- Sit down at desk.
- Open Word document.
- Look at blank page.
- Become anxious.
- Decide that the problem is the font.
- Change font.
- Be much happier.
- Look at blank page.
- Make cup of tea/coffee.
- Drink tea/coffee while looking at blank page.
- Do not check Twitter/email/Facebook/Tumblr.
- Check them a little.
- Take a break.
- Sit back down.
- Write something.
- Change font.
- Be much happier.
- Take out phone in case someone wants to ring you.
- Do not play Angry Birds.
- Do not play it.
- Play it a little.
- Put phone away.
- Delete what you have written.
- Write something else.
- Read back over it.
- Shrug. Decide to fix it in the rewrite.
- Congratulations! You've started the book!
Sunday, December 14, 2014
How To Write Books Good, Part 3
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«Oldest ‹Older 2401 – 2600 of 4873 Newer› Newest»@Tia: With credit to Silente, not ALL heating technology is radioactively fuelled. :P / :)
@Rhos: *tilts head* What do you mean by author/profile names?
Oh, Bye, Lavender!
Enjoy breakfast! :)
Link to RTG
I'll be back soon. While Lavender leaves for breakfast I go to have dinner...
(Don't worry, Jai. You can do anything you want. Unless you drop it really hard. Twice. In that case, everyone dies.)
(CAN I MAKE IT LOOK LIKE A FUZZY PUPLE WORM?? :D)
Taia, you know
Author names: The actual person behind the screens name, so Rhos or Chloe or Kas
Profile name: The name we've chosen for ourselves so Garrett, Inky, Tia
(And by everyone, I mean you, your family, your friends, and nobody else.)
Bye, Solus!
(Why not my enemies?!)
(lol Kas is not my name. I made that quite clear. Kas is kinda shortened from my name. I prefer Kas and I'm used to it online. I think it fits.)
(@Sil The answer you're looking for is "love thy enemy")
(Still, I'm not unlucky enough to be called Abcde)
(*mutters*
*sticks purple fluff to the RTG*)
Well I've learned something new (Kas not being your proper name...)
But if you prefer it I'll use it *nods*
(sorry, was distracted by coughing followed by mental processes)
@Rhos: Oh, okay. :)
Goodbye, Solus!
Ah, timezones. :)
@Tia: *is absolutely about to start following those links now*
*sticks purple stuff on Jai*
Tis all good Taia *nods* :D
Yeah, did anyone even click any of the links :/
(*stocks googly eyes on the RTG*)
What are you making, Jai? It's not going to breathe fire for you.
@Tia: SORRY. I keep coughing and thinking about things. :P
In fairness, I have CLICKED the links. THey were loading... :P
@Sil: :3
*hugs Taia* I'm sorry. :/)
Same to you, Amy! :)
How are you all?
(Okay... How are you?)
(Hi everyone, I'm back...)
I'm back.
I'm fine. :)
*hugs Tia* No worries. :)
Amethyst! Hello! :)
Welcome back Velvet, Solus! :)
How are you both?
(Hey, Velv and Solus!)
(I'm... I don't even know anymore... *sits down*)
(Hey Tia, do you want to rp?)
*hugs Velv*
Aw, what's wrong, Velvet?
(*hugs Matex*
I've had enough of my brother beating me up and saying mean things and getting away with it. And my parents spoil him big time...)
(*cuddles the RTG*)
*looks around*
You saw nothing.
*hugs Velvet*
Little siblings are the worst.
:( *hugs Velvet*
(*hugs Scarlet* Yeah... Going to bed everyone...)
Good night, Velvet!
Have a good night, Velvet.
*hugs her again*
@Tia: Star Citizen looks good. The graphics especially in the second one especially look very nice, too. Looks like a lot of variation in content? I don't know much about video games, I only play a little & infrequently, but it's kind of amazing that it's funded entirely by the crowd. Must be a lot of support. I hope it's worth the wait. :) ^^
*playing the first video again because I like the music? :P*
Hi, Matex! :)
@Velvet: Aw, man. :/
I don't really know what to say in that case, except, know that he'll grow out of it?
