stupid first world problems you're dealing with

i only wander into the most recent burger thread when i'm trying to diet

  On 4/6/2017 at 8:29 PM, juiceciuj said:

i only wander into the most recent burger thread when i'm trying to diet

lol this.

BCM u devil

  On 4/6/2017 at 8:17 PM, Zephyr_Nova said:

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

Yeah, what is that? I'm scared.

  On 4/5/2017 at 10:18 PM, Leon Sumbitches said:

 

  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.

 

I am, luckily I have fun and feel satisfied regardless of where the material ends up. In fact, a novel I shelved has given me an idea for a sequel, which is far more weird and interesting than its precursor, so it's not all a waste. Maybe I can just call these rejects 'first drafts'.

And I have to get a good splash in the bowls of an agent first, let alone publisher. I do wonder how sellable most of my ideas are. I don't think the market is exactly open for a story where a detective tries to rescue a child held hostage by his own imaginary friend.

After a few years of not paying any attention to my calorie intake, I did the math and figured out I eat too damn much.

SFWP: I just spent $12 for a meal of burger, fries, and drink at Five Guys and it was absolutely boring and I hate that gave them my money. Twice I've gone there and wasted my money, never again. Sad!

  On 4/6/2017 at 8:59 PM, Braintree said:

After a few years of not paying any attention to my calorie intake, I did the math and figured out I eat too damn much.

Many (first world) humans do.

  On 4/6/2017 at 8:56 PM, Bechuga said:

 

  On 4/5/2017 at 10:18 PM, Leon Sumbitches said:

 

I am, luckily I have fun and feel satisfied regardless of where the material ends up. In fact, a novel I shelved has given me an idea for a sequel, which is far more weird and interesting than its precursor, so it's not all a waste. Maybe I can just call these rejects 'first drafts'.

 

And I have to get a good splash in the bowls of an agent first, let alone publisher. I do wonder how sellable most of my ideas are. I don't think the market is exactly open for a story where a detective tries to rescue a child held hostage by his own imaginary friend.

 

When I originally replied asking about if you'd gotten help from an editor or writer, I meant your 'old' novels more than the new one...but it could be equally good if you're getting new ideas based on the old ideas. Not sure where in the 'becoming a real writer!' process finding an agent comes from, but I imagine it's one of the first things to do, for sure. One writer I heard speak a few years ago just actually contacted an agent on Twitter and asked her about it and boom, she was being published soon after. Good luck on it!

And honestly that's exactly the sort of books that are often out there...an 'established' style (detective rescuing a child) with a twist. Just gotta have an angle/gimmick/whatever and it could surely take.

I spent a day's worth of work in between more pressing work mixing and sound designing a 1:45 minute animation only to have the client decide to scrap all the music and sound design I did. They want voice over as the sole audio. That's the first time that's ever happened to me.

  On 4/6/2017 at 9:16 PM, paranerd said:

I spent a day's worth of work in between more pressing work mixing and sound designing a 1:45 minute animation only to have the client decide to scrap all the music and sound design I did. They want voice over as the sole audio. That's the first time that's ever happened to me.

lol - clients are the worst.

  On 4/6/2017 at 9:26 PM, Squee said:

 

  On 4/6/2017 at 9:16 PM, paranerd said:

I spent a day's worth of work in between more pressing work mixing and sound designing a 1:45 minute animation only to have the client decide to scrap all the music and sound design I did. They want voice over as the sole audio. That's the first time that's ever happened to me.

 

lol - clients are the worst.

 

It's so strange since they essentially paid for nothing!

  On 4/6/2017 at 9:32 PM, paranerd said:

 

  On 4/6/2017 at 9:26 PM, Squee said:

 

  On 4/6/2017 at 9:16 PM, paranerd said:

I spent a day's worth of work in between more pressing work mixing and sound designing a 1:45 minute animation only to have the client decide to scrap all the music and sound design I did. They want voice over as the sole audio. That's the first time that's ever happened to me.

lol - clients are the worst.

It's so strange since they essentially paid for nothing!

 

I have to figure out a client. I had someone change their opinion 4 times until they settled on a tune I did. I listened to their references, I made something that I actually thought was pretty cool, but they kept saying, "do you think it can be more like this? Oh, how about this?!"

But to be honest, I love all my clients. They're all super nice and respectful... but I was actually contacted by someone last summer. A company that does online banking. They're fairly new to the market but they're doing really well. Anyway, I was put in contact with the product owner and he had no idea what he wanted. He just kept saying, "I want the sound design to be cool and nice. Do you use a Mac? Good! If you were a pc user I would have kicked you out. Ok, so I want the sound design to be cool and nice. No Windows sounds".

So I sent them a bunch of tests and he hated it. I then did something else. I made it super minimalistic. This time he didn't hate it, but he still didn't love it. He then wanted me to add the sound of banknotes(????). I ended up adding the sound of coin flips and banknotes. He then selected a couple of sound effects that he liked and asked me to convert them to m4a and ogg. I did that and I never heard back from the company. I have no idea if they ended up using the sounds because I can't access the part of the app where my sounds would be used because I don't have an account.

I can't decide whether or not I should contact them and ask them for my money?

  On 4/6/2017 at 9:39 PM, Squee said:

He then selected a couple of sound effects that he liked and asked me to convert them to m4a and ogg.

