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  1. OurJud

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    I'm impressed. I understood not a word of it, but I'm still impressed.
     
  2. BayView

    BayView Huh. Interesting. Contributor

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    But don't you end up with cooking oil all over your cooktop?
     
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    There are two categories of chemicals. Water is in one, oil is in the other. Chemicals in one category don't like touching chemicals in the other.

    Soap is in both categories. Soap mixes in water because they are in the same category, and soap water is good because anything that doesn't mix with the water still mixes with the soap.

    But you can also use a chemical of the second category on its own (like cooking oil) ;)

    But it's still easier to wipe that off than it was for the grease that was stuck on :)
     
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    No, actually. You only moisten the paper towel and it pretty much evaporates in a weird kind of way. It actually leaves your hob with a good clean sheen.
     
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    Just chiming in here. I work in a deli and we've always used industrial paper towels dabbed in cooking oil to wipe down the fryers and ovens at end of night cleaning. Works amazingly.
     
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    Not sarcastic; I'm actually thrilled with this new knowlege〜☆
     
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    I just found out about this show called Channel Zero which was based off (or the first season was based off) Candle Cove, and my immediate reaction was "oh, neat" - because I like Candle Cove and the idea of a show inspired by it is interesting. The thing is I can't find whether Kris Straub personally got any credit - much less payment - for this, and that's ... upsetting at best, worrying at worst? I mean, I don't know how heavily inspired-by Channel Zero was. Maybe it's a pretty loose connection in practice, but that's not the sense I'm getting by reading about it, and the show is openly based off of creepypastas - the second season is set to be based off a different one. Are the writers of these pastas going to get anything out of this?

    I dunno, making money off of previously free online entertainment that you didn't make leaves a bad taste in my mouth, for sure. I'm a big fan of KC Green, who has a knack for making art that gets turned into memes (eg 'this is fine' dog, I GUESS guy, and of course, my favorite: dickbutt), and he's been pretty open in the past about his frustration over people selling his art on shirts, prints, etc because it's "just" a meme. Like, no one made this stuff or has rights to the IP - it just sprang fully-formed from the thigh of the internet, apparently!

    Ech.
     
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  8. Iain Aschendale

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    Seems it was only three years ago that a student filmmaker contacted me about turning one of my flash fiction pieces into a short film. I was pretty excited when she sent over a contract that would have paid me 5% of the total production budget (it seems student short films usually cost between one and five thousand dollars).

    Money?

    Cool.

    But, um, it kinda looks like this contract gives you all rights, in perpetuity, to pretty much everything I've ever written or will ever write. I'm kinda new to this, but that don't sound right.

    She said she'd get back to me.

    That was three years ago.

    Pity she was trying to rob me, I would have let her use the story for free just to see it made.
     
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  10. Oscar Leigh

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    I get the impression from Kris Straub's support of the show that he got some sort of royalties.
     
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    How did he support it? I didn't see anything about that.
     
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    He's promoted it's release on his social media.
     
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    Huh. I checked his twitter - must've looked right over that.
     
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    I've got you.

     
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  15. Link the Writer

    Link the Writer Flipping Out For A Good Story. Contributor

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    I just realized that there are a million ways for me to write a scene. Any scene. At all.

    And to think that all this time, I kept saying, “No, my Colonial mystery has to start with Amos Garnier in the cellar of a tavern washing dishes! It cannot possibly be any other way!!”

    Jeez, I have a head as hard as a solid three-feet thick steel wall...
     
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    I know, right? But the worst part is that you still have to choose one of those million ways, or else you've written nothing. But then how do you choose? Do you just go with something and then second guess yourself a million times? Or change your mind a million times?

    Sucks, doesn't it?
     
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    I know! D: That's why I'm gonna try this new way:

    #1- Does it take us right to the action, or is it all padding and world-building? Can this world-building happen elsewhere in another way?

    #2- Is it "jumpy"? In other words, like if the book opens to the main character seeing a llama on his/her living room couch as opposed to starting it with the character having a casual evening, going to bed, then wakes up in the morning to see a llama on the couch.

    I'm not sure of the author, but someone here had a story that opened up to the main character finding two miniature dragons having sex on the kitchen table. Bam! I'd read that book in a heartbeat!
     
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    iI feel that issue so much. I've gotten stuck so bad because of that. I've had this whole idea and world all thought out, but I can't think of how to start it off. I've changed the opening scene so many times. really, I think it just needs to start with the first one I thought of. But that story has been dead in the water for so long, I just don't feel like picking it up right now, or maybe never. there were too many things I couldn't settle on in that story.

    Names is another one. Some characters names are set in stone and refuse to be named anything else, others are still looking for the right name.
     
  19. Robert Musil

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    Had a dream that my MS came back from (an editor? Publisher?) marked up all to hell with suggested changes.

    Of course I was elated, because any reality where I've got not only an editor/publisher, but even just a finished MS, is about 1000 times better than where I'm at now.
     
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    Just as an aside, isn't Amos blind? How does he know when the dishes are clean? :confused: o_O ;)
     
  21. Link the Writer

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    When he doesn't feel anything else on the plates. :p
     
  22. Homer Potvin

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    Why would he be washing dishes in the cellar? As a restaurateur, I would find it highly inefficient to truck dirty dishes down the stairs and then have to haul the clean ones back up.
     
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    Good point. Maybe it's just in the kitchen area somewhere in the tavern, but not the cellar.
     
  24. Ghost Reflection

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    I was a dishwasher once, and just hauling a try of dishes three feet over to the sanitizer was a pain. no, it wasn't one of those convenient setups where you could just slide it over. I'm glad those days are over. I was once told by the manager that I was too bossy for a dishwasher. I clearly didn't understand the hierarchy of the kitchen, haha.
    As a side note, Miss Piggy is my hero.
     
  25. Homer Potvin

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    In our new restaurant we designed the dish pit to be as close to the kitchen door as possible while still abutting the expo line. Every step counts when you're pushing upwards of 1500 plates a day and lord knows how many glasses. We have over two hundred pint glasses in rotation and that's nowhere near enough on a busy day.

    Hahahahaha... no, I guess you didn't. I don't mind a dishwasher that takes charge so long as they stay in their operational lane. It's when they expect the rest of the kitchen to mold itself to dishwashing operations that the troubles start.
     
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