Whatever he says, I can probably tell you from my experience that you're better than that? Y'know, you rule. The things that he says because he thinks that he can, whatever they are, they don't change that you're awesome, yeah?
So, I don't know. Hang in there. :/
*sighs*
Sorry for the briefness, but I'm gonna go. Bye everyone.
Good bye, Scarlet!
*growls*
Message didn't post!
Good night, Velv!
*huggles Sil*
(Hello Scarlet and Matex.)
(Bye, Scar!)
(*growls angrily at message not posting*)
(*huggles Tia*)
*hugs Tia and hands her a rock to throw at message posting thing* :)
Oh, night, Velvet! Sleep well! ^^
Hello/Goodbye, Scarlet!
Have a good day/night/other? :/
*hugs tia* :/
MSD
*throws rock*
*is happy because Sil is warm*
(*smiles at the RTG worm*)
Hey, Sil, just read your new BTG song. Is that the one you were talking about, or do we still have to wait till Christmas?
By the way, I liked it. :)
(*hugs Amy and Taia*)
*looks at Sil*
You do know nothing bad is going to happen, right?
Just keep it in your room and you'll be warm.
(You still have to wait till Christmas. That was just 'I'm in a weird mood' song.)
Well it was still good, but I'm sorry to hear you were in a weird mood.
*hugs*
*also does not mean to rhyme*
(*hugs back* it's fine. Moods happen.
*nods at Kas*
But it's cute.)
*understands*
*nods*
Wbd
It is...
(Has everyone gone to sleep? :/)
(I'm still here, but MSD-ing ^^)
(Hey, Taia.)
Also, *hugs everybody and tries to fall asleep*
(Elsa's parents are dead!?)
*hugs Tia* Sleep well, I hope. :) ^^
Sorry, I'm still here, sort of.
Sleep well, Tia.
*hugs back*
? :0
(Hey, Hope.
I can't sleep :/)
I haven't seen the films? Like what? :S
I was just asking...
Well, I'll stop being distant to keep you company, if you want.
I saw that link you posted earlier with frozen 2...
That was kinda unexpected. :P
Oh...
You should watch it.
*nods*
And don't look at spoilers!
*facepalms for confirming the question*
There's a Frozen 2 ??
*hasn't seen the first one, still. :P*
There. No more spoiler.
Ish...
Sorry.
No, Taia. Fake trailer.
I think so, Taia, but there's no real trailer for it yet. People are just guessing I think.
*wishes she knew what's going to happen in the next Frozen movie*
I'm pretty sure Disney's going to make a second one though.
So, do you guys have any favourite movies/books/games?
Also, any films that looked good in the trailer but then were disappointing?
Crud. Just realised it has been years since I've seen Cars.
@Lavender: No worries. :)
I've seen so many parts of Frozen over the year that I've probably seen most of it, anyway. :P
Oh, right. :)
Yeah, I can't imagine they wouldn't make a sequel, just because... the success. O_O
Hmm...
I like too many to name. :P Not all of them would probably interest you though.
But Hunger Games was awesome, as was the second movie. And Divergent. I haven't seen the last part one of HG or Insergent yet.
Percy Jackson's second movie. It LOOKED good, but was WAY off the book plot. Horrible. -_-
I haven't seen Cars 2, but that one also looked interesting. Cars was awesome. :)
Um, idk.
I haven't seen any recent films, I don't think.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is probably my default favourite, though. :)
I'm told that Mockingjay pt1 and the latest Hobbit films are both very good, but I didn't seen either, yet.
Still haven't watched Catching Fire.
Or Divergent.
I'm so behind on entertainment things. :P
It was. But I feel like sequels ruined it. I mean Planes... seriously?
(Not being racist to Cars, but just saying. But yeah, only seen the first one too.)
*has seen THG and Divergent but not the other one...
Divergent was ok... Catching Fire was great. Mockingjay... meh :/ (Mockingjay is rated lower on imdb than Dumb and Dumber.)
I'm behind on things too, just watch a lot of trailers. ^.^
*hasn't seen Planes yet*
But I agree that having that made is a little bit much... Still, I want to see how it went.
Wow, is it that bad?
