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Writers' Bloc - Creative Writing Off Topic Thread

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  • #122
    coffee_cake
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


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

    my brains might fall out


  • #123
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,063 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Well, there's the beginning of a good autophagous zombie story.


  • #124
    coffee_cake
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    ill shove it in with the box stories somewhere :D

    hows the weather over there, it is hot here and i am pondering moving somewhere very cold


  • #125
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,063 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Over here? There was a threat of rain this morning but order is restored and we're back to scorchio scorchio scorchio for the week.

    We went to the annual fête de la gastronomie yesterday - a whole village converted into an open-air resturant with tastings of gourmet foods and fine wines from the top chefs and sommeliers in the area. It would have been perfect only for the live jazz. God, I hate jazz. It's a pity because I could recognise that the girl had a great voice and was really giving it socks but I just wanted to run her through with a brochette.


  • #126
    coffee_cake
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    pickarooney wrote: »
    Over here? There was a threat of rain this morning but order is restored and we're back to scorchio scorchio scorchio for the week.

    We went to the annual fête de la gastronomie yesterday - a whole village converted into an open-air resturant with tastings of gourmet foods and fine wines from the top chefs and sommeliers in the area. It would have been perfect only for the live jazz. God, I hate jazz. It's a pity because I could recognise that the girl had a great voice and was really giving it socks but I just wanted to run her through with a brochette.

    Welcome to the anti-jazz club, I hate it too :cool:
    had the same experience at a student concert recently... girl had a good voice and all but the music was just urgh


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  • #127
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,063 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    And you say that as a connoisseuse of music. See, I'm not just wrong about jazz.


  • #128
    coffee_cake
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    Yeah it's just not nice
    i did some jazzed up version of a paganini caprice for an exam one year :(:(:(
    beat the other jazzy crap they tried making me do though
    i'm not big into 20thC music, with some exceptions

    wait, i think i see mad hatter coming after me with a blunt weapon... :pac:


  • #129
    The Mad Hatter
    Registered Users Posts: 4,718 ✭✭✭The Mad Hatter


    I am no longer speaking to anyone in this thread.


  • #130
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,063 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Have you two gone head to head in the arena yet? It would be like Tyson v Ali.


  • #131
    coffee_cake
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    we sure did, on the 16th
    and i have zero time for any more entries for ehm, about 4 weeks or so


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  • #132
    The Mad Hatter
    Registered Users Posts: 4,718 ✭✭✭The Mad Hatter


    pickarooney wrote: »
    Have you two gone head to head in the arena yet? It would be like Tyson v Ali.

    We have - she rather mopped the floor with me.


  • #133
    FewFew
    Registered Users Posts: 12,746 ✭✭✭✭FewFew


    CD. wrote: »
    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.

    Where did you find such a magical device?! :eek:
    bluewolf wrote: »
    ill shove it in with the box stories somewhere :D

    hows the weather over there, it is hot here and i am pondering moving somewhere very cold

    Why cold? It seems pleasantly warm at the moment... though that's me in my normally chilly office, so, maybe in the sunlight I might agree.
    bluewolf wrote: »
    Welcome to the anti-jazz club, I hate it too :cool:
    had the same experience at a student concert recently... girl had a good voice and all but the music was just urgh

    Are we talking... old skool jazz or new stuff with time signatures that make my brain bleed?


  • #134
    coffee_cake
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    Fewcifur wrote: »
    Why cold? It seems pleasantly warm at the moment... though that's me in my normally chilly office, so, maybe in the sunlight I might agree.
    hello i am bluewolf i like the cold :D
    Are we talking... old skool jazz or new stuff with time signatures that make my brain bleed?
    any of it


  • #135
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,063 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Also any of it. I think I should hate the new-style bollocks more but I actually think Chet Baker is the devil.


  • #136
    The Mad Hatter
    Registered Users Posts: 4,718 ✭✭✭The Mad Hatter


    Goddamn novel is just not happening today. I've written 73 words in the last hour. Seventy-three!!

    I'm gonna go write some short stories instead.


  • #137
    coffee_cake
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    The Mad Hatter wrote: »
    Goddamn novel is just not happening today. I've written 73 words in the last hour. Seventy-three!!

    I'm gonna go write some short stories instead.

    i spent an hour or two on a poem yesterday and managed to make the progress of crossing out words instead of adding any more :pac:
    but then i did my german homework so it's all good


  • #138
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,063 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    I wrote 3 foolscap today but I know if and when I force myself to type it up it will equate to about three lines.


  • #139
    Antilles
    Registered Users Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭Antilles


    You know what I really really love?

    Jazz.


  • #140
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,063 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Antilles wrote: »
    Jazz.

    Banned


  • #141
    coffee_cake
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    Antilles wrote: »
    You know what I really really love?

    Jazz.

    them's fightin' words!!


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  • #142
    pickarooney
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51NAFhGDIYw


  • #143
    CD.
    Registered Users Posts: 199 ✭✭CD.


    Fewcifur wrote: »
    Where did you find such a magical device?! :eek:

    My sister got it for me for my birthday. It also has a blue light so you can see the smoke rings better. It's some unce unce music away from being a mobile night club.

    I sat down to write, nothing, so I did some editing instead, got about 14 pages done before I was distracted. I got business cards in the mail today. feel so...businessy...

    as to jazz, I don't particularly care about it one way or t'other.


  • #144
    Blush_01
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    Ha, just back on Twitter after months of ignoring it, and the second last post on the Irish Writers twitter page is a link to the Cinderella VOAT. From 13 months ago. Blast from the past!


  • #145
    The Mad Hatter
    Registered Users Posts: 4,718 ✭✭✭The Mad Hatter


    It must be done.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHRSwEAmpk4


  • #146
    Antilles
    Registered Users Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭Antilles


    Blush_01 wrote: »
    Ha, just back on Twitter after months of ignoring it, and the second last post on the Irish Writers twitter page is a link to the Cinderella VOAT. From 13 months ago. Blast from the past!

    Yeah the winner of that story sure was amazing. Handsome devil too, or so I've heard.


  • #147
    Blush_01
    Registered Users Posts: 5,016 ✭✭✭Blush_01


    Antilles wrote: »
    Yeah the winner of that story sure was amazing. Handsome devil too, or so I've heard.

    Apparently you should only believe half of what you see and even less of what you hear... :p


  • #148
    coffee_cake
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    hurray for buying new books o/


  • #149
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,063 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    I had this image in my head of satellite phones (old school ones) being the size of a suitcase and having a small dish but can't find any photographic evidence. I seem to remember them showing up in war films a lot.


  • #150
    Antilles
    Registered Users Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭Antilles


    How about this?

    http://www.visualphotos.com/photo/2x4071541/business_man_running_past_a_satellite_dish_talking_81a-00002460-001.jpg


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  • #151
    Antilles
    Registered Users Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭Antilles


    A Dance With Dragons is heeeeeeerrreeee!!!!!

    See you in two weeks, folks!


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