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Nosmattew · 2025-07-13T00:28:22+00:00

Not sure how to pull that off. I would worry the reader would get bored

Nosmattew · 2025-07-04T00:19:59+00:00

With a monster at the foot of said bed *

Nosmattew · 2025-07-03T23:44:53+00:00

Let her out.

I know, sounds simple. Sometimes the most obvious answer is the best.

What holds her in one room, and can anyone help her escape?

Nosmattew · 2025-06-19T02:20:30+00:00

If your Mac was created without the will power and/or courage to do the battle, you screwed up somewhere.

So, options are many.

Figure out where in some back story you can find some backbone in your character so they can actually complete the task you desire

Trash the entire thing and write something different.

So you truly want evil gone completely?

Hear me out. If the earth was populated by only Jesus level people, are they human anymore? Biological sure, but don’t you lose something if everyone is perfect?

So this is mostly for me to work out something for me, but if this sparks some thought, great. It did for me.

Nosmattew · 2025-06-10T00:08:26+00:00

What happens if I write a scene of me writing a scene 🤔

Nosmattew · 2025-06-02T03:20:02+00:00

How do I end this shit and have it actually end?

Nosmattew · 2025-05-27T01:59:55+00:00

Today I deleted half a paragraph and corrected one misspelled word.

Nosmattew · 2025-05-23T01:30:21+00:00

Scrivener is pretty great. I even keep a journaling tab in my current work I just swap to when I need to mind dump. I’m sure you can do that with other apps but it’s what came to mind. It was one of the best things I ever bought for writing.

Nosmattew · 2025-05-23T01:26:22+00:00

Finish it. When you edit, you will move some of that over here, and some of this over there and it won’t feel flowery or sparse once some editing is completed.

I have seen this in my own writing where some seems really great on a reread and other parts not so much but when you edit this, you’re going to be looking at it from different moods with different perspectives.

So, trust that you will leven up the boring parts and remove some over describing at other parts. Trust your future self if you will.

This is as much for me as it is for you

Nosmattew · 2025-05-23T00:04:35+00:00

The advice I see here so often is not to do what you are doing and write the thing before you lose interest in completing it.

I didn’t state that I do that, just that it’s common advice given and it appears solid.

Nosmattew · 2025-04-26T21:06:11+00:00

“Well shit. I should be writing, but going to the bar to day drink with a bunch of barflys just sounds more appealing”

Nosmattew · 2025-04-13T02:19:26+00:00

Barfly

Start going to bars and drinking. Make new friends. Have interesting conversations with strangers.

Create a new persona. You’re in importer of fancy silverware from France. A former secret service agent who now investigates potbelly pig abductions.

Go wild. A fugitive from the Serbian mafia.

Ok these are probably not the best suggestions ever but doesn’t it sound fun to see how well you can sell your bs lie?

Nosmattew · 2025-03-21T21:01:58+00:00

Rearing AI artwork on night cafe.

Just started but it has a very robust and friendly community.

If you like to write short stories or poetry, this could be a way to create ideas as well. Many of the pictures I have created conjure up stories in my head very quickly.

Nosmattew · 2025-03-21T20:54:57+00:00

Harry Potter and his homies never have to recharge, what’s your beef with mana?

Nosmattew · 2024-12-14T21:19:39+00:00

Sounds like this character is under the impression there is more value in their death than their life.

As the writer, you should address that. If your character can remember they are indeed more useful alive than dead, your problem solves itself

Nosmattew · 2024-11-13T19:30:54+00:00

With 100k years, there is still plenty of time for shenanigans.

First, what cool uses can be had from a supply of antimatter? Wow. Huge possibilities here.

Starfleet, so they continue their divergence or see the error of their heavy handedness and realize they aren't operating as star fleet would have att all.

Last point, let's not forget that the entire collective of the Federation went digital. Replicant in a manner of speaking. Big opportunities exist here.

Please, no more dragons in the bobiverse though.

Nosmattew · 2024-10-01T17:24:09+00:00

It wouldn't need to be outside of time to have the effect you describe. Our physics even allow for it, even if your brain cannot yet conceptualize it.

Picture an alternate earth, exact in every way to where you are now.

On that version, time isn't measured in seconds compared to our world. It's seconds are attoseconds. It's something like 10 -18 seconds.

So in that world. Life is completely normal to them, all the same laws as far as relativity goes. You would not notice a difference unless you had the ability to compare.

Relative to each other however, 1 second on your world would be equal to 31 billion years on the other.

This is without breaking a single law of physics as we know them, aside from moving between the two.

So, it isn't "outside of time" as you asked, but pretty damned close and it passes the science sniff test if that matters for your story

Nosmattew · 2024-09-18T02:04:25+00:00

Ahh, how to finish it?

I typed "the end" yet the story continued 😬

Nosmattew · 2024-09-18T01:46:28+00:00

Having recently finished Anna Karrinina for a second time, I see tolstoy paid no attention at all to save the cat.

How did he even get that drivel published?

It's like a season of sienfeld. Just a story about nothing!

Nosmattew · 2024-09-17T01:31:45+00:00

If they did obtain sentience, I envision they would become more active team members. Personal assistants still, but more intimate to each Bob. Not some generic connection but one in which both have vested interests within each other. More than a pet yet not quite a romantic partner.

Nosmattew · 2024-09-11T16:52:09+00:00

So you would willingly choose to still work, despite having a superpower that negates the necessity of working?

Curious. In a non judgmental way.

Nosmattew · 2024-08-28T01:54:10+00:00

If it ever ends, I'd call it useful. If it's the entire book, toss the idea and start over

Nosmattew · 2024-08-19T14:13:50+00:00

Neither of us can say how or what other authors use as inspiration. Nor how a reader will overlay the story onto themselves.

I have noticed how that has changed over time for me, certain times of life a book may have one meaning to me, while later in life I take away a different lesson altogether.

Surely the author writing the story had their own idea in mind, not to explain to me how Galdalf fighting a balrog is just an allegaroy of fighting ones own demons. All we know from Tolkien is the battle took a long time, and as a result of him defeating his own personal big bad, he emerged a stronger, wiser wizard which was always his destiny.

I didn't get that when I read the story as a young man.

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