*hasn't seen Mockingjay either*
(*refuses to watch Cars 2 and Planes*
Like, I liked the first one, but sometimes either the story is, or is told in a way, that means sequel shouldn't happen, no matter how much we might want it, like in Inception.)
Moi?
(Not exactly bad... it's a great set-up for part 2. I've not read Mockingjay so I don't know if part 2 will be a great finisher or not.
But I'm a huge fan. I care little for whether it's good or not.)
I dedicate to Danni. You are great and I don't deserve a friend as good as you.
:)
Inception was awesome.
And I understand what you mean about one movie being enough. It was nice how Cars ended.
Not to mention they had a short TV show of Mater being the main character... That was just odd. :/
Hear hear. :)
And Mockingjay the book was pretty good. I just hope the movie stays true to it, but since they did a good job with the first two movie/books, I think it'll be good. :)
Very surprising ending twist though. Not saying more.
(Vous.)
Oh, really? I heard a pretty good response to Mockingjay, so that's surprising. ^^
Sorry, wbd/msd.
On the second week of Christmas my lecturer gave to me
5 all-nighters
4 hours of crying
3 mental breakdowns
2 thoughts of dropouts
And a month of anxiety
@Tia ... Yikes. But cool version. :)
Eve made a really funny Blogland version of 12 days of Christmas and Star made a short Christmas story with Hunter and Ez. It was funny. Wish she didn't delete her blog though... :(
@Lavender: *nods* It's been a long time since I read Mockingjay, so I don't really remember the ending.
Plus, I read all of THG at once, without stopping between books, so I don't know where one ends and the next starts. Which is good for not knowing what happens in the films, I guess. :)
@Tia: *hugs* I think somebody showed me a version along those lines the other week - unfortunately pretty relatable. :P
O_O
It's DEcember 23rd.
I thought it was, like, the 18th or something. xD
I think I'm gonna go, now.
Night Tia, Lavender! *hugs*
(I'm off to sleep as well.
Good night, Hope and Taia!)
Have a good night, guys!
*wonders if she's alone now*
*stays for a little longer in case someone shows up*
*wbd*
Guess I'm going now. Bye Blogland!
*poofs*
Hello?
I don't understand how sometimes there are over 1,000 comments a day and yet whenever I come on it's silent. Well I should be on during the day tomorrow. Maybe there will actually be ball.
Hello?
If you want to have a ball, we can have a ball. I'm sure we can figure out something that will work out with just the two of us.
The two of us and Emerald Phoenix, that is. Hello there!
Or not...
That's cool, really.
I LOVED MOCKINJAY
IT WAS SO EMOTIONAL. <3
Divergent, I was less keen on. The kovie wasn't too bad, but it had nothing on the books. I LOVED the Divergent books. <3
*movie
Whereas with THG, the books were good, but the movies were amazing.
I didn't like MockingJay part 1 because I read the books. I felt as if it was just a filler, just a build up to part 2. It was alright for a filler but for a movie? I didn't like it.
Anyway, good morning Star.
(5:30pm)
(*sighs and curls up*)
*hugs Jai* what's wrong? And hi....
(*hugs Rhos tightly*)
*nods and hugs back* I think I know what's wrong here, so if you need to split with Viv, but can't do it yourself..... You need someone to crash the wedding! (Genius! ) and is there anything else bothering you? (if you want to talk about it, but not on the blog, my email is on my profile or I could give it to you here your choice? )
(Email.)
(And also I think Tanya already plans to crash the wedding..possibly half of blogland too..)
I loved Mockingjay Part 1. But I'm a very emotionally-based person, so I'm likely to be biased towards emotions.
I guess it depends what you're looking for in a movie. The Hunger Games films aren't usually like Mockingjay Part 1 was - I mean, they usually have more events and less emotions? So I can understand why people were dissatisified. Just, for me - most crying I've done since TFIOS. :P
I've got it and replied
And fair doo's why not... Tanya seems to have it in for Sil *nods*
That's why we blow Tanya up!
It wasn't even that SAD, you have to understand. 'Twas just full of things that make it emotionally investing, to me. :)
No, Gar. Blowing up people is rarely the answer. :)
(Tanya does have it in for Sil for some reason..
