Writers' Bloc - Creative Writing Off Topic Thread

23-08-2011 12:24pm

pickarooney wrote: »

Can you combine mod bold with subscriber italics somehow in your groups menu in the Control Panel?

nope one or the other

i might hide under the subscriber one though

edit: i think admins are the italics & bold no?

Antilles · 24-08-2011 11:45pm

How can I write a character who really likes swearing, but without offending anybody who is sensitive to swearing?

pickarooney · 25-08-2011 9:31am

Just make up a load of new swear words or have him use words that sound dirty but aren't.

25-08-2011 9:42am

pickarooney wrote: »

Just make up a load of new swear words or have him use words that sound dirty but aren't.

Yeah, make up a bunch of new ones or use very mild ones, have some of the other characters react in shock or whatever, and there you go

pickarooney · 25-08-2011 10:44am

We could have a "new swearword" contest if it would help.

Antilles · 25-08-2011 7:37pm

I frakking hate it when shows try that sort of gorram thing.

CD. · 25-08-2011 8:29pm

Antilles wrote: »

I frakking hate it when shows try that sort of gorram thing.

it's shiny sometimes, though it is just to get around the censors some of them can be interesting.

Hrududu · 25-08-2011 9:35pm

That's it, I'm calling the fuppin' man.

Antilles · 25-08-2011 10:55pm

Reminded of this.

FewFew · 26-08-2011 10:48am

Red Dwarf did it rather well me thinks

Antilles · 26-08-2011 7:13pm

I'm concerned by the large number of people in the T.W.O. Finals thread who appear to be voting wrong.

26-08-2011 7:14pm

your face is wrong

Blush_01 · 26-08-2011 8:25pm

Right now, I am the bear you do not want to poke.

:mad::(:mad::(:mad:

Antilles · 26-08-2011 8:28pm

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Antilles · 26-08-2011 8:28pm

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Antilles · 26-08-2011 8:28pm

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Antilles · 26-08-2011 8:29pm

poke

26-08-2011 10:16pm

poke the penguin!
http://stuffucanuse.com/online_game/penguin/penguin.html

pickarooney · 27-08-2011 12:05am

Blush_01 wrote: »

Right now, I am the bear you do not want to poke. :mad::(:mad::(:mad:

Are you doing that thing where we ask you what's up and you say "I don't want to talk about it!"?

FewFew · 27-08-2011 1:07am

pickarooney wrote: »

Are you doing that thing where we ask you what's up and you say "I don't want to talk about it!"?

That thing is hella annoying

Blush_01 · 27-08-2011 5:48pm

pickarooney wrote: »

Are you doing that thing where we ask you what's up and you say "I don't want to talk about it!"?

No, no most definitely not. *shakes head*

I killed a document on my laptop. Killed it stone dead. One I really did not want to kill. Do I have a back-up? Ha, ha ha, no, I do not. Why? Because that would be sensible. Clever even. Which, evidently I am not.

(Oh, and Antilles - "RAWR.")

The Mad Hatter · 27-08-2011 7:17pm

Blush_01 wrote: »

No, no most definitely not. *shakes head*

I killed a document on my laptop. Killed it stone dead. One I really did not want to kill. Do I have a back-up? Ha, ha ha, no, I do not. Why? Because that would be sensible. Clever even. Which, evidently I am not.

(Oh, and Antilles - "RAWR.")

Aw, man! I know exactly how that feels. I managed to accidentally delete a large file and all its backups a few months back. Never had the heart to rewrite it.

Antilles · 28-08-2011 1:54am

We've all been there!

I've deleted folders which contained the documents I was working on as well as the dozens of backups and alternate versions I'd made. Usually I only realise I wanteto keep the stuff after I've clicked "Yes" to the third or fourth "Are you sure?" message.

28-08-2011 7:39am

if i ever start on this stupid writing again, ill make sure to back up loads
in the meantime, i need yet another notebook ><

FewFew · 28-08-2011 5:49pm

bluewolf wrote: »

if i ever start on this stupid writing again, ill make sure to back up loads
in the meantime, i need yet another notebook ><

YAY! EXCUSE FOR STATIONARY SHOPPING! YAY!

28-08-2011 6:01pm

Fewcifur wrote: »

YAY! EXCUSE FOR STATIONARY SHOPPING! YAY!

