Writers' Bloc - Creative Writing Off Topic Thread

pickarooney · 21-06-2011 5:01pm #1

Any interest in this? Any idea for a better name?
Is this the least creative post ever written?

21-06-2011 5:05pm

oh that's a good idea

pickarooney · 21-06-2011 5:10pm

So what's the worst idea you've ever heard?

21-06-2011 5:14pm

pickarooney wrote: »

So what's the worst idea you've ever heard?

I am not sure but I think it ended with "what could possibly go wrong" :pac:

FewFew · 21-06-2011 5:15pm

off topic thread! Mwuahahahaha, this is where my tangents shall spread and destroy all like oak roots! Mwuahahahaha

pickarooney · 21-06-2011 5:18pm

So it's the 21st of June, sun splitting the stones and it's national music in the streets day. What could possibly go wrong?

21-06-2011 5:20pm

why else would i be hiding indoors...!
no sun splitting the stones here thankfully... otherwise i really might be hiding away

FewFew · 21-06-2011 6:26pm

bluewolf wrote: »

why else would i be hiding indoors...!
no sun splitting the stones here thankfully... otherwise i really might be hiding away

Lady you should visit the Noc more often :cool:

21-06-2011 6:37pm

yessir :pac:

Antilles · 21-06-2011 6:56pm

pickarooney wrote: »

So it's the 21st of June, sun splitting the stones

You're back in France, aren't you :mad:

FewFew · 21-06-2011 7:41pm

Antilles wrote: »

You're back in France, aren't you :mad:

Heh, I was wondering...

CD. · 21-06-2011 7:50pm

getting used to wearing a watch is a pain in the ass. My left arm now feels really, really light while my right arm feels insanely heavy.

21-06-2011 7:53pm

CD. wrote: »

getting used to wearing a watch is a pain in the ass. My left arm now feels really, really light while my right arm feels insanely heavy.

I agree - i stopped wearing them years ago
no watches bracelets rings

Antilles · 21-06-2011 8:00pm

I only wear a wristwatch when I know I am going to be stuck in meetings all day. That way I can check the time without having to take my phone out.

FewFew · 21-06-2011 8:01pm

bluewolf wrote: »

I agree - i stopped wearing them years ago
no watches bracelets rings

Yeah, I'm the same, but my Dad got me a nice engraved watch as a graduation present, so I've tried my best to get used to it. I still take it off and play with it as often as I wear it. I just deal with the weight by pretending I'm Hell Boy, with a red right hand

... play me out Nick... :cool:

CD. · 21-06-2011 8:18pm

It's an awesome looking watch, I got it as an early 21st present from my parents.

So far I have onyl ever had two watches i wore, the one i have now and a binary watch where yuo press a button and it lights up, and yuo tell the time by which lights light up.

I can tell time easier with that one than any of the others. Can't really read a clock face quickly, but i suppose i'll get used to it rather than having to count up each time.

Just got to #1 in free short stories on Amazon.co.uk. excuse me while a I repeat a joke,
Mr. (Rudyard) Kipling may make exceedingly good cakes, but I beat him to #1 in free short stories.

pickarooney · 21-06-2011 11:56pm

CD. wrote: »

Just got to #1 in free short stories on Amazon.co.uk. excuse me while a I repeat a joke,
Mr. (Rudyard) Kipling may make exceedingly good cakes, but I beat him to #1 in free short stories.

What does that mean exactly?

Just back from a most pleasant evening. The music was... amateur, as was to be expected but the teeming hordes of criminally beautiful people thronigng the streets defied belief.

The Mad Hatter · 22-06-2011 12:22am

CD. wrote: »

It's an awesome looking watch, I got it as an early 21st present from my parents.

So far I have onyl ever had two watches i wore, the one i have now and a binary watch where yuo press a button and it lights up, and yuo tell the time by which lights light up.

I can tell time easier with that one than any of the others. Can't really read a clock face quickly, but i suppose i'll get used to it rather than having to count up each time.

Just got to #1 in free short stories on Amazon.co.uk. excuse me while a I repeat a joke,
Mr. (Rudyard) Kipling may make exceedingly good cakes, but I beat him to #1 in free short stories.

