I loved Judge and Jury, still more of a fan of Elmore Leonard. Where can I get my grubby hands on it?
Nowhere yet. I had a single copy printed for my friend to go through the whole thing and proof read me since I can’t do it myself.
Do my Akuma fanfics where he fights Vampire Goku count?
On the real good luck to you guys. Take the stage of your dreams!
I remember the good old days where we would do group fanfics and just throw all kinds of random ish to the story to out stupid each other. Or the one dood made with Ryu trying to acquire shoes and fighting random Gundams and Metal Gear.
Tried a couple years ago and failed. The first couple times you let your daily word count slip, it seems like it’s going to be okay, but that shit snowballs in a hurry.
I didn’t really have a solid idea at the time, either. I was just writing whatever came into my head and hoping it would somehow come together, which got me through a couple weeks at best.
Basically, from what I’m reading, if you do this, they ask before you upload to scramble your writing for word count submissions. That’s the only thing uploading to their server does, and they say they have scripts in place to auto-delete the files after their computers execute word counts, but they say to scramble just in case. And honestly, that’s advisable, anyone that can sniff packets could latch on to whatever you send.
Up to you to make copyrights, and if you’re dead serious about protecting your work, registering it at the Library of Congress is advisable.
Dammt someone got a link to the story with Akuma frying chicken in the palm of his hand?
(Angelpalm, ask Bowling Pin.)
I tried putting music to keep me going, but it just distracts me ultimately. It’s…annoying. The same thing happens with reading. I just can’t bring myself to do much creative before general apathy takes over or get hideously sidetracked, which isn’t really writer’s block because outside of that singular aforementioned problem, I pretty much have the main crux of everything I want to do for various projects mapped out.
…Which reminds me that I need to back things up in general.
Yes, I am aware that not getting distracted by hedonistic pursuits such as playing video games or watching Youtube is the other solution. Thank you.
And thus did it become 42 times easier to stalk you.
Seriously, though, thanks for reminding me this exists. I think I’ve heard of this before somewhere.
no, i meant the “other” solution, to your problems.
(…Destroying China?)
Oh, damn. I forgot to comment on goody’s post. Silly me.
Put in bold for emphasis. Getting behind is okay and somewhat inevitable, especially if you’re trying to keep busy otherwise. However, if you do it simultaneously and I would say for more than, at most, three days of the month, it will fuck you over, especially towards the beginning. Just try to get a good start in and then try to at least plan where you’re going with your middle if you have to take break because getting writer’s block during this just wastes time, especially since it’s just a lengthy forced first draft anyway.
You could always write about some Superman proxy. 
I’ve “finished” this once before. The hardest part is when you reach towards the end. You just want to be finished and enjoy Thanksgiving ham or whatever, without worrying about looking at any word processing software.
Keep a schedule and stick to it. I’m pretty sure I remember them having a word count calendar on the site. Whatever the case may be, try to keep one. I was caught slacking for a few days and had to write damn near twenty pages back to back, to catch up.
It’s crazy, I knew of someone finishing this in the very first week. :eek:
This thing is easier for Canadians 
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I love Dr. Seuss :sad:
So what kind of outlets do you guys use for research when you write? Or do you just make up a bunch of shit. I would love to write fantasy with all kinds of battles that are all still military sound.
Wikipedia.
It’s not like you’ll have to annotate your references, unless you’re into that sort of thing.
Then you’re ahead of the curve I set in the OP.
Im planning on doing it first time this year.
(I really have to start using Ask’s search engine more, especially with how annoying Google is becoming and since I have a toolbar for it.)
Yeah, I just used Wikipedia the first time around. Too much, actually. That’s kinda what I scrapped the first version entirely. It felt rather…dishonest, even not having to annotate things. If I use Wikipedia at all this time around, it’s mostly going to be to make sure I’m not utterly fucking up geography since my most recent atlas is from…2006 already I think and this story takes place in 2011 (unlike my previous one, which is still set to start in 2005).
If you’re planning on writing military stuff, here’s a good resource I’ve been meaning to use: “War is not about guns or bombs.”
I’ve never gotten to reading most of it still (unfortunately) and I couldn’t find it with Google like an hour ago, but from what little I read before it seems pretty solid, especially given what and how the person who recommended it writes; that person is different from the person who wrote the website, for the record.
I kinda wish there was one for writing believable one-on-one fights (or smaller scale fights in general), but there isn’t as far as I’m aware of. Not that I’ve looked, though.
Before my first book I went to the library and spent a half a day researching firearms, ammunition, criminal psyochology and such. I used my ex girlfriend’s nursing textbooks a lot too for injuries.
Just write a sex scene and replace all the sex words with fighting words.
Example…
First draft: "He fisted her in the ass."
Second draft: “He fisted her in the eye.”