Then again most people do at some point.)
True point Star.... :)
But in some (rare) cases it definitely helps *nods* and good morning Star, how be you?)
Well Garrett doesn't have it on for Sil (Yet... You never know...) so if you need bodyguard, just ask and me can probably help )
(He did when they first met remember.)
(Matthew if you want to talk then talk here.)
(Your dress is great Sil!)
Good point... *nods* but hey I was more random back then.... I've mellowed out a bit now, and I'm sure bygones can be bygones and they can get on without trying to kill each other....
(That isn't the dress Viv..)
(Of course not, you're supposed to keep it secret.)
(Yes you have mellowed out. And hopefully they won't kill each other.)
(Semi secret..)
(Some have seen it.)
Exactly! (to everything!!!!)
(*hugs Rhos and Mar* you are good people.)
(Secret to me)
(Secret to you yes.)
(You can see my suit though right?)
(Uh no it'll ruin the surprise.)
*hugs Jai* thank you )
(don't check your email then)
Fine! I am here, present, because my presence is requested and apparently private messaging is not an option. I don't want this to be in public but here we are.
(*hugs Rhos* you're welcome.
Oh Viv you forgot to attach the picture anyway.)
(Hello Matthew.)
(Of course I did...stupid yahoo...)
No need to say hello seeing as we were talking only minutes ago but sure, hi. Care to reply to any of my messages?
(It's fine Viv.)
(I haven't read any of your messages.)
(I know..)
Okay what, would you like me to repeat myself?
(Hello.)
(That would be helpful.)
(Anyway...)
(Hey Soph.)
(How are you Viv?)
(And Rhos^^)
(And Soph^^)
(Energetic and tired at the same time...does that make any sense?)
(@Viv it does. That's probably lack of sleep. Or a sugar rush.)
You could just as easily read them yourself, but okay.
Why the blog? Why can't you talk to me? Is this some kind of public execution? I have no interest in any more abuse or laughing at than I have already dealt with, I hate things in public, I hate people watching me. I just want to talk to you. But here I am, because you don't give me much choice.
You do feel things, you feel love. You told me you did and you told me you didn't lie. So I don't understand where this is coming from.
(Hello, Silente. *hugs her tightly*)
(The blog because here I won't be backed into a corner and I won't feel as helpless or easily manipulated.
No this isn't public execution.
I gave you a choice, friends, you said no.
I didn't lie. But there are different types of love.
This is coming from me.)
(*hugs Soph tightly back*)
Well that is lovely. I would hate for you to feel manipulated. It actually hurts to think you ever thought that was the case; disgusts me to think it might have happened.
I'm not talking about that, I'm talking about breaking up; your choice.
Friends I didn't mean NO, just that I don't see how it is possible without killing me. If friends is what we have to be to talk then friends we are, I only mean that I can't promise to just act like it's fine in the long term and simply stay here, and I don't know how you could find it so easy or think I would be able to.
Coming from you but Where, Why? One day everything is fine and you love me and we're maybe even going to meet and then suddenly you don't know any more and you're breaking up with me and you haven't said a single reason. Just that you don't know. I still don't know where that came from, why the sudden change happened.
(brb feeding cats.)
*starts whistling* ......)
(*jeopardy theme*)
Never heard it Viv.... )
(From what I can tell, Matex, half of what you say seems to be accepting her decision. The other half, however, seems to be making Silente feel bad about her decision. Whether this is on purpose or not, I do not know - but I fail to see how it will make the breaking up easier on either of you.)
(Well I'm sorry it disgusts you.
If you can't handle friends we don't have to be friends.
I've given you reasons Mat.)
Then for my sake could you remind me what those reasons are because as far as I can recall you've said "I don't know" every time I ask..
("Because you made me come to decision! Because I feel pressured and confused and angry and upset instead of happy!")
(Direct quote.)
Yes but that doesn't say where the need to make the decision comes from why you considered the possibility in the first place, why there was any doubt, why your mind changed from being so certain, from loving me, to suddenly saying you don't know.
(The need to make this decision comes from you.
Because I had doubts.
