Meandering down the monotonous existence of being an unpublished writer I have found myself, as all writers do at a decision which will shift my life forever. Live out the melancholy and cliché existence of the addicted and addicting man drowning in self-loathing and burdened with an ego so large that Atlas would have a hard day at work holding it up. Or fall into the meaningless, unromantic, dull, lifeless existence that it is to be living in the middle. A plethora of meaning and living, or a listless existence filled with happiness.

http://payitbackwards.blogspot.com/

ahrara_

Afghanistan1715 Posts

July 25 2008 02:29 GMT

If my writing career leads me to eventually post on Teamliquid for answers, I will shoot myself.

Here's to hoping!

edit: I'm curious about your writing though. Tell me about your career.

DamageControL

United States4222 Posts

July 25 2008 02:31 GMT

http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=75749

Eskii

Canada544 Posts

July 25 2008 02:31 GMT

I dont have a career. I am only 18

I dont write about myself, I just write.

BottleAbuser

Korea (South)1888 Posts

July 25 2008 02:32 GMT

Publish your work under creative commons or whatever it is that's the artists' equivalent of GPL. Then TL can enjoy it and give your otherwise unpublished work an audience!

Unless you actually like want to eat off of it. Then... ..... .... eh, I'm sure you'll figure something out.

Damnit, I thought this thread would be about the board game.

ahrara_

Afghanistan1715 Posts

July 25 2008 02:33 GMT

Oh.

There's hope for me yet.

ahrara_

Afghanistan1715 Posts

July 25 2008 02:35 GMT

http://www.sirlin.net/archive/writing-well-part-1-sensibilities/
http://www.sirlin.net/archive/writing-well-part-2-clear-thinking-clear-writing/
http://www.sirlin.net/archive/writing-well-part-3-origins-of-a-writer/

If you're serious about writing, read each of the books and essays this guy cites, especially Zimmerman's "On Writing Well." That book changed my life.

DamageControL

United States4222 Posts

July 25 2008 02:39 GMT

On July 25 2008 11:32 BottleAbuser wrote:
Publish your work under creative commons or whatever it is that's the artists' equivalent of GPL. Then TL can enjoy it and give your otherwise unpublished work an audience!

Unless you actually like want to eat off of it. Then... ..... .... eh, I'm sure you'll figure something out.

Damnit, I thought this thread would be about the board game.

LOL me too...
I was like "DON'T BUY A BOARD WITH DRAWERS THEY GET IRRITATING...oh wait"

CaucasianAsian

Korea (South)11597 Posts

July 25 2008 02:45 GMT

lol callum you have changed so much since those days i 3-0'd you on Blood Bath with my 1 rax fast tank strat. You quit drugs, cleaned up, and write big words now. Are you depressed?

Eskii

Canada544 Posts

July 25 2008 02:47 GMT

#10

Only when I spill my nipple wax on my picture of you Chris

CaucasianAsian

Korea (South)11597 Posts

July 25 2008 02:54 GMT

#11

hahahaha i dont even know how to respond to that, but i'm flattered.

Jibba

United States22883 Posts

July 25 2008 02:55 GMT

#12

Reading that was painful, partially because it needs help (what ahrara posted is good) and also because I used to write poetry like that in highschool. I get what you're saying but... it's overly melodramatic imo and muddy adjectives really drag it down. In fact, adjectives suck most of the time in poetry. You need to describe actions and situations rather than just pinning a word onto an emotion.

Also, plethora does not mean 'a lot.' It means 'too much.' Having a plethora of something is usually a bad thing. D:

You can ignore the first paragraph if you're doing it purposefully in satire.

Eskii

Canada544 Posts

July 25 2008 03:02 GMT

#13

I know what plethora means, apparently you were not reading into it too much were ya

Rayzorblade

United States1172 Posts

July 25 2008 03:04 GMT

#14

The trouble with being a writer is that you always think you have something important to say.

Jibba

United States22883 Posts

July 25 2008 03:11 GMT

#15

Maybe I read too much into it, but the last sentence just doesn't make that much sense. Excess of meaning/living vs. listlessness and happiness? The comparison doesn't fit the ones you made above.

Eskii

Canada544 Posts

July 25 2008 03:12 GMT

#16

On July 25 2008 12:04 Rayzorblade wrote:
The trouble with being a writer is that you always think you have something important to say.

We love to dip into the platitudes

micronesia

United States24772 Posts

July 25 2008 03:25 GMT

#17

On July 25 2008 11:32 BottleAbuser wrote:
Damnit, I thought this thread would be about the board game.

ahrara_

Afghanistan1715 Posts

July 25 2008 03:36 GMT

#18

Meandering down the monotonous (redundant, implied by meandering) existence of being an unpublished writer I have found myself, as all writers do, (comma) at a decision (usage - you do not find yourself at a decision. you make a decision) which will shift (questionable usage - shift means to move from one place to another. you're always "shifting" your life, I think what you're looking for is a stronger word, like transform) my life forever. Live out the melancholy and cliché existence of the addicted and addicting man (usage... unless you really meant to say that you yourself were addictive) drowning in self-loathing and burdened with an ego so large that Atlas would have a hard day at work ("at work" redundant, for obvious reasons) holding it up. Or fall into the meaningless, unromantic, dull, lifeless existence that it is to be living in the middle (how is this different from a cliche existence). A plethora of meaning and living, or a listless existence filled with happiness (fragment... maybe you were looking for a dash between this and the last sentence).

just trying to help bud

keep writing and reading

shit that was fun. to think, some people get paid to tear apart people's writing

BottleAbuser

Korea (South)1888 Posts

July 25 2008 03:45 GMT

#19

Shift can also mean to slightly change the orientation of.

I thought that "addictive" can also mean "has a tendency to get addicted to things," not only "has the property of causing users to be addicted to this."

Dashes aren't proper punctuation. Semicolon would work better here, but I see this more as free-form poetry than as prose.