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General chat thread

Discussion in 'General' started by Nanimani, Dec 27, 2015.

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  1. ThePoarter

    ThePoarter Gone for Good

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    You wanna talk about it more?

    Personally I couldn't give a dam about Regional Australia since I live there as well. To me it's just a racist hole that I'm reluctantly living in.

    But I'm sorry about what's happened to you. How's fun for you then?

    Do you want to stop?
     
  2. Treble

    Treble Connoisseur.

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    No. Absolutely not.
     
  3. ThePoarter

    ThePoarter Gone for Good

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    Okay. If you want to talk again I'm here.
     
  4. Amazon Climber

    Amazon Climber Wholesomely Depraved

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    I’ve been fully burned out on writing since November, and have no idea what my brain is looking for in dopamine, except that it’s also not reading or playing video games. But my meds working well enough that I don’t currently wish I could sink into a space between dimensions and vanish from reality. So, I’m okay in the Time Lord sense.
     
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  5. Selias

    Selias Well worn.

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  6. Daytripper

    Daytripper Connoisseur.

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    My grandfather just passed away in the hospital today.
     
  7. ShogunTrooper

    ShogunTrooper Launching Bees out of a Trebuchet

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    My condolences, man. Always sucks to lose someone.
     
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  8. MadGreenSon

    MadGreenSon Verified Devil Tiger, The Childish Yandere

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    A somewhat cheerier conversation starter:


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  9. Momodoods

    Momodoods not here to make masterpieces

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    I don't know where else I can post but, How do you overcome writer's block especially to avoid not disappointing a audience? I want to go back to posting stories but I just can't finish what I write without bashing my head on the wall.
     
  10. Hyp3rB14d3

    Hyp3rB14d3 Violence!

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    There’s a few different things you can try. If you’re having issues with a scene from one character’s point of view, try writing from the perspective of someone else. If you can’t get the words to come, try writing a parody of the scene instead, then go back and do the actual scene. If that doesn’t work, you can always discard your current plans and do something completely different. And if that doesn’t work either, you can always take a break and do something other than writing.
     
  11. TanaNari

    TanaNari Verified Dick

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    Write anyway. Writer's block is only emotional, not actual, and so can be ignored with a bit of personal discipline.

    Don't get me wrong, forcing it through like that will make quality suffer, of that there's little doubt. But sometimes you have to accept that 'not good enough' is going to have to be good enough.

    Which should be enough to get you through the scene and on to (hopefully) better things.
     
  12. Amazon Climber

    Amazon Climber Wholesomely Depraved

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    Or you’ll burn out and spend months feeling awful when you try to write and awful when you don’t.

    If you don’t schedule time for self-maintenance your brain will schedule it for you.
     
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  13. TanaNari

    TanaNari Verified Dick

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    Hasn't happened to me, yet. And I've been at it for years.

    What part of my post even implies you don't take time to rest? "Do it even if you don't feel like it" is basic life advice against procrastination.

    "Never take time to rest or enjoy yourself" is Japan.
     
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  14. Arc-on-Fire

    Arc-on-Fire I trust you know where the happy button is?

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    You know... with this whole of talk of being unable to seemingly bypass writer's block and general melancholy moods. Is there even a thread for writing resources to help writers and in general self-improvement? If not should I make one?
     
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  15. Treble

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    Please do go ahead.
     
  16. TheMidnightRook

    TheMidnightRook Well worn.

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    There've been a few

    https://forum.questionablequesting.com/threads/advice-on-writing.4397/
    https://forum.questionablequesting.com/threads/advice-on-writing-a-novel.6611/
    https://forum.questionablequesting.com/threads/morde24s-guide-to-writing.15988/
    https://forum.questionablequesting.com/threads/writing-nsfw-q-a.638/ (This one's NSFW)

    I've probably even missed a few others
     
  17. Arc-on-Fire

    Arc-on-Fire I trust you know where the happy button is?

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    Hmm... I see. All good threads especially the NSFW one and Morde24's thread as well. Perhaps instead of another general writing advice thread, I could make one that's more oriented towards providing in-depth resources, writing tools and motivation, an open source thing really. Meh, at this point I might as well just start searching. Might take me a day or two though.
     
  18. Arc-on-Fire

    Arc-on-Fire I trust you know where the happy button is?

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  19. UnknownGIND

    UnknownGIND Actual plot and World-building enthusiast

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    Can I asked you guys about what your opinions on Indonesia if you know about it or ever visited it?


    (This question is purely comes from my personal curiosity of how people from other countries saw my country)
     
  20. Treble

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    I've heard it has some interesting folk myths. That's about all.

    Indonesia just doesn't come up in the news enough for any sort of opinion to form.
     
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  21. UnknownGIND

    UnknownGIND Actual plot and World-building enthusiast

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    Ah yes, the folk myths.
    We have many of them, Dreadout is pretty accurate at portraying it.

    Fair enough, I guess...
    The last things that can comes in International news is Indonesia ban of selling coal exports a few months prior.
     
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  22. TanaNari

    TanaNari Verified Dick

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    Which was probably part of that whole fiasco between China and Australia. Two nations I'm sure you're thrilled to be caught between.
     
  23. killgore444

    killgore444 Versed in the lewd.

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    Other than a couple of REALLY BIG volcanic explosions, the only thing that comes to mind are very pretty women, nice weather and social/religious conflict.
     
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  24. UnknownGIND

    UnknownGIND Actual plot and World-building enthusiast

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    Actually the fiasco between China & Australia is a different things and doesn't include the Southeast Asia at all.

    The ban on coal exports is happen because the coal manufacturing company in Indonesia doesn't fill their agreed quotas and choose to sell the coal abroad for profits.
    And the government didn't like that. So they decided to ban the coal export to telling the companies who is in control.

    Because in our constitutions, they're not even supposed to sell it abroad and can pretty much call the Judicial Institutions to go hard on them (Basically all our constitutions is coming from a compromise of another compromise).

    The other countries(especially Japan) was kinda bewildered by the move and asked the ban to be scrapped and lifted. Which we didn't do.
    And then the ban was lifted in February.

    (Sorry for the rants, and I will leave this thread because I afraid I'm breaking the site rules.)
     
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  25. killgore444

    killgore444 Versed in the lewd.

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  26. Arc-on-Fire

    Arc-on-Fire I trust you know where the happy button is?

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    >22/02/22
    >on tuesday

    ...you really can't make this up.
    Is it wrong to bet two dollars on the world blowing up tomorrow?
     
  27. kinglugia

    kinglugia A Randy Avian

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    Nah, I bet it's the day I die from a sudden death syndrome :V
     
  28. killgore444

    killgore444 Versed in the lewd.

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    It really won't.
     
  29. Elbrasch

    Elbrasch Not too sore, are you?

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    On unrelated notes, after 5 years of social isolation, I admitted to myself that I am incapable of forming serious (social or romantic) relationships and shamefully coughed up the money for a sex doll. That will hurt my bank account and soul.
    Sadly the tech for heating and breathing isn't there yet, so I am still sceptical if I will use it consistently or if it will just be abandoned like my VR headset (porn or games).
     
  30. NeutralPlank

    NeutralPlank Getting out there.

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    Hello Y'all. I'm new to QQ (and the quest scene in general).
    I heard that SFW quests don't do well here (unless possible violence, gore & death is considered NSFW). Any possible way I can attract new viewers for my quest? Sorry if this is the wrong forum. I'm kinda lost :/
    It's a kingdom-builder set in a medievalesque fantasy world. I've been working on the world-building and Chapter 1 (7.5k words) for the past 4 months. Pretty excited to see how it does here!
     
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