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Post by Someguy on Dec 26, 2008 19:55:17 GMT
HOLY FUCK YES! See that rank? I'm like freaking Moses or something. (Oh, if only this mattered in some way. And yet it doesn't. Unhappy Face.)
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mojojojoe
Tenacious Typer
The cold sweat in your breakfast
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Post by mojojojoe on Dec 27, 2008 1:38:07 GMT
Please figure out how to un-use avatars. I do not like that mans face.
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Post by MoeMeister on Dec 27, 2008 19:40:23 GMT
I feel pitiful...*tear*
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Starlong
The Master
I have a theory. Let's conspire about it...
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Post by Starlong on Dec 28, 2008 17:50:06 GMT
I just became a junior member! Yay! All h- wait... 250 posts? Dude... Way to outshine me, you d*** :/
(I feel a foot of justice coming after that, and not the good kind...)
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Post by Someguy on Dec 28, 2008 20:43:18 GMT
You? The Foot of Justice? Pah! I have a much more potent arsenal at my fingertips now, friend, than that outmoded physical vulgarity.
Behold! My new move! HIRED MOB OF JUSTICE!(tm)
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Post by Fire Bear on Dec 28, 2008 20:52:27 GMT
That's not a mob! That would be organized! You can't have an organized mob! They don't work out so well!
Just read Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett if you don't believe me. It's probably copyrighted. (I would loan you my copy but Tom stole it...)
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Post by Someguy on Dec 28, 2008 21:42:39 GMT
Pfft. The beauty of this move is that if anyone argues I can just shout 'SPONTANEOUSLY ORGANIZED MOB OF JUSTICE!' and the problem simply goes away under a press of spanner-wielding maniacs.
And professionally speaking, this is a problem heavy readers face when writing; regurgitation. You'll see, once well-read enough, parallels running from author to author. But the very best writers are those who can add new and original ideas to the mix and/or take the same ingredients and produce striking writing (ingredients being things like romance, the Soviet Union, etc.)
Look at Pratchett's countries. He's taken exisitng ones and turned them into something entirely new yet with enough of the original aspects to use the associations people have about these countries, thus giving him an automatic boost to atmosphere and character. He's also taken the old ideas of, say, wizardry and given it new rules. How has he done this? He drew on life experience. You'll find that, in his books, magic produces waste, like nuclear energy (I believe he worked at a nuclear plant during his life. He mentions it in the preface to each Discworld book) and from this he takes the old idea that nuclear energy can mutate things (remember all those old B-Movie films like the one with the giant spider? All involve radiation) and brings that idea to the character Gaspode and Maurice the Cat, who can both talk as a result of exposure to this Magical waste (and in a way, magical waste causing this makes more sense than nuclear radiation. It's an idea that clicks pretty well; maybe he should mention it more.)
So you see, writing is about drawing from the world and from ideas and from conceptions. And yourself, for true beauty lies within perception and through perception we see ourselves; we are the writing.
And you will also see now that I am truly a fucking prophet like Moses. And sounding more and more like Joe by the day.
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mojojojoe
Tenacious Typer
The cold sweat in your breakfast
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Post by mojojojoe on Dec 29, 2008 3:17:36 GMT
The avatar is better doooooood.
There is a line between reworking a previous idea by another author and plain plagiarizing. Sometimes it's done unconsciously, where you read something, forget it, and then come up with it as an original creation. Done that a few times I think. It pisses you off something awful.
Moses wasn't a prophet. This means you are a false profit.
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Post by Someguy on Dec 29, 2008 16:56:13 GMT
A false profit? Am I the spirit of Enron, now?
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Post by McBain on Dec 30, 2008 21:24:03 GMT
We are aware of your antics Joe. Matrix, cough cough Is it not also true that there are only seven basic plots that all stories can be expressed as therefore meaning that the only possible way to write is to choose one of these extremely simple premises and bring your own uniqueness to it? Or am I mistaken as I sometimes am?
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Post by Someguy on Dec 31, 2008 14:56:42 GMT
Only sometimes, Pete?
There was talk of that. Personally, I couldn't care less. There are good stories and there are bad stories. Both can be enjoyable, and then not so.
Fuck it.
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Post by Fire Bear on Feb 23, 2009 17:02:58 GMT
Hey, look!
I only just noticed that I've caught up with Stewart.
That's not good is it?
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Post by Gunslinger Vinny on Feb 23, 2009 18:40:19 GMT
It's certainly one of the defining characteristics of needing a new life outside Writer's Group, sorry to say...
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Starlong
The Master
I have a theory. Let's conspire about it...
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Post by Starlong on Feb 23, 2009 18:42:58 GMT
Also sorry to say that the Guild is not a far enough deviation to count. Longboarding, on the other hand... Need to find out what those guys are up too.
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Post by Fire Bear on Feb 25, 2009 18:33:28 GMT
Yeah, we missed them doing something somewhere at sometime...
I need to get a job.
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