I'd rather be in motion when I shop :pac:

FewFew · 28-08-2011 7:40pm

bluewolf wrote: »

I'd rather be in motion when I shop :pac:

*groan*

:):D

Blush_01 · 29-08-2011 12:52am

Still feeling sad. Was actually getting somewhere. Spent the weekend searching for the missing stuff at the bottom of tubs of Ben & Jerry's. No luck.

On the plus side, think I've eaten enough Phish Food to safely say I never want to see the stuff again. Every cloud blah-di-blah...

TK Maxx is a mecca for notebooks at times. Especially really pretty Italian leather ones that I can justify because they're so *ahem* affordable.

FewFew · 29-08-2011 10:49am

Blush_01 wrote: »

Still feeling sad. Was actually getting somewhere. Spent the weekend searching for the missing stuff at the bottom of tubs of Ben & Jerry's. No luck.

On the plus side, think I've eaten enough Phish Food to safely say I never want to see the stuff again. Every cloud blah-di-blah...

TK Maxx is a mecca for notebooks at times. Especially really pretty Italian leather ones that I can justify because they're so *ahem* affordable.

Awww that IS sad. It's so hard to recapture your work, because nothing flows like that first time. Ok, so when you go back over the first draft you'll probably improve, but it's really tough to get it all back on the page again, so much to remember. You'll prrrretty much have to relive the book again. Tough, but doable. Have heart Phish Phood Phan!

But, TK Maxx and notebooks? You've reminded me of this and now I feel I'll be forced to go. Had to move apartment/pay doctor bills, so missed out on my stationary mission to Italia, so TK Maxx here I come! What TK Maxx do you frequent for the best in notebooks?

Blush_01 · 29-08-2011 7:31pm

Fewcifur wrote: »

Awww that IS sad. It's so hard to recapture your work, because nothing flows like that first time. Ok, so when you go back over the first draft you'll probably improve, but it's really tough to get it all back on the page again, so much to remember. You'll prrrretty much have to relive the book again. Tough, but doable. Have heart Phish Phood Phan!

But, TK Maxx and notebooks? You've reminded me of this and now I feel I'll be forced to go. Had to move apartment/pay doctor bills, so missed out on my stationary mission to Italia, so TK Maxx here I come! What TK Maxx do you frequent for the best in notebooks?

Limerick, but there have also been exceptionally fruitful trips to the one in Cork too. Even Portlaoise produced a few cute ones. Have never been to the one in Blanch, and have never really looked for notebooks in the one in town (funny how I've been out of Dublin for 6 months now and it's still town...) But beware, the household things will get you and you'll come home with a car full of things and no money.

CD. · 29-08-2011 9:13pm

I want to get some new stationary. I don't really need it, but I want it. Plus we seem to be running out of pens lately. I don't know why, all I know is that I need to buy more pens.

Also, I intended to do some writing today, I did (almost 4000 words) but not the fiction kind that I intended >.<

Antilles · 29-08-2011 10:55pm

CD. wrote: »

I want to get some new stationary. I don't really need it, but I want it. Plus we seem to be running out of pens lately. I don't know why, all I know is that I need to buy more pens.

Also, I intended to do some writing today, I did (almost 4000 words) but not the fiction kind that I intended >.<

I tell people we're running out of pens too, and then I go and buy more and everybody in the office loves me.

I just hope they never see the massive pen collection I'm building up in my bag

CD. · 29-08-2011 11:02pm

Pens seem to just disappear in the house. I don't know where they go. there was at least 20 pens floating around earlier when I didn't need them, then when i did I couldn't find any at all.

It's a vicious cycle. I lose pens so I buy more which I then lose.

All I know is, pens are awesome.

Ben Moore · 29-08-2011 11:13pm

Pens are awesome alright but only when there is paper about.

Writers block is awesome as well if you have decided not to be a writer.

I found that blogging was a great way to unclog writers block, once i was blogging I felt bad about not writing my story.

Blush_01 · 29-08-2011 11:40pm

Paperchase fine (click-y) pens. They have a black barrel, silver nib and I ADORE them.

CD. · 29-08-2011 11:42pm

I use pens even if there isn't paper about. My arms are all the paper I need. It is, after all, just unprocessed vellum.
I usually write on the back of my hands, even managed to write ideas up to the elbow once during a particularly boring school day, much to the chagrin of my dad.

