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2014 Is Pretty Cool

Posted 01-07-2014 at 05:03 AM by STM
Updated 01-07-2014 at 05:04 AM by STM (needs moar commas)
Busy busy busy!

Just over three weeks until I fly out to the USA now. This shitty weather better blow over though because if my flight's grounded I have no idea what happens. I'm not gonna try and hide the fact that this holiday is a personal journey to 'find myself'; since I crashed and burnt in regards to getting into university, the path my life has taken in the last seven years has suddenly been altered significantly. I no longer have an academic goal to achieve and after over a decade of strict regimen and a linear curriculum, I've ultimately landed in the comical situation of having too much choice. Adult life has been thrust upon me much earlier than I expected and the transition was incredibly sharp, cushioned only by the fact that my parents didn't kick me out and asked only for a meagre rent to cover my food costs.

Travelling to America is going to be fantastic; dropping myself head first into a new world for seven months with no real goals or destinations, I'm hoping, will give me ample time to have some sort of revelation as to what I should do with myself when I return to England. All I really know is that I want to work for myself, I've spent enough time in a dead-end job already to know I hate having a boss, so potentially I ought to learn a trade at college or something. I'm keeping my options open, even immigration is a possibility if my girlfriend likes the idea of having me around indefinitely.

I've decided I ought to brush up on my Spanish whilst I'm in America, I really would like to speak it at a conversational level and I remember a little from my school classes, hola, me llamo STM, etc. I might even get the chance to use it since there's such a higher concentration of Spanish speaking people in MO compared to ... Hertfordshire. When I get back to England I might try and learn a little Japanese as well. Something to keep me busy and something that might come in handy seeing as my next trip I'd like to commit to would be in East Asia.

Has anyone ever seriously set out to write a novel? The planning process is more fun than writing the bloody thing, in my opinion. I've got maps everywhere, alternate history timelines, geography, demography, a creole language, politics, economics and god knows what else. Pages and pages of Word documents. A conservative estimate for the amount of time I've spent working on this so far is something in the region of 10 hours and that's before I've even considered writing the first chapter seriously. I've really got a good feeling about this, it's a relatively original plot in the sense that I haven't knowingly bastardised any existing novels to get to where I am with it now. To give a little away, it's a dystopian story set in a country bordering China and the Japanese Empire, cue shenanigans.

Any way, that's something to work on when I'm not seeing sights and touring around. So this is definitely the busiest I've been in a little while. Yay for 2014.
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Wings of Fire's Avatar
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Has anyone ever seriously set out to write a novel? The planning process is more fun than writing the bloody thing, in my opinion.
Yes and yes. I have two hundred pages of reference material I've written so far

...And three chapters
Posted 01-07-2014 at 07:54 AM by Wings of Fire

Jordan's Avatar
I'm really jealous of your move to America. I wish I had the balls/opportunity to uplift and do that!
Posted 01-07-2014 at 08:43 AM by Jordan

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The world-building will consume all efforts, especially if you try to emphasise the science side of science fiction. And especially if you plan the full tectonic and natural history of your planet so you know where the coal and oil would end up.
Posted 01-07-2014 at 09:30 AM by Bullet Magnet

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America probably isn't the best place to "brush up on spanish" considering the majority of spanish speakers here speak mexican-spanish, which might be the same written, but sounds ENTIRELY DIFFERENT spoken. Most spanish speakers outside of Mexico can't understand spoken mexican-spanish at all.

Also, spanish speaking people are more common the further south you go.

Though you'll be further east than I am so you'll probably run into more cubans than mexicans? But you'll still be really close to Texas and Cubans tend to stay concentrated around Florida so hmmmmm

Good luck either way hahahaha

Also mexican food is amazing food 10/10 would recommend
Posted 01-07-2014 at 10:15 AM by Slog Bait

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The world-building will consume all efforts, especially if you try to emphasise the science side of science fiction. And especially if you plan the full tectonic and natural history of your planet so you know where the coal and oil would end up.
It's set on Earth in the 20th century, so I think I'll be okay in that respek.

