Random Rants ': No, YOUR thread titles suck!

[Valka D'Ur]

I abandoned writing by hand due to the fact that it takes one more time to write by hand than to type (if one is fast enough with the keyboard that is), so it would literally make it impossible for me to write my works as fast or as flowing as they are at the moment, since i would have to wait for my hand to finish writing the words which would have been already typed in the computer

Moreover there are the added conveniences of spellcheck and text formatting.

Let alone that my handwriting was never something to write (ehm) about

It's a lot easier to work on a story during the commercials when I'm watching TV, grabbing lunch somewhere, or waiting for a bus if I can jot stuff down in a notebook. The only time I take my laptop anywhere is when it needs fixing, so it's not like I've got a computer handy when I'm away from home.

As for formatting, I've caught myself just automatically including BBCode in my writing, to remind myself where to underline and italicize particular words and phrases.

 

[Lohrenswald]

I think in this context it is meant 'with joined letters' (which is what the girl did in the paper)

Aren't joined letters just how you write

Rant: book I need is sold out

 

[Kyriakos]

Aren't joined letters just how you write

Rant: book I need is sold out

Difference between two unrelated people being joined as team-mates to form a team, and a conjoined twin being joined. The latter is closer to cursive in this context.

 

[Lohrenswald]

You what

 

[MagisterCultuum]

Today is the birthday of someone very important to me, my unrequited first love who went on to be my closest platonic friend when we reestablished contact at the end of college.

Almost 2 years ago (when I was getting over a rejection from another woman, had no job prospects, and was extremely depressed) she removed me from her Facebook friends list and sent a message saying that she will be out of contact for the foreseeable future. She said she likes to be available for me and help me bare my burdens but that she had too many burdens to her own at the moment and not enough energy or free time to deal with mine too.

A week and a half ago, when my life seemed to be going considerably better, I sent her the first Facebook PM since she cut me off. I made it clear that I was seeing a therapist and had made a few more friends and did not expect regular contact nor intend to rely on her as my sole social support as I did near the end of our friendship, but would still like to hear how she is doing on occasion. I gave a brief summary of my life in the past two years. I said I hoped she was doing well and that from the vacation pictures she'd posted publicly a month earlier it seemed like she was, but asked if I could get any update on how the other issues that were bothering her 2 years ago had turned out.


I never got any reply, but when I tried to go back to write her a simple "Happy Birthday" message today I found that she has now blocked me. It is now impossible to send her any message, or to find her profile (which still exists and can be easily googled) at all while logged into my account.

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My sister is doing a little better, but is still far from fully recovered. She was heavily sedated when we visited her in the hospital's Behavioral Health Ward last night. It is not easy seeing her this way. It takes me back to how things were years ago. I'm afraid that she will never really be able to be independent, and that I'll always be forced to take responsibility for her rather than being able to live my own life.

 

[sophie]

I use cursive when writing things that only I will have to read. Otherwise I write in block letters because the purpose of writing is readability and clarity. Cursive is pointless and not something I would ever consider teaching my kids. Nobody in my age group whom I know other than myself uses it, or even can read it, really.

I feel for this teacher; those parents sound like real s.

 

[Lohrenswald]

I can read cursive

And block letters are kid writing

 

[sophie]

I can read cursive

And block letters are kid writing

*No native English speakers whom I know personally.

 

[Lohrenswald]

What does the language matter

 

[Phrossack]

I get around all this silliness about cursive versus print by simply writing in my own script that nobody else has deciphered


But no, seriously, I do

 

[Kyriakos]

I get around all this silliness about cursive versus print by simply writing in my own script that nobody else has deciphered


But no, seriously, I do

People think i do that if i use handwriting. But it really was just the known letters.

 

[NovaKart]

Cursive was used a lot by the older generation. My mother still always writes in cursive and she has very clear cursive handwriting that I think most would understand. Nowadays I think it's rarely used.

 

[Lohrenswald]

I don't know how you can write not-cursive by hand and still pay taxes

 

[Takhisis]

Cursive writing is the worst

Just when I am starting to learn about Cyrillic cursive. Why are you doing this to me, Tolni?