I've never really had writers block. At least not in any official capacity, though there have been times where it would be perhaps months between writing something due to nothing pushing me to sit down and write.

Ben Moore · 29-08-2011 11:51pm

CD. wrote: »

I've never really had writers block. At least not in any official capacity, though there have been times where it would be perhaps months between writing something due to nothing pushing me to sit down and write.

I don't mean to be negative but technically not being motivated to write is a sort of writers block. But as you have come out the other side then alls well!:D

FewFew · 30-08-2011 1:40am

CD. wrote: »

Pens seem to just disappear in the house. I don't know where they go. there was at least 20 pens floating around earlier when I didn't need them, then when i did I couldn't find any at all.

It's a vicious cycle. I lose pens so I buy more which I then lose.

All I know is, pens are awesome.

Very true!

Blush_01 wrote: »

Paperchase fine (click-y) pens. They have a black barrel, silver nib and I ADORE them.

I didn't realise Paperchase did pens! I approve of their notebooks, now I simply must find their pens!

Oryx · 30-08-2011 5:56pm

Stationery. Stationary. I have a mental block with these two words. No matter how many times I look them up I can never remember which one is pens and paper and which one is standing still.

pickarooney · 30-08-2011 6:36pm

Look it up in the dictionery?

30-08-2011 8:33pm

Oryx wrote: »

Stationery. Stationary. I have a mental block with these two words. No matter how many times I look them up I can never remember which one is pens and paper and which one is standing still.

You could think of pap-er station-er-y, or 'pen' has an 'e' as well. or some kind of acronym of n-a-r for the stationary one... now at rest?

Oryx · 30-08-2011 8:59pm

bluewolf wrote: »

You could think of pap-er station-er-y, or 'pen' has an 'e' as well. or some kind of acronym of n-a-r for the stationary one... now at rest?

Car. StatioNARy. Yeah? Thank you. I'll sleep tonight.

pickarooney · 30-08-2011 9:06pm

Nary a movement.

FewFew · 31-08-2011 12:47am

Oh otay. Never noticed that before. Possibly one of the more common spelling errors, I'd imagine.

Ectoplasm · 31-08-2011 2:04pm

Oryx wrote: »

Stationery. Stationary. I have a mental block with these two words. No matter how many times I look them up I can never remember which one is pens and paper and which one is standing still.

I always use the "a for automobile" and "e for envelope" thingy on this one. Works for me!

viadah · 31-08-2011 2:30pm

Stationery, stationary. At least it's not a mental block on the phrase 'dressing gown', which was a 'robe' which was in the 'wardrobe' which my mind could never process as a child (and still gets hung up on sometimes - no pun intended, don't want to make things worse for myself). I'm sure it sounded fruity if I'd announce I wanted to go try on a new wardrobe when I was eight.

Blush_01 · 31-08-2011 8:00pm

I used to work in an office where I ordered the stationery.

I used to have my spelling of the word stationery corrected by a dimwit each month.

I pointed out I had the English degree and she had managed to fail spectacularly out of her first year of a Business Diploma course to my very amuse WBB (work best buddy).

Those were the days...

31-08-2011 8:17pm

Blush_01 wrote: »

I used to work in an office where I ordered the stationery.

I used to have my spelling of the word stationery corrected by a dimwit each month.

I pointed out I had the English degree and she had managed to fail spectacularly out of her first year of a Business Diploma course to my very amuse WBB (work best buddy).

Those were the days...

One of the lads at work orders the stationery each month; the email he sends round asking for any requests says "stationary". I said jokingly to him one time "maybe sometime you'll put 'stationery' in the subject line instead..." only for him to retort "maybe you'll put capital letters in your emails sometime"

zing! :pac::pac:

FewFew · 01-09-2011 10:38am

bluewolf wrote: »

One of the lads at work orders the stationery each month; the email he sends round asking for any requests says "stationary". I said jokingly to him one time "maybe sometime you'll put 'stationery' in the subject line instead..." only for him to retort "maybe you'll put capital letters in your emails sometime"

zing! :pac::pac:

That's the problem with correcting grammar and spelling... people are always on the look-out to get ya back!

pickarooney · 01-09-2011 10:51am

What are the chances that the murder of an Israeli tourist in a South American capital would make international news? Or do the likes of Fox or CNN do news broadcasts in English tailored for specific countries?

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