Hello, dear writers. I am Womble and I have a question: how does one pry oneself away from the damn computer games long enough to get some writing done?
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Originally posted by Womble View PostHello, dear writers. I am Womble and I have a question: how does one pry oneself away from the damn computer games long enough to get some writing done?Heightmeyer's Lemming -- still the coolest Lemming of the forum
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Originally posted by Womble View PostHello, dear writers. I am Womble and I have a question: how does one pry oneself away from the damn computer games long enough to get some writing done?Price for Pain What do you mean violence isn't the answer?
Burn It All Away Blood moves the heavens. Fire purifies the land. Legends change worlds. Destiny burns.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Fiat justitia et pereat mundus. Fiat justitia ruat caelum.
All are PG-13, each with a single act of rated R violence. Adults situations and other, tamer violence.
Ficta voluptatis causa sint proxima veris
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I'm still trying to figure out how to stop myself from getting distracted by shinies...Unmade Plans (WIP: 11/20):
Sam's life takes a turn in an unexpected direction when she's faced with an unplanned pregnancy. The decision to keep the baby and raise it on her own will alter her life forever. Relationships are put to the test, especially the one between her and Jack. She doesn't know what to expect from him and he surprises her at every turn.
On FFnet or AO3
My S/J fics can be found on FFnet and AO3. I also tweet and tumble about the ship and my writing/stories.
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Originally posted by Womble View PostHello, dear writers. I am Womble and I have a question: how does one pry oneself away from the damn computer games long enough to get some writing done?
And then de-install those silly internet browsers.
Oh, fems you want to know the easy way to stop being distracted by shinies?
Spoiler:FIND. MORE. SHINIES!!!
[''... I laugh at your reality..''][ STARGATE FAN COMIC: 'Hallowed Turf' ] [-DeviantArt-] [ ".... and a seagull."]
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Originally posted by Womble View PostHello, dear writers. I am Womble and I have a question: how does one pry oneself away from the damn computer games long enough to get some writing done?
Also, I watch little or no TV, at least in comparison to most people. Including the Being Human UK premiere tonight, I will have watched a total of 3 hours and 15 minutes of TV this entire week. When I'm not working, I'm usually either on the web, writing, lot listening to music. These days it's been writing and listening to music.sigpic
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Originally posted by Cold Fuzz View PostI'm one of those rare people that doesn't play video games at all. Almost all video games provoke a vertigo reaction and I get horribly dizzy, even if I'm just watching someone else playing video games.
Also, I watch little or no TV, at least in comparison to most people. Including the Being Human UK premiere tonight, I will have watched a total of 3 hours and 15 minutes of TV this entire week. When I'm not working, I'm usually either on the web, writing, lot listening to music. These days it's been writing and listening to music.Sum, ergo scribo...
(Yes, I'm female. Okay?)
My own site ** FF.net * All That We Leave Behind * Symbiotica ** AO3
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Explore Colonel Frank Cromwell's odyssey after falling through the Stargate in Season Two's A Matter of Time, and follow Jack's search for him. Significant Tok'ra supporting characters and a human culture drawn from the annals of history. Book One of the series By Honor Bound.
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Originally posted by fems View PostI'm still trying to figure out how to stop myself from getting distracted by shinies...
This is the Assassin's Way part 17 complete
"Elegant beauty is Nature. but only for the gentle and soft Flower" ~Hu Ge
"The one thing every new hairstylist must learn is how to do hair in a combat zone!" Bob; owner of Bob & Weave's Combat Salon in Red Dust Club, an original story currently in progress
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Originally posted by Womble View PostHello, dear writers. I am Womble and I have a question: how does one pry oneself away from the damn computer games long enough to get some writing done?
This is the Assassin's Way part 17 complete
"Elegant beauty is Nature. but only for the gentle and soft Flower" ~Hu Ge
"The one thing every new hairstylist must learn is how to do hair in a combat zone!" Bob; owner of Bob & Weave's Combat Salon in Red Dust Club, an original story currently in progress
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Originally posted by SF_and_Coffee View PostThey don't do that to me, thankfully, but I'm simply not interested in them. Last time I played video games, it was the actual big, boxy, Eighties-style games like Tempest or Asteroids or Ms. Pac-man. Computer videogames or Playstation or what-have-you just don't grab me.
I've got you beat. If I watch six hours of television a month, I'd be surprised.
I've heard some stories of teenagers and kids watching 5-7 hours of TV per day.sigpic
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Originally posted by Cold Fuzz View PostI randomly end up watching Doctor Who episodes from time to time, sometimes even squeezing in a marathon if I have the time, which I usually don't these days. I have to do this because if I don't analyze the source material, particularly the physical mannerisms for the Eleventh Doctor, Broken Silence won't nearly be as realistic. But for this week, it's been a total of about 4 hours of TV and that's it.
I've heard some stories of teenagers and kids watching 5-7 hours of TV per day.
But these days, I'm just not all that into television. I honestly think some of that is my attention span being even shorter than it was when I was a kid... yet for some reason the printed word as in a book or an online article will hold my attention longer, not to mention that I can at least read at my own pace, which is usually pretty fast.Sum, ergo scribo...
(Yes, I'm female. Okay?)
