I often end up writing crap. Usually, I realize that after two or three thousand words. A few of those get binned completely, but most end up simply getting re-written (some more than once) paragraph by paragraph and scene by scene until I'm satisfied. My belief is that this re-writing is the best way to improve writing skills and to find what works and what doesn't for oneself.
As writers, we need to multitask between storytelling and writing properly. A creative thought process doesn't want to care about commas and verb tenses all the time, and when you're already three paragraphs ahead in a fantasy you try to bring to paper, mistakes are bound to happen. Some parts are going to completely miss the target, but unless the whole point of the story turns out to fall flat, very little is beyond salvageable.
Left-over rice pudding with cherries, covered with a generous spoonful of cinnamon and sugar and a big glass of cafe latte. Yum.
When I read the comp title, it was an instant, "Wow, this rocks!" Just the kind of thing to tickle the muse, and the perfect challenge to get back into writing after weeks of involuntary hiatus. The basic plot was there faster than I could blink, and I started writing, and... I'm halfway in. I have 5000 words written (a yay to lazy Sundays!). But I still have two more major twists that the story can't do without. And a quite bunch of stuff that I want to add to the already written words. It's going to be one of those where I feel like I've nurtured a seedling into a tree and then need to prune it back into a pot plant. Aaaaargghh!
But. This one will really get the juices flowing, and I'm going to love reading all the entries.
I love reading multi part stories, and I've always preferred novels to novellas or collected shorts. I'm aware that I'm not part of a majority here on Lush, and my writerly ego sometimes demands that I publish a short story between consecutive chapters to bring home the raving reviews and high votes.
Nevertheless, I've got a few longer running stories in the works, and the personal feedback from those willing to stick with an ongoing series and bear with the pauses between chapters so makes up for the lower vote count. The inquiries about when chapter 13 of my Bunnie story would be out I got while I was unable to access the computer were heart warming.
To me, writing for Lush isn't always just about satisfying the quick thrill (though I happily cater to that too and love it). It's also a place to toy with ideas and concepts and to improve my writing. The challenge to build a story arch and develop characters over more than just a few short chapters is incredibly bigger than writing shorts, and when a later chapters earns a RR or gets brilliant reviews, it's all the more of an accomplishment.
I'm very much with the 'writing as an intellectual form of masturbation' approach. I don't really touch myself while writing, as I usually get turned on enough without. I make sure to leave both hands on the keyboard, or I'd not get more than a few paragraphs written before I'd end up on the couch as a puddle of deeply satisfied goo. There have been a few times when that didn't help, though. Some fantasies go straight between my legs.
Thoughts slurred by fever.
Loving kisses soothe my aches.
You are medicine.
The one movie I think about first when I hear or read Robin Williams's name isn't a funny one. It's the Dead Poet's Society.
It's a movie that has touched me very deeply and changed my outlook on life. In a way, it is tragically symbolic that what - to me - is his best performance is a movie that ends on the note that not all endings are happy ones. Still, the closing metaphor is that the things we do can leave footprints and change people for the better, and can still continue on after we leave.
Thank you, Robin Williams, for making us laugh and cry and question our black-and-white views on the world to Good Morning, Vietnam. Thank you for making us think about picking our battles and helping us realize that we're all vulnerable and creative individuals to Dead Poet's Society. Thank you for making us laugh in all your comical roles, and thank you for making us reflect on the treasure of time with people we love to Awakenings.
That are two unrelated issues. You need to have made twenty posts in the forum before you can post images and links.
Nevertheless, getting an expiry message about gold membership just after signing up seems strange. It's probably just a glitch in the system, but I'll forward your message to gav, he'll be able to make some sense from it. Might be something like the email address being in use by someone who was a member here in case you only got that address in the last year, or accidental re-use of a database id that was linked to a no longer existing account. I'm pretty sure there's no need to worry, but I'll have it looked into.
Also completed it yesterday and didn't post here. If anybody sees my brain, tell it come back to me, please.
It depends. There are stories that sound best in past tense, especially when exposition is necessary to understand everything that's happening. Then, there are stories that carry a sense of urgency, irony or surprise that thrives with present tense.
I've found that I've often got problems to enjoy stories written in third person, present tense. I guess those are the hardest to pull off while keeping to narrative perspective. First person, present tense, is the "telling as I go" perspective and allows me to immerse myself in the main character's thoughts and emotions, though exposition and generalizations tend to pull me out of it easily.
Past tense gives more leeway. Time jumps don't feel as abrupt there and description is less likely to take me away from the story's flow.
I change mine from time to time as my general mood changes. I like to see a face or body in avatars - a reminder that there's real person behind the avatar, even when I consciously know that the picture I see isn't them. With these time-offset discussions that span the globe, it's sometimes easy to forget that a member is just as vulnerable and unsecure as I am and might use words just as clumsily as I do when topics get heated.
They've got at least nine of mine. Their server's in France, so I doubt they'll be bothered by DMCA notices. If anyone of the affected authors here is fluent in French and can write their hosting provider an official letter, that might be more efficient.
Hm, I can see all the images in Internet Explorer 11 and the latest Firefox.
Does this happen when you have intercourse or when you masturbate (or both)? Is it the situation, the act or something inexplicable that the disgust and guilt is based upon? It's too vague to make any guesses, but a certain emotional low after a climax is something most of us encounter at times for varying reasons. Those may be the intensity of the climax, exhaustion, stress (negative or positive), hormonal imbalances, even a slight flu can cause it.
Two wishes that tie together: I would be great if the message list could show more messages on a single page than twenty (perhaps as an optional setting?) and if the selection box could be made bigger. Right now, when I'm tidying up my messages, I keep missing the tiny boxes, opening the message instead. Alternatively, it would be a great help if clicking outside the checkbox in this column didn't open the message.
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