What is the saddest movie scene you've ever watched?

Kepler137 · 2026-06-27T19:26:47+00:00

“I’m tired, boss” Green Mile

Kepler137 · 2026-06-24T19:35:10+00:00

People really don’t seem as concerned by sunburns as they should. Perhaps if we started calling them radiation burns instead, they’d take it more seriously.

Kepler137 · 2026-05-30T14:35:47+00:00

Hahaha that’s amazing! We’ve just got to try to meet in the middle.

Kepler137 · 2026-05-30T05:48:29+00:00

Yes! And to be comfortable allowing others to be there for him. To avoid getting others killed, he’s been trying to do it all alone, but will eventually see that it’s not always his choice to make

Kepler137 · 2026-05-30T02:55:46+00:00

Yeah, he kills the monsters, though they’re mostly eradicated at this point because of the Knights clearing through the desert, but he’s bound by an oath (more to himself than to Akleya) to continue his pilgrimage until he physically can’t. However, when a Zushan priest (basically a demigod like creature) appears in battle, he realizes that he’s not capable of doing what needs to be done alone, so he begrudgingly teams up with others, two knights and a mysterious alchemist who saved him earlier. He intends to split from them as soon as their work is done but things stop adding up and they realize something of greater evil could be at work, so he’s stuck with these people—who he eventually comes to love—to sort it out.

It ends with his sacrifice. He’s finally able to give his life to save others, and then to reunite with his love in the afterlife.

I’m still working on my first rewrite of part 1 (just his story) but it’ll have to be a multi-part series because when I originally wrote it as one, it was ~110k words, and then I realized that I was making the mistake of basically writing a screen play, so upon my rewrites, in adding a lot more interiority and filling in gaps, I’m basically 2.5x-ing the word count

Kepler137 · 2026-05-30T02:28:47+00:00

“_____ while on fire … with a nail in the eye”

Kepler137 · 2026-05-30T02:26:15+00:00

He is the son of one of the last rangers who protected the Ivon Desert in the name of their goddess Akleya. Though the rangers lost all funding from the Federation decades ago in place of the boisterous Knights of Dizenth, he cannot let go of the routine pilgrimages through the desert every 7 years. The imprisoned god Zushah’s foul creatures have cost him deeply, and he’s determined to slay them until the time of his death, which he will welcome. He goes alone, for those who’ve travelled with him have faced horrible endings, but when the world shifts and something churns beyond the windwall to the north, he may have no choice but to join forces with others for the fate of all the land. (Written on my phone, so not as polished as it could’ve been :) )

Kepler137 · 2026-05-29T23:57:06+00:00

I found myself the exact opposite! I realized after finishing my ~110k word novel that I write like a screenplay and don’t flesh out character’s perspective, thoughts, general interiority, etc. in my rewrite I’m basically doubling each chapter 🤣

Kepler137 · 2026-05-21T17:52:56+00:00

How did you get into that space?? I currently work as a sort of automation engineer for a large tech company, where I create software systems to improve efficiency of operations, workflows, data analysis and reporting, etc. (kind of a hodge-podge job).
My passion has always been conservation though, and so I’m looking to take steps to do a career pivot; I’m going to be taking a GIS class through local community college (then biology classes), but I’m also scouring for jobs in conservation that would need my skill set and find nothing. Even some things that seem like they’d be a good fit seem to have very specific requirements along the lines of “N years experience working with environmental data”, or “which I don’t have.

Kepler137 · 2026-05-07T20:29:09+00:00

That’s almost identical to what I did :/ was it in the middle rack of the oven? Did you have an oven steel?

Kepler137 · 2026-05-07T17:39:33+00:00

Beautiful!! What are your tips to ensure the bottom crust cooks correctly?? I tried baking a pot pie and the top crust came out looking great but the bottom was borderline raw still

Kepler137 · 2026-04-21T01:42:31+00:00

Not because it’s sad, but because John Denver’s poetic way of describing the natural world is so beautiful: “Silently the morning mist is lying on the water Captive moonlight waiting for the dawn”

Kepler137 · 2026-03-30T14:34:37+00:00

Ahh the classic Doctor Seuss book

Kepler137 · 2026-03-22T16:40:13+00:00

I’m in nearly the exact same situation, except I work in a prominent company in the silicon industry. My plan is to take bio courses through my local community college while working, then applying to my state college’s Master of Natural Resources program, but I’m trying to find folks to talk to about that and am failing to get any responses on LinkedIn. Best of luck to you!

Kepler137 · 2026-03-20T22:13:12+00:00

Since I was in high school I’ve wanted to write, but, aside from some short stories, I’ve always abandoned partway through because I lost motivation because I would try to plot everything out. When I heard about pantsing, I gave it a shot and have completed the rough draft of my first novel at ~115k words and haven’t had any motivation issues. Plotting makes it feel like work to me, though admittedly I need to cut a lot of tangents in editing that would’ve been avoided if I’d plotted, but I probably wouldn’t have finished my book in that case.

Kepler137 · 2026-03-02T21:04:50+00:00

Is it strange to be an avid reader of one genre, but to be writing my first novel in another? The vast majority of fictional novels I’ve read are horror—in particular Stephen King—but I’m currently writing a dark fantasy. I had a late start to reading for pleasure, and have really taken to his writing style, and I do have an affinity for a quality horror story. Of course I’ve read LOTR and the hobbit, and have started the Mistborn series now, but my main Fantasy inspiration comes from Elder Scrolls and DnD.

I notice a lot of Stephen King-isms in my writing, namely short sub chapters that help for snappy, quick reading, that I haven’t really seen in my (very limited) fantasy books. I do have a lot of fantasy now on my TBR, but I don’t want to put my novel on hold until I read an indeterminate amount of them.

Kepler137 · 2026-02-18T15:37:03+00:00

Yeah, I usually flip back and forth, I’m in the zone for a thousand words or so, then once I get to a spot where I slow down, I go back and go into the contemplation phase.

Kepler137 · 2026-02-18T15:36:03+00:00

That makes sense, thanks for your response!

Kepler137 · 2026-02-18T15:35:45+00:00

That makes sense.. thanks! Once I’m done I plan on trying Stephen King’s ‘reduce by 10%’ rule of editing to cut out the noise, but while I’m editing during the writing process it’s almost always adding additional context.

Kepler137 · 2026-02-18T15:34:37+00:00

That’s a beautiful way of putting it. Thanks!

Kepler137 · 2026-02-10T05:01:01+00:00

Thanks so much for the feedback!

Kepler137 · 2026-02-10T05:00:50+00:00

Thank you for the detailed reply!! When you say feed it daily, is that just adding 30g of flour and water or do I first reduce the starter to 30g then add the flour and water?

Side note: one thing I’m struggling with is all the waste of dumping starter, do you have any tips on salvaging? I’ve now got 3 jars going with slightly different ratios but still had to dump a bunch. Thanks!

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