Random Rants LXIV: Who's Acting Like a Child Now?
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Lohrenswald
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left of 1 is |Let's see, I have both these characters: º and °
º is right to the left of my 1 key.
° is Alt + Ctrl + the key one to the right from P. It is a combinign character with a, to form å.
alt+ctrl+å does nothing
alt-[number] does nothing for me
to make å I press the å-key
GoodEnoughForMe
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I dunno how long it takes to become a good writer but after spending almost my entire life doing it and making no headway or significant improvement, I'm starting to get discouraged. Between the feedback I get from critique sites, and the rote replies I get when attempting publication, I'm not even close to being good enough and doubt I ever will be.
I have a legal issue over my residence permit because I left my former employer to go to my new job and didn't get permission for that and my old job complained about me. I had to go to the police and they were going to put me in jail but I paid bail. It looks like it will be resolved soon but it cost me a lot of money and they still have my passport confiscated until I get this resolved.
Funny thing is, the policeman who was interrogating me, I saw when he was leaving and had changed into his street clothes he had a tshirt that said "who wants a blow job?" I guess he didn't know what it means. My lawyer pointed it out and I was really nervous so at that point someone could have walked by naked playing a ukelele and I wouldn't have paid any mind but then I saw the tshirt I was thinking wow.
Funny thing is, the policeman who was interrogating me, I saw when he was leaving and had changed into his street clothes he had a tshirt that said "who wants a blow job?" I guess he didn't know what it means. My lawyer pointed it out and I was really nervous so at that point someone could have walked by naked playing a ukelele and I wouldn't have paid any mind but then I saw the tshirt I was thinking wow.
BvBPL
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Quitting smoking sucks.
Lohrenswald
世界的 bottom ranked physicist
dusters
Emperor
You are good only when you feel like you are good. It's all relative. Learning how to write a bestseller type of book and actually selling it for thousands of copies doesn't make you a good writer, it just makes you popular and (in case of extreme cases) well off.
You can study(analyze) classics like Charles Dickens, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Balzac etc. to understand what made storytelling compelling for them.
For example, Goethe's Faust isn't anything more than a compilation of folk tales, but he synthesized them and added more layers to the basic plot so masterfully that the work is regarded as his masterpiece.
Tl;dr
Read a lot, analyze, find your own genre and style which you like. Enjoy the writing process, it is no different than to make a painting.
Good luck NovaKart.
Yeah, Linux, but is independent of that, because the ° is on the default German keyboard layout (checked, is not on the US keyboard layout, was therefore confused at first).
Google tells me that alt + 248 does the job, or alt 0176, but both doen't seem to work on here for me (no idea if that's Linux or the browser).
This symbol seems to be complicated ^^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degree_symbol#Keyboard_entry .
Yeah, Linux, but is independent of that, because the ° is on the default German keyboard layout (checked, is not on the US keyboard layout, was therefore confused at first).
Google tells me that alt + 248 does the job, or alt 0176, but both doen't seem to work on here for me (no idea if that's Linux or the browser).
This symbol seems to be complicated ^^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degree_symbol#Keyboard_entry .
You'll feel better for it afterwards.
Snerk
Smeghead
I didn't smoke but I was a nicotine fiend and I still crave it at nights. Still, seems I'm able to keep away. Which is nice.
JohannaK
Heroically Clueless
My poems seem to make less and less sense each day. Mind you, they all make perfect sense, it's just how I manage to completely break down everything into seemingly incoherent lines. It's not as much a rant as a musing.
Publication standards mean that 50 Shades of Grey is a
What were you addicted to then? Second-hand smoke?
GoodEnoughForMe
n.m.s.s.
Yeah, I know, I know, but still, I would like to be published in some fashion at some point in time. And I don't feel like I am that much closer than I was 10 years ago.
Lohrenswald
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I don't have american keyboard layaot hnggggggg
also at least Ubuntu has more things with alt and ctrl combinations than windows
I know because I've tried it out
Snerk
Smeghead
Hmm, pretty sure neither are illegal in Norway. You can't buy e-cig juice containing nicotine here but you can legally order it from other European countries.It appears to be illegal in Norway.
Lohrenswald
世界的 bottom ranked physicist
It appears to be illegal in Norway.
It's apparantly legal to use e-cigarettes you import from other EEA countries where selling them is legal, but buying them here is illigal
JohannaK
Heroically Clueless
Ah, the joys of living in a non-anglophone country: all the specific books you just can't find in libraries. If only I was staying in Australia for a few more days...
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