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TopicCE Writing topic -- This Time It Won't Purge? Edition
spanky1
09/25/20 5:28:01 PM
#495
Well the timing is pretty good, as I just now literally hit the publish button on my second novel, the sequel to my first one from earlier this year. It's in the 72 hour review and publish phase on Amazon. Now to get started on my third book, which will be a standalone prequel.

And I might as well @Romes187

What's the status on your book? Publish it!
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TopicCE Writing topic -- This Time It Won't Purge? Edition
spanky1
09/23/20 6:16:24 PM
#492
M3sterybumper posted...
10 more posts to go. Topic lasted quite a bit

Thanks to your bumps, lol.

I'm not seeing a big reason to make another topic after this one. We ain't the chattiest bunch.
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TopicCE Writing topic -- This Time It Won't Purge? Edition
spanky1
09/16/20 9:19:32 PM
#485
While working my desk job, often I'll listen to podcasts. I've been catching up on Writing Excuses, which is a great podcast about writing, with Brandon Sanderson and a few other writers. I'mma post this episode I recently listened to from 2014, because I think it's important:

https://writingexcuses.com/2014/12/21/writing-excuses-9-53-writing-for-fun/

You gotta write for yourself! Do it because it's fun, because it's what you want to do.
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TopicCE Writing topic -- This Time It Won't Purge? Edition
spanky1
09/04/20 1:05:10 AM
#477
So do you guys read anything? I'm nearing the end of book 2 of the Stormight Archives and its getting pretty epic.

I've gotta read stuff to write these days. Its like fuel for the creative fire!
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TopicCE Writing topic -- This Time It Won't Purge? Edition
spanky1
09/03/20 1:51:57 AM
#476
TopicCE Writing topic -- This Time It Won't Purge? Edition
spanky1
08/31/20 8:53:46 PM
#474
DuranOfForcena posted...
man i wish my replacement motherboard would get here sooner rather that later. i'm still over here physically writing down notes in a notebook like some kind of technophobe. i got in a really good one last night though.

the large-scale collaborative casting of magic plays a very important role in military engagements in my setting, and i have previously established the first significant deployment of this as being an event analogous to the Fall of Constantinople, something that was a huge paradigm shift and which marked the end of an era in the eyes of many historians. i've also established a scholarly culture in the current era of my setting and a related educational system heavily based on the class divisions posited by Plato in The Republic to be what the ideal society needs, being basically workers, soldiers and leaders. and i realized last night that there is a very good throughline here.

in my setting, magic is treated like a science and a scholarly pursuit. people need to be formally educated in order to use magic effectively. many capable magic users need to be available in order to facilitate large-scale collaborative casting. so in essence, what that means is the scholarly culture of my setting would have been predicated on education itself becoming a military necessity. that's some good stuff right there.

That all sounds neat as long as you have some interesting characters and plot that uses it!

Character is number one when writing a book, imo.
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TopicCE Writing topic -- This Time It Won't Purge? Edition
spanky1
08/31/20 8:51:42 PM
#473
LightningAce11 posted...
For those that have gone to publishers/editors, how much do they ask you to change/add?

I don't think anyone's gotten that far in this topic, lol.

This topic is full of rejection letters, self publishing, and procrastination, all in equal measure. :P
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TopicWatching Adventure Time for the first time! *Gradual Spoilers*
spanky1
08/19/20 10:21:00 AM
#489
Jeff AKA Snoopy posted...
I feel like I want to curate a watch list of the good and relevant episodes. I feel you could cut out at least 40 episodes that are just not good or pointless.

I'm in the middle of season 5 and at this point I kinda want a list of main story important episodes.
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TopicCE Writing topic -- This Time It Won't Purge? Edition
spanky1
08/11/20 6:38:26 PM
#461
HotLap posted...
Thinking about trying NaNoWriMo this year. Any tips on how to outline the story so when November rolls around I can just put words to screen?

The way I outline is just make a paragraph for every chapter or chunk of chapters. Just outline the whole book that way, and you can kinda gauge how many words each paragraph will end up being, that way you can plan your way to the word count.
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TopicCE Writing topic -- This Time It Won't Purge? Edition
spanky1
08/09/20 10:59:28 PM
#458
TopicCE Writing topic -- This Time It Won't Purge? Edition
spanky1
08/06/20 5:30:44 PM
#456
Also starting a new book is always rough because you got all new names you gotta think up. I hate naming things. XO
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TopicCE Writing topic -- This Time It Won't Purge? Edition
spanky1
08/06/20 1:27:08 PM
#455
I'm currently in between books, that's the problem. Half my brain wants to move on to the next book and the other half wants to focus on editing the previous book. I'm not full in on either project.
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TopicCE Writing topic -- This Time It Won't Purge? Edition
spanky1
08/06/20 11:28:27 AM
#453
TopicCE Writing topic -- This Time It Won't Purge? Edition
spanky1
07/27/20 5:31:01 PM
#444
Well after finishing the first draft and sending it off to my beta reader, I completed my celebratory week long drunken bender. Now it's Monday and time to get back on the saddle. I need to write the blurb next and then onto the outline for book 3. :)
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TopicAbout to start Super Mario RPG
spanky1
07/25/20 8:34:30 PM
#321
Should I get the experience booster now or save up for the scrooge ring?
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TopicAbout to start Super Mario RPG
spanky1
07/21/20 7:11:57 PM
#231
NeonOctopus posted...
The only stats that Bowser excels in is HP.... He's OP when he joins until like the Sunken Ship then he slowly starts turning to shit

