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lo res:     I joined short story circles in college.   I enjoyed it because it motivates you to write.  It was even more valuable than my short story class because my class required TWO stories for the entire semester.   Which was lame.

If you can get a group of friends to write stories together, DO IT.    Its really valuable to have that kind of honesty in your face and from someone you admire.    But this is the best online crowd I could think of.    You know, to try.


Count me in for at least the first deadline.   

Writing with a typewriter is grueling.   My computer fizzed out and I had a typewriter.    My short story was due in class the next day so I did it.    I typed on a typewriter. 


But let me say this,   no matter what medium you "write" on YOU BETTER DIAGRAM SOMETHING STRUCTURALLY first.  Note cards or a big white board.    Give yourself some form of a skeleton before you try to flesh it all out.    A lot of people try to lay out all the words before they even have a vague idea of structure.    Structure is your friend.

You don't have to know what the ending is.   But it helps to have an idea.   But think about symbolism, foreshadowing, themes, all that.    How are you going to properly integrate all that stuff if its the last thing you come up with?    Its got to be layered in there in disguise.       

God also sent her aid in the form of the bible and religious leaders.   And so it was His will that she become delusioned and die.

I've tried going places to write... There are people that spend hours in coffee shops and all that but I find them MORE distracting than sitting at home with a kitty and some music on.

I motivate myself more with a little movement around.   At home, I find I get distracted by the internet or TV but I've done my fair share of work there too.    Usually when I work the hardest at a coffee shop is when I'm "controlling" my surroundings with my ipod.    I'll play music depending on how I feel, sometimes lyrically intensive but usually not.


One interesting note:    mom and pop "hippy" coffee shops are full of LOUD people in my opinion.    People who blab and blab for the sake of blabbing.    I actually enjoy the atmosphere at Starbucks where you have people stopping on the way back from work.

Hahhaha.   And so you shall receive.  Thank you thank you thank you very much.

Let me check to see if the domain is still available.

Screenplays.    None of them finished.     I'm slowly learning the craft of structure so I hope to have the few I'm working on all done & ready here in a few years.  I go to the coffee shop a few times a week & force myself through various exercises.

One day I'll draft a synopsis.   Then I'll work on character backstories.  And some days I just write scene after scene.   What happens is I can tell its not coming together like the great symphony I want, so I sit on it & keep my eyes open for inspiration.   I have a little pad of paper I keep with me at all times.   I wrote short stories at various intervals in middle school & high school. 


I might share some stuff later in this thread.

Obi, what does tidy profit mean?     Because I had more in mind a tiny profit.   

You got me.    Im making one of those clever darn websites.   See in my neck of the woods I dont think the cleverness has got around much.



Any takers?

This isn't a news story but something I want to do.   The domain I really want requires that I live in the european union.    I'm not asking that you let me move in with you.   I really just want a domain and maybe you'd be willing to set it up?    I'm not sure which countries count but the domain is italian.   You don't need to be italian.

Is anybody familiar enough with registering websites and comfy with helping me?  Leave a little note here and I'll PM or email you.   We'll paypal the initial fee, get the login, and then renew ourselves.    You'd just have to be comfy owning our domain.   We'll set up the contact info so that only the registrar ever sees your name and address.

Hmm.   well not many people are jumping in so I presume the tangent is dying fast.

Plus, the thread's pretty well run its course eh?

Still that says very little for a meteor collision.   

Theoretical:    The entire world is obliterated by this meteor INSTANTLY but a group of rednecks were in an inflatable moonwalk at Walmart.... so they survive by sheer dumb luck.     


I understand the concept that smart people SHOULD be better equipped to survive.    I really don't need that explained.

Spaceboy:     Sorry, not evolution.   But evolution through natural selection.

Mike Judge made a movie called Idiocracy about how the future of mankind is becoming dumber & dumber.   The claim is that human society effects evolution is this way:   Instead of survival of the "fittest" (which you would expect to be smart, attractive people) what we are seeing is that the people with the lowest socio-economical positions are having the most babies.   

That might be because they can't afford birth control, or because intelligent people are avoiding having children because of their careers.   Some women have babies JUST to receive more food stamps, you see.


So what I'm asking is this:   Since there are more of these people, wouldn't they actually be more fit to survive if a catastrophe occurred?    The argument isnt that they are more fit for the survival AFTER the catastrophe.   That they are more likely to survive based on numbers alone.    The tiny sampling of human survivors consists of them & only them.

I suppose what happens is that only ugly idiots survive.  But then over time, natural selection resumes.   So human society was a chink on a chain that comes and goes away.   

Can today's criteria be defined?   Its a simple answer but how would you ever explain it to someone who just thinks that humans are better than animals, and therefore evolution doesn't apply to us?


It seems that the poorest, most unattractive, least intelligent people are better "suited" for distributing their genes here and now.  If the chain of evolution would be restored one day, wouldn't that group of people be more likely to survive based on probability alone?   I know we don't have a clue what conditions humans will be tested on.   But isn't safe to say that one of the poorest, most unattractive, least intelligent persons is MOST likely to find themselves in a survival situation when the rest of us are dead?  Say from a meteor collision?

In response to humans breaking the chain of evolution:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13NPZ5Nv_fc

Richard Dawkin's wonderful program "The Big Question:  Why Are We Here?"

But I'm not certain I agree that humans have stopped evolving.  Perhaps "paused" is a better word.   One major catastrophe would start the process back again.   Imagine for instance, that a group of humans get stranded and one guy with a clubbed foot becomes better suited than the others.  Or a woman with thicker skin.    Try to read Vonnegut's "Galapagos" which has a similar concept.

Sunday I visited a church for the first time in years.   How ironic!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQpwF-oq1_Q


I was filming a short documentary piece on a local boxer.

History Channel had an excellent show about Roswell today.  The documentary represented the sound channel / project Mogul side of the story really well.    One guy said Mogul is a bad cover up story because the government wouldn't leave top secret balloons just floating around the desert for anyone to find.   

My response:
1.    Nobody would guess what the balloon was for.
2.    Balloons don't typically float near the ground, dumb ass.
3.    ITS A DESERT.

None of the UFO supporters had a decent argument:   "government coverup =   UFO."  So by that logic,  Monica Lewinsky had Bill Clinton's alien baby.

George Carlin routine is pretty funny.


I'm sure you've seen Ricky Gervais' standup regarding the book of genesis?    http://youtube.com/watch?v=NaEj3g5GOYA

my little collection of illusions that make the world a little less scary place.

The fact that you view these beliefs as an illusion is a sign to me that you will one day come to question them seriously.    Hopefully when that day comes you'll feel OK not knowing. 

Hahahaha.   The acting in that Fate of Atlantis film.     Sorry if those are your mates.



I actually really like the templars one & would watch it in its entirety.    I got to saw the shot for shot remake of Raiders.   THAT was impressive.

Their lives are only destroyed because the faces aren't blurred out.    Which makes me think they signed a release form.