My own site ** FF.net * All That We Leave Behind * Symbiotica ** AO3
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Explore Colonel Frank Cromwell's odyssey after falling through the Stargate in Season Two's A Matter of Time, and follow Jack's search for him. Significant Tok'ra supporting characters and a human culture drawn from the annals of history. Book One of the series By Honor Bound.
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Originally posted by SF_and_Coffee View PostI don't know whether you're watching these on DVD or on cable/satellite, but for the record I don't count watching DVDs as "watching TV", although even if I did, I'd still be under 6 hours most months.
When I was a kid/young teen in the Seventies, it wasn't exactly uncommon for me to watch up to 5 hours of TV in an evening (or even 7 if you counted the local and national news, which my family watched each night after dinner). But I didn't watch 5 - 7 hours every evening. And my parents watched with me. Some of it would be sitcoms like Happy Days or M*A*S*H or maybe a crime drama like The Rockford Files. Sometimes it was scifi like the original Battlestar Galactica or maybe Doctor Who (the 4th Doctor was my first). Sometimes it was other British comedy (Monty Python, anyone?) or drama (All Creatures Great and Small, for example) or a nature or science documentary, such as Cosmos, the Jacques Cousteau specials, Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, etc. I learned a lot from television, and also was entertained by it; sometimes both at the same time. And half the time I'd be reading a book or doing my homework while I watched it -- I wish I could multitask that efficiently now! (And yes, I did understand what I read while I watched TV, and my grades were decent too.)
But these days, I'm just not all that into television. I honestly think some of that is my attention span being even shorter than it was when I was a kid... yet for some reason the printed word as in a book or an online article will hold my attention longer, not to mention that I can at least read at my own pace, which is usually pretty fast.
When a lot of the Star Trek spinoffs went off the area, my viewing habits changed quite a bit. I started looking backwards toward shows I watched from a long time ago and I was in that mindset for a long time. I started looking at things like Night Court, Dear John, Head of the Class, and other shows that were around almost 20 years ago. I watched the Battlestar Galactica remake but that really left a bad taste in my mouth near the end of the series. That and I watched it only because some ex-friends of mine were watching it at the time.
After a while, I realized that rewatching all those older shows was mirroring something that was happening in my real life: I was stuck reliving the "good old days" and then quickly learned the truth about those days in my personal life: They weren't that good. I had gotten tired of reruns and wanted something completely outside of my experience. That opened the door for Doctor Who and both versions of Being Human. Since then, Doctor Who has become a powerful landscape to express ideas and stories I have never had the freedom to express before.Last edited by Cold Fuzz; 25 February 2012, 11:36 PM.sigpic
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Originally posted by SF_and_Coffee View PostWhen I was a kid/young teen in the Seventies, it wasn't exactly uncommon for me to watch up to 5 hours of TV in an evening (or even 7 if you counted the local and national news, which my family watched each night after dinner). But I didn't watch 5 - 7 hours every evening. And my parents watched with me. Some of it would be sitcoms like Happy Days or M*A*S*H or maybe a crime drama like The Rockford Files. Sometimes it was scifi like the original Battlestar Galactica or maybe Doctor Who (the 4th Doctor was my first). Sometimes it was other British comedy (Monty Python, anyone?) or drama (All Creatures Great and Small, for example) or a nature or science documentary, such as Cosmos, the Jacques Cousteau specials, Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, etc. I learned a lot from television, and also was entertained by it; sometimes both at the same time. And half the time I'd be reading a book or doing my homework while I watched it -- I wish I could multitask that efficiently now! (And yes, I did understand what I read while I watched TV, and my grades were decent too.)
But these days, I'm just not all that into television. I honestly think some of that is my attention span being even shorter than it was when I was a kid... yet for some reason the printed word as in a book or an online article will hold my attention longer, not to mention that I can at least read at my own pace, which is usually pretty fast.sigpic
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"When Colonel Maybourne and yourself were stranded off world, Major Carter felt a similar sense of frustration. She despaired at the thought of never seeing you again." ~Teal'c
"I didn't leave,because I'd have rather died myself,than lose Carter." ~Jack O'Neill
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Originally posted by SaraBahama View PostThere are times when I feel like what is being produced (and accepted by the general public) has become irrelavant and brainless. Not all of it, but quite a lot. Perhaps that partially explains your impatience with current TV trends (other than the fact that you are writing an epic...and that consumes just a little of your time )Sum, ergo scribo...
(Yes, I'm female. Okay?)
My own site ** FF.net * All That We Leave Behind * Symbiotica ** AO3
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Explore Colonel Frank Cromwell's odyssey after falling through the Stargate in Season Two's A Matter of Time, and follow Jack's search for him. Significant Tok'ra supporting characters and a human culture drawn from the annals of history. Book One of the series By Honor Bound.
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Originally posted by SaraBahama View PostVery scary, because if you don't obey, your Muse can EAT you!!
Gah! Me, too! Usually I'm at work, and she dangles the carrot before my eyes, but I'm with a client and there is NO WAY I can break free to go jot something down. The usual punishment is complete amnesia when I can finally get to a pen and paper or a word document...
That actually happened earlier today when I woke up after only 3 hours of sleep. The result? I had a very vivid dream about one of the characters I'm writing about (in this case Amy Pond).
Yes, the Muse plays around in the dreamscape too.sigpic
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