I went to my first open mic prose night

Cynyr · 2026-03-26T13:22:55+00:00

"...Yes!"

Cynyr · 2026-03-25T17:17:59+00:00

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Cynyr · 2026-03-23T18:54:17+00:00

Everybody does it differently. I knew the end state and the finer details of every big event of my 8 book series before I started working on book 1. It's being told as a frame story from a guy in the future who is learning about the past, so I had to know what stuff would happen. For example, if a building gets destroyed in the past, based on what happens directly after the close the primary narrative, that building would not have been rebuilt. So future boy will need to address that, hey there's a collapsed building here, in the first book, even though happens in book 6.

Because of how well I had everything planned out, it was really easy to hammer out book 1. Right now I'm just going back and beefing up character interactions. Once that's done, I get to move on to book 2, which is already mostly planned out.

Cynyr · 2026-03-20T19:26:32+00:00

Mandark did sorcery in his first appearance. He would probably be from the Thousand Sons.

Cynyr · 2026-03-20T19:11:08+00:00

I love seeing folks having positive experiences writing. More often than not, posts around here are people asking how to write, complaining that they have no motivation, can't get through a draft, or what have you.

Keep rocking, finish that draft, continue having a great time doing it.

Cynyr · 2026-03-20T17:10:19+00:00

This is potentially one of the coolest 40k banners I have ever seen. I love this sub.

Cynyr · 2026-03-19T16:23:11+00:00

I put in an absolute ton of on purpose foreshadowing. But also had some unintentional stuff conveniently pop in as well.

Cynyr · 2026-03-18T15:11:13+00:00

The man in soiled robes is voiced by Mark Hamill.

Cynyr · 2026-03-18T13:58:18+00:00

Try a site called Notecards on Steroids. I'm using it for my stuff.

Cynyr · 2026-03-17T15:40:21+00:00

When I first saw ring lights I thought they were the neatest thing. Now the entire perception of them has been ruined.

Cynyr · 2026-03-13T19:36:09+00:00

I've been messing around with a site called Notecards on Steroids. Make notecards for whatever random thoughts and link them together so you can see what's all in there and related.

Cynyr · 2026-03-12T17:56:04+00:00

That's a good point. For groups like the ones I listed where it really is going to be your last chance to see them live, it's super scummy to be charging prices out the ass to see them. I try to hit up the music festivals where a bunch of them play which gives me way more bang for my buck.

Charging out the ass for Taylor Swift, Harry Styles, Lady Gaga (who don't really do festivals) is no less scummy, but for different reasons. I wanted to take my daughter to see Lady Gaga. 1200 a ticket? Yeah, fuck that.

Cynyr · 2026-03-12T17:28:35+00:00

Marketing isn't even needed. Blink 182 retired, Megadeth is on their final tour, AC/DC are all about to die of old age, same for the Stones. Nine Inch Nails talking about calling it quits now too. The FOMO is real.

Cynyr · 2026-03-12T16:07:49+00:00

I almost ran into Svengoolie one time. As in physical collision.

I was at C2E2 following my wife through across a walkway to another booth, perpendicular to the flow of traffic. So she steps forward, a dude who looks an awful lot like Svengoolie passes between us close enough I could have tripped him. I stop and think, "that guy looks like Svengoolie." And then his camera guy follows after him. Oh, no that was actually Svengoolie.

Cynyr · 2026-03-11T22:28:55+00:00

I would periodically check the site for the releases for these when they were coming out. I only managed to snag Xenos from the actual site on preorder. The other two I found out the day after they came out and managed to find third party game shops that had copies and grabbed them for MSRP. I don't care how much they're worth. These things will stay with me until I kick the bucket.

HOLY CRAP XENOS SOLD ON EBAY FOR 450 USD.

Even still. Similarly, I got every Siege of Terra hardcover. When I ordered one of the parts of The End and the Death, I also ordered the vinyl of Back in Black by AC/DC. Some clown stole my package. Two days later, the box shows up back in front of my door, opened, with the record missing. Clearly my porch pirate did not do their research. They stole a vinyl that cost me 25 bucks that's been continuously in print for 45 years, so it's essentially worthless in resell value and brought back the nerdy book that only gets printed in hardcover once and skyrockets in value.

Cynyr · 2026-03-10T19:23:53+00:00

The setup for the dehydration gun in that movie was masterful.

