I’ma be honest - I have no idea how multireplace works and I’ve never bothered to try learning LOL I just go with whatever works in all honesty. Function over fashion is my coding philosophy.
Also, happy cake day! It’s ya birth!
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That’s okay, I don’t either.
I’ve reached the point where birthdays stop being exciting, but I’m still a few decades short of the point where every birthday is an act of defiance against my statistical life expectancy.
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You only get one birthday a year! Get excited and celebrate!
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I know that feeling pretty well. Still HAPPY BIRTHAY OLD VETERAN
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I’m putting this here so I don’t chicken out. I’m going to do the same thing I did in 2018 while writing Parenting, and up my usual 10k a month word goal to 25,000 in November as a semi-NaNoWriMo. Cutting off as many distractions as I can manage and buckling down hard. Should definitely be done with the chapters that would be before the pay break by then (if not by the end of this month, time will tell).
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We will do our Nanowrimo together! I love each year Nanowrimo.threads
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Excuse me CSIDE, but Conan would like to have a word with you…
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Cside struggles with cult knowledgeable words. But the worst is grammarly. I dont have it now. But few years ago I had the premium.
And it was a nightmare of X word is too knowledgeable it is possible your readers don’t understand that word use something simplier next time.
Message after message. I think this kind of programs believe humans are stupid.
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I feel like this is a problem more for technical writing and for documents like resumes and press releases than for fiction.
If a word I write down gets marked because it’s unlikely someone with a 4th grade reading level will understand it, then I guess that’s an unintentional skill filter working as intended.
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I had the damn grammarly configured in Creative writing with high levels readers. Still diarrhea was too knowledgeable for instance. I had nightmare with the whole too knowledgeable thing.
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Hi all! First time poster here, and glad I found this thread. My goal this month is to choose a topic, a scope for my first story, and then plan the basics (NGs, SVs, ESs, etc.).
I am currently debating (with the voices in my head) among the following themes:
- Exploring the world of Stephen Sondheim, the lyricist and composer, focused on his lifelong love of designing games and puzzles.
- Exploring the world of the mid-century, New York City seltzer water industry.
- An early-1990s-set summer-work adventure at Chautauqua (a cultural retreat from the late 1800s).
- [added later since I forgot to add this one] Exit Through the Gift Shop - a family from the 1930s to the present on their trips to the American Museum of Natural History.
Good luck all on your own projects!
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That for some reason appeals to me. Would love to see that.
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I have a torrid love affair with both *elseif and *else. A recent block I wrote looks something like this.
Summary
*if (librafail)
*elseif (libra = 1)
*elseif (libra = 5)
*elseif (libra < 5)
@{(libra = 4) “For the record, I appreciate you not coming after me. Even if it was because… you know.”|“I appreciate what you did back there. The intel I got really helps us.”}
*elseif (libra = 8)
*elseif (libra = 9)
*else
but multireplace with formulae are my true crack. they save so many conditionals.
(then I have to do an *if anyway because I can’t put a multireplace in my multireplace… D: )
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Thank you! I appreciate hearing which topic has the most resonance.
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I’m not sure I’ll ever call The Silmarillion by its correct name ever again.
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Today’s gripe: I did some proofreading, and now my back hurts oh so much. Also I’m hungry. Did not expect that as a result from proofreading.
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Dang, that’s some hardcore proofreading! Ouch!
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After my earlier grumbling, I now have a much cheaper, easier for me to use website!
Here it is:
And I wrote a blog post about the Honor Bound setting (some of which is cribbed from some earlier posts, but I figured this was good for now: I’ll be adding more posts soon about my writing process for the game and such):
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Congrats on new website!
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