I will actually probably pick Curtain Call. But that brings up another question: How do you pick your favorite of your own stories? Is it the one you consider to be your best work? Or the one you have the deepest connection to or strongest feelings about? Broken was my best work at the time I wrote it, but it's not anymore. It will always have a special place in my heart though.
Deepest connection to/strongest feelings about for sure! The juggernaut that is PBox just also happens to be that and my best work simultaneously, especially as time goes on and I won't leave it alone, lol. Me projecting my opinion on everyone else before hearing otherwise is probably why I figured you would pick Broken, haha. I will work harder to stop doing this.
That being said, that's probably also the reason I keep saying I think I'll try to go back and finish Gobosei, because of the connection and feelings. In my mind, writing is about love, not work. Once it feels like work, it's time to take a break. As long as it always feels like love, then keep on keepin' on.
He has a very cute laugh! Did you see the video he shared of him reacting to old videos of himself? https://youtu.be/6QawjXmEeRU So cute!!!
I don't think I have! But I'm loving this premise and will watch it when we're not knee deep in Iron Chef, haha.
It was a nice touch to remind us that they are demons and not human, thus their sense of smell is magnified.
Aw thanks.
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It was also fun thinking of Nick's horrified reaction that it was so pungent, since he's a reactor and all, haha. And then it evolved into a cute Nick & Kevin thing later on in the scene where Kevin said he'd teach him if he was interested, but they'd start with something that had fewer ingredients.
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There's moments with those little touches, but there's also moments where I got too busy telling the story that I forgot to mention dumb things like "how can they change clothing quickly if they have wings," which I knew, but never explicitly said. So in the rewrite, I was like, I should probably specifically mention this when it comes up.
In fairness, summaries are hard! I also try to keep mine intentionally vague, but interesting enough to click on. The difference between us and the "Sorry, I suck at summaries!" writers is that we put forth the effort to agonize over them and come up with something instead of writing that cop out. But yeah, at least they're self-aware LOL. Mine would also be "I suck at brevity" LOL.
I feel like everyone who posts here puts forth the effort to agonize and agonize over lots of things before we post: summaries, titles, whatever.
What's worse, self awareness/laziness or just not noticing? As I'm typing this, I realize that it's probably the people who just start posting the first chapter in the summary box.
There are definitely some of us who do more revising before posting, but that doesn't seem to be the norm. Then again, I could just be underestimatin g most of the writers who aren't on here talking about writing all the time with us because I don't know what their process is like. I didn't used to do much revising beyond basic proofreading before posting. It's only in the last few years since I started hoarding chapters that I started revising more.
Or overestimating the amount of time we all spend agonizing over everything.
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Just kidding! The limit does not exist! But you're right, it's probably better not to assume anything about other writers unless they specifically say so themselves (which I will do better about, as I mentioned at the beginning). I also didn't do much revising until I got to that point of wanting to edit the early parts of PBox 2.5 years in, but pre-completion.
We should have listened to Mare all those years. She was so wise. Being able to go back and fix things before it's out is the best thing that's ever happened to me. That and being less worried that you'll all catch up to me when I know that six month writer's blocks have been a legitimate reality for me in the past.
Mine had the same type of monitor, but it still had USB ports. No floppy drive though. It's about ten years old. That is why I prefer desktops to laptops for file storage, though, because they last a lot longer. I've never had a laptop make it more than a few years without having some kind of catastrophic hard drive failure, which is why I'm team Chromebook and Google Drive now. But it's nice to also have a real computer that I can install programs and store files on.
It was the computer I had in 2000! Ancient! I didn't do much internet things on it, since we never really had internet at my house, so I feel like it would probably still work if I could get it to turn on, at least to get files off of. The graphics were definitely going purple/green when I switched over to my laptop, though.
I think most of my laptops have made it about four years? Google drive was the best thing that could have happened to me. I like having the desk space to use without a computer if needed. When we eventually move, if I'm able to have my own office space, I think I might get more desk space to have a desktop computer, or at least have a computer up and space to use the desk without a computer.