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Writers get better by writing every day, so maybe incentivize people to post every day? |
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| Martin Campbell |
I like pre-production and post the best. I don't like shooting at all. I find it grueling and tough, but I love post and the whole process of seeing the film finally come together. You start ironing out all the rough spots, and the really bad bits you just throw away. So from day one of post to the last day, you see nothing but improvements. |
| Eric Idle |
I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. The writers decide what the material is. |
| Billy Gardell |
Everybody wants to be a better version of themselves - everybody. And I hope one day I can lose some weight. Maybe, who knows, I'll hire myself a trainer and a fancy cook. In five years, maybe I'll be an action hero. Then again, maybe I'll just be this guy. Who knows? But the fun part is embracing the human side of that. |
| Candice Accola |
I love to read. And right now I'm on my last hundred pages of 'The Corrections' by Jonathan Franzen, and I really enjoyed it. His writing is just - he's one of those writers where you just go, 'There are people just meant to be novel writers.' |
| Anthony Daniels |
I quite like post-apocalyptic films, things like 'Mad Max' for instance, because they are so full on and there is something quite cleansing about the post-apocalyptic because you can see where we all think we're heading. |
| Kazuo Ishiguro |
What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer's life with the writing. I think that's something a lot of writers are having to face. Writers have become much more public now. |
| Laurell K. Hamilton |
I've lost track of the number of people who want to be writers but never actually write anything. Talking about writing, dreaming about writing, can be very fun, but it won't get a book written. You've got to write. |
| James Cameron |
I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my father's respect or interest, or maybe it was just a genetic love of technology, but I was always trying to build things. |
| Gene Hackman |
My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere down the line I would do some writing. |
| Raymond E. Feist |
I won't say that writing is therapy, but for me, the act of writing is therapy. The ability to be productive is good for my mental health. It's always better for me to be writing than vegetating on some couch. |
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"Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day." - Hemingway's Nobel Prize Speech
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Stephen King’s 20 Rules for Writers
1. First write for yourself, and then worry about the audience. “When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story. When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story."
2. Don’t use passive voice. “Timid writers like passive verbs for the same reason that timid lovers like passive partners. The passive voice is safe.”
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It would be so cool if people could just sit back and relax in a banana bungalow and play story writing games with their friends
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they sure have. however a lot of these captchas are pretty hard for even a human to distinguish whether there is a street sign or a storefront in an image, plus its not just the same things your looking for every time.
almost every major captcha breaking service uses humans to break it tho. they just send snapshots of the request to works and get it sent back and POST it.
One seo guy i worked with set up a system to post the captcha data to his back end and employed dozens of craigslist workers to solve them for money but didnt really pay them, so he had tons of people solving captchas all da...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd8cys4Beh0 mf doom on how to deal with writers block
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I have cookies in my bag. And I'm hanging out with three people who would appreciate cookies. One of the three people knows about the cookies. How long do you think we can keep them secret if I post it on the internet?
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Well, it's kind of incentivized because you can't get points without posting. Maybe a leader board would make it more competitive/exciting, and encourage people to try to post more interesting things?
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If a writer of prose knows enough of what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.
—Ernest Hemingway in Death in the Afternoon
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1: To get started, write one true sentence.
Hemingway had a simple trick for overcoming writer's block. In a memorable passage in A Moveable Feast, he writes:
Sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I would sit in front of the fire and squeeze the peel of the little oranges into the edge of the flame and watch the sputter of blue that they made. I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you kno...
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I purposefully post some of the more esoteric-like stuff to try to get more comparisons in the future. These 'out there' thoughts that I've pondered are perfect for making connections using ThinkLynx. Eventually I want to post huge spiritual texts and excerpts of astronomy and technology and find weird correlations for no particular raisin
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