Work Room - Week 25
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therealljidolThe new topic is up. Or rather, the new topic choices are up: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/793590.html
Once again, you have choices to make, that will end up impacting choices you will have further down the road.
How does it differ - having more than one topic idea in front of you instead of just one thing?
Is it easier? Because you can pick and choose? More difficult? Because you need to make a decision?
Different folks react in different ways to that sort of thing - would you rather have the structure of YOU MUST WRITE THIS or the freedom to pick and choose?
When you get right down to it, all topics are a form of "Open Topic", in that the only one that you are answerable to is yourself, and the votes of the readership. But sometimes that can be enough to sabotage your brain, and trip you up.
What techniques have you developed that have proven successful in approaching a new writing situation?
Once again, you have choices to make, that will end up impacting choices you will have further down the road.
How does it differ - having more than one topic idea in front of you instead of just one thing?
Is it easier? Because you can pick and choose? More difficult? Because you need to make a decision?
Different folks react in different ways to that sort of thing - would you rather have the structure of YOU MUST WRITE THIS or the freedom to pick and choose?
When you get right down to it, all topics are a form of "Open Topic", in that the only one that you are answerable to is yourself, and the votes of the readership. But sometimes that can be enough to sabotage your brain, and trip you up.
What techniques have you developed that have proven successful in approaching a new writing situation?
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Date: 2014-10-15 02:27 am (UTC)(Also, frist!)
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Date: 2014-10-15 02:41 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2014-10-15 03:24 am (UTC)PS: YOU'RE DEAD TO ME!
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Date: 2014-10-15 02:36 am (UTC)...I've never heard of it.
:dashes off to Google:
ETA:
From Urban Dictionary: "elite soldiers trained for controlling and support of an administration or occupation, ex. The American and British overwatch currently is in Iraq trying to keep the peace. I'm reading this as overwatch = peacekeepers
NYT's "On Language" column discusses more here (http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9901E6DE163DF937A25753C1A9619C8B63).
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Date: 2014-10-15 02:47 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2014-10-15 02:47 am (UTC)Decisions are not my strong point. And I have a thing I'm only half done with due tomorrow, and it's a combination of fiction and a research project, so wheeeee. But I've poked at these before, and I think I'll be okay.
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Date: 2014-10-15 05:30 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2014-10-15 02:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-10-15 04:21 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2014-10-15 02:59 am (UTC)Not sure which one I'll choose as yet, but I'm hedging towards either Shibusa or possibly Overwatch...
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Date: 2014-10-15 04:18 am (UTC)Just trying to figure out if I've two or three options to pick from, and choice is always good. :)
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Date: 2014-10-15 05:33 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2014-10-15 05:49 am (UTC)Yet I have I have never encountered it in any of these contexts.
Which of them seems the most common? The military one?
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Date: 2014-10-15 08:49 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2014-10-15 10:08 am (UTC)tl;dr: I am neurotic. :)
I thought I was going to be really unhappy with seeing these topics again but I am currently sort of inspired by them, so that's nice.
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Date: 2014-10-15 01:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-10-15 12:10 pm (UTC)I'll probably go for Shibusa or Overwatch. I really like Intersubjectivity as well, but it's a bit daunting. I feel like it's something that D.H Lawrence does particularly well in his writing and I'd be scared to even begin to approach it.
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Date: 2014-10-16 03:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-10-15 12:44 pm (UTC)On a different note, I laughed my evil laugh when I saw the Return of the Topics. I hereby promise I will not write another disturbing suicide story. Roy Rogers' horse can stay in the stable this week.