Yeah this is what I'm looking for. Because like, to the people saying "always", for booster's tower he literally is better in every stat than geno. It's at a certain point that geno overtakes him.
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TopicAbout to start Super Mario RPG
spanky1
07/21/20 5:38:23 PM
#224
So I just got bowser and as of booster's tower hes WAY better than geno. At what point does geno become better?
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TopicAbout to start Super Mario RPG
spanky1
07/21/20 3:49:05 PM
#220
yusiko posted...
i usually just use a team of mario/bowser/peach just cause its fucking bowser man!

As a kid I always did this. I loved Bowser.

On my current playthrough imma use geno for once.
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TopicHoly f***, this Latina
spanky1
07/21/20 1:07:05 AM
#50
Her ass is huge and round and her stomach is literally flat, and CE says shes average and you just have to eat junk food to get that body type? Are you guys insane? She has cartoon level proportions. I feel like I'm being gas lighted or something.
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TopicAbout to start Super Mario RPG
spanky1
07/20/20 12:39:17 PM
#179
yusiko posted...
but you already have peach to cure every status effect the game while healing you for more than 69 HP at the same time
so it just kind of seems like a hassle to get them when peach does the job better

anyway star hill has the best battle field in the game and its a shame there isnt a boss fight there
it makes star hill seem wasted. i mean it even has a star but it just doesnt feel as epic as the other stars cause you dont earn it through a boss fight

To me star hill was meant to be a breather after all the booster shenanigans, where you dont even get a star.
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TopicAbout to start Super Mario RPG
spanky1
07/19/20 6:11:03 PM
#170
So I'm up to tadpole island. Game is just as great as I remember but definitely easier.
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TopicAbout to start Super Mario RPG
spanky1
07/19/20 12:41:14 AM
#151
I started it and died in mushroom way.

Enemies were taking away 1 hp per attack and then I fought a spiny and his attack took 9 hp away.

:|
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TopicUpload consciousness, heaven exists, or $600 billion
spanky1
07/18/20 7:11:05 PM
#42
Can I upload consciousness into a sexy robot combat/sex lady?
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TopicAbout to start Super Mario RPG
spanky1
07/18/20 3:05:34 AM
#144
TopicAbout to start Super Mario RPG
spanky1
07/18/20 1:09:52 AM
#135
NeonOctopus posted...


That old busted player's guide is inaccurate as fuck btw >_> For whatever reason, the official guide is riddled with inconsistences. Maybe it got a beta version to go off of? idk

What kind of errors? Just like number stats or total bullshit wrong advice?
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TopicAbout to start Super Mario RPG
spanky1
07/18/20 12:33:33 AM
#130
I literally just pulled out my old busted up players guide for this game cause of this topic.
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TopicHave you put your dating life on hold during covid?
spanky1
07/17/20 8:05:12 PM
#23
TheOnionKnight posted...


Pfft hardly. But there's no way I'm gonna be abstinent for months (or years!!!) if that's how long this pandemic lasts. It just means I have to be super careful and reduce interactions with everyone else, to minimize the risk that I'll spread the virus through sexual activity.

I don't know, just having friends with benefits is pretty chady. I actually do have women that totally would be friends with benefits, but I'm not attracted to them. I seem to attract nothing but 50 year old women. :(
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TopicI think I'm gonna get drunk and replay Super Mario RPG this weekend.
spanky1
07/17/20 6:39:24 PM
#4
VandorLee posted...
Normal attacks are op to the point of "pow" on every level up is the best.

Geno with geno boost and peach for healing is op.

Mallow and bowser stink.

As a kid I always thought Bowser was the best and I was shocked when I grew up and heard he was the worst.
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TopicHave you put your dating life on hold during covid?
spanky1
07/17/20 6:38:37 PM
#17
TheOnionKnight posted...
I was almost totally self-quarantined for like the first month, but nowadays I'm back to hooking up with my FWB pretty regularly. But we already knew each other before the pandemic, and we're both very strict about social distancing and masks, etc., in public.

It's always wierd when I hear about you and your sex life. You're a chad, TOK!
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Topichow do people skip morning or night time showers? that's so gross
spanky1
07/17/20 5:54:16 PM
#4
Night showers will always make more sense to me than morning showers. You get dirty during the day, not during the night.
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TopicHave you put your dating life on hold during covid?
spanky1
07/17/20 5:53:30 PM
#5
CasualGuy posted...


Are a lot of those still happening?

