stupid first world problems you're dealing with

There are 1.2 gigs of stem files for this remix!  Jesus... condense and organize a bit ffs.

Just left my wallet on the bus. The helpful lady on the bus depot line said she couldn't get through to the driver - he probably can't hear his radio over the sound of all my precious coins tinkling into his money sack.

the sweet feeling of the boc subforum has been locked away yet again

as a kid, i'd have killed to have this. as an adult, i regret never having it

I get bored when I'm not working.

Quickly realizing that the house I just moved in to is a fucking shithole. Can't even get the furnace to turn on. I'm gonna have a very intimate relationship with the tenants union this year.

At least I'm good at fixing old homes...

  On 3/30/2017 at 2:11 AM, luke viia said:

At least I'm good at fixing old homes...

You should monetize that skill. In some places it can be good side income. Worst case you can get some discounts on your rent while you're there for fixing shit, eh?

The stem 7z file for the remix contest I was about to take a crack at is corrupt.  Now I don't know what to do with myself.

People sayin Shambhalatwin is for reals... why! So upsetting

Book I'm 260 pages into writing has died. No longer feel much interest in it. If the idea survives, it will probably be in a different form, meaning 100,000 words scrapped. Welp.

In fact, I've done a bunch of work over the last few years and none of it has become a final thing I really believe in. Have three completed novels on my HD but nothing I feel assured in releasing. How many more times will I write something only to find out way too late it's not what I want it to be? Welp welp welp.

Now I know how Jonathan Franzen feels. Although he has millions of dollars to help him sleep at night while failing to write books.

  On 4/3/2017 at 10:31 PM, Bechuga said:

Book I'm 260 pages into writing has died. No longer feel much interest in it. If the idea survives, it will probably be in a different form, meaning 100,000 words scrapped. Welp.

 

In fact, I've done a bunch of work over the last few years and none of it has become a final thing I really believe in. Have three completed novels on my HD but nothing I feel assured in releasing. How many more times will I write something only to find out way too late it's not what I want it to be? Welp welp welp.

 

Now I know how Jonathan Franzen feels. Although he has millions of dollars to help him sleep at night while failing to write books.

 You just need the right idea, I have one:

Scientist find out that all viruses originally stem from another outer space but before they came to earth they traveled through a gravitation field in which time passes by much slower (according to theory of relativity). Some of their brothers and sisters didn't do that and had billions of years time to develop a complex and mysterious intelligence and now set out for earth to find their primitive forebears.

Does that sound like the best selling bestseller 2017 or not?

  On 4/3/2017 at 10:31 PM, Bechuga said:

Book I'm 260 pages into writing has died. No longer feel much interest in it. If the idea survives, it will probably be in a different form, meaning 100,000 words scrapped. Welp.

 

In fact, I've done a bunch of work over the last few years and none of it has become a final thing I really believe in. Have three completed novels on my HD but nothing I feel assured in releasing. How many more times will I write something only to find out way too late it's not what I want it to be? Welp welp welp.

 

Now I know how Jonathan Franzen feels. Although he has millions of dollars to help him sleep at night while failing to write books.

Have you run it by an editor/another writer whose opinions you trust? Maybe you just need some guidance/outside perspective.

  On 4/3/2017 at 11:29 PM, darreichungsform said:

 

  On 4/3/2017 at 10:31 PM, Bechuga said:

Book I'm 260 pages into writing has died. No longer feel much interest in it. If the idea survives, it will probably be in a different form, meaning 100,000 words scrapped. Welp.

 

In fact, I've done a bunch of work over the last few years and none of it has become a final thing I really believe in. Have three completed novels on my HD but nothing I feel assured in releasing. How many more times will I write something only to find out way too late it's not what I want it to be? Welp welp welp.

 

Now I know how Jonathan Franzen feels. Although he has millions of dollars to help him sleep at night while failing to write books.

 You just need the right idea, I have one:

Scientist find out that all viruses originally stem from another outer space but before they came to earth they traveled through a gravitation field in which time passes by much slower (according to theory of relativity). Some of their brothers and sisters didn't do that and had billions of years time to develop a complex and mysterious intelligence and now set out for earth to find their primitive forebears.

Does that sound like the best selling bestseller 2017 or not?

 

It sounds like a best seller from 1974

I have plenty of ideas, it's simply getting them to appear as interesting as they sound in my head on paper. Often they do, often not. I still like my first book, and I feel proud at how weird it is. Has its flaws, but satisfied with it.

  On 4/3/2017 at 11:34 PM, auxien said:

 

  On 4/3/2017 at 10:31 PM, Bechuga said:

Book I'm 260 pages into writing has died. No longer feel much interest in it. If the idea survives, it will probably be in a different form, meaning 100,000 words scrapped. Welp.

 

In fact, I've done a bunch of work over the last few years and none of it has become a final thing I really believe in. Have three completed novels on my HD but nothing I feel assured in releasing. How many more times will I write something only to find out way too late it's not what I want it to be? Welp welp welp.

