The Happiness Thread

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  1. PoemNerd212

    PoemNerd212 Contributor Contributor

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    At last! I just booked my flight. I'm going to Berlin! :D (With just a school bag and 20 euros in my pocket, but oh well :p )
     
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    And your American Express platinum card! "Don't leave home without it!" :D
     
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    The weather has been pretty dang nice lately. At best, it's going to be 80 degrees F today, right now, it's at 73 degrees F. It hasn't been too hot this summer in general for us, actually. Kinda nice :D
     
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    Pff, everyone's going to Berlin. Why not come to Chemnitz? (just kidding, stay away)
     
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    A thunderstorm came over last night, which gave me an emotional boost. :)
     
  7. Zerotonin

    Zerotonin Serotonin machine broke

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    Had the sudden urge to start world-building for a fantasy idea that I had. Even if nothing comes of this, it's still fun as hell to create a world all my own.
     
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    Where's Chemnitz? Why stay away? Now, I need to know... Maybe I will! :p
     
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    Well, I didn't set my location to "the darkest swamp" because I'm some edgy emo kid but because the region I live in (including Chemnitz aka Karl-Marx-Stadt) is frequently referred to as "darker Germany" or the "brown swamp".
    It's got three things in abundance: concrete, pensioners and neonazis. Chemnitz is like the sliced imitation cheese of cities.
    On the plus side, there's the Lulatsch -a landmark that resembles a giant glowing dildo. Gotta be positive, this is the happiness thread after all. :D
     
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    My god... this has got to be one of the most lax, and easiest re-writes ever. Every chapter is doubling in size after fleshing out each scene. A chapter that ended with 2k+ words, expanded to over 4k from fleshing. Amazing. Started the re-write yesterday and I'm already mid-way through chapter 2, this chapter looking like its going to follow the same doubling pattern. If I keep this up, the book will jump from 40k to 80k.

    For the curious, it is The Brave III that I am re-writing. I already did one and two, and I didn't rewrite those two for reasons related to the journey of my craft. I want to look back and see where I came from, to where I am now. It is a wonderful experience when you look at one piece of work and then the other and see the growth. I also want others to see it too. I ain't afraid of the flaws. It's what makes us human.
     
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    *knocks on wood for @D.Clarke *
     
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    Thank you good sir / m'lady.

    Actually this rewrite is flowing so well, I'm thinking about employing a new method for writing novels. I'm going to try to start my novels off as a VERY rough draft, trying to get only 1k per chapter of the most important parts. No emotional fleshing; no author interruptions, no personal tangents, no inner thoughts, etc. Just actions, and brief narrations and basic setting descriptions. This ensures that I get the full movie in my head (since that is how all my novels play out in my head) on paper. The idea is once I get it all out in concise bullet points, minus all the flowery and poetic language, I can see its basic picture... then I can go back, and start embellishing, as an artist does with a painting or a sketch. Focusing in on certain things. I'm going to do it for the Novermber Nano thingy novel crap, whatever they call it.

    I say new method, but i'm sure people have done it this way before. To me its new though.
     
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    The ladies in the admin department all gave me cards for my birthday, and yesterday I was given some truffles as an end of year gift by one of the Year 7 pupils.

    I feel warm and fuzzy now.
     
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    See, I never know if that means this:

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    Or this:

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    @Iain Aschendale the chocolates were named after the mushrooms, but when we're talking multiple and gifts, the chocolates are the safer bet. The mushrooms are way to expensive for a secondary school student to give not only their teachers, but the admin staff as well...
     
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    If they really liked you, $6000/lb would be worth it LOL...
     
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    Enter awkward parent-teacher conference here!
     
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    [​IMG]I got these beauties - cheap - from the door to door gypsy chap. Fried in butter, salt and delicious.
     
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    This truffle has a really cute butt:

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    I have just picked up, all 3 Hobbit Movies and all 3 LotR movies, extended blu-ray editions... something I've wanted to do for a while. Treat for myself.

    Hellllllllllo Middle Earth.
     
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    I went camping and I met a bear.

    Mr. Turtle and I were at a campground scoping out available sites. I left him to make a tentative claim at one while I drove around checking for something better. Stopped at one, got out, was looking around and thought, "Weird, why would they put a bear statue in the bushes? ... wait that's actually just a bear." We were both surprised and just kinda stared at each other for a minute. Then I got back in the car.

    I'm a pretty outdoorsy person but I've never encountered one before. That was cool.
     
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    I was out hiking yesterday with my mother and sister. There were two bright orange deer hiding in the underbrush. I didn’t notice until we were right up on top of them.

    They never moved or went away! Just stood dead still, watching us leave.

    Not as cool as a bear, though.
     
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    Those things can be weirdly fearless. One time my dad was standing in the woods taking in the view and a deer came up and LICKED him.
     
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