Haha, wtf!

I'd email them an invoice saying that interest will be added for every month they are late. They're a bank, so they should be cool with that.

  On 4/6/2017 at 9:53 PM, paranerd said:

 

  On 4/6/2017 at 9:39 PM, Squee said:

He then selected a couple of sound effects that he liked and asked me to convert them to m4a and ogg.

Haha, wtf!

 

I'd email them an invoice saying that interest will be added for every month they are late. They're a bank, so they should be cool with that.

 

Yeah, I think I'll contact them tomorrow... it's been about 8 months since I heard from them. Fucking bastards. Now I'm just getting pissed thinking about it.

Personally, I bill clients based on the amount of time it took me, not on if they used it or not.

I've even put stuff on my resume for things that I wasn't paid for or they didn't use because fuck them. I did it so I should get the credit.

Yeah, I've done that as well. I had just decided I didn't want to contact this client because they were being impossible. But now I'm gonna.

  On 4/6/2017 at 9:10 PM, auxien said:

SFWP: I just spent $12 for a meal of burger, fries, and drink at Five Guys and it was absolutely boring and I hate that gave them my money. Twice I've gone there and wasted my money, never again. Sad!

 

 

  On 4/6/2017 at 8:59 PM, Braintree said:

After a few years of not paying any attention to my calorie intake, I did the math and figured out I eat too damn much.

Many (first world) humans do.

 

 

  On 4/6/2017 at 8:56 PM, Bechuga said:

 

  On 4/5/2017 at 10:18 PM, Leon Sumbitches said:

I am, luckily I have fun and feel satisfied regardless of where the material ends up. In fact, a novel I shelved has given me an idea for a sequel, which is far more weird and interesting than its precursor, so it's not all a waste. Maybe I can just call these rejects 'first drafts'.

 

And I have to get a good splash in the bowls of an agent first, let alone publisher. I do wonder how sellable most of my ideas are. I don't think the market is exactly open for a story where a detective tries to rescue a child held hostage by his own imaginary friend.

 

When I originally replied asking about if you'd gotten help from an editor or writer, I meant your 'old' novels more than the new one...but it could be equally good if you're getting new ideas based on the old ideas. Not sure where in the 'becoming a real writer!' process finding an agent comes from, but I imagine it's one of the first things to do, for sure. One writer I heard speak a few years ago just actually contacted an agent on Twitter and asked her about it and boom, she was being published soon after. Good luck on it!

 

And honestly that's exactly the sort of books that are often out there...an 'established' style (detective rescuing a child) with a twist. Just gotta have an angle/gimmick/whatever and it could surely take.

Getting an agent is either having a foot in the door or incredible luck of having the agent give a shit on the day you send them a sample (and also your sample being something they like). Contact on twitter ended with one agent blocking me! All I did was ask 'are you accepting manuscript submissions'.

Tough crowd.

I hate my job but it's a safe source of income. Told myself it would only be temporary thing to keep me afloat until I figure out what to do with my life, but it turns out this is where I ended up. Almost ten years of intellectual and creative misery. So comfortable. So terrible.

I had to sneeze really bad and could tell it was going to be a glorious one, but I was carrying a full cup of coffee which the sneeze would have certainly spilled.  So I held it in and lost all that satisfaction.

Re: clients not paying: been there.  One was a girl who sang several Christmas carols and got me to record all the instrumentals for her to sing over.  When I billed her for all the work I did she protested that she thought all the instrumentals were like the "finishing touches" and would just be thrown in free of charge.  Wow.  We had an email exchange that started off fairly reasonable but escalated into quite ugly quite fast.  I ended up making noise tracks out of 3 of them for various watmm Xmas comps, so I feel like I won that battle in the end.

Another client who seemed like he really did intend to pay his half of the project (it was a duo) stopped responding to emails.  He seemed kind like a depressive person and I know he was embarrassed that he couldn't pay up front because of all these car repairs that he suddenly needed to pay for.  To this day I wonder if the reason he stopped responding was suicide...  It's more likely he just felt he couldn't afford it in the end and was too humiliated to fess up.  But I'll probably never know.

These days I just make clients pay as we go.  No one ever owes me more than $50 at a time.

I think i'm turning into one of those weird people who doesn't listen to music.

I bought a $107 textbook for one of my classes and now we're not using it

dang it

there are three birthdays in my family this month. i'm stuck with cards in front of me at aloss what to write in them.

i need help from wattem,

simple like: have a great birthday

x3. 

"do 'er in the butt"

- yek

  On 4/7/2017 at 5:31 AM, usagi said:

"do 'er in the butt"

- yek

family , not friends 

I don't see how that makes any difference. maybe "dick 'er down" is more palatable?

i'll just go with "i;ll love you long time" thanks for the brainstorm

Too busy. Frustrated that I don't have more time to work on shit that's going to help my team move faster and pad my resume. Not a stranger to delegation but I just keep getting tossed all this random lopsided work. Kind of getting tired of the jack of all trades shtick, wanna narrow my focus a bit more and kinda specialize, go deep instead of wide.

Also I hate highway driving. FWS: The weather is finally getting nice, time to start taking the bus again and enjoying the time for reading, beats, and coding that gives me, especially now that I've hoarded all these nice battery powered machines.