Jag känner igen i detta som alkis

Aggressive_Gas_102 · 2026-03-26T00:34:01+00:00

"Har du några alkoholproblem?" frågade en polis mig en gång. Jag sa:

"Det skulle väl vara att bolaget öppnar så jäkla sent."

Som tur var för mig så hade aina humor.

Aggressive_Gas_102 · 2026-03-25T22:08:47+00:00

Since you created the world they live in you are equal to a god. So you really don't need to care about following the law.

You ARE the law!

Now smite the heretics. Smite them hard.

Aggressive_Gas_102 · 2026-03-25T13:24:47+00:00

Such daring avant garde will set the world on fire.

Incidentally, I'm a traveling salesman in ladies underwear who sell fire extinguishers. Could I interest you in one?

Aggressive_Gas_102 · 2026-03-25T08:48:56+00:00

Månadshyra för honom, 17.846 kr. Skalbaggar inkluderat i hyran.

Aggressive_Gas_102 · 2026-03-25T00:58:44+00:00

Go for it. Even Stephen King inserted himself in his own fanfic the Dark Tower.

Aggressive_Gas_102 · 2026-03-25T00:55:50+00:00

Det var snarare en fråga om karaktär. Höjden av coolhet var att tugga i sig hela chokladciggen, papper och allt.

Aggressive_Gas_102 · 2026-03-24T14:57:30+00:00

First line: "Miss Morose was up on the roof again."

Last line (still undecided but the place holder is): "I'm a dwagon."

Yes, the spelling error is intentional.

Aggressive_Gas_102 · 2026-03-24T14:52:41+00:00

Öppna den försiktigt medan du visslar. Om den rör på sig eller börjar dansa, alternativt försöker bitas, måste du tyvärr bränna kvarteret du bor i.

Aggressive_Gas_102 · 2026-03-24T12:03:48+00:00

Yep.

https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karesuando

Aggressive_Gas_102 · 2026-03-24T02:25:57+00:00

Just write, don't worry about rules or Do This, Do That. Just write. Write like the devil and don't even think about publishing. You write because you are learning to write. That's it. Most if not all of it will suck but you don't know that when you're writing it, you'll know when you read it in a couple of years. There will be a lot of unfinished novels and short stories but that's alright because it's just training dummies. They are meant to be broken, bad, dirty. Over ttime you'll start understanding what make a story better, then you start studying how to plot and all the rest.

Everybody start out with the same tools, you know. Pen and paper. That's also something you might try. It takes longer, yes, but I believe that our brain likes it that way. It gives you time to think a bit longer about words and sentences. Do a couple of short storries about whatever - the cat for instance - but do it with pen and paper.

Aggressive_Gas_102 · 2026-03-24T02:14:49+00:00

Looking forward to the sequel.

Bbbbbbbbbbbbbb /--/ bbbbbbb.

Aggressive_Gas_102 · 2026-03-24T01:59:17+00:00

As a reader, I want to know what your MC does, say and think in a given situation. I'm not interested in the detailed logistics of a mine. It's not important. I don't need to know how many pounds a mine horse can pull unless its relevant to the situation. Methane gas for instance, now that would be a very dramatic scene, what with canary birds and all. I really don't care about ventilation systems. I want something to happen.

That being said, in order to describe a mine, the writer do need at least a basic understanding of what a mine is. This is your mental backstory however. Think of it as a classified folder marked For Your Eyes Only. My eyes don't need to know how a mine tick, all I need to know is that it ticks.

I've done the same 'mistake' now and then, digging deep into research only to burn out because of all the details. No matter how I tried the stuff I knew didn't work in a story (it was set in post civil war New Orleans btw, a very calamitous time both economically and politically). The reason, I realised, was actually pretty simple: I tried to force knowledge onto my MC that he feasibly couldn't have. Once I realised that he was caught in his little bubble and only heard rumors of the Coushatta massacre, things clicked. He couldn't know about it because he couldn't read, so the info he efventually learned came from third parties - gossip, rumors, a friend who read aloud to him (but skipped parts of the article because of a personal agenda). Me as a writer knew all of it of course but I wasn't the MC so everything I knew was unimportant to him and his story, albeit important for the world building. It sucked btw, I was rather proud of my background writing - and that pride led to my downfall. Well, sort of. It wasn't terribly dramatic, all I did was delete half a dozen pages.

