Written? Kitten! Every "x" amount of words you input, you get a new kitten picture. It's silly, but sometimes it does get me to keep writing when I hate everything.
This girl at school? She told me that gelatin is made from ground-up cow's feet and that every time you eat Jell-O there's some cow out there limping around without any feet. But I told her that I'm sure the cow is dead before they cut its feet off, right?
Dawn ,'Never Leave Me'
Spike's Bitches 47: Someone Dangerous Could Get In
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Atropa - Feb 22, 2012 7:29:47 pm PST #8204 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
§ ita § - Feb 22, 2012 7:31:44 pm PST #8205 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Where's Written? Hottie! I could do with that. I mean, I have nothing to write, but I could start.
Strix - Feb 22, 2012 7:35:57 pm PST #8206 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I still thinking semi-seriously of opening a Writing Dominatrix Muse service.
"Hands on the keyboard! SNAP! Don't edit -- just type, dammit. Oh, you like that, do you? Harder! Faster! Less adverbs! DO IT!"
I keep eyeballing Scrivener. Hmm.
bonny, bitching at people is pretty easy. Tact is (just not saying true stuff) hard.
amych - Feb 22, 2012 7:37:00 pm PST #8207 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Written?Kitten! is open-source; should be a simple enough matter to throw in some other photo feed...
meara - Feb 22, 2012 7:37:55 pm PST #8208 of 30001
Harder! Faster! Less adverbs! DO IT!"
...fewer!
Atropa - Feb 22, 2012 7:39:32 pm PST #8209 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Less adverbs!
Noooooo! I love my adverbs!
Okay, here's the deal I just made with myself. Tomorrow I record TWO shows. Tonight, I finish writing the notes for them. Part of this is due to stage fright, part of this is due to still feeling like crap, and I know that will affect my performance.
(If I show up in thread tomorrow, everyone feel free to poke me about doing the recording.)
Sean K - Feb 22, 2012 7:40:42 pm PST #8210 of 30001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Truth be told, I'm having a very frustrating block. I've been writing and rewriting the same first paragraph on this novel for five months now. I have this paragraph, one other scene, and a one sentence log line of the story. But I can't get past this paragraph. I don't know what comes next. I don't really know the full shape of the story.
Then today I come up with the opening paragraph of a new story, but beyond this paragraph, I have no idea what happens next.
It's like I keep having these "In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit," moments, but I can't get the rest to come.
With the first story, I try to write an outline, but that just ends up with me staring at a new blank document until I get tired of it and close it. I've been writing other things, like these monologues, but now I want to get back to these other story ideas.
beekaytee - Feb 22, 2012 7:47:19 pm PST #8211 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant
Speaking of writing, Erin, I'm sending you a ton of raw material in a few minutes.
Atropa - Feb 22, 2012 7:48:43 pm PST #8212 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Sean, one thing that I do when I get that stuck (and Amy was the one who suggested this, so a HUGE thank-you to her) is to write story summaries like they're chapter descriptions for a penny dreadful serial or the dialog cards for a silent movie.
Connie Neil - Feb 22, 2012 8:26:54 pm PST #8213 of 30001
brillig
I thought to myself "Oh, a laptop, I'll be able to write anywhere!"
Nope.
I thought to myself "Oh, a room of my own, with my own desk, that will let me write!"
Nope.
If I'm not careful I'm going to think to myself "A whole continent, with just me and my computer! That'll help me write." I should probably find more effective writing motivators, because we don't have space travel yet to get me my own planet.