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Local Authors => Writing Group => Topic started by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on November 12, 2004, 03:35:26 PM
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reference: http://www.timewastersguide.com/view.php?id=902
Yeah, when i saw it in the admin section, i thought, "anatomy of a W"? (it was cut off). I thought isntantly that EUOL was going to pummel our readers with political thought. This is hard enough to deal with on the forum without getting pissed, let alone for our general readership. I imagined hundreds of nerds reading what they alternately imagined as the unjust condemnation or disturbingly inappropriate praise of our now and future president, and then all their brains blew up as they hurried to register their complaint, either on the forum or by never coming again.
Then I went to do the edit and saw the full title. Phew.
I guess it just goes to show that I am described by this daydreaming to. I have 3-4 "write down" worthy ideas a day. I generally don't use them because when it's time to use ideas, they get pre-empted by newer ideas.
Well, I'm glad that's over with. When's the prime minister of Krl-thorn'tep coming over for drinks?
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Needs a link from the article to the forums.
And on the daydream thing--can't say that I ever tried to walk like a crab (which made me laugh out loud, a deep belly laugh--good thing I'm at home and not in a public computer lab), but I've had my share of daydreams, too. When I was in grade school it usually involved somebody who was my "real family" coming and taking me off into the sunset. Usually it was Bo and Luke Duke, who were my uncles, and Daisy was my aunt.
Yeah. I was a little redneck hick girl.
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And another thing--I can't say I ever thought people would want to hear my daydreams. And my mom was always pounding it into our heads that fantasy was NOT reality (probably because she had such a hard time distinguishing herself). So I don't even remember a time in which I really believed in Santa Claus. But that doesn't change how rich my imaginative life was (and still is, though sometimes I have to reach back to get it to be at that point).
Do any of you find yourself lying awake in bed, just about to go to sleep or just after waking up, daydreaming? Sometimes that's my favorite time of day.
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i linked it once. I dunno why it didn't take. Unless you were editing.
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Not my fault if I was. ;) I was following protocol! I waited till it was up on the front page.
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the INSTANT it was on the front page. Hey, I'm fine as long as I have someone to blame!
The real problem is that I can't do the forum topic with a link until I have the article up. Or else vice-versa. By blurbing and posting first, I don't have the "last edit" thing in the post, and it doesn't show up in the article or the blurb.
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Sorry. I had no way of knowing it was the instant it went up. I'm looking forward to 4.0 taking care of this.
But will no one laugh at my wanting to be a member of the family with the Dukes of Hazzard? When I was a kid, I thought it would be so cool.
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laugh
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Fell and I used to pretend to be Wonder Woman. That makes the Dukes of Hazzard look downright respectable.
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laugh
That was so sincere.
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Uh, did each of you pretend to be Wonder Woman, or were both of you together somehow Wonder Woman?
I'm not sure I want to think about that any more.
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they were each a bracelet.
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Yeah, I'm thinking you all have me beat on the rich imaginative life. Which is probably why I'm the editor and you are all the writers.
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It was because we were Stars in Primary, and we got those headbands with a big star in the front -- just like Wonder Woman. We really thought we were the bee's knees.
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Now THAT'S really wierd.
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yeah, I think i've made the freak accusations over this issue before. *nod*
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/me laughs
See, now I always imagined a character for myself to be in the show and solve all the problems.
I'd probably still do that if we had cable.
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Hmmm. I'm still too embarrassed about the kinds of things and people I used to (and still sometimes do) pretend to be. I even managed to convince my sixth grade teacher to let me stay in from PE and write an alien-fantasy story on AppleWrite.
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See, I thought I was the only one who imagined weird stuff happening all the time. Of course, I do it INSTEAD of writing. I could probably channel it into good, like in NaNoWriMo, but generally I'm lazy. Also most of my ideas are more suitable for B grade action movies.
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what scares me though, is when it becomes less pretend and more real. That is, where the imagined ideas become less a good idea, less a metaphor, and more the way you actually understand life.
Which is why falling in love with characters scares me. it's transferring them into something real for you. I did this sort of thing when i was off my mission for a bit. It was seriously messed up. I couldn't really be happy about what i was doing because true inner joy comes from reality. when you try to derive it from a fantasy that isn't real at all, you get mental problems.
So, no problem at all with rampant ideas. those are a mark of creativity and intelligence. But behaving as though those ideas are real (and this is very different from daydreaming), that's going to hurt you.
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See, I don't behave as though they're real, I just gett a bit too lost in them. As for the falling in love with my character, it's not that big a deal, when you consdier this: To the degree of knowledge I actually know anyone real I may be interested in, I've basically made everything I know about them up, and they are, in reality, completely different to what I imagine.
Ok, Ok, I have a way hyperactive imagination.
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So, you have four attributes to explain to us, but these articles will only take up 3 parts? Will one have 2 of them in one? That is my only guess.
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That's what I was thinking, Gemm. I wasn't certain if I could fill an entire column with each of the last two, so I figured I'd put them together.
We'll see, though.