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CupofJoe
Myth Weaver
You've got to love working at a place where under a sign "Free to a good home" you find 40 year old copies of Beowulf [in English]; as well as Edda, Fortaellinger Fra Landnamabok and Ynglingerasaga [in (I think) Norwegian].
Okay - does anyone out there want to teach me Norwegian?
Okay - does anyone out there want to teach me Norwegian?
DragonOfTheAerie
Vala
You've got to love working at a place where under a sign "Free to a good home" you find 40 year old copies of Beowulf [in English]; as well as Edda, Fortaellinger Fra Landnamabok and Ynglingerasaga [in (I think) Norwegian].
Okay - does anyone out there want to teach me Norwegian?
Oh my gosh...old books give me heart eyes.
C
Chessie
Guest
Stop ruining everything with your political correctness.Why do we say stuff is "on fire" when really the fire is on the stuff?
Garren Jacobsen
Auror
I just wrote around 3k words in 3 hours. That was intense. Too bad it wasn't for my Wip. But now I have a new maximum bar to reach for.
FifthView
Vala
I'm a slow writer and a slow reader.
I realized my slowness in reading while still a teenager and comparing my speed with the speeds others reported. (How long to read this or that book?) I have an odd iterative process that sneaks in; I go back and re-read passages I've just completed, sometimes. Small sections. A few sentences or a small paragraph. It's not every paragraph and might not happen for most of a chapter. But it happens enough to slow me down.
It's like savoring food, but with words and passages.
This also creeps into my writing habits, as I try to re-savor things I've just written or have written the day before. Unfortunately this can also mean revising those things. Then re-savoring them. Not only with fiction, but with my comments here and elsewhere.
Happens with movies and television too, as I hit the quick "10-second rewind" on my remote or actually go farther back to watch a longer repeat. Even with things I'm watching for the first time.
DragonOfTheAerie
Vala
3k is around the most I've ever done in one sitting. Took me 4 1/2 hours. My writer friend, though, once wrote 7k words in one sitting...How that didn't kill her I don't know.
Tom
Istar
Hey guys! I'm back! I haven't been active because I've been working as a camp counselor this summer. I'm directing the fencing program at the camp and it's been a ton of fun so far. I just haven't had the energy on my days off to visit MS, but I felt bad for leaving for so long. So here I am!
Dreamer
Velka
Sage
Hi Tom!
Glad to hear you're still enjoying fencing. Writing anything new?
Glad to hear you're still enjoying fencing. Writing anything new?
Garren Jacobsen
Auror
So, I have this recurring nightmare, it involves me being forced to go back to middle school to complete one class because of some clerical error. It used to be that the dream would end around the first day of classes where I had to juggle one middle school class, as an adult nearing his 10 year high school reunion that he won't attend, and a college class or graduate level course work. Well, I had that dream again last night. But this time I had to do all of middle school or all of my subsequent diplomas would be nullified and I would have to repeat the process all over again. I hate that dream.
Garren Jacobsen
Auror
I just re watched the original land before time movie and I just realized that it's a hero's journey.
I used to have dreams like that. Long after high school and college, I'd find myself dreaming about attending class...somewhere. Some people I recognized, some I didn't. The teachers were often actual teachers from the old days. Alas, I really bombed those courses, whatever they were. Only a hazy idea of the subject, no textbooks, nothing but a pad and a pencil. But I wonder sometimes...last few dreams of that sort, the impression was that I was in an 'advanced' class. More disturbingly, the last one, I was the instructor.
DragonOfTheAerie
Vala
Me right now: *laughs hysterically while writing the words 'piteous screams'*
thomaschristeena
New Member
If you want to be helped, then help others!
Addison
Auror
Be warned, I am openly freaking.
I am participating in a Writers Digest Boot Camp. Part of the packet I must submit is the first two pages of the story. There's also a query and a synopsis, but the pages are stressing me out. Usually they ask for the first five or ten pages, the first two? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!
The beginning of my story has been the worst part. Not that it sucks (I don't think), I just can't find which beginning launches the story best. Beginnings are like the launch of a rocket. Too slow and the rocket either blows up or becomes the world's most expensive three person air flight. Too fast and there could still be damage and the story is thrown in the wrong trajectory. So yes, I am freaking out! I have four different beginnings, the first two pages of which only slightly different but the slight could be the difference between death and acceptance.
Again, EEEEEEEEEEEK! :eek2:
I am participating in a Writers Digest Boot Camp. Part of the packet I must submit is the first two pages of the story. There's also a query and a synopsis, but the pages are stressing me out. Usually they ask for the first five or ten pages, the first two? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!
The beginning of my story has been the worst part. Not that it sucks (I don't think), I just can't find which beginning launches the story best. Beginnings are like the launch of a rocket. Too slow and the rocket either blows up or becomes the world's most expensive three person air flight. Too fast and there could still be damage and the story is thrown in the wrong trajectory. So yes, I am freaking out! I have four different beginnings, the first two pages of which only slightly different but the slight could be the difference between death and acceptance.
Again, EEEEEEEEEEEK! :eek2:
kennyc
Inkling
You will learn. That's why they do it that way.
Garren Jacobsen
Auror
Just took a 50 question practice test for my licensing exam next Tuesday and Wednesday and got 45/50. I am feeling pretty good about this. Let's see what happens. In any event, I will be free from this need to study come next Wednesday. Hallelujah.
DragonOfTheAerie
Vala
Licensing for what?
kennyc
Inkling
Excellent!!! Good luck!
