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[Chozon1]

Shifty eyed stares are still answers. At least according to Clint Eastwood.

How's your book coming?

[Deepfreeze32]

It's coming, I guess. I'm still holding off on doing anything until next month (I want to purge my memories of it before I begin the rewriting process).

I trust you somewhat, so I'll go ahead and unload here, assuming you don't mind.

The truth is...I hate being a software engineer. I've enjoyed programming, but only in the sense that it serves as a form of expression. I like creating with it. I like the act of creation. Even if that creation is meddled or futzed with at the end, it doesn't matter to me. I created it, others shaped it. What I don't like is being the person who shapes others works. The truth is, while creating software is cool, I'd rather create fictional worlds. I have a hundred ideas in my head, bursting to break free. Writing is one way to express them. The act of telling stories, regardless of medium, speaks to me. I've been enthralled by books, movies, and TV shows that told stories ever since I can remember. The stories that are inside me don't care if they're told exactly the way I want, they just care that they're told, you know?

I realize it's an impossible dream...but I would like to be published in some form or fashion. I want people to be able to read my work and get some emotional or logical response out of it. I want to make someone happy, or preferably think about the world differently, you know?

The problem is...I don't know if I can. I fully accept that regardless of talent, a writer can have an impact on someone.

The truth is, I think I'm a terrible writer. I see evidence every day that bad writers can get published, yet that doesn't help for some reason. I think my writing is terribly dull. That while it may be descriptive, it's got no soul. It's boring. It's just...not good.

Maybe that's normal for writers, maybe not. But the truth is, I can't judge my writing so I have to sit here, brooding as I write, unsure of if it's all for naught.


Sorry for the emotional dump, but it's just one of those things that nags me...

[Chozon1]

Unloading is fine. ^_^But being published isn't an impossible dream; you can do it.

I shall share my thoughts, if you don't mind. Writing wise, I think there comes a point where you just have to show it to somebody else and ask about it. For me, I've actually crafted a tale I like, but I have the horrible feeling no one else will. So I'm sending out PDF's of my first draft to see what people think, because...there's nothing else to do.

I would also say that...I don't think writing, or most creative things, can be plopped into 'good' or 'bad' camps like a lot of people think. Take the Twilight series; I don't like it. It's cheesy, and I would call it bad storytelling. At the same time, there's some good stuff in those books; stuff that inspired me. Even amidst rather horrible teen angst romance (which uh...I just admitted to reading. >_>) there was courage, enduring love, and self sacrifice that spoke to me. I'll remember those aspects far longer than Bella crying in the wilderness every three pages.

I'ma go even more hardcore: The Prequels. Pretty much everyone agree's those are terrible...but it's not about the 'quality' of writing. It's about the metaphysical aspects...the heroism, the mystery solving, the fantastic nature of the universe. I love those movies for that alone, even though the Anakin/Padme romance is nauseating.

Point is...well, I've made it about as clear as my sleep-starved mind can make it. O_o

Battle of Five Armies: Extended edition?

[Deepfreeze32]

I appreciate the response. I do. At the same time, I worry deeply that the /way/ I'm telling the story is boring. That my words are flat, and merely describe rather than produce imagination.

Battle of Five Armies: Extended edition?

I dunno, that movie was the weakest Hobbit movie (IMO). I'd rather watch a cut of all three that condensed it to two movies, or one LOTR-Extended Edition-length movie.

[Chozon1]

Well...that may just be your style. Some writers are poetic and flowing, and some lean more towards precise and detailed. I don't think there's a right and wrong way there either. Still tells a good tale.

For the record, I saw BoFA: Extended, and while I liked it better for the little details...they amped the violence up to ridiculous video game levels. O_o It was bad. And there was spinning wheels of death. -_- I agree otherwise, though.

There's something to be said about walking away, and taking a nap?

[Deepfreeze32]

I concur. Naptime would be awesome, if I didn't have to work...

[Chozon1]

You could always paint eyes on your eye lids, so that when closed, they appeared open. Worked for me...never, actually. It's a terrible idea. -_-

Kilts?

[Deepfreeze32]

Kilts are awesome. Suitable for true warriors.

[Chozon1]

And everyday use. So comfortable. <3 Save, perhaps, especially windy days.

Getting a whole pizza, and accidentally eating all of it, intentionally?

[Deepfreeze32]

Sounds like Friday night to me.

No, really. XD

[Chozon1]

I'd call that a perfect Friday. I'd call that a perfect any day, actually. <3

The only thing better than pizza is pizza and hot wings?

[Deepfreeze32]

Hmm. Not sure. I general prefer garlic bread. Or the stuffed cheese bread Dominos makes. Mmmm.

[Chozon1]

Well. I was assuming the pizza came with pizza related sides, and the hot wings came with hot wing related sides. Not pizza and wings, but Pizza meal and Wing meal at the same time.

Impossible feats of amazement?

[Deepfreeze32]

Well, it would have to be boneless wings. Regular old meat-on-bone chicken wings don't do it for me.

Impossible feats of amazement?

Sounds like what my boss expects out of me every day...

[TheAlexTDB]

Lol, sounds like a plan to me!

I took a programming class at my local college a year or 2 ago, in Intro to Python. Where did you start, and whats your favorite programming language?