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A place where dreams are born
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: In your head. I'm the little voice you hear all the time. And you thought that was your conscience!
Posts: 5,546
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I'm a weirdy. I loved high school. I love college. Heck, I even loved middle school/junior high. ...Especially in retrospect.
...But seriously. I really have enjoyed the majority of my educational career. The social aspect of high school was awesome, and in college it just goes to a whole new level. Sometimes it sucks, but that's okay. It's all learning experiences, if you let it be. Besides which, I know I wouldn't recognize all the fantastic times I've had if I hadn't had those miserable ones.
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"Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead." ~Gene Fowler WIPs ![]() Awaking Melody: 93k/110k ![]() OLS: Editing My Website/Personal Blog A BookGirl's Reviews |
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I am a cat like anything
Join Date: Jul 2009
Posts: 3,976
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is the word count thing broken
or have I really written that little? I keep expecting my WC to go up by like 1,000 words whenever I write a passage. More like by a 100, ha. /slow writer woes
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Mmmm, caffeine.
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: The TARDIS (I hope)
Posts: 3,094
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Homework is the most horrible thing ever. 0_0 My work is due tomorrow and I still have so much to do. Gah stress.
Sorry the only time I come in here is to mini-rant about school and being busy. |
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The coordinates keep changing...
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Australia
Posts: 4,487
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I had 14 hours a week of Uni, which seems like very little, but somehow all my free time seems to go on things other than writing (I did work 30 hours a week on top of school for quite a while, so that may perhaps explain it...). I'm likely switching to a degree in communications with a focus on creative writing next year (discovered that generalised degrees are not for me) and I am hoping that it'll kick my butt into gear a bit more with ze writing. Plus it's only 9 hours a week. Woo.
Choco, I have the same problem -- my brain doesn't want to switch from whatever I'm studying (or just attending classes, since I'm not big on actually studying) to the creative things so I need huge amounts of down time/time away from studying before I can write or even read. |
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YA romance writer in love with love
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Chicago
Posts: 12,480
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I was so bad about doing homework and writing instead in college lol. I'd fall so far behind in my classes, too...I had this vicious cycle where school would stress me out, so I wrote to cope, but fell behind because I wrote. And I'd be even more stressed out I'm falling behind so I wrote more. Yeah. School wasn't right for me. I might do vocational school one day and hopefully only do maybe 1-2 classes/week.
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#22757 |
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zaldrīzes buzdari iksos daor
Join Date: May 2009
Location: The Land of Always Winter
Posts: 6,953
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I'm numb.
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A constellation of tears on your lashes Burn everything you love, then burn the ashes In the end everything collides My childhood spat back out the monster that you see |
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#22758 |
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#teampeeta
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Somewhere Only We Know...
Posts: 2,066
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Snow. Day.
YAAAY. |
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Potterhead Gleek
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Hogwarts
Posts: 14,598
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Hi, guys.
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I am a cat like anything
Join Date: Jul 2009
Posts: 3,976
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hi!
*is attempting to hit 15k today*
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Ever onward
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: The TARDIS with David Tennant
Posts: 19,109
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Go choco!
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I am a cat like anything
Join Date: Jul 2009
Posts: 3,976
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*is encouraged to write*
write or die it isssssss.
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Potterhead Gleek
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Hogwarts
Posts: 14,598
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I got my old story open today (I sent it to people to read in April '10, and embaressed because of the feedback I deleted all trace of it from my house), and I'm cringing at it. The premise is good though, so I'm thinking of rewriting it from stratch and self-publishing it.
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Hwee kaptoored eet for kayhosssssss
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: The Eye of Terror
Posts: 36,616
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Why science is AWESOME
http://www.theforce.net/swtc/holocaust.html Quote:
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Shattered Sky: Draft 6, done! Worldshard: 85,000/85,000 (Draft 1: DONE!) River7: 25,000/??,000 words Read my blog: Quantum Spin Plates Tweets from the Future: Follow my characters. BUY MY BOOK HERE! |
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Potterhead Gleek
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Hogwarts
Posts: 14,598
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Hi, Zoom.
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Hwee kaptoored eet for kayhosssssss
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: The Eye of Terror
Posts: 36,616
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DIE EWOKS, DIE!
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Shattered Sky: Draft 6, done! Worldshard: 85,000/85,000 (Draft 1: DONE!) River7: 25,000/??,000 words Read my blog: Quantum Spin Plates Tweets from the Future: Follow my characters. BUY MY BOOK HERE! |
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Potterhead Gleek
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Hogwarts
Posts: 14,598
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How have you been doing, Zoom? :3
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Hwee kaptoored eet for kayhosssssss
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: The Eye of Terror
Posts: 36,616
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Good! I got another request for a full from an agent!
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Shattered Sky: Draft 6, done! Worldshard: 85,000/85,000 (Draft 1: DONE!) River7: 25,000/??,000 words Read my blog: Quantum Spin Plates Tweets from the Future: Follow my characters. BUY MY BOOK HERE! |
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useless idiot
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Bristol, England
Posts: 9,085
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I has a jealous!
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useless idiot
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Bristol, England
Posts: 9,085
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I got to meet Kyrie today!
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#22773 |
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believe
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: In my computer....most of the time and Pennsylvania other times
Posts: 6,863
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oh so shiny
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Sydney
Posts: 984
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Congrats, Zoom. I hope it goes well!
And yay for RL meetups, Para! I'm totally jealous.
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alter-alias YA SF - Don't Look Up - 48K WiP in the process of intense revisions. YA UF - temporarily shelved. YA Contemporary - temporarily shelved. |
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#22775 |
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YA romance writer in love with love
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Chicago
Posts: 12,480
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CONGRATS ZOOM!!
Para - YAY! How'd it go?!?! Ely - Got your comment on my blog post about TL! Is it possible for you to be my cheerleader beta for the next month or so? Having one really helped with finishing CMRH last summer. And it's not first-draft stuff because I've been revising as I go, so it'll be much better than my sucktastic bare bones first draft stuff lol |
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