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Writing & Thread (aka The Writing Thread 4)
Rose:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on July 05, 2021, 10:42:41 PM ---Google has a chat feature. That might be a nice replacement for good old Yahoo Messenger, and I know we all use Google already. Dee, what is your gmail?
We had also talked about trying to do a live reading via Google Meet to catch up - might be funny.
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That would be hilarious lol
nicksgal:
--- Quote from: FrickingKaos on July 06, 2021, 12:55:37 AM ---Not a whole lot. I had a virtual birthday party on Saturday, Sunday I went to dinner at a pizzeria in town with a friend before we went to see fireworks. Then today I went and ran som errands with my dad, who bought me pizza so I had pizza for dinner again. We also went to Starbucks so I could get my free birthday drink coupon that was in my app redeemed. My dad paid for those too. We came home, ate dinner and then I watched Big Bang Theory for about an hour before I went in the pool for a while. Then I sat out on the patio in the backyard, watched the sun go down and listened to Elton John on my iPad. I went inside, watched a couple movies and cuddled my cat to end the night. Also Nick tweeted me today so that was nice.
I did get another chapter posted on Saturday before the birthday party started so that was nice. I didn’t get much writing done after that. We were on video chat for 5 hours and I got drunk so definitely wasn’t going to write LOL
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That all sounds fun! (Although like a lot of pizza, lol.) It's nice to be able to relax a little on the actual day and do the more "party" event another time, especially when your birthday is right around a busy holiday (I can relate).
I'm happy you were able to get some writing in before the celebrations. :) It's definitely hard to write after long video calls and drunken shenanigans. Hopefully this next week's writing goes well!
nicksgal:
Today I am useless. I got about 300 words in, wrote the most hilarious joke ever and just don't think I can top it, so I stalled on that project. Then I spent the rest of the afternoon researching growing seasons to name my months. So... now Nick's birthday is officially in "the month of almonding." Why am I like this? lol
Hope writing is going much better for everyone else!
nicksgal:
Found a fun writing question on r/writing: https://www.reddit.com/r/writing/comments/obpzey/writing_rules_that_are_stupid_and_meant_to_be/
So what are writing "rules" that you think should be breakable? And are there any writing "rules" that feel less like rules in fanfic?
RokofAges75:
Hm... I'm with the majority of posters in that thread who basically said "rules" are meant to be broken. I've never even heard the one about not starting with dialogue, but I don't see why not, as long as you eventually provide some context. I'm also clearly not a fan of "write what you know" because that's what the internet is for - use your resources and find out what you don't know before you write it. And although I am a grammar Nazi when it comes to academic writing, I acknowledge that, in fiction writing, some conventions can be broken for the sake of style and flow, such as using fragments, starting sentences with conjunctions, and ending sentences with prepositions. Sometimes it just sounds better that way, especially in dialogue.
I think with fanfic in particular, anything goes. We're all publishing for free on the internet, so there are no agents or editors telling us what to do or not to do, and we're not scamming anyone out of money by putting out poorly-written stories. Even poorly-written fanfic can be entertaining, and at the end of the day, that's the whole point: entertainment.
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