More NaNoWriMo

[altivo]

More about human culture as viewed by twofers, and Jake is visited again by Dent.

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[wolfgrowl.livejournal.com]

Can't wait to hear the wolf pack dynamic. What happens after this is over? Do they get submitted somewhere? Or do you have to hunt down someone like Sofawolf?

[bariki.livejournal.com]

I've never found the time to read any of your NaNoWriMo work, and that was my own loss. I read through the story so far this evening whilst waiting for a clone to run... and I like it! Your style of writing is fluid and it's easy to slip into the world that you're describing - even if that world was destroyed by British nukes. Super. XD

[altivo.livejournal.com]

No automatic submission anywhere, no. Some few NaNoWriMo novels have indeed found publication in the end, they say. As usual with my own writing, though I think the quality is fine, the audience is so limited as to make it unlikely it will be published. Yes, I'd have to go to Sofawolf or BadDog with it probably. The trouble with that is that it really is G-rated. I've written (published, been paid for) porn, but having proved I could do it, I'm not interested in doing more. That's formula stuff, and I'd rather make my own rules.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Just imagine it was Tony Blair, or maybe Margaret Thatcher that did it. ;p

Actually, most of the damage to US cities was caused by internal fighting between different regions of the US, and not by externals at all, though the external attacks helped break down the tissue of order that had prevented such things up until that time.

I'm glad you find an unpolished draft that interesting. I've been a writer for quite a few years, and published very little fiction. One might think that technical writing is a very different species, but I find that it is not. Of course you have to have an idea to make fiction, but the same rules apply to the communication. I have a running list of technical faults in this that must be corrected, too. Thanks for the input. I'm rarely sure that anyone is reading at all.

[bariki.livejournal.com]

Thatcher I'd believe: Blair wouldn't have the minerals to do something like that. :P

I look forward to reading more. ^)^ There just isn't enough work out there with the word 'flehmen' in it for my taste.

[bariki.livejournal.com]

You wrote porn, oh innocent one? ZOMFG!

*giggles* OK, so I'm just pulling your leg. There's a world of difference between writing erotically and acting it out.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Yep, all you need to write porn is fantasies. I've got those and plenty of imagination. (Though I won't say that some of mine didn't include some real life experiences, most of it was just made up.)

Innocence doesn't mean not knowing something, so much as it means not thinking of it. I still qualify most of the time.

[bariki.livejournal.com]

Innocence doesn't mean not knowing something, so much as it means not thinking of it.

I disagree. Rather that thinking of it, I think that acting upon the thought would mean that you've crossed the line. And, for the record, I still don't buy it, stallion. You've lived too long to be 'innocent'. ^)^

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Well, if I haven't thought of it when the circumstances arose, I assure you I haven't acted on it either. Regardless of my age, I'm a great deal more innocent by your definition than you are. There is no question about that.

[bariki.livejournal.com]

Nope, there is indeed no question of that whatsoever. Given my brief adult life to date, this is hardly a surprise to anyone, least of all me.

When I hear someone talk about being innocent, my brain immediately jumps to the word 'naive'. It might be contextually unfair, but that's how this horse's mind seems to work. I don't have an explanation for this, and it's not intentional - it just is. Naive isn't a word that I apply to you. Perhaps that's why I have trouble swallowing the innocent Clyde line?

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Well, supposedly innocent is the English for naive in French. But the words truly do not mean quite the same thing to me. Neither of them is the same as ignorant, either. I think many people equate innocent with ignorant or uninformed. So knowing how babies are made means you are no longer innocent as far as they are concerned, while I say you can still be innocent even though you know the facts.