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Date: 2014-10-15 01:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-10-15 01:15 pm (UTC)They also seem kind of Surreal Darkness-ish. Which hey, I'm here to write new stuff and get it done and up, not win, so if I want to use Sims pictures and a sort of serial thing I will! I do what I want! ;)
And I really like Surreal Darkness and it's fun and it's easy and fast, so no burn out. And it's a way to participate in the Sims community at the same time and do two things at once - have something for Idol, and have something for my Sims friends. :)
Actually I think it would be fairly easy to include all those topics in a Surreal Darkness bit. Since Surreal Darkness is supposed to be abstract and surreal and random and whatever I want it to be. :)
So...does "serial thing I have been writing for a bit over a year now using Sims scenery shots and that is very fluid and easily adaptable to almost anything" count as a technique for approaching a new writing situation?
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Date: 2014-10-15 01:21 pm (UTC)Three matches one by one struck in the night
The first to see the whole of your face
The second to see your eyes
The last to see your mouth
And the complete and utter darkness to remember them all
While holding you in my arms.
Translation credit (http://movingpoems.com/2009/04/paris-at-night/)
Trois allumettes une à une allumées dans la nuit
La première pour voir ton visage tout entier
La seconde pour voir tes yeux
La dernière pour voir ta bouche
Et l’obscurité tout entiére pour me rappeler tout cela
En te serrant dans mes bras.
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Date: 2014-10-15 07:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-10-15 02:52 pm (UTC)An intersubjective truth asserts a “fact” that a group of people agree implicitly to treat as axiomatic, and as though it were an objective truth. All moralities and collections of “common sense” are thus sets of intersubjective truths."
Also this site seems like a good reference:
http://www.kheper.net/topics/intersubjectivity/definitions.html
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Date: 2014-10-16 06:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-10-15 03:22 pm (UTC)And then, when I'm doing something else, like trying to sleep, an idea pops up.
I'm going in a much darker direction (well, for me) this time probably, and that bothers me. My more serious pieces tend not to do as well, for one, and this is something that I'm not particularly comfortable discussing.
On the other hand, maybe that discomfort is a reason to write the piece. I don't know.
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Date: 2014-10-16 06:42 am (UTC)GAH
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Date: 2014-10-15 04:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-10-15 06:02 pm (UTC)A website that provided me with a better explanation of "Shibusa" than the wiki article. :)
When approaching new writing situations, I go with my gut. Hell, with tried and true writing situations, I try to go with my gut, too. :) This time around I'm kind of struggling. Hanging out so low to the bottom for so long in the poll will do that to you, I guess.
Either way, I need a break from the trend that's taken over in my writing. So we'll see how this week goes. :)
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Date: 2014-10-16 03:32 am (UTC)Elegant simplicity. Effortless effectiveness. Understated excellence. Beautiful imperfection.
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Date: 2014-10-17 12:05 am (UTC)Had no ideas whatsoever until about yesterday evening, when...you ever have those ideas that make you get up and pace around and mutter to yourself? All while grinning like an idiot? I had one of those. I'm not as in love with it now as I was for those glorious first 30 minutes (I see holes. I SEE HOOLLLESSS), but it's what I have, so I'm going with it.
Outline more or less done in my head, gonna start the actual writing at some point tonight.
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Date: 2014-10-17 05:45 am (UTC)Two stories that are functionally identical, but with vastly different themes (not to mention a different genre), and would probably require different tools. Erk. I like them both. I want to write both!
Well, there's no time for that. I'll just have to dissect them both as best I can, and see whose insides I like better.
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Date: 2014-10-17 12:45 am (UTC)Just PM me if you will! Thank you! :)
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Date: 2014-10-17 03:34 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2014-10-17 04:00 am (UTC)I know what it is... but right now I have no idea how to approach the topic.
Suggestions, please?
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Date: 2014-10-17 04:17 am (UTC)It's unfortunate you have just written that meta, but why not write about other people who keep punishing themselves
for no good reason?Hmmm...
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Date: 2014-10-17 04:09 am (UTC)First thoughts go to Les Miserables, especially the nuns in the convent where they hie from Javert and where Cosette was schooled, and whose winter garb was so heavy the felt feverish the first few days after doning it.
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Date: 2014-10-17 04:59 am (UTC)