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    #452
    coffee_cake
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    thanks to pick, you'll always be toasters-park in my brain now


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    #453
    Toasterspark
    Closed Accounts Posts: 273 ✭✭Toasterspark


    If we ever get free avatars, I'll be sure to have a miniature version of this up for mine.

    kaw2a.jpg


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    #454
    Antilles
    Registered Users Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭Antilles


    "Write what you know" - bad advice or worst advice?


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    #455
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,104 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Antilles wrote: »
    "Write what you know" - bad advice or worst advice?

    If you know a really great story you should write that.


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    #456
    Antilles
    Registered Users Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭Antilles


    pickarooney wrote: »
    If you know a really great story you should write that.

    Hrm, good point. I'll start now.

    Call me Ishmael.


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    #457
    coffee_cake
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    Antilles wrote: »
    Hrm, good point. I'll start now.

    Call me Ishmael.

    i just started that
    he waffles a lot :confused:


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    #458
    PurpleBee
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    how are you supposed to write about something you don't know?


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    #459
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,104 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    I suspect Dr. Seuss had never met a Lorax.


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    #460
    PurpleBee
    Registered Users Posts: 274 ✭✭PurpleBee


    I suspect no one has, i presume that's how he got away with it


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    #461
    Antilles
    Registered Users Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭Antilles


    PurpleBee wrote: »
    how are you supposed to write about something you don't know?

    Most of what I write is genre. I've never met a werewolf or piloted a starship. If I only wrote about what I know, my stories would be be mostly about mortal civil servants.


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    #462
    Insect Overlord
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    Take what you know and put an imaginative twist on it. ;)


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    #463
    Antilles
    Registered Users Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭Antilles


    bluewolf wrote: »
    i just started that
    he waffles a lot :confused:

    I got the feeling his agent asked him to write an action story about whaling, but he really wanted to write an encyclopaedia about whales, so he took the two ideas and mashed them together.


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    #464
    PurpleBee
    Registered Users Posts: 274 ✭✭PurpleBee


    Antilles wrote: »
    Most of what I write is genre. I've never met a werewolf or piloted a starship. If I only wrote about what I know, my stories would be be mostly about mortal civil servants.

    Well if I was a werewolf, I'd probably be horrified by the assumptions most fiction writers make about my lifestyle.

    I suppose I'm talking about verifiable stuff... say a kid from Sandymount writing about life in Compton

    I believe in werewolves by the way


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    #465
    Antilles
    Registered Users Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭Antilles


    PurpleBee wrote: »
    I believe in werewolves by the way

    I believe in Harvey Dent.


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    #466
    Insect Overlord
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    I believe in reporting and banning spammers, but I'm still tempted to plug my new poetry blog. :pac: Any objections?


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    #467
    Antilles
    Registered Users Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭Antilles


    Insect Overlord wrote: »
    I believe in reporting and banning spammers, but I'm still tempted to plug my new poetry blog. :pac: Any objections?

    Would you object if I reported your spamming if you did? :D


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    #468
    Insect Overlord
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    Antilles wrote: »
    Would you object if I reported your spamming if you did? :D

    I wouldn't be able to object, would I? :o

    I've added a link to my sig instead. :)


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    #469
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,104 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Are you named after a cocktail?


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    #470
    iguana
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    Antilles wrote: »
    Most of what I write is genre. I've never met a werewolf or piloted a starship. If I only wrote about what I know, my stories would be be mostly about mortal civil servants.

    The trick is to use the fantastical as your vehicle for a genuine emotional core. Joss Whedon says that Buffy the Vampire Slayer is about feeling like an outsider in high school and struggling through what can feel like a hostile environment that everyone else thinks is normal, which is how he felt in school. So while he was never a cute, short girl with amazing strength, born to fight vampires and demons, he used the sense of alienation he did feel to fuel the story.


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    #471
    Das Kitty
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 17,231 Mod ✭✭✭✭Das Kitty


    pickarooney wrote: »
    Are you named after a cocktail?
    My favourite cocktail. :D

    The drink, not the boardsie. :pac:


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    #472
    Insect Overlord
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    pickarooney wrote: »
    Are you named after a cocktail?

    A cocktail, a great Limerick pub and several generations of men on my Dad's side!
    Das Kitty wrote: »
    My favourite cocktail. :D

    The drink, not the boardsie. :pac:

    The Insect Overlord would be an amazing cocktail. :cool:


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    #473
    PurpleBee
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    I came across a flaming goat and he told me not to panic so I pointed out to him that he was flaming and he panicked


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    #474
    Antilles
    Registered Users Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭Antilles


    PurpleBee wrote: »
    I came across a flaming goat and he told me not to panic so I pointed out to him that he was flaming and he panicked

    Nothing would make me panic faster than a talking goat.


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    #475
    Antilles
    Registered Users Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭Antilles


    Does this deserve a thread of its own?

    Possibly, but until then, thither: http://bigthink.com/ideas/42182


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    #476
    Das Kitty
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 17,231 Mod ✭✭✭✭Das Kitty


    Antilles wrote: »
    Does this deserve a thread of its own?

    Possibly, but until then, thither: http://bigthink.com/ideas/42182

    Oooohhhh!


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    #477
    Antilles
    Registered Users Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭Antilles


    Ah crap, that's not for you to enter, DK! I'd like a chance of winning!


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    #478
    Das Kitty
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 17,231 Mod ✭✭✭✭Das Kitty


    Antilles wrote: »
    Ah crap, that's not for you to enter, DK! I'd like a chance of winning!

    Bwah ha! :p

    I have to work that weekend but I'll still probably take a look on the Friday.


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    #479
    coffee_cake
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    Antilles wrote: »
    Does this deserve a thread of its own?

    Possibly, but until then, thither: http://bigthink.com/ideas/42182

    oooooh...


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    #480
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,104 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    I completely forgot about the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award this year.

    Did anyone enter?


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    #481
    Antilles
    Registered Users Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭Antilles


    pickarooney wrote: »
    I completely forgot about the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award this year.

    Did anyone enter?

    I was going to, but my breakthrough novel broke down :(


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