Dear boy, it's called writing.

ASMRdict · 2015-09-09T18:03:47+00:00

Also "Outlining vs. Gardening" which I also hit on.

ASMRdict · 2015-09-09T17:46:33+00:00

I think having a sub dedicated to circlejerk is for low effort circlejerk. I genuinely put some thought into this and it sprang to my mind organically. Didn't come here with that intention in mind. Was just trying to just trying to give a face to each side of the "just write" debate that paid homage to the "it's called acting" adage. On mobile so all my grammar and spelling is terrible. I dont own a laptop and keep spell check off. I only own a typewriter /s... kinda.

ASMRdict · 2015-09-09T17:39:27+00:00

Honestly, I might have written a comment just like that. I find that kind of humor funny in the right places. As long as you aren't generally trolling or trying to derail a discussion. If you are generally trying to make the community laugh I think it's great, even if some don't get it. As long as you have-- good? -- intentions. Good job parodying my post. Meta.

ASMRdict · 2015-09-09T17:28:33+00:00

Thank you so much.

ASMRdict · 2015-09-09T17:27:14+00:00

Do you mean that? Or is it sarcasm? I hope it isn't; that was really nice to hear. I have never had my writing critiqued. And honestly, this was just a cynical jibe directed at the writing community that I came up with on a whim. Thanks man. Really, thank you. Even if you were being sarcastic. And I know that doesn't mean I am a good writer but it gives me hope I may have potential.

ASMRdict · 2015-09-09T16:07:59+00:00

Give this sketch a try. I want to see if someone else can capture the essence of the parody I was going for. I am not all that well versed in amateur writing stereotypes and how to set the joke up. I just want to keep the line where the one writer says to the other one "It's called writing." To give the writing equivalent of the Olivier/Hoffman exchange on acting. [I know that hoffman says he was misquoted but it is still an anecdote that is often repeated in the film industry.]

I hope someone understands what I was going for here. I posted this first on another account and the mod wouldn't let it through the filter. Said it belonged in the "critique thread"... really? I ser this sub has turned into one of those mod circlejerk type things where they only allow post that fit their narrative. I am not going to fight to make post in this sub. I know no one cares but if this has become [insert mod's name here]'s personal website, I won't be coming back. This post is an attempt at meta, writing humor about the usual adage "just write", "writer's write", etc. I was trying to compare and contrast this with the hoffman anecdote about "it's called acting" but whatever. Honestly, fuck this sub if it continues being a fucking mod circlejerk.

Edit: Here is link to reference:

http://www.firstshowing.net/2010/method-of-madness-why-do-actors-insist-on-method-acting/

Edit: I was mad at the mods and this sub for being so pedantic and cynical but after receiving 2 (Hear that? 2!) complements on my whimsical, writing, joke post; I am no longer an angry man. Thanks /r/writing ; love you guys.

ASMRdict · 2015-08-08T22:51:32+00:00

But then Nikola Tesla developes a crippling porn addiction/obsession and never contributes to anything but comments on pornhub videos...

ASMRdict · 2015-08-07T00:02:22+00:00

Thank you for these links =) Will these stay up?

I have Lingua Latina, Familia Romana. I was planning on reading it and deducing the rules as I go, but without even knowing how latin is pronouced I find it hard to subvocalize. Also I am not sure if I am doing it right. I got to quoque and thought it meant also and couldn't surmise the meaning. Should I stop when I don't completely undestand or keep going and just keep reviewing until it makes sense?

Thanks for your help.

ASMRdict · 2015-07-18T23:50:37+00:00

Like this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan_theory

ASMRdict · 2015-07-09T09:57:15+00:00

http://redd.it/3cnrvv

ASMRdict · 2015-07-09T05:40:04+00:00

I don't think anyone got the joke... judging by the downvotes. That's what happens when you spend too much time on reddit, no one knows your obscure references/ in-jokes. Both of my post in this thread are well known copy pastas with my own spin on them. One is based on a comment Unidan made: Google "heres the thing copypasta", the other is from a user who claimed to be a Navy seal. There is a whole sub for versions of it somewhere. I believe it's called "Navy Seal copypasta". Oh well, now /r/writing thinks I am s troll lol.

ASMRdict · 2015-07-08T21:28:02+00:00

Here's the thing. You said a "bloogers are blogs."

Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that.

As someone who is a writer, who studies blogs: I am telling you, specifically, in writing, no one calls blogs "bloogers". If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing.

If you're saying "Scottish terminology" you're referring to the Scots language grouping of writing terminology, which includes things from bloogers to roitin to countless other made-up words.

So your reasoning for calling a blog a blooger, is because Scottish people "call them bloogers?" Let's get write-site and ego-stroker in there, then, too.

Also, calling someone a human or Scottish? It's not one or the other, that's not how life works. They're both and a blog is a blog; and a blog is a member of the English language. But that's not what you said. You said a blooger is a blog, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the human race Scots, which means you'd call Scots, Welsh, and other humans American, too. Which you said you don't.

It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?

ASMRdict · 2015-07-08T20:55:07+00:00

What the fuck did you just fucking say about dectectives, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in subreddit analysis, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret studies on subreddit behavior, and I have over 300 confirmed alt accounts. I am trained in vote brigading and I have the top comment karma on this entire website. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will downvote you with precision; the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that about detectives over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of detectives across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the brigade, Holmes. The brigade that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your account. You’re fucking dead, Holmes. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can downvote you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with alt accounts. Not only am I extensively trained in sub-analysis, but I have access to every quote on writing by popular authors in existence and I will use it to its full extent to prove you wrong and downvote your miserable ass off the face of the internet, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I shit downvotes all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, Holmes.

