Random Thought Thread

It's based on the yearly change in vegemite growth patterns. A spamalope needs its vegimitables.

 

Do you have Vegemite in Colorado? I didn't think you did.

 

Not as far as I know. My dad brought some back from Darwin. I'm not a fan.

 

It's one of those things that you dose carefully and takes getting used to. Sort of like alcohol or chilly. It's commonly mixed with another spread like peanut butter. Personally I don't like it much either though.

 

I've been up since 2:00 this morning. >:[

 

I'm very tempted to try writing a novel in a totally different genre to my usual.

It's a bad idea... but I'm tempted.

 

☆〜Do it〜☆

 

Stop whispering in my ear, Satan!

 

START SCREAMING!

 

November is typically when the spamalope herds cross the Great Internet Plains from far-flung corners of the world to mate and spawn in our neck of the woods. I always figured the holiday season was the reason for the grand migration.

 

It's a shame you can't give the community volunteers spam-zap powers. We'd be on it like a car bonnet.

 

Is that what "Jesus is the reason for the season" means? Huh. The more you know.

 

Oh, hey, you, btw... you posted a thingamajig in General Writing that I want to turn into an Article in our Articles section. Cool with you?

 

Um, sure. That thingy about a writer's responsibility? Gopher it.

 

Done! Thank you. One of the Volunteers pointed it out as a good candidate for the Articles area and I agreed. Articles get their primary button up top and General Writing (and the section wherein General Writing is located) is really intended for questions or queries.

 

The above read in the earnestly posh diction of Sir David Attenborough.

 

@Tenderiser I think you should give it a go. It is fun to write
in other genres. Never know unless you try. But I will understand
if you choose not too, cause people slip into comfort zones that
are hard to leave. So it is up to you if you take the chance.
Good Luck Senorita.

 

Thanks! It's more that I don't want to go through the learning curve again. I've spent 2 years learning to write good romance, and I don't want to go back to the beginning.

 

It's not going back to the beginning because there are things about narrative that you've learned in your pursuit of romance that will translate to other genres. Sure, genre conventions and all that, but if you can write a narrative, the learning curve for crossing genres is substantially less than going from not knowing how to write to knowing how to write.

You got this shit. Give it a shot; fuck those other genres up.

 

Variety is the spice of life, you know.
Keeps things fresh and interesting.