Hm, just downloaded Asylum from your site, out of curiosity. I think you'll have the privilege of being the first living author to appear on my iPad...

ArtSmart · 22-06-2011 12:25am

Possible title. Sticks n Stones.

CD. · 22-06-2011 11:18am

The Mad Hatter wrote: »

Hm, just downloaded Asylum from your site, out of curiosity. I think you'll have the privilege of being the first living author to appear on my iPad...

yay

I hope I don't destroy the possibility of other living writers being downloaded.

"What does that mean exactly?"

The joke or the number one thing? though i suppose both are explained at once.

A Rudyard Kipling short story was #1 in the short story subsection for free ebooks on amazon.co.uk, my collection of short stories went to number one in short stories last night, though back to number two this morning, foiled! I am hopeful it shall return to number one soon as it seems that downloads are worse in the morning than they are in the evening.

pickarooney · 22-06-2011 11:33am

CD. wrote: »

yay I hope I don't destroy the possibility of other living writers being downloaded.

"What does that mean exactly?"

The joke or the number one thing? though i suppose both are explained at once.

A Rudyard Kipling short story was #1 in the short story subsection for free ebooks on amazon.co.uk, my collection of short stories went to number one in short stories last night, though back to number two this morning, foiled! I am hopeful it shall return to number one soon as it seems that downloads are worse in the morning than they are in the evening.

Your short stories are the number 1 (or 2) downloaded free thing on Amazon :eek:

I definitely have to grab a copy.

pickarooney · 22-06-2011 11:36am

BTW this thread title sucks, and I'm not gone on Antilles' suggestion either. Moar ideas!

22-06-2011 11:37am

"we wont wear watches" :pac:

pickarooney · 22-06-2011 11:37am

whoosh!

FewFew · 22-06-2011 11:40am

CD. wrote: »

A Rudyard Kipling short story was #1 in the short story subsection for free ebooks on amazon.co.uk, my collection of short stories went to number one in short stories last night, though back to number two this morning, foiled! I am hopeful it shall return to number one soon as it seems that downloads are worse in the morning than they are in the evening.

That's awesome by the way. I'm not sure if I said congrats, but that's great

It also lends hope

The Mad Hatter · 22-06-2011 11:49am

pickarooney wrote: »

BTW this thread title sucks, and I'm not gone on Antilles' suggestion either. Moar ideas!

It's stolen, but Inklings?

Delirium · 22-06-2011 11:52am

pickarooney wrote: »

Any interest in this? Any idea for a better name?

The Writers Block? :P

pickarooney · 22-06-2011 11:57am

koth wrote: »

The Writers Block? :P

or Bloc?

Little Thread Writing Hood?

22-06-2011 11:58am

I like inklings

Delirium · 22-06-2011 12:00pm

pickarooney wrote: »

or Bloc?

yeah, that works better for me

pickarooney · 22-06-2011 12:05pm

bluewolf wrote: »

I like inklings

It's stolen though

How about Nibbles?

22-06-2011 12:07pm

writers block is fine then!

The Mad Hatter · 22-06-2011 12:08pm

pickarooney wrote: »

or Bloc?

Little Thread Writing Hood?

Bloc, yes.

The second thing no.

CD. · 22-06-2011 12:10pm

pickarooney wrote: »

Your short stories are the number 1 (or 2) downloaded free thing on Amazon :eek:

I definitely have to grab a copy.

they're number 1/2 in the short story subsection, and 112 overall last time i checked.

thank you for all the congradulations

when i first published it i was thinking if it gets ten downloads i will be happy

FewFew · 22-06-2011 12:18pm

CD. wrote: »

when i first published it i was thinking if it gets ten downloads i will be happy

That's what I would be like. Still have to get something decent worth uploading. I was planning on doing a book of short stories on Death, just after my lil The Arena adventures. Could be fun.

Antilles · 22-06-2011 12:27pm

pickarooney wrote: »

BTW this thread title sucks, and I'm not gone on Antilles' suggestion either. Moar ideas!

Um, what suggestion would that be?