Because there is always doubt in my mind.
Because I couldn't handle it anymore! The pressure.)
From me? How? Everything was fine, then you start doubting, again, for no reason. The pressure is simply me not understanding why there is any confusion or doubt in the first place. What am I suppose to do? Spend all my time waiting for you to decide? If there is no pressure, if I just wait, then what happens? Every second week we go through the "i dont know" stage again? It doesn't make sense. And I askes if you needed time and you said no.
(No. I don't want time. Because you're right, we can't keep going round in circles. So I stopped it. No more circles. No more 'I don't know's.)
I mean, why be with me at all if its doubt all the time? I tried just being there and trying to help and loving you but it didn't ease the doubt at all. And if its doubt about whether or not you want to be together... Then, it shouldn't be up to me to convince you one way or another. That's the hardest part. Trying to care but trying NOT to manipulate you into staying. It just doesn't make sense why you changed your mind at all; it probably never will. I thought we were happy. I mean, we were. You did love me, I believe it, I believe you, when you said it wasn't a lie. I just don't understand anything else..
(Matex, this is from a completely unbiased point of view but when a girl tells you that she has doubts, your first action shouldn't be to question her, it should be to dispel the doubts. Everyone has doubts, and when they are brave enough to share those doubts don't ask them why, why's come later. The question that you should ask is how, how can I help, how does ____ make feel, how do you want to do things now. Those are what she needs, not whys.)
*make you feel
(I can't make you understand Mat. I don't know how I can. I've tried to and it hasn't work.)
Circles? Right... I...
Wouldn't have thought so...
In all honesty, I thought we were moving forwards. Progress. Things got better. And I wouldn't mind either way, I still wouldn't want to stop. I'd rather help, fix it, figure out what is wrong. But I don't know. I can't make you want to be together. I can only promise to be here if you do, and to try my best...
(Thank you Viv.)
Believe me Viv i asked and every single answer was "i dont know". I spent a lot of time trying to help to the point that I'm fairly sure I just became annoying. But I also can't dispel doubts about her feelings. If she doesn't love me I have no right to try and make her. I can only say that I am here and that I love her either way..
(You're welcome, I've been through this before in a way, I know how it feels.)
Do you really think I didn't do that Jai? :(
I tried so much.
(I value the support Viv.
Matthew I appreciate you being here for me but if it's going to drive you insane I'd rather you just spend some alone time. And sleep.)
I asked those questions until you were screaming "I dont know" or "I cant".
(Spend time with your sisters..)
(No, you asked why.)
No, I'm sane and I do sleep, that has nothing to do with this. You say thank you Viv as though I didn't even try. What else could I possibly have done? I've done nothing but try, I'm still trying. Don't tell me to go for my sake. It's way past that. If I was concerned about that I wouldn't have ever stayed up to talk to you.
(I fail to see how interrogation will help the situation.)
No!! I asked how, where does the douby come from, how do you feel, how can i help, what should i do? And it was always i dont know! Asking why came after that yes because you're dumping me and I sure as hell would like to know why, thats all
(I say thank you think Viv because he's trying to helpful.)
Okay fair enough just felt like a kind of passive aggresive suggestion that i didn't try, sorry
(Its fine. Things can be misinterpreted over the internet easily.)
And what about circles? Don't know if you saw my response to that one
(You've already tried your best Matthew. I'm thankful for you caring so much, I am. But..we were going in circles. It would go good, then start going bad again.)
Well I honestly believe it is a learning proccess of dealing with the bad and the potentially bad and I definitely think we came a long way, I think there are many many situations where we handled it better than we would have earlier. I feel like that's part of love, learning to understand stuff like that, and at the end of the day I enjoyed it, enjoyed coming out on the other side and still being okay. But that's just my understanding of it. I hate that you think it was circles and I do feel like, well, feel as if you don't want to try. I'm sure there's much more to it than that though. Just leaving my thoughts here. I want to try. I would do anything for you, and in my honest opinion the occasional bad day wad worth it, to be with you.
That's about all there is to say though. I want to change your mind so much, but... That's not up to me. If you need me, I'm here... I love you.
Good bye.
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