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Dear anyone who texts me,

If you want me to respond to a question you text me, don't send six more texts covering completely different subjects before I have a chance to think of an answer.
I just read a book that ruined its own momentum by having two epilogues. The hero gets the MacGuffin back from the villain and escapes the evil layer. Then the hero goes back to save her friends, which she does successfully, but loses the MacGuffin in the process. So she goes to get it back?

Nope. Now everyone's in a random town to heal. But she goes right back to get the MacGuffin?

Nope. Everyone heals up for an entire season. But she's been planning a rescue mission with her party?

Nope. She just walks back to the MacGuffin by herself and finds it. The villain couldn't find it because he lacks the power to find it unless the hero is also looking for it (I glossed over the explanation but I'm pretty sure it was that silly).

Then the big showdown between the hero and villain finally happens, but by this point, all of the tension had already been released and I couldn't be bothered to care again.

It's like watching a movie that ends with a sequel-bait scene, only to give you an after-credits scene that spoils the sequel they just baited.

The rest of the book was pretty good.
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This! All of this!

Give me closure or force me into a sequel, but don't do the dreaded double-ending. And definitely don't do the double where the second ending is the one that is the sequel lead-in.
Dec. 30: "I'm going to work out every day in January!"
Dec. 31: *gets sore throat*
Jan. 8: *can finally walk ten steps without coughing up a lung*
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Life in a nutshell.
*Music1*   *Gameball*   *Music1*   *Bee*   *Music1*   *Music2*   *Music2*

Happy 6th Anniversary!

*Music1*   *Gameball*   *Music1*   *Bee*   *Music2*   *Music2*   *Music2*




Happy anniversary
Just spent the past three hours watching YouTube videos making fun of bad movies with overpowered protagonist only to finally realize I forgot to add a scene in my own story where my protagonist actually fails at something as a result of a character flaw/weakness that needs to be overcome.
You know that feeling when you read a book and disagree with approximately every form or style decision the writer made, but you still enjoyed the book?

There is hope after all.
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I can read disagree or boring style what the writer's decision (or writing style) patiently. Because I can find and make some agreeable or funny points when I'm writing.
Long ago, a person taught me that the names of seasons (spring, summer, autumn/fall, and winter) should always be capitalized. I naively heeded this instruction for decades.

This person must be destroyed.
When you make it halfway through a book, take a break from reading, and come back to the book to finish it, but you drop it and the bookmark falls out:

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Word 97 kept changing by first-line and hanging indents automatically when I pressed Tab (meaning, when I pressed Tab to mark a new paragraph, Word decided to indent the entire paragraph instead of just the first line). I successfully fixed this problem by yelling at Word.

This is proof that Word is self-aware and is trying to destroy me.

(what actually happened was I accidentally had my hand on the Ctrl key when I pressed Tab after yelling at Word, which told Word to indent the first line without indenting the entire paragraph)
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Yep - Word is definitely trying too get me in trouble. It changes the words shot and shut automatically so the vowel is an "i", just to get me in trouble... and not because I swear wa-a-a-a-y too much in my typing.
s I hear you I keep misspelling duck with an F, it is terribly embarrassing I don't ducking well know how I do it.
If Ted Geisel was allowed to call himself "Dr." even before being awarded honorary doctorates, I should be allowed to call myself Dr. Arsuit.
Current Mood:

Next time I try this challenge, I'm either starting with a blank manuscript or one that's already tens of thousands of words in progress.

I didn't realize how demoralizing it would be to check your word count and see that magical 50,000 mark, only to realize, "Nope. You need to get that to 52,000. You moron."
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Just curious. Where did you get the 52K number?


the last cicada I had that problem when I started NaNo'ing something that was already 3000 words, mostly an outline.

Since I needed it on the document itself, my word count *started* at 3000 on Nov 1. I needed the final word count to be 53,000 because I didn't start from zero.
Ah, that makes sense. Word counters are wonderful, but I've made that mistake too. I like to include my research notes and I've accidentally counted those words as well.
Yesterday, my computer died and took my 40,000-word draft with it. This is what I had to go through to get those words back:

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Clouds....clouds, keep your head in the clouds. I use two, one for every day, a second for backups
On the one hand, that was quite the ordeal. On the other hand, you have quite the entertaining media presence. Was I heavily invested in all 26 minutes? Yes. Yes, I was.

Did I curse at your computer multiple times? Obviously, yes.

Did I offer suggestions even though it was already fixed and you couldn't hear me anyway? Also yes.

Did I scream "NO, DON'T PUSH ANY BUTTONS" when you asked, "Do I need to push a button or something?" Indeed I did.

Did I LOL at the twist tie? Yes, because you speak the truth *Laugh*

Can I relate to the screws under screws under other computer parts? The "where the hell is the bit I need?" The torn-apart rig all over the floor? Randomly tossing more things on the floor because "I don't even care anymore?" Yes. I have been down that road.

Are the parts still on the floor? Because mine would be there for at least a week, so the working computer had time to think long and hard about whether or not it wanted to misbehave while staring at its mutilated brethren.

Removing the Best Buy trips from the equation, that was a nice recovery.

Now you need a 3-part backup routine *Smile*

Still trying to wrap my brain around what happened, though. The drives work, so it wasn't a catastrophic collapse. Did you kill the motherboard with the new card, you think? I'm on the fence. It's also none of my business ROFL.
(I also use Bing *Smile*)
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I have a scene involving a covered wagon. Since I don't know anything about wagons, I needed to look up how you get the wagon to stop once you get to your destination. So I looked it up online.

All I get are video game walkthroughs (Red Dead Redemption 2, in particular) and what to do if someone "falls off the wagon" (breaks their diet, relapses, etc.).

I just assumed covered wagons didn't come with brakes but apparently they did. So that was 30 minutes of my life I'll never get back.

EDIT: I spelled "covered" wrong. In addition to brakes, I apparently also forgot "covered" came with a 'd.'
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From what I know (which admittedly isn't much), wagons, covered or otherwise, didn't have what we would consider brakes to stop the wagon. Since wagons were pulled by horses, making the wagon stop was done by getting the horses to stop. The only other ways a wagon would stop would be if it slowed to a stop after running out of momentum or if the wagon crashed.
In old movies they used boards for brakes against the wheel.
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