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Posted Oct 8, 2005
I sit.
And I stare.
At a screen.
With a headache.
...
Wait a second, the screen doesn't have a headache.
I do.
It's a whopper.
It's l8.
l8 - that's net shorthand for "early morning"
OK, actually it's almost eleven PM and l8 really stands for "late" for those of you in similar circumstances as myself who can't be bothered to think for fear of killing yourself.
So many threads all popping up I can't log off!
I'M TRAPPED ON H2G2!!!
Help!!!
OK I will do it!
I know I can!
I will log off and get some sleep NOW!
I will get out of here!
Nerd42
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I voted today. Did you?
Posted Sep 30, 2005
Just now I sent in an email
[From] [email protected]
[To] [email protected]
[Date/Time] Friday, September 30, 2005. 4:29 PM CST (USA)
[Subject] h2g2vote05
[Message]
Username: Nerd42
U-number: U203906
I vote for Dragonqueen and her running mate Galigan!
My second choice is Black Leopard for his fancy tag on his Personal Space.
Third is None of the Above! Yay apathy!
Nerd42
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2005; a Writer's Odessy
Posted Sep 27, 2005
I sit here trying to begin typing my novel.
I have written it in pencil across endless sheets of notebook paper. I have whispered it to myself in the car, in the shower, in boring meetings, my vision of the kind of book I would like to read, written my way by me. A moral, a message of Good triumphing over Evil even in fantasy, to a world that doesn't believe that either exist. An uplifting creation, but still a message from a place that doesn't exist to a world that doesn't care.
In other words, endless pages of nonsensical garbage.
The question is, "What am I trying to write?" and "To whom?" or "Why am I trying to write this?"
To entertain people, certainly. To create something new and exciting to influence a genre gone awry.
There is still the question of who the narrator should be. I've tried the main character writing his own journal while trapped in a cave with nothing to do, but after a while that merely became a long and boring history of how he got to that point instead of a suspenseful plot. I tried to be the narrator: to sort of be an independent objective viewpoint from any characters but still have my observations follow the main one. That seemed to be working except when I stupidly try to be funny, but it lacks the uniqueness I want to shine from this work.
I must not make the mian character too powerful. Near the point I've gotten to in the notebook paper version, the main character discovers a room that he will revisit several times in his life. A powerful evil sorceror's workshop containing secrets from his unknown (to him) past. However I had it still filled with the treasures left there by the sorceror, and then realized that my earlier plan to have him leave the continent he grew up on would raise questions as to why he did not take such treasures with him. I want him to have money when he leaves, but not much money.
Also, the notebook paper version left out important characters I had sketched in my head and forgot to write about. A tall shadowy stranger without a mission from his superior who guides the main character without knowing that that was his mission all along. A greedy fool trying to capitalize on the situation who sells the main character the means to leave the continent, possibly actually paid for by the guide-person menioned earlier)
Whats more I cannot allow this version to be funny. I'm convinced that the bits I got a chuckle over must be the worst bits and should never see the light of day, or the eyes of an objective proof-reader.
Will I ever be able to publish this thing? It's not long enough yet but sometimes I feel like I may sit on it for years and never publish or if I ever try to publish it I'll get turned down along with 30,000 other SFF writers.
Or worse, I will get it published and somebody will hire an illustrator and copy editor I don't like who'll arrange market the book only for children or only for adults. *shudder*
Yeah, well to explain all this, some web site, I think it was something I picked up randomly from Everything2.com, said if I typed this I'd become a better writer, and of course, if it's on the internet, it must be true.
And on that terrifying note, I conclude my first posted excersize in free-writing.
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=938851
Nerd42
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My Space wiped
Posted Sep 27, 2005
but all the links, gadgets and info that used to be on My Space have now been cleared away, leaving a fresh Space for me to work in.
*sigh* Ahhh... the freedom. The possibilities...
If I actually have any friends, which I doubt, I could really use some players on my RPG. [ A989698 ] I'm doing everything I can to promote it but nothing seems to be working. I've even gone and made a GuideML badge for the place. (see it on My Space and click the tunnel) and miracle of miracles was actually persuaded to change my nick.
I used to have Nick ads, mainly because you had to copy and paste the stupid A number if you actually wanted to see where it went. But now I'm beginning to come around on that I guess. I now have the gawdy nick-name of: ".hack//NERD42 *Join Silver Sword; an Interactive Fantasy RPG!* A989698 "
I sure hope some of this stuff works!
Nerd42
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My endorement for Second Virtual Prez of H²G² goes to...
Posted Sep 27, 2005
The Second Virtual Prez of h²g² [ A5571434 ] elections are going on right now and since I'm not running this time, I thought I'd better make a public endorsement of a canidate, as if I had, like, fans or something.
So, my endorement for Second Virtual Prez of H²G² goes to Dragonqueen [ U224233 ] and Galigan [ U1341611 ] !!!
Their campiegn headquarters: [ U1526866 ]
Mostly my endorsement is because of Galigan, who runs an h²g² society that I've spent alot of time hanging out at recently, the h²g² Leauge of Super Powers. [ A4457766 ] Good luck to all the canidates and may the best Researcher win!
Nerd42
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