 

Now I know how Jonathan Franzen feels. Although he has millions of dollars to help him sleep at night while failing to write books.

Have you run it by an editor/another writer whose opinions you trust? Maybe you just need some guidance/outside perspective.

 

I haven't, but I don't think this is worth showing. Will leave it on my HD and see how I feel in time. Can always change my mind and resume from where I left off, after doing something else for a while.

send me your book.. i'll finish it for you in 3 days. 

Demdike Stare is playing in town May 11... the same day the Upstream music fest starts, and I already have tix to that. Crossing fingers that nobody interesting is playing that night so I can dip out and see DS.

i hate people that say japanimation

  On 4/5/2017 at 1:34 AM, Nebraska said:

i hate people that say japanimation

lol

Once got shouted at by a goth for calling One Piece 'comics', was told explicitly that it's manga, they're different things from comics, call it manga. So easily triggered, these comics people.

Sequential graphic literature's a trip an' a half.

  On 4/4/2017 at 3:05 AM, Bechuga said:

 

  On 4/3/2017 at 11:29 PM, darreichungsform said:

 

  On 4/3/2017 at 10:31 PM, Bechuga said:

Book I'm 260 pages into writing has died. No longer feel much interest in it. If the idea survives, it will probably be in a different form, meaning 100,000 words scrapped. Welp.

 

In fact, I've done a bunch of work over the last few years and none of it has become a final thing I really believe in. Have three completed novels on my HD but nothing I feel assured in releasing. How many more times will I write something only to find out way too late it's not what I want it to be? Welp welp welp.

 

Now I know how Jonathan Franzen feels. Although he has millions of dollars to help him sleep at night while failing to write books.

 You just need the right idea, I have one:

Scientist find out that all viruses originally stem from another outer space but before they came to earth they traveled through a gravitation field in which time passes by much slower (according to theory of relativity). Some of their brothers and sisters didn't do that and had billions of years time to develop a complex and mysterious intelligence and now set out for earth to find their primitive forebears.

Does that sound like the best selling bestseller 2017 or not?

 

It sounds like a best seller from 1974

 

I have plenty of ideas, it's simply getting them to appear as interesting as they sound in my head on paper. Often they do, often not. I still like my first book, and I feel proud at how weird it is. Has its flaws, but satisfied with it.

 

  On 4/3/2017 at 11:34 PM, auxien said:

 

  On 4/3/2017 at 10:31 PM, Bechuga said:

Book I'm 260 pages into writing has died. No longer feel much interest in it. If the idea survives, it will probably be in a different form, meaning 100,000 words scrapped. Welp.

 

In fact, I've done a bunch of work over the last few years and none of it has become a final thing I really believe in. Have three completed novels on my HD but nothing I feel assured in releasing. How many more times will I write something only to find out way too late it's not what I want it to be? Welp welp welp.

 

Now I know how Jonathan Franzen feels. Although he has millions of dollars to help him sleep at night while failing to write books.

Have you run it by an editor/another writer whose opinions you trust? Maybe you just need some guidance/outside perspective.

 

I haven't, but I don't think this is worth showing. Will leave it on my HD and see how I feel in time. Can always change my mind and resume from where I left off, after doing something else for a while.

 

Keep at it man, I've a hard drive full of fiction stuff I've plugged away on and looking back, most of it's shite, even stuff that I thought was pretty decent at the time. But there is a progression there. It's gotten better slowly but surely. Still not good, still not worth sending off. But better. And I wouldn't trade those hours 'wasted' on writing stories for anything. When I hear a tune off any of a succession of 'writing playlists' I've had over the years it instantly warps me right back to sitting at my tiny desk in my mum and dad's house when I was 16, typing out mad wee epics, instant nostalgia trip. Or wherever I've been writing since. At the end of the day, you do it for the rush, the adaptation, etc. Ideas come and go; sometimes you just have to let them bake, like a turd, and it'll drop out when it's ready. One day you will hear the sound of your bookturd splashing into the receptive bowl of a publisher's willing arms. Keep 'er lit.

Lately I've been digging more samples than I can pragmatically ever use. Watmm's rhythm roulette project is turning into a vinyl collection.   

My bus driver today looks like Rich

I will treasure the transfer slip he gave me forever *slips it into DfN LP sleeve*

Yesterday I had to hit up my boss for the company credit card (to buy a couple of lame-ass webinars > to get continuing education credits > to maintain my near-useless LEED credential).  It's in everyone's interest but it's still awkward.

After reporting all my CE hours it says I can now renew my credential (with only a day to spare before the current one runs out no less).  $85 dollar fee, payable by credit card.  Fuuu

We received a message yesterday that our local waterworks was gonna shut off the hot water from 8 am to 4 pm today. I forgot so I literally jumped into the shower at 7:59 am and then ran out as the hot water went away. Anyway, it's not 5 pm and we still don't have hot water and our radiators are cold as ice. This sucks. Life is unfair!

Everyone's writing their facebook statuses in these giant coloured boxes now and I don't understand it.  It upsets me.