They've really pared them down now that big bar meetups are out of the picture, but they do still meet in groups and on beaches and stuff. There's a big one going on this weekend, actually.

They're all conservatives who don't believe Covid-19 is a danger.

This is my dating pool.
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TopicI think I'm gonna get drunk and replay Super Mario RPG this weekend.
spanky1
07/17/20 5:50:54 PM
#1
TopicOrigami King actually seems pretty good so far
spanky1
07/17/20 5:49:39 PM
#8
Can someone explain to me the desk object boss battles? These are seriously bosses? Staplers and pencils? Instead of characters like Bowyer and Booster? What's the story behind them? Does the main bad guy just sprinkle magic dust on them that makes them come alive and then you have to fight them? Is it honestly, seriously as depressingly dull as I imagine it to be? Please tell me I'm wrong.
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TopicHave you put your dating life on hold during covid?
spanky1
07/17/20 5:46:13 PM
#2
Completely on hold. I haven't gone to any of my Houston Texas based Facebook singles group functions.
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TopicPeople I like and am friends with post things like "why aren't homeless
spanky1
07/17/20 4:00:17 PM
#4
WarfireX posted...
I deleted social media because all of my friends, ALL of them had at least one idiotic stance that got on my nerves. After about seven or eight consecutive and annoying view points from the same person I would usually say something resulting in a hostile argument with either my friend, or someone on their friends list.

I decided in March of this year to step away from Facebook. It wasn't worth hating all my "friends" or rather having a distorted perception of who my friends were just to have a portable photo album to show my vacation or rock climbing pictures.

This was right before the world just went totally nuts and I feel like if I still had Facebook and routinely checked it every day I would have been driven to suicide with what this year has had in store. Social media is just a terrible invention all around.

Yeah, it's gotten a LOT worse since the pandemic. People I respected and admired posting things about how Tuberculosis kills more so why aren't we focused on that. It's just depressing.
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TopicPeople I like and am friends with post things like "why aren't homeless
spanky1
07/17/20 3:25:27 PM
#1
people wiped out if Covid-19 is real?" on Facebook.

These are just depressing times. I'm entirely disappointed in a lot of people.
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TopicDonald Trump shows off his TRUE HAIR COLOUR!! Look at how STUPID he looks!!
spanky1
07/16/20 7:41:46 PM
#21
BLAKUboy posted...

He also needs to get rid of the hair piece.
There have been plenty of photoshops for years that show how he'd look without all the desperate attempts at "youth" and he looks completely fine, he's just a big baby.

Yeah but apparently his scalp is horribly scarred from all the procedures he's done, so he won't look as good as those photoshops.
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TopicDonald Trump shows off his TRUE HAIR COLOUR!! Look at how STUPID he looks!!
spanky1
07/16/20 7:19:34 PM
#18
TopicCE Writing topic -- This Time It Won't Purge? Edition
spanky1
07/16/20 6:22:50 PM
#429
Why do some past tense words, like lifted and gritted, sound so weird and wrong? :\

She gritted her teeth sounds weirder than she grit her teeth.
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TopicLady deadlifts her truck.
spanky1
07/16/20 12:35:22 PM
#25
I mean, you can hear the steroids in her voice.

Still would snu snu
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TopicIs this tweet about men accurate?
spanky1
07/16/20 11:48:16 AM
#52
TopicI love when customers think their email is only associated to one device.
spanky1
07/16/20 11:44:07 AM
#9
I already feel left behind on things like social media apps, they just have buttons with strange glyphs and no labels that say what they do.
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TopicLady deadlifts her truck.
spanky1
07/16/20 11:41:47 AM
#11
TopicIs this tweet about men accurate?
spanky1
07/16/20 11:32:11 AM
#46
The OP is simply describing toxic masculinity, and I'm surprised so many people are denying the claim or saying it's some kind of alt right thing or whatever. Didnt chris rock have a quote similar to this?
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Topicwhich video game girl do you prefer in looks
spanky1
07/16/20 10:05:10 AM
#15
TopicChuck Woolery's TWITTER account is GONE after his SON tested for COVID-19!!
spanky1
07/16/20 1:22:48 AM
#6
I didnt know the leopard would eat my face, says man who voted for face eating leopard party.
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TopicCE Writing topic -- This Time It Won't Purge? Edition
spanky1
07/15/20 6:30:11 PM
#428
Eh, you shouldn't even market if you only have one book anyway. I just did it mostly for the experience of holding my own book in my hands.

Once you get a larger library of books in your back catalogue, then you can worry about marketing, as it becomes profitable then because people will ideally read through your whole catalogue.

I do understand though, it can be a hassle to go through the whole thing. Gotta find a cover for the book, gotta format and do the keywords and blurb and stuff.
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TopicCE Writing topic -- This Time It Won't Purge? Edition
spanky1
07/15/20 6:22:31 PM
#426
Yeah you should just do the KDP thing. You can even print out a physical copy of your book.
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TopicCE Writing topic -- This Time It Won't Purge? Edition
spanky1
07/15/20 4:27:58 PM
#424
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