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« Reply #765 on: September 28, 2012, 03:56:49 PM »
I don't honestly know.  I'm not in the best of positions to assess potential sample bias in the sample of people I know well who were nerdy in high school and have positive sex lives since, what with being part of said sex lives in a probably statistically relevant fraction thereof.

Understood, though not the direction I was asking in- I was trying to keep it rather contained within the critical scope of the movie itself.

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« Reply #766 on: September 29, 2012, 04:17:56 AM »
Three of the most difficult chapters on the current and hopefully final final pass on prequel to TISBWO done; also, brief through pass on four chapters of TIWTBWO just to keep me sane.
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« Reply #767 on: October 01, 2012, 11:23:52 AM »
ive got my first 7 chapters typed up. 8680 words. for a guy from rural Mississippi, thats a lot of words...
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« Reply #768 on: October 01, 2012, 02:19:38 PM »
I'm not an author, but a good friend of mine is.  Her first book will be published this spring:

Boom! Boom! Boom! by Jamie A. Swenson
http://amzn.com/0374308683
Lol! I allwyas liked the big Bird = trex. It explains why they have t get new kids each season..

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« Reply #769 on: October 02, 2012, 03:41:47 PM »
lots of school work has been writen for seviral subjects
it is taking all of my spare time
*grumbles* school is worse then RL at staling time!

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« Reply #770 on: October 03, 2012, 07:02:40 PM »
30k on the Spite

Lets get this party started!

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we just lost the shield generator!

32K

and they're dropping like flies.   Blast those Ion Cannons!



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« Reply #771 on: October 03, 2012, 07:08:14 PM »
300 words on my history assay second draft

total work count 890

i will tell you the long science report tomorow i think its over 1,000

there words they count  :-\

well done D King ! ;D

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« Reply #772 on: October 04, 2012, 02:29:43 AM »
Just wrote a 600 word flash-fiction ghost story for a contest. Thing is I included a dedication to my late fiance, only after I hit send did I notice that I used the wrong to/too right smack dab at the beginning. Ouch.

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« Reply #773 on: October 04, 2012, 03:26:25 AM »
Another evening bashing my head off rewrite, another thoroughly despairy night.  I will get through this patch, but not soon, as my next two weekends are busy socialising, and  neither work nor some social stuff is helping right now.
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« Reply #774 on: October 04, 2012, 03:29:35 AM »
2600 words tonight, chugging along nicely now that I figured out what I needed to to to carry the story from Point C to Point D in a fashion that had my protagonist taking an active role again.  Of course, as she puts it "The awfulest, dumbest ideas I've ever had were ones that 'most always came along right when I thought I was being the single cleverest person that ever existed." 


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« Reply #775 on: October 05, 2012, 11:02:49 AM »
knocked out a page and a half yesterday, i didnt count the words, i like to wait till the chapter is over and i type it, make microsoft do the work for me...
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« Reply #776 on: October 05, 2012, 07:34:55 PM »
I am most pleased to figure out that in an upcoming conversation in TIWTBTWO, when a physicist is having a grumble about the fact that unless he comes up with a cool name for the major plot-driving anomalous thing he has discovered, it will be named after him, and all the cool names from mythology and Shakespeare and so on are already taken, my protagonist will, in enthusing about that society as a whole honouring whatever discoverers first call things, get to mention the example of a terrestrial planet found in the (very narrow) habitable zone around a red dwarf star that's part of a double system with a much larger star, which has formally been named Surprise.   Because it works at the level that such a planet would be a surprise, and since my story doesn't actually go there, at least in this book or any of the ones I have subsequently plotted out, I can totally reserve the option of when, if at all, to mention that its larger moon is called Jack and the smaller Stephen.  (Two sizable moons and being close in to its sun make for really quite complicated tides; it would be one heck of a place to go sailing.)

It's a cute literary reference if the reader gets it.  It's a plausible literary reference for the sort of person who becomes a starship captain to think is cool, so it works in-universe. And if the reader does not recognise the allusion, it works as the kind of names that people might randomly give moons if they were stuck for inspiration so it's totally transparent rather than obtrusive in a Here Is A Reference You Are Not Getting sort of way.
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« Reply #777 on: October 08, 2012, 11:25:43 PM »
Typed up chapter 8 (1600 ish words) and started chapter 9
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« Reply #778 on: October 08, 2012, 11:45:55 PM »
How neat to see how productive everyone has been. I'm finally taking a moment to be a bit social before rolling up the sleeves and writing again tonight.

Since last we spoke, I completed an adult 15000 word treatise (plus 4000 word glossary as well) for a regional art/science competition. I was very pleased with the result and it was well received. I've written a young adult nonfiction book proposal based on it that I'll take to a writer's workshop the end of Oct. I will also be reading from my last manuscript and having a crit with an agent or editor at the same conference.

As to my current work in progress--slow, but it's rolling nicely with a great deal of depth and subplots wrapping nicely. I've managed so much control that when I write the scenes they are far more advanced than anything I've written before on a first draft. So it is slow, but extremely satisfying.

Best writing all! 
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« Reply #779 on: October 09, 2012, 12:16:06 AM »
A decent days work has me up to 54.5K today, and I've some good stuff all ready to be converted from brain-goo to good, clean electrons.