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saint_savin

PostPosted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 11:14 pm


I offer literary flowers for the imagined grave of one fictional Jackson. Fare thee well, sweet not-so-good-guy.

Dad + manuscript + plane sounds like fun! Do let us know how that turns out.

Also- fappy belated birthday and WOW YOU'RE DOING GREAT~.
PostPosted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 10:19 pm


You guys make me feel warm and fuzzy inside. And I do plan to write a detailed account of my dad's midair reactions. Anyway...

User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show.June 23, Monday, Midnight: I am Joe's Inspirational Burnout.

Well, let's start with the bad news then. The bad news is that I'm stuck, and that's not an innuendo.

The good news is I finished my project, and the editing stages are looking pretty good. I'm just trying to start another book now and my head refuses to s**t out anything worthwhile. But hey, at least I can sleep a bit more now.

On top of that, it's my time of month. TMI, I know. But I'm irritable, impatient, and aggressive, not to mention uninspired. It also explains the swearing. So I guess I'll just rant to you now.

I finally got Fight Club in the mail and it really is an amazing book. I'm enjoying it immensely.

I was thinking about how the whole Kool-aid late-nite thing started, because a character of mine for my new thing that won't come together has the same habits as me. So here's the skinny on that. I'm a sheltered kid, to tell you the truth. I'm easy to emotionally destroy. And when you're me, being called, basically, human buttwipe, just for one slip in my grades, a B bringing my average to a low A...God, it sounds funny, but it's not. The screaming and crap...not funny.

Yeah, that's a little devastating. But hey, if you argue when you've already won, you start to lose. I'm not the one making people clean toilets because they're not smart enough and they're snarky, sarcastic bitches and I don't like the way they're so cynical even though I'm never going to change them.

See? I win. That was months ago, and since then, I've been doing the late night shock horror thing. I hardly got enough sleep in the school year, which sucked, but pain is consciousness. Sometimes you have to move away from improvement and towards disaster. Then you can create something greater. Destroying myself by monitor light helps me write. (That was hyperbole. I'm not that extreme or insane.)

I've got this new thing, it's called Ain't Taking Crap from Anyone. It gives me justification to blow up at people if they give me crap.

When school was in session, I littered in the courtyard and hallways for kicks. I figured, why not? Not doing it is like quitting smoking on your deathbed by this point.

Tyler's words coming out of my mouth. And I used to be such a nice person.

Apologies in advance for that rant in all its horrible sulkiness, and for my dreadful, cynical mood right now, and thanks for tolerating it. Min out for now.

theyrenotgonnagetus


saint_savin

PostPosted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 8:34 pm


You know, there's only one thing you can do- keep making all of that rage into delicious fiction!

I slept an average of four house a night through highschool and most of college. And people why I don't remember most of them.
PostPosted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:14 am


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June 26, it's a Thursday and it's noon--Well, shite.

I read over that last entry and, uh, wow. I died a little inside.

Ever have that feeling when you finish something and it's like..."Well, now what?" Well, neither have I, until now, but since I just finished writing one thing, my thought process is all over the place with a bunch of new half-baked ideas, all of which are pretty sketchy and questionable at this point. I have no idea what to do now.

I've started on two separate projects, one of which I'm going to try and use for a competition...but the first person present tense is REALLY throwing me off. The character's not as advanced as the omnipresent narrator would be, and though I wanted it to have some voice from the character's point of view, I just can't read over it without cringing.

I'm probably going to rewrite it in third limited past tense, which isn't too different from my usual third omnipresent. I know the whole deal about trying new things and exploring my writing horizons, but first person through this character really isn't working for me.

So sue me.

Sigh...it seems my reserves of sarcastic humor have run rather dry. It happens from time to time. Hopefully I'll have a fresh batch of it next time I feel up to posting. Well, thanks for the encouragement, people, and keep being awesome. And I know the feeling about the whole sleep thing, Savin. I actually had no time to write other than the small hours. Toodle-oo for now.

theyrenotgonnagetus


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PostPosted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:20 am


Writing first person for any character can be a challenge. It's so much more limiting than we're used to.

Keep up the good work Min-Min
PostPosted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 4:13 pm


Supposedly, it's harder to write third-person than first. I have no idea where that idea came from. Maybe the person who said it meant for "most" people? I think that almost has to be the case. I've toss things that seem to want to be in first person. UGH. Horrible.

saint_savin


Perfect Folds

PostPosted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 7:39 pm


I absolutely hate first person. I tried. I tried some more. I ended up burning it. XD Seriously. Anywho-I love reading your oh-so colorful posts. They always get me motivated. Somehow they remind me of myself back when people actually called me nice and believed that I had a soul. But who needs a soul when you have the internet? biggrin  
PostPosted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 11:54 pm


User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show.July 4th, 1:50 A.M. on Friday--My Mother Found the Kool Aid.

The title explains this one in a nutshell.

So, I wake up at around noon the other day, right? Go eat some breakfast, go into the office, turn on my computer and open up two windows: Word and Gaia. My mom's already there, we start talking, yada yada, and out of the blue, she says, "Why do you have Kool-aid in the cabinet?"

She's got my flipping Kool-aid, I don't know how in Hell's name she found it, but she did.

I'm sitting there gaping. I can hardly explain that I've been up every night writing, but at the same time I don't have a reasonable explanation as to why there is powdered drink mix stashed in the desk. All I could muster was a long "Uh...."

Luckily, fifteen years have acquainted my mom with my abnormalities, so she dismissed it and said, "Just put it in the pantry."

So I did. But I found a better hiding spot, oh yes. I can't expect to go long nights without sustenance. And it would just be awkward if that sustenance was something perishable, like a steak. Can you imagine me eating a steak at two in he morning?

Well, you guys probably could.

Anyway, my writing schedule's proceeded despite that little interruption, and I finally have some inspiration again, so I'll be going on in my little weirdo way with this new project for a while to come.

theyrenotgonnagetus


saint_savin

PostPosted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 10:51 pm


Oh fiddlesticks! LAME.

xd I can hear the conversation though. I used to keep chocolate covered cookie bits in my room. I could stay up all night munching on those things and writing.

But yay new hiding places!
PostPosted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 11:35 pm


Wait, do you drink the kool-aid or eat the kool-aid?

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theyrenotgonnagetus

PostPosted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 12:15 am


Both. That's the beauty of it. That's what I think is so ingenious about it. I can eat it OR drink it!
PostPosted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 3:15 am


Haha am I the only one without a stock of food or drink hidden away?

Actually...I just remembered that I do have some Oreo's stashed away from my brothers...*grins*

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saint_savin

PostPosted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 4:09 pm


Eating Kool Aid?

New one to me XD.

But, whatever works.

Love the Tam O'Shanter BTW.
PostPosted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 7:10 am


What is kool-aid?

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Lt Oblivious

PostPosted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 7:40 am


DesertRoseFallen
What is kool-aid?

Powdered drink mix. It can be mixed into water or eaten straight out of the package if you like it like that. Personally, I hate the stuff in general.
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