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Writers' Bloc - Creative Writing Off Topic Thread

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    #92
    Antilles
    Registered Users Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭Antilles


    pickarooney wrote: »
    Nobody sends me any bookywooks :(

    :'(


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    #93
    FewFew
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    bluewolf wrote: »
    ah no i will have a look over them dont worry
    might be tomorrow night at this rate

    No rush by any means, rushing in this game seems to be impossible with the dreaded publisher wait always present. Feels like an age since I submitted my stuff, but it's just barely two months, with a quoted minimum wait of two months. Damn. I need the rejection letter to add to my collection!


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    #94
    coffee_cake
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    how long did they take you to write


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    #95
    FewFew
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    bluewolf wrote: »
    how long did they take you to write

    Hmmm... book 1 started well, but I only really wrote with a full moon, so, a few months for the first 6 or 7 chapters. Then it kinda died. Girlfriend at the time was less than enthusiastic. Then I moved to Germany and suddenly found loads of time to write. Maybe two years for book one.

    Then book two was never getting off the ground until I gave the first book to a classmate who absolutely loved it, spurring me on to do book two. Think book two took a year, though it still needs some tweaks and two extra chapters, but I'm getting feeback before I make the changes, just to gauge how much I need to correct certain elements.


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    #96
    cobsie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 223 ✭✭cobsie


    pickarooney wrote: »
    I finally managed to finish writing a chapter after two months of putting it off.

    how'd you get back into it after two months?

    I'm like a seized-up engine.


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    #97
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,090 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    After reading so many stories these last few weeks I forced myself to sit down with a pencil and try writing anything at all and not worry about the whole bigger issue.


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    #98
    Antilles
    Registered Users Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭Antilles


    Last night, I dreamt up a well worked, coherant plot for a chick-lit novel.

    I feel so dirty :'(


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    #99
    pickarooney
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    Good title.


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    #100
    FewFew
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    Antilles wrote: »
    Last night, I dreamt up a well worked, coherant plot for a chick-lit novel.

    I feel so dirty :'(

    If it's anything like Bridesmaids then I'm fully on-board!


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    #101
    coffee_cake
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    Fewcifur wrote: »
    If it's anything like Bridesmaids then I'm fully on-board!

    i heard that's good


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    #102
    FewFew
    Registered Users Posts: 12,746 ✭✭✭✭FewFew


    bluewolf wrote: »
    i heard that's good

    I laughed so hard, so very hard, I even got to the point where I was slapping my leg and gasping for air.

    Not unlike...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOQLaCXsSEI


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    #103
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,090 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    TWO semis are up if anyone's still following that.


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    #104
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,090 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Do you reckon rotten (cooked) chicken meat would be juicy or dry?


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    #105
    coffee_cake
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    i dont want to reckon anything about rotten chicken...


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    #106
    Kinski
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    pickarooney wrote: »
    Do you reckon rotten (cooked) chicken meat would be juicy or dry?

    Only one way to find out...


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    #107
    Antilles
    Registered Users Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭Antilles


    pickarooney wrote: »
    Do you reckon rotten (cooked) chicken meat would be juicy or dry?

    Juicy, but in the bad way.


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    #108
    CD.
    Registered Users Posts: 199 ✭✭CD.


    Antilles wrote: »
    Juicy, but in the bad way.
    i would say juicy in a bad way too, BUT, in saying that it depends on how it rotted. was it rotting in a dryish enviorment? could it have rotted and dried out or was it just normal/in the fridge. you could always take some raw chicken and seal it in a bag in your fridge for a week or two, if its rotting, give it a poke and see how it feels, then throw it away.

    also how is it cooked? fresh, juicy (in a good way) chicken can still be cooked until it's dried out.


    Speaking of cooking, I just made cookie batter. now I just have to wait a while for the batter to firm up in the fridge then those bastards are goin to the over. Mwahahaha.

    Did you know you can let cookies age and it makes them taste better? yeah, i think its kinda gross too, but 3 days in the fridge to allow it all to meld together makes them nicer.


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    #109
    cobsie
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    i know from experience...it's juicy. and unbelievably stinky. that's what you should focus on - the ****ing god-awful smell. retch-inducing, doesn't matter who you are. rotting flesh makes you wanna puke. it's probably a fairly healthy survival mechanism, come to think of it...


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    #110
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,090 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Cool. Bad-juicy, crawling with maggots and stinking to high heaven was what I was aiming for. I couldn't bring myself to do the research :D


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    #111
    Antilles
    Registered Users Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭Antilles


    Is this for a story, or are you planning on doing something really horrible to someone?


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    #112
    coffee_cake
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    Antilles wrote: »
    Is this for a story, or are you planning on doing something really horrible to someone?

    first the latter then the former :pac:


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    #113
    pickarooney
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    Just something I'm putting in place as part of the upcoming Variations on a Fear Factor.


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    #114
    Blush_01
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    I like that idea. It might get a bit grubby, but it'd definitely be something a little different.


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    #115
    pickarooney
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    Blush_01 wrote: »
    I like that idea. It might get a bit grubby, but it'd definitely be something a little different.

    Cool, I was actually re-reading a passage earlier and thinking I needed more synonyms for 'maggot'.


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    #116
    coffee_cake
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    i have poems stuck in my head and they wont come out :mad:


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    #117
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,090 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Your own ones or someone else's?


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    #118
    coffee_cake
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    Mine :) they refuse to be written
    Well one does; the other is getting there


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    #119
    FewFew
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    Wow, how jolly stubborn of them


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    #120
    CD.
    Registered Users Posts: 199 ✭✭CD.


    Beat them into submission!

    Or you could let them fester until the binding holding them become to weak and they fall out onto the page.

    But both don't sound pleasant.

    I sat down to write, started writing, everything is going well. Then next thing I know I'm playing with a fog-machine gun that makes pew pew noises when you fire it to make smoke rings. I am now, officially, done with everything else for the day.


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    #121
    Antilles
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    bluewolf wrote: »
    i have poems stuck in my head and they wont come out :mad:

    Have you tried poking a stick in your ear? It might knock them loose.


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