It's a lot easier to work on a story during the commercials when I'm watching TV, grabbing lunch somewhere, or waiting for a bus if I can jot stuff down in a notebook. The only time I take my laptop anywhere is when it needs fixing, so it's not like I've got a computer handy when I'm away from home.

As for formatting, I've caught myself just automatically including BBCode in my writing, to remind myself where to underline and italicize particular words and phrases.

The BBCode thing I rarely do, but the other stuff? Definitely.

I use cursive when writing things that only I will have to read. Otherwise I write in block letters because the purpose of writing is readability and clarity. Cursive is pointless and not something I would ever consider teaching my kids. Nobody in my age group whom I know other than myself uses it, or even can read it, really.

Why don't you develop the skill to write in readable cursive? You're not in medicine.

 

[Traitorfish]

I can read cursive

And block letters are kid writing

Block letters were the norm for the first four thousand years of written language. Cursive was a sort of mucky short-hand, fit only for note-taking and maybe informal letters until the sixteenth century, when a bunch of blue-bloods decided it was better pretty much specifically because, in the age of print, it was difficult and unnecessary. You really wanna take life-tips from people who thought giant wigs and knee-britches were the way to go?

 

[Lohrenswald]

cursive is a lot easier to write and read

 

[MagisterCultuum]

Block letters were the norm for the first four thousand years of written language. Cursive was a sort of mucky short-hand, fit only for note-taking and maybe informal letters until the sixteenth century, when a bunch of blue-bloods decided it was better pretty much specifically because, in the age of print, it was difficult and unnecessary. You really wanna take life-tips from people who thought giant wigs and knee-britches were the way to go?

The modern forms of cursive are a recent development, but older forms of cursive actually predate block letters by centuries. Block letters were invented because they were easier to carve into stone than the flowing scripts used in ordinary life in antiquity.

 

[NovaKart]

It's a lot easier to work on a story during the commercials when I'm watching TV, grabbing lunch somewhere, or waiting for a bus if I can jot stuff down in a notebook. The only time I take my laptop anywhere is when it needs fixing, so it's not like I've got a computer handy when I'm away from home.

As for formatting, I've caught myself just automatically including BBCode in my writing, to remind myself where to underline and italicize particular words and phrases.

You don't find it hard to work when you're so easily interrupted? I only do journalistic writing so it doesn't bother me as much but I think if I had to really ise my inagination a lot it would be hard.

 

[Ajidica]

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided comes out tomorrow yet strangely I'm not excited for it and not even sure I'll buy it during the winter sale.
I love the original Deus Ex, Human Revolution, and even have some soft spots for Invisible War, but for some reason I'm just not excited for Mankind Divided. Possibly because it has been in development for what feels like four years; although probably because I just don't trust Square Enix.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

You don't find it hard to work when you're so easily interrupted? I only do journalistic writing so it doesn't bother me as much but I think if I had to really ise my inagination a lot it would be hard.

The only stuff I watch on TV are CBS reality shows and my soap opera, and the odd other thing, like the opening ceremonies for the Olympics. So it's not like I'm spending hours a day doing this.

NaNoWriMo takes up 3 months out of the year for the actual competition times (April, July, and November). I spend about a month prior to each of them doing prep work. It's the prep stuff that I mostly do during TV commercials, so it's just note-taking, sketches, genealogies timelines, etc., not actual story writing.

Mind you, I did do some actual writing as well, earlier this year when I wasn't in front of the computer. It wasn't a long story, and it's still lacking two or three paragraphs to properly finish it, but most of it was written during the commercials during less than 2 weeks' worth of General Hospital. The thing is, with my writing projects, I have a very clear idea of where I want or need the story to go, whether it's one of my gamebook novelizations or the Hulzein fanfic or the Sliders/Handmaid's Tale crossover. Since these tie in to professionally published works by other people and I believe that good fanfic should be as true to its source material as possible, there are points at which my story and the original story have to coincide.

It would probably be a different thing if I were working on an entirely original project. When I do that, I prefer as few distractions as possible.