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I'm really jealous of your move to America. I wish I had the balls/opportunity to uplift and do that!
Didn't take much balls, I was in a dead-end depressing job, have no goal in life and I flunked my A levels, seemed a logical thing to do really. :P

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America probably isn't the best place to "brush up on spanish" considering the majority of spanish speakers here speak mexican-spanish, which might be the same written, but sounds ENTIRELY DIFFERENT spoken. Most spanish speakers outside of Mexico can't understand spoken mexican-spanish at all.
I can speak a little bit of both because whilst I learnt European Spanish, the only people I speak to in Spanish live in Puerto Rico and speak a similar sort of ting.

Will be having Mexican food too. Need to have a quesadilla or however you spell it. And a Taco Bell. ehuehuehue
Posted 01-07-2014 at 10:59 AM by STM

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Taco Bell isn't mexican food though it's white people food disguised as mexican food. Buy shit from the street vendors or a mexican fast food restaurant like Roberto's or Filiberto's if there are any near you.

I recommend just a plain taco, enchiladas, or fajitas.

ALSO Chipotle is cuban despite saying mexican grill. IT IS FULL OF LIES.
Posted 01-07-2014 at 11:19 AM by Slog Bait

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good luck and all the best you fucking lucky motherfuckerajlfn.asjnfj;
Posted 01-07-2014 at 12:15 PM by MA

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Ahahaha so today I won a proper, genuine, honest-to-Zeus journalism job from a company that even offered to relocate me to Lagos to be closer to the HQ (nice gesture), I checked, double checked and triple checked I could do this on a B1/B2 visa, replied that I would love to take the job.

Then I realised there's some small print that says if you don't have a degree in your field of expertise you can't work on a B1/B2 visa.

Fuck every single thing ever.
Posted 01-07-2014 at 01:40 PM by STM

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Also now I sound like an ungrateful cunt because I'm complaining about going on holiday. Go me.

Hmm, lost the happy for a moment, happy's back. As you were, citizens.
Posted 01-07-2014 at 01:43 PM by STM

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"honest-to-Zeus"
Posted 01-07-2014 at 02:07 PM by Slog Bait

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Posted 01-07-2014 at 02:29 PM by Bullet Magnet

STM's Avatar
10 points to Hufflepuff. XD
Posted 01-07-2014 at 04:38 PM by STM

Slog Bait's Avatar
EXDEE
Posted 01-07-2014 at 05:31 PM by Slog Bait

MA's Avatar
THE WORLD IS YOUR OYSTER

i'm allergic to oysters. that's my excuse anyway.
Posted 01-07-2014 at 06:30 PM by MA

STM's Avatar
Fuck oysters, clams are where it's at.
Posted 01-07-2014 at 06:41 PM by STM

MA's Avatar
You got me, cunt.
Posted 01-07-2014 at 07:36 PM by MA

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We have a taco with a shell made of Doritos. I don't care if it's white people food, it's genius.
Posted 01-08-2014 at 06:31 PM by Jbot123

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Also I'm ordering your novel immediately when you finish it.
Posted 01-08-2014 at 06:32 PM by Jbot123

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Dorito shell tacos are the whitest white thing to ever white in the history of white

Saying this, I have yet to try it because I find Taco Bell repulsive.
Posted 01-08-2014 at 09:07 PM by Slog Bait

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Slog Bait is a pimp-ass nigga.
Posted 01-08-2014 at 10:22 PM by MeechMunchie

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Correction, I am an ex-pimp. I just finished serving my 3rd sentence for soliciting the female species and after several vigorous therapy sessions I'm finally learning how to communicate with them.

I think I'm making good progress, I only offended the last ho one time in the 10 minutes we spoke.
Posted 01-08-2014 at 10:40 PM by Slog Bait

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him and DH.

Pimp My Ho.
Posted 01-09-2014 at 11:39 AM by MA

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#SWAG


Also the magazine job I applied to got back to me and said if there was still a position open in September I'd be top of the list to get it. Furthermore I've been asked if I'd be willing to write voluntarily until then. I accepted.

This is STM and he likes winning.
Posted 01-09-2014 at 01:04 PM by STM

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holy shit i'm gonna have to murder you boy if you keep this up

even the playing field. isn't fair on the rest of us.
Posted 01-09-2014 at 01:51 PM by MA

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They said part of the actual paid job is getting other writers to work for them.

I'M MORE VALUABLE TO YOU ALIVEEEE.
Posted 01-09-2014 at 04:47 PM by STM

 






 
 
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