Random Thoughts X: Impromptu Interpretations

[Kyriakos]

I believe I should be just paid money without doing stuff, eg by collecting rent. Problem with that is that I no longer have enough properties to live just from collecting rent.
Work is for normies.

 

[Takhisis]

I believe I should be just paid money without doing stuff (…)
Work is for normies.

Have you considered writing as a profession?

 

[Kyriakos]

Have you considered writing as a profession?

Writing doesn't pay here. Neither does translating.
Maybe if I can get published in Spanish?

 

[Birdjaguar]

Writing doesn't pay here. Neither does translating.
Maybe if I can get published in Spanish?

I think to make a living writing you have to be doing one of the following:

Writing fiction (in its many forms) that is popular (be a storyteller)
Be a famous person who writes something
Write for a business or entity that has need of written stuff across any number of areas, including translating, video games, journalists etc. ie have a job that includes writing
Be a script writer for TV and movies
Blog well and often about things people are interested in
Be lucky

 

[Kyriakos]

I think to make a living writing you have to:
Be lucky

I agree

 

[amadeus]

Stuff being overrated or underrated is overrated. If everything was perfectly rated, we would have less minutiae to talk about. Minutiae is underrated.

Also, for a brief period in the 1980’s, I was the world’s youngest person. It’s a big world out there, so it takes a lot to stand out.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Also, for a brief period in the 1980’s, I was the world’s youngest person. It’s a big world out there, so it takes a lot to stand out.

I think we all had that going for us, for a very brief moment.

 

[amadeus]

WE DID.

DO WE REALLY NEED LOWERCASE LETTERS?
I’M NOT SURE WE DO. THIS LOOKS FINE TO ME.

ONLY SOMEWHAT INSINCERELY,
AMADEUS

 

[EgonSpengler]

Heard on the radio, without context: "Any snake capable of eating an adult alligator is worth paying attention to."

Wise words.

 

[Hygro]

I feel like that’s one of those things where you would be like, such metaphor! but he’s literally talking about a snake and an alligator.

 

[Snerk]

It's not a sex joke?

 

[Birdjaguar]

It's not a sex joke?

No.

 

[Takhisis]

I have an ad for a perfume made by a large transnational maker of superfluous consumer goods and repackaged as some sort of cutting-edge socially revolutionary marketed as a ‘genderless, vegan fragrance’, on television, seen.

Flabbergasted, I am.

 

[amadeus]

A friend of mine said I should keep a journal of my thoughts; he said that it helps to write in it every day. I’ve taken it up now even for just a few minutes a day, and it’s hard to say whether I’ve gotten any impact from it yet. It’s been less than a week so I don’t want to make premature judgements.

I’ve also tried to avoid writing sentences that end in adverbs. Not just there but here too. One of those goofy grammar things I was told in school but was never sure if it was a real rule or like those house Monopoly rules that people tack on that just break the game.

 

[Synobun]

I’ve also tried to avoid writing sentences that end in adverbs. Not just there but here too. One of those goofy grammar things I was told in school but was never sure if it was a real rule or like those house Monopoly rules that people tack on that just break the game.

Most rules taught in grade school serve to prepare you for academic writing, not so much for real communication or fiction. Creative writing modules also tend to be taught by amateurs, and that's where you get stupid things like "said is dead."

 

[Kyriakos]

Creative writing programs are there for a very specific reason: people pay for such things.
If you want to learn how to write, the logical thing to do is read, writers you like. Sooner or later you'll form a way to express yourself using the connections you've made consciously or not.

It is actually something I write in my own seminar, btw. It's just that I couldn't reach 80.000 words with just saying that.

Curiously - or rather not that curiously - people are willing to pay only far less for seminars on specific scholarly subjects in fiction. I'd be more than happy getting the same money for discussing just Kafka's work. It isn't possible.

 

[Takhisis]

I’ve also tried to avoid writing sentences that end in adverbs. Not just there but here too. One of those goofy grammar things I was told in school but was never sure if it was a real rule or like those house Monopoly rules that people tack on that just break the game.

The word ‘too’ is an adverb and yes, it's a bit of a house rule, or a rule used to format a style, really.

 

[Kyriakos]

Some person I know had an accident.
A pretty freakish one, as in one you'd never expect anyone to have.
Apparently he was (for some reason; he is a nice guy so maybe tried to help) driving a tractor, during vacation (?), and then fell, and the tractor run over him.

This is terrible.
It also made me think how random decisions can lead to such an end. For example, if he never knew how to drive, this wouldn't have happened.

I do hope he wasn't hurt that badly (he isn't close, just someone I know, so I am not aware of the exact situation). I hope he can recover.

 

[Takhisis]

Actually people having their own tractor run over them is not that infrequent.

 

[Kyriakos]

Actually people having their own tractor run over them is not that infrequent.

I know nothing about tractors. Are those huge wheels able to cause more than just break bones? I just hope his injuries don't involve losing actual limbs.