Congratu-damn-lations, Sox! I will hug you in person soon! And come to your reading!
We knocked 'em deader!
Willow ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
The Great Write Way, Act Three: Where's the gun?
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
Polter-Cow - Aug 28, 2013 5:15:49 am PDT #5808 of 6687
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
JZ - Aug 28, 2013 5:16:56 am PDT #5809 of 6687
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
It's not come for months. I am looking at Groupons for weekend getaways to little cabins at RV campgrounds (with wifi access) so I can force myself into a writing retreat with no dishes or laundry or child or car knee-deep in fast food wrappers and snotrags or anything else but me and a computer for 48 hours. Because I clearly lack the discipline to crank it out amidst distractions (distraction-free, I really can do it; I'm exactly the sort of person those retreats and writer-in-residence stints were made for).
But nothing, for several months now. Very frustrating.
Amy - Aug 28, 2013 5:19:48 am PDT #5810 of 6687
Because books.
Think a little smaller than a weekend? Take an hour at a cafe, even if it's just with a notebook and a pencil. Sit in the park on a nice day.
::nudge nudge::
JZ - Aug 28, 2013 5:46:26 am PDT #5811 of 6687
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
The thing is that I'm really, deeply undisciplined. I've found that no matter what the circumstances, I always, always spend an hour farting around before buckling down to work. If all I give myself is an hour, it's a flat-out guarantee that I will waste it farting around online. If I have a whole day or two, I waste one or two hours farting around and then spend the next 22 or 46 being productive (and then, once the pump is primed, at least the next week after that being able to seriously use the one-hour bits of time mundane life allows... and then I lose steam and grind down, but another day or another weekend is all it takes to get it going again).
Amy - Aug 28, 2013 5:47:34 am PDT #5812 of 6687
Because books.
Yeah, but if you take a notebook to the park, you can't fart around online! Just saying.
I just love that story and I want more of it. IT'S REALLY ALL ABOUT ME.
Gudanov - Aug 28, 2013 6:04:53 am PDT #5813 of 6687
Coding and Sleeping
If you can do a self-retreat, go for it. I'll be jealous though :)
hippocampus - Aug 28, 2013 8:54:20 am PDT #5814 of 6687
not your mom's socks.
JZ, what I read was so much fun - please keep writing it.
JZ - Aug 28, 2013 9:34:51 am PDT #5815 of 6687
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Yes, ma'am. I don't dare disobey the published author!
hippocampus - Aug 28, 2013 3:29:54 pm PDT #5816 of 6687
not your mom's socks.
::points up to Amy's comments, earlier:: These must be what you mean... and I second them wholeheartedly.
Typo Boy - Aug 31, 2013 5:37:55 pm PDT #5817 of 6687
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Every now and again fiction writers ask "what would be an appropriate name for someone born in [year] with [demographic characteristics]. If that character is born in the US, the SSA publishes a database going back to the late 19th century of the 1000 most common baby names in descending order, one file per year for the national version, one file per state for the state by state data. Those top thousand names generally represent at least a majority of the population, though the size of that majority varies from year to year.
And actually including the link would help - here: [link]