As, I've said a lot of times before, in a lot of places... I don't consider myself a writer. I don't fit the definition that I have seen in countless classes and books.
On the other hand, spending massive amounts of time (daily) look for work while sitting in my sister's basement is starting to make me “The Shining” level crazy. I play video games at night with my friends, but I promised myself that before the evening meal everything I do will be work related... or can be excused as being somehow leading to work. I stretch it a bit on some days.
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Starting tomorrow (June 30) I'm going to start writing a serial story here on OS (in an attempt to get some ad cash to buy cookies with). The first bit will be put up on Wed. July 1.
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For those interested, these are the rules I created for myself.
I'll write 1 hour every day. The next day I'll edit for up to a half-hour, then I'll post the results. Later that day I'll write for another hour. Etc. etc. I may extend the time a bit to finish some plot point or such. I'm not going to just end in the middle of a sentence when the alarm goes off (my brother once infamously wrote an exactly 500 word essay... ending after the word “and” in the middle of a thought)
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This isn't going to be literary genius. You get what you get for an hour and a half daily... after all it is free.
I'm going to leave comments on. Eventually I hope to have more than 10 people putting eyeballs on it. I will, however, not be taking suggestions on content or style. It is my method of kicking things around in my head. Write your own stories if you don't like mine.
Because it is going to be serial, it probably won't have chapters as such as the breaking points will be very close together. There won't be a cliffhanger every day. Ha ha. I'm debating between calling them episodes and a few other more story specific types of naming. I will number them though, and they will stand out from any other random posts I may make (but those are usually infrequent anyway)
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Updates will be a work-week schedule (M-F) before 6 PM Eastern US time.
Oh, and it is going to be Sci-fi. I'm not really an essayist... nor am I really into writing creative non-fiction type stuff.
Hope to see you here.
-T
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The Burger King is generally a subtle evil (sometimes not so subtle). He is a bad bad guy, but all is forgiven because he hands you a sandwich?
One of the first commercial's he slugs a girl and takes her place on a tandem bike in a tunnel as her bf rides through.
Who picks a sneaky evil monarch for a symbol?
I'll warn ya though, I don't think any kinda publishing will turn up out of it.
I'm sure that there are a bunch of people here that would get around a short story guild thing. I know that I'm too lazy to set one up... or even write an actual short story. It has been years since I've done one.
I'm not sure how to get an announcement out without the activity feed eating it in 5 mins. either. Might wanna ask the book club people how they managed.