CD. · 22-06-2011 12:30pm

it is very gratifying to know that people enjoy reading your work on a slightly larger scale.

though covers are a right pain in the bollocks but a good cover can do wonders.
I used to do paper cuttings (don't really know what you call it, silhouetted scenes cut into paper with a scalpel) and settled on one i did of some trees and their roots for the cover after soem tweaking in a free photoshop type program.

it's my 3rd cover two. I liked the second one but it looked crappy, the idea was good but the execution was poor.

pickarooney · 22-06-2011 2:22pm

Antilles wrote: »

Um, what suggestion would that be?

Whatever one you were about to come up with. It's rubbish.

Ok, I admit I can't actually read and just take a best guess at who writes what based on the username's initial.

FewFew · 22-06-2011 2:26pm

pickarooney wrote: »

Whatever one you were about to come up with. It's rubbish.

Ok, I admit I can't actually read and just take a best guess at who writes what based on the username's initial.

Can't spell either based on "Wrtiers' Bloc" - or was that deliberate?

22-06-2011 2:32pm

Fewcifur wrote: »

Can't spell either based on "Wrtiers' Bloc" - or was that deliberate?

he's just trying to get me to start twitching again :pac:

FewFew · 22-06-2011 2:56pm

bluewolf wrote: »

he's just trying to get me to start twitching again :pac:

Hah! Good job Pickarooney

If I had known spelling was yuor ting I wud harv madde moor of a efford.

22-06-2011 2:57pm

Fewcifur wrote: »

Hah! Good job Pickarooney If I had known spelling was yuor ting I wud harv madde moor of a efford.

doesn't work if it's obviously typos or deliberate
(so i was joking earlier...)
:pac:

pickarooney · 22-06-2011 3:17pm

Nobody is voting in Total Write Off. This is most disturbing.

Mr E · 22-06-2011 3:20pm

I read one pair last night.
I'll try and do the others tonight.

FewFew · 22-06-2011 4:55pm

bluewolf wrote: »

doesn't work if it's obviously typos or deliberate
(so i was joking earlier...)
:pac:

So you mean if I went back and re-wrote my novels and filled them with subtle typos... you'd go mental? Nice :cool:

pickarooney wrote: »

Nobody is voting in Total Write Off. This is most disturbing.

I'll read them all on Friday. Don't have the time nor focus today.

pickarooney · 23-06-2011 11:24am

We're getting into story fatigue territory I think. It would be nice to have a few new members swing by and give some feedback.

Has anyone ever made a piñata?

bastados · 23-06-2011 11:26am

pickarooney wrote: »

So what's the worst idea you've ever heard?

There are no terrible ideas...just misplaced ones

CD. · 23-06-2011 1:08pm

pickarooney wrote: »

We're getting into story fatigue territory I think. It would be nice to have a few new members swing by and give some feedback.

Has anyone ever made a piñata?

Never made one before but now I kinda want to make one for my 21st birthday. already having jello shots, have to think of an interesting display for them though. last year they were in hulled out fruit skins so they looked like wedges of fruit.

Also, has anyone written under the influence of anything? (alcohol, drugs)
if so how did it turn out? only ever written twice while drunk, both times in the past few weeks, though I was probably closer to tipsy than drunk.

Insect Overlord · 23-06-2011 1:12pm

I wrote a blog entry last week while I was still quite drunk. Fortunately I saved it as a draft instead of pressing "publish". I was able to go back and revise it earlier this week. Somewhat ironically, I turned it into an anti-binge drinking essay!

23-06-2011 1:45pm

CD. wrote: »

Never made one before but now I kinda want to make one for my 21st birthday. already having jello shots, have to think of an interesting display for them though. last year they were in hulled out fruit skins so they looked like wedges of fruit.

Also, has anyone written under the influence of anything? (alcohol, drugs)
if so how did it turn out? only ever written twice while drunk, both times in the past few weeks, though I was probably closer to tipsy than drunk.

very rarely drink and never do drugs so... no

pickarooney · 23-06-2011 2:02pm

CD. wrote: »

Also, has anyone written under the influence of anything? (alcohol, drugs)
if so how did it turn out? only ever written twice while drunk, both times in the past few weeks, though I was probably closer to tipsy than drunk.

Many's a time. Absolutely brilliant stuff, though curiously only really appreciable by returning to the state in which I was when I wrote it.

Actually, it's incredibly hard to read, let alone write, on a lot of drugs but if you can remember the experience you can sometimes turn it into something readable.

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