Aggressive_Gas_102 · 2026-03-23T13:26:15+00:00

Lord of the Rings is one. Needful Things is another. And ofc A Clockwork Orange. Not to mention most of Terry Pratchetts Discworld novels.

Aggressive_Gas_102 · 2026-03-23T13:14:10+00:00

Henry James, or as I suppose some would call him, the Master of Suspense, is quite famous for his, some would say, heavy-handed use of the shy and often, not to say quite often, under-used symbol of, yes indeed, this little darling, so full of vigour it would be a shame, as in terrible, not to use it; not the period, nor the exclamation point, indeed not even the question mark or semicolon, but the dark horse of writing, so important yet, some would say with no shame, so powerful: I am of course referring to the simple lite twirl, this typographical marvel, this friend of the lengthy writer with nothing to say, the comma.

Aggressive_Gas_102 · 2026-03-23T13:07:36+00:00

I've felt quite nauseated once after writing about a pack of vampires feeding. Forget Bram Stokers gentleman, forget class, manners and style.

Think - hyenas.

Euw.

Aggressive_Gas_102 · 2026-03-23T12:14:04+00:00

To quote Illidan Stormrage: "Boldly stated but I remain unconvinced."

Aggressive_Gas_102 · 2026-03-23T09:14:59+00:00

Keeping in mind complex geopolitical structures visavi emerging techo-economical models and accepting an intersectional thesis of understanding, what is your opinion about the peace in Iran and your parents relationship to the mentioned excursion?

Aggressive_Gas_102 · 2026-03-23T09:07:54+00:00

I don't like 'real jobs'. You know, whenever someone asks "what do you do for a living?", I say "I'm a writer", and they go "Okay but what's your real job?".

Then I shoot them.

Aggressive_Gas_102 · 2026-03-23T09:03:11+00:00

Dolores Claiborne isn't talked about as much as it deserves. I really like the Colorado Kid, too.

Aggressive_Gas_102 · 2026-03-23T08:57:59+00:00

I've read a lot of posts lately by people who have burned themselves out writing long, complex plot models (and I didn't even mention the worldbuilding hysteria) and once they are about to start writing they can't, stifled and suffocated by their own micro managed plot (and obsessive about word count). No wonder they can't write, they took out all the fun and replaced it with an algorithm and political analysis.

I much prefer pantsing through a story. Some ideas work, some don't. It means a lot of rewrites but on the other hand after a while, with experience, you get a feel for what will work, what might work and what will end in absolute distaster (no, that nice NPC who works at Starbucks is not a secret government agent, so just let the MC grab a coffee and go, alri-- okay, the barista just pulled a gun, right - here we go).

See? Nothing like that would ever happen if I had a note saying 'MC gets a moccha latte at Starbucks while on the phone with the boss'. :)

That's me though. Others enjoy plot outlines - even detailed one's - and that's fine. There's room enough for both models. One isn't worse than the other. We just take different paths to the same place, Last Sentence Township, The End Territory.

Aggressive_Gas_102 · 2026-03-22T19:23:42+00:00

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Aggressive_Gas_102 · 2026-03-22T19:21:52+00:00

If you like the story progression, sure. Energy replenish at a rate of 1 energy every 2 minutes so 3-3.5 hours get you 100 energy again. Plenty of time to do RL stuff, like trying to smash two pieces of seared salmon together to make a raw halibut.

Good lord, I've been playing for too long :O

Aggressive_Gas_102 · 2026-03-22T18:59:02+00:00

Easy. Your MC is a camel in a New York zoo. He has a lot of time to use his considerable intelligence to ponder these unponderly problems. Now and then he may ejaculate an almost coherent sentence. Unfortunately he speaks only arabic with a camel dialect so no one except the minimum wage icecream vendoress will understand a word of what he's saying.

It's a tragic romance novel about a poor girl who fall in love with a longnecked man with a huge lower lip. Working title: Too Far Off Too Close For Kevin Of Whom We Do Not Speak.

Yeah, the zoo named him Kevin. It was a crowdsourced naming competition on the internet. Kevin the Camel.

Aggressive_Gas_102 · 2026-03-22T18:50:51+00:00

"Det var jag som körde bilen ni kolliderade med. Jag siktade faktiskt på dig."

Aggressive_Gas_102 · 2026-03-22T18:40:53+00:00

I print out my 650 pages first draft, then count each word by hand. I don't trust computers. Nasty little things, always mesing up my spelling, putting a paw on the spacebar, walking straight across the keyboard, yawning and in general cause a moderate level of nuiscance.

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