopefully I'll add more to it later. I got distracted.
--- Quote from: nicksgal on February 20, 2021, 04:40:36 PM ---It's also only February and I completed my new year's writing goal of attempting to write a sex scene, but I think I hate it and I'm pretty sure I can tell the story as planned without physically including it in the narrative. I'd say I spent a good chunk of my time laughing and googling synonyms when I hated what was visually on the page. There's only one part I think would be funny to keep and it's more for the "funny demon biology" than anything substantial. Ugh, I don't know. I have a long time to decide what to do with it, I suppose. Oh, Julie, that article you resurfaced when we discussed this late last week (or early this week) was right: "cock" is just more appealing than "dick." I think it's all the /c/ sounds.
I did also write an intentionally funny scene where Nick is horrible at pretending clouds are shaped like things, so that was fun.
What's my next writing goal and/or challenge for this year? Other than to write something that's not PBox related?
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Hey, way to go accomplishing your goal! Even if you don't end up including your sex scene, at least you can say you wrote one. I'm sure it's not as bad as you think though. Spending a good chunk of it giggling and googling synonyms sounds exactly like me with the few sex scenes I've written LOL. I still haven't figured out my favorite synonym for penis, at least from a fiction-writing perspective. I think I prefer "dick" to "cock," but I've mostly managed to avoid using any of them unless it's in dialogue.
Hm, goals for you... Definitely write that death-by-snail story! And the guardian angel story.
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: nicksgal on February 20, 2021, 05:05:48 PM ---I say that you're allowed to recycle your own plots! I think you're subconsciously trying to improve on them without outright rewriting something that's over and done with. You just want to present the best body of work that you can. ;D
An even better reason to get your malady spreadsheet going. If the malady is in something pre-2003, then it's fair game to inflict on the same Boy again!
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That's my thought too. It's a fresh take on ideas that I liked without feeling like I'm just rewriting something old. They were all pre-2003, so I guess they were fair game!
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: nicksgal on February 20, 2021, 05:18:50 PM ---The little birthday bar at the bottom says that it's also happy birthday to our fearless leader! Happy birthday, Ash! Thanks for putting up with us all these years and keeping our musings safe. :)
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Happy birthday, Ash! February 20 is a great day to have a birthday!
nicksgal:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on February 20, 2021, 05:34:22 PM ---LOL I "wrote" for about the same hours. I put that in quotations because although I did start Chapter 5 and spent four hours staring at my computer, I only wrote 309 words. But hey, it's something, and now that the chapter is started, hopefully I'll add more to it later. I got distracted.
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You're on chapter five already! Way to go! There's always time to write, especially if you feel like you probably wouldn't post it until summer anyway.
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on February 20, 2021, 05:34:22 PM ---Hey, way to go accomplishing your goal! Even if you don't end up including your sex scene, at least you can say you wrote one. I'm sure it's not as bad as you think though. Spending a good chunk of it giggling and googling synonyms sounds exactly like me with the few sex scenes I've written LOL. I still haven't figured out my favorite synonym for penis, at least from a fiction-writing perspective. I think I prefer "dick" to "cock," but I've mostly managed to avoid using any of them unless it's in dialogue.
Hm, goals for you... Definitely write that death-by-snail story! And the guardian angel story.
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Now there's nothing left for me to try and hate it after I try it, haha. I've tried everything at least once... unless there's something I'm not thinking of. I'll take your word for it, but I think I'm firmly back in my fade to black camp. I spent most of the time thinking "Do people actually want to read this? I know Tracy said she doesn't care for them and she's the only person I know that's reading." and laughing and googling. It wasn't even racy synonyms, it was mostly verbs and adjectives, haha. As long as they're not impaling anyone, I say everyone use whatever synonym you like.
Death by snail is on my immediate list after this little chunk of chapters. Possibly after the next one, depending on if it smooths into the next interesting bit I have or not. Guardian angel... there's more research to be done.
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