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Arting Harder at the Pen Monkey Toiling Pit (Celebrate Them Pages Pt III)
moon:
just woke up with a new idea for a story
i have not written in months due to crazyness
but brain 1am is not the bext time to give me ideas?
now i just need someone to pok me in to actually writing the idea down and not just role playing it in my room as the people here think i am mad alreadyand talking to imaginary people does not help lol
Ulfgeir:
Finally started writing again. didn't get much done yesterday but it's a start.
Had a long slump in my daily writing routine. And did some rewriting on my synopisis this past weekend.
/Ulfgeir
Paynesgrey:
Well, one of my shorts is in "the next level of selection" for a magazine. They're semi-pro by SFWA's new standards, but that doesn't make much never-mind to me. Another story tied for 2nd place in Pittsburgh's Sci-Fi group's annual competition. Better than I'd dared hope, because the contest had a specific theme, and my story barely acknowledged that theme. More like it walked in, tipped it's hat at the theme with two lines, and then toddled off to be about it's business.
Chugging along on The Big Damn Edit for the novel still... Had to go back to page one and dampen my protagonists's dialect down somewhat, but now I'm rolling along, maybe 80% finished with this run. Finally getting new material into the hands of my Reader Monkeys, which will naturally lead to more editing, but that will hopefully be the odd tweak or tickle.
Be nice when I get this finished and can open new playgrounds... writing's way more fun than editing. ;)
meg_evonne:
Thanks DK, but my fresh look was cut short when the 2nd round of edits came in. So back in editing mode. Take a look at my new thread? Could use some of your insight.
--- Quote from: moon on August 08, 2014, 12:41:34 AM ---just woke up with a new idea for a story ... now i just need someone to pok me
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Consider yourself poked! And something is wrong talking to imaginary people? Since when? Is that why they stare at me at Starbucks?
--- Quote from: Ulfgeir on August 08, 2014, 10:24:31 AM ---Finally started writing again. didn't get much done yesterday but it's a start. /Ulfgeir
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Yeah! Ulfgeir! Doing a single writer's stadium wave from kitchen table. Best luck on sticking to it.
--- Quote from: Paynesgrey on August 10, 2014, 10:51:39 PM ---Well, one of my shorts is in "the next level of selection" for a magazine. They're semi-pro by SFWA's new standards, but that doesn't make much never-mind to me. Another story tied for 2nd place in Pittsburgh's Sci-Fi group's annual competition. Better than I'd dared hope, because the contest had a specific theme, and my story barely acknowledged that theme. More like it walked in, tipped it's hat at the theme with two lines, and then toddled off to be about it's business.
Chugging along on The Big Damn Edit for the novel still... Had to go back to page one and dampen my protagonists's dialect down somewhat, but now I'm rolling along, maybe 80% finished with this run. Finally getting new material into the hands of my Reader Monkeys, which will naturally lead to more editing, but that will hopefully be the odd tweak or tickle.
Be nice when I get this finished and can open new playgrounds... writing's way more fun than editing. ;)
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Ain't that the truth, but I do enjoy editing too. I wish I could figure out how to do both--something new while editing something old. I either 1. don't have time or 2. I'm too inflexible... It's good to have you post again, my friend! And how great to get second on your nod to the theme! Very exciting. I've a goal of getting into SFWA someday, but I've not proven to be a short story person or a dedicated regular submission-type person. We'll see. Someday...
moon:
i started to err write again.... so far I have half a chapter....
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