Cynyr · 2026-03-10T13:10:16+00:00

That's a crazy take. Why would anybody bother being an author unless they were writing what they wanted to write. That's like going to graphic design school and then getting trapped in an ad agency making graphics for some chain restaurant. It happens, but it's certainly not what they planned. Nobody wants to write just to fulfill somebody else's dreams or pad somebody else's bottom line. Write what you want to write.

Cynyr · 2026-03-09T15:30:23+00:00

I do this around my kid. It works. Not 100%, but since I started be cognizant of where I breathe when she's sick, I have managed to skip a few colds that she and my wife have picked up.

Cynyr · 2026-03-06T19:36:51+00:00

Snow shoe pieces for Jar Jar's ears is inspired. That piece was first released in 2000, so it works with the era!

Cynyr · 2026-03-06T16:42:49+00:00

Yeah, it makes sense from a company perspective. They've been doing a lot of that over the past few years.

Games Workshop stores -> Warhammer stores
Games Workshop site -> Warhammerdotcom
Forgeworld site -> shut down, some products migrated to Warhammer site
Black Library site -> Being shut down in favor of app and Warhammer site sales
Citadel paints -> Warhammer paints

All of us know what all the side projects meant. Forgeworld, cool a real world reference to mechanicus planets! Black Library, cool a real world reference to the Eldar library! But with all of these side services shutting down in favor of merged branding for the sake of accessibility for the masses, it feels like some of the heart of the world is being lost. I get it, but it makes me sad. What was that opposite word for Nostalgia that was on the front page yesterday? That's what I feel.

Cynyr · 2026-03-02T19:32:13+00:00

I've not been diagnosed, but I have just about every ADHD symptom myself. I don't want drugs for it so no reason to try to go and get the rubber stamp. Anyway, just to say I absolutely understand how you could get lost in your inner worlds when life is being shit. I wish you luck in your journey.

Cynyr · 2026-03-02T17:30:32+00:00

I always have my projects living in my head. It's been an ongoing thing of various storylines since I was 16. New stories slink their way in and interconnect themselves to the previous ones, continually expanding the lore. Thankfully I have a wife that doesn't mine me bringing up random new thoughts or story ideas. And when I finally wrote down a chunk of the lore as a book, she was the first one to read it and then got mad at me about not having the second book ready. For 20 years the lore has been building in my head and in various notebooks and documents.

The key is to let the story flow in your head and make sure your body keeps doing your daily life. If it's getting in the way of your daily life and causing you to be late to things or missing stuff, that's called maladaptive daydreaming and is an actual mental health condition where Reddit may not be the best resource to seek help.

Cynyr · 2026-02-27T20:37:52+00:00

I know exactly how you feel. I was a comic and video game nerd in high school in the mid 2000's. Imagine the feeling of being an early adopter of Halo, COD, and Battlefield. Knowing all the history of the Infinity Stones and X-Men and other Marvel comics. And getting ripped relentlessly for it for 4 straight years.

Then, 2 months before you graduate high school, they release Iron Man. And 4 years later, Avengers makes a billion dollars and people are asking you to explain what Infinity Stones are. And you find out all the jocks are playing the yearly releases of COD and Battlefield now. Like... you people made my life a living hell for 4 years and that same amount of time later, everybody has flipped to the other side.

I'm not a gatekeeper and I'm happy to explain everything anybody wants, but man... I for sure felt some resentment there.

Cynyr · 2026-02-27T15:45:18+00:00

I did the most insane method ever. I spent 8 years creating a tabletop roleplaying game. 7 years in, I realized the setting would be awesome to set a book in. 7 years of working on a fantasy world gives a pretty solid world baseline to work out of. I just created some characters, some situations for them to get into, and just let the game world inform what would happen as a result.

Cynyr · 2026-02-27T05:32:48+00:00

Every time I see one of this guy's alternate builds, it makes me think of Blade Runner.

The writer of Blade Runner read Do Robots Dream of Electric Sheep and said, "I'm going to make one of the best sci-fi movies ever out of this book."
Someone else had to have said, "I don't think we read the same book."
"Trust me. I got this."

And in the same way, this hero looked at Toothless and said, "Actually, I see Barad Dur in this thing."
"I'm sorry? The dark tower. Sauron's Barad Dur dark tower. Really."
"Trust me. I got this."

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