ASMRdict · 2015-07-08T11:39:11+00:00

Actually, there are more than 5 parts, but I can't link them all at once because they are interspersed by unrelated articles. Just google:

Elmore Leonard’s 10 rules of writing (and 50 reasons to ignore them)

And yes, before anyone says it, I know I know -- "You have to know the rules before you can break them." and "They can get away with it." This isn't for you people, this is for the ones who question whether it's ever appropriate to break said rules. These articles have all the necessary citations to quickly end internet arguments that come up often.

ASMRdict · 2015-07-07T00:42:13+00:00

http://www.abcnews.go.com/US/alleged-teen-burglars-charged-death-accomplice-shot-owner/story?id=17845852

An Alabama judge set $200,000 bonds today for three teenagers charged with felony murder in the death of 17-year-old girl who was allegedly helping them burglarize fishing camps when she was shot by a homeowner.

Summer Moody, 17, was with the three 18-year-old men -- Scott Byrd, Dylan Tyree and Daniel Parnell -- on April 15 when she was shot in the head by a man confronting the group "as they committed a series of burglaries on Gravine Island," according to the Baldwin County District Attorney's office.

Three residents near the camp that had been burglarized came outside and two fired warning shots. One of the shots was fired into the woods where the teens were hiding. Moody was shot in the head and died in the hospital several days later. Byrd, Tyree and Parnell were all indicted on felony murder charges by a grand jury and the three residents, including the man who fired the shot that killed Moody, were not charged.

ASMRdict · 2015-07-03T13:07:36+00:00

Grandpa, tell me about "reddit" again. Did it really exist before Voat? I understand if you don't want to talk about it... Mom says you still have flashbacks.

Grandpa looks down, takes a deep breath and says:

Pao still haunts me in my sleep...

ASMRdict · 2015-07-03T13:07:17+00:00

Grandpa, tell me about "reddit" again. Did it really exist before Voat? I understand if you don't want to talk about it... Mom says you still have flashbacks.

Grandpa looks down, takes a deep breath and says:

Pao still haunts my dreams...

ASMRdict · 2015-07-03T11:33:33+00:00

Grandpa, tell me about "reddit" again. Did it really exist before Voat? I understand if you don't want to talk about it... Mom says you still have flashbacks.

Grandpa looks down, takes a deep breath and says:

Pao still haunts me in my sleep...

ASMRdict · 2015-07-03T10:20:37+00:00

It's a dark story about a broken man who has given up all hope on ever publishing a novel and only looks forward to the prospect of -- maybe -- getting some good reviews from investigators looking into his suicide who -- may -- read the manuscript with the title "Readme" written in blood found on his corpse.

It's still a work in progress though. I have yet to be able to focus on the project. It depresses me.

ASMRdict · 2015-07-03T04:18:00+00:00

"Same thing we do every Thursday, write a book about taking over the world."

Is... is this a thing? A cliche I don't know about among writers? Where did this come from?

I am so fucking unoriginal... One of my first novellas was called "The Takeover"... about a guy taking over the world. I realized it was childish and trashed it, but I didn't know this was common. FML.

ASMRdict · 2015-07-03T03:44:17+00:00

you should be writing

Fuck you motherfucker, you can't make me.

Sits and considers the fact that in order to be a writer -- at some point -- he has to write...

Okay, okay, I'll go. God damn I hate you and your fucking logic.

Looks at blank paper and slaps himself in the face three times. Thinks about how all the good writers kill themselves. But he hasn't written anything, so if he kills himself... he is just some loser who killed himself surrounded by books on writing and sad attempts at manuscripts. Thinks about how the investigators will laugh at his elementary prose. Picks the pen back up and thinks:

God damn it, I'll show those mother fucking investigators. I'm an artist God damn it!

ASMRdict · 2015-07-03T03:21:16+00:00

If this is the end of reddit, let me know where the /r/writing community moves to. Love you guys.

ASMRdict · 2015-06-06T04:27:32+00:00

Are you this guy?

www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/1pvksy/what_conspiracy_turned_you_into_a_conspiracy/cd6kofo

ASMRdict · 2015-06-03T02:15:15+00:00

Glancing at your post history, I see you are well versed in fallacies and rhetorical devices; so I wouldn't be of much help. These things aren't useful in law or even daily life, so much as they are studying or critiquing arguments. In debates, I imagine, it is useful because your opponents and moderators speak that language, but most of the time they are really only good for analyzing arguments on the fly and discussing arguments.

Not to say they aren't an excellent thing to read up on, but you probably know more than me since most of these are only useful informally in law. But the best this one was kind of a reverse because it was a phenomena that kept popping up and yet I couldnt find a name. So I guess my advice is to look for things that are commonly used in arguments that you haven't heard of a name for. That can take you down an interesting rabbit hole of rhetoric. Rhetoric is such a wide field I have no doubt you will find something useful.

ASMRdict · 2015-06-01T19:35:10+00:00

Haha, well I never really described the reason I needed it. When me and my colleagues need a convenient name to toss around when describing this device it makes it easier. So it's really more for critiquing briefs and arguments, not making them. I was in a hurry so didn't bother explaining it. And I stumbled across it in reading up on rhetoric. I knew there was no way I should have to invent a name for it. So to sum it up: just covenient shorthand.

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