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#1976 2022-03-07 20:32:44
- Elessar
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Well that is fair enough. Without discord it’s harder to ask and since we don’t know the direction you want to take the story, tossing ideas out there wouldn’t do much good I think. Hope things work out for you.
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#1977 2022-03-08 02:34:42
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Not to mention the only story I'm "stuck" on (rather than having an inspiration problem with), none of you have read.
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#1978 2022-03-09 18:17:22
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Point taken. I will hope for inspiration to do its thing.
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#1979 2022-03-11 04:21:59
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Would that story be Misfits or a new story?
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#1980 2022-03-11 06:27:46
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Misfits. The new story I'm looking at, I haven't started yet. (Could that be considered being stuck on it? Shit, now I'm stuck on two stories. Thanks a lot, Hilz!)
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#1981 2022-03-14 15:01:52
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--- Irony Warning ---
if you count in the stories you havn't thought about that would be countless more.
beeing stuck on countless stories makes you a bit unorganiced, but very industrious and busy
Just like for some catholics thinking birthcontrole ist murder.
God help us. So many mass murderers.
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#1982 2022-03-14 20:38:49
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I get your point and the sarcasm, but you can't be stuck on something you're not actually considering.
Think about that. (Or don't, because then you'd be considering it, and might get stuck on it.)
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#1983 2022-03-15 08:01:01
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oh yes circular reasoning with a faulty step can create headaches.
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#1984 2022-03-15 11:01:43
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Circular reasoning IS a faulty step.
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#1985 2022-03-15 12:39:26
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yes you ar quite right. i tried once a discussion with some flat-earth guy. tedius and circular.
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#1986 2022-03-15 23:28:31
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I've never had to talk to one of those folks. I think if I did, I would simply force them to answer the question, "What's the payoff for the lie?"
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#1987 2022-03-17 05:01:00
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Update for March 17, 2022:
Nothing started or finished, I just wanted to make it clear that some progress was being made. AC-15 is about halfway done at this point.
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#1988 2022-03-17 06:53:24
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As long as you didn’t accidentally delete the chapter some how and have to start over… progress is progress.
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Update for March 17, 2022:
Nothing started or finished, I just wanted to make it clear that some progress was being made. AC-15 is about halfway done at this point.
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#1989 2022-03-17 11:59:33
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Ellesar you just had to say it----
My worst day at sea is better than my best day ashore
I found a home in the navy-but they land airplanes on my roof
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#1990 2022-03-17 15:44:35
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He does have a way of putting his foot in his mouth, doesn't he?
But not to worry TOO much: My stories are backed up in my Dropbox directory, which (supposedly) can recover anything deleted within the last 30 days.
Of course, the one time I had to try that, it didn't work... Don't know if that's because Dropbox sucks, or because it had been more than 30 days.
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#1991 2022-03-18 06:11:04
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I enjoy doing it all backwards.
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#1992 2022-03-21 08:23:14
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Eric did you consider git or similar?
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#1993 2022-03-21 15:33:14
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sermona wrote:
Eric did you consider git or similar?
Um... why would I use a version control system to write or publish stories?
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#1994 2022-03-21 15:35:23
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I just realized that you're probably referring to using it as a backup location... Not being wholly familiar with git's features, I'm not actually sure if there is a "private" option for content loaded to git. I imagine there is, but I don't know. But git is VASTLY over-complicated for the simple task of backing things up.
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#1995 2022-03-22 08:33:40
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I had a git for my Diploma-Thesis. Sometimes when I worked late at night and realized the next morning that working sleepy can produce many errors I was glad for versioning and its diff-capabilities for salvaging most off the work.
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#1996 2022-03-22 14:15:46
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I can see where that could conceivably be an issue for a thesis or dissertation.
However, Dropbox (supposedly) has its own "versioning" system. Meaning that it (supposedly) keeps copies of each version of your document for 30 days.
Not to mention, I have never once, in a quarter century of writing, felt like what I'd produced was SO bad that I needed to revert back to an earlier version. I mean, generally speaking, I'd just delete what I didn't like and rewrite it. Presumably, If what I'm now deleting was a rewrite of some old thing that I deleted, I didn't like THAT, either.
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#1997 2022-04-06 05:17:56
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Eric
So does that mean that if you wrote something and didn't like it and then deleted all copies of the part you didn't like does that mean that you never did write it since it no longer exists anywhere.
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#1998 2022-04-06 09:25:42
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If you don't write it down, it didn't happen.
If I erased all evidence of me writing it down, you can't prove it happened.
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#1999 2022-04-13 23:57:21
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Update for April 13, 2022:
Agent of Change, Chapter 15, is finished and with the reviewers.
Agent of Change, Chapter 16, is over half done.
"Wha-whaaaaaat?" I hear you saying. "What the hell happened?"
I had a particular stopping point in mind for Chapter 15. I realized, however, that the chapter was becoming ridiculously long. As such, I broke it at another good stopping point, and moved the nearly 10,000 words I'd written after that, into Chapter 16. This still leaves Chapter 15 at almost 17,000 words.
AC is now over a quarter million words long.
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#2000 2022-04-14 00:46:53
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Great news for us readers. 
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