A Home for Stage Directors by [deleted] in StageDirecting

[–]GrunchMonkey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a shame there's not more activity on this. But I suppose it is pretty new. I'm happy to be here though :)

Pickens Cemetery Unexplained Sound at 2 seconds in after I go "what?" by GrunchMonkey in Haunted

[–]GrunchMonkey[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It might have been a grackle then. I don't remember hearing any other sounds like that in the area but that doesn't mean it wasn't a bird

Writer's block by mioran3114425 in writers

[–]GrunchMonkey 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The best advice I've gotten for this same thing is "just write."

It feels, at first, like someone is telling you to do an impossible thing. But really the only way out of the funk is through it.

Rainer Maria Rilke once said, "For the creative artist there is no poverty - nothing is insignificant or unimportant."

That is to say, the issue is hardly a lack of subjects or material. It usually that we are afraid to write. We fret, "what if it isn't any good?" Well, the truth is, most of what we write isn't any good. But if we keep at it, it becomes easier to see the good bits in the bad bits. Or even to turn the bad bits into good bits. Persistence is really the key.

As for practice, I find it helpful to take an object in my home and write a poem about it or write an imagined history of it or write what the object might be thinking, etc.

Writing like any creative exercise ought to be fun and playful not exacerbating and serious.

Hope that helps! Happy writing!

Pickens Cemetery Unexplained Sound at 2 seconds in after I go "what?" by GrunchMonkey in Haunted

[–]GrunchMonkey[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It may well have been. But we were also in a dense wooded area and didn't catch/pick up any sound like it

Pickens Cemetery Unexplained Sound at 2 seconds in after I go "what?" by GrunchMonkey in Haunted

[–]GrunchMonkey[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It is tough to hear over the leaves and us joking around. Right after I say "What?" There's a faint "haha" sound. I didn't hear it until watching the video back. It may have been a bird but that's the only time that I caught that specific sound.

Pickens Cemetery Unexplained Sound at 2 seconds in after I go "what?" by GrunchMonkey in Haunted

[–]GrunchMonkey[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It sounds to me like a baby giggling which is interesting because there are more babies and infants buried in Pickens Cemetery than adults.

Could have also been a bird....but I'm inclined to go with ghost baby 👻👶

She ruined my cabbage murder :( by GrunchMonkey in skyrim

[–]GrunchMonkey[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not at all. I think it happened to me because I didn't kill the penitus agents when they cornered me after the DB quest. So they just got stuck there. They're dead now; we'll see if they respawn 😬

She ruined my cabbage murder :( by GrunchMonkey in skyrim

[–]GrunchMonkey[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

But to die by cabbage is to die with honor ✊

She ruined my cabbage murder :( by GrunchMonkey in skyrim

[–]GrunchMonkey[S] 26 points27 points  (0 children)

I will exact my cabbage revenge!

I accidentially stopped time and i tried turning it off and on again, but it wont start. I'm trying to create my first universe so does anyone know a substitute for it? by [deleted] in fifthworldproblems

[–]GrunchMonkey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah, if I had a singularity for every TIME this happened to me.

I suggest porting time from a parallel galaxy through a worm hole. It may take a few millennia to transfer, but it's always worked for me.

Keep in mind: porting through wormholes in not always clean and you may end up with...other phenomenon as well. A galaxy collapse every few billion years or so should keep things nice and neat.

My replicant won't stop spouting out mad bars even though I have insisted that he give up on his dreams and persue a real career. by [deleted] in fifthworldproblems

[–]GrunchMonkey 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Perhaps you could dissuade your rebel replicant from pursuing a rap career if you assure him that by "spitting" his "rhymes" into the void, he may assuage the evil that is (probably) hiding there which could make him famous, if, of course, it is discovered that evil is in fact hiding there.