Earlier this evening, you see, I ducked back into the office during the evening to collect a bag of stuff I'd left at my desk, and while I was there I stopped off to use the loo. Said loo is in the depths of the building, with ventilation but no natural light,...
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Starcraft is much more about micromanagement which is why I suppose it appeals to me.
And the new codex isn't out yet.
Not till next year, and it looks like a split launch.
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Oh, the nights are long
And I'm so tired of waking up tired,
Man, they just drag on and on
And I'm so tired of waking up tired.
The company...
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I can't study by highlighting alone.
My method is: Read once before class; read again during class to note the major points discussed there; read a third time with the highlighter; summarize both case and highlighted points; summarize the summary; take exam.
Four hundred years ago people knew little about our
tarnished universe. They thought that the earth was the
center of the entire anvil and that the sun and all of the
conifers revolved around it. But then a/an
Kenyan named Copernicus discovered the truth.
The earth revolves around the Sean from the IT department
34 times a year.
Copernicus, whose last name was Eisenhorn, was born
in Warsaw, and he used one of the first dated
telescopes, which was invented by Aya.
This primitive telescope was little more than two pieces of
gnocchi stuck on each end of a/an woomera.
In 1600 an Italian writer named Galileo
expanded Copernicus's broken theories, but during the
Inquisition in Italy he was wistfully arrested. After
heartstring for six months in jail, Galileo was
forced to antagonise .
Or rather, it's strange to suddenly realise that that's how you feel.
This is by way of being a placeholder; I shall elaborate at some point soon.
One of the best writing tips I got about writing sex (which also applies to writing violence, for whatever you want to read into that) was to do two exercises with any sex scene you write.
Firstly, take the scene, chop it up into sentences, phrases or words, jumble it about with any similar scene from another book, make the necessary name changes and then plug it back into the story you got it from. Has this appreciably affected how it works in the story?
Secondly, repeat the exercise, but swap it with a different sex scene from the same story. Again, does the story suffer at all? Do either of the scenes?
If any of the answers are "no", then you've got some rewriting to do.
The point of this, of course, being that the scenes shouldn't be interchangeable: just because it's about people fucking doesn't mean it shouldn't be serving the story with something that advances the plot, something that shows something new about the characters or the setting, whatever. The important thing is that the story not be in stasis while the fucking goes on. Perhaps the writers of bad erotica have lost track of this?
What I was about to type here was "on the other hand, maybe the rules are a little different in a piece specifically designed as erotica", but on reflection I'm not sure I'm convinced of that. Does intending to arouse free you from obligations to storytelling? I wouldn't buy that argument from a horror writer who made a similar claim about the intent to scare, for example.
If you could find a way to disseminate this wisdom to the masses, I would sing your praises to my dying day.
This conversation took a-g-e-s. Bloody hell, that man was a...
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It's seven minutes to midnight and I promised someone a piece of work by "the end of the weekend". It's not going to be hard, it's not even the not-fun kind of work, but I was born...
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On the upside, the new Tau stuff is coming out soon - maybe I'll buy a new one