How many novels have you written?

[Madelaine McMasters]

7 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said:

That’s hot.

...sets you on fire and invites Belinda to do the same.

[Love Zhaoying]

2 minutes ago, Madelaine McMasters said:

10 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said:

That’s hot.

...sets you on fire and invites Belinda to do the same.

I was already on fire from @Selene Gregoire, and am sitting in the Section W benches. Speaking of hot, I’m ‘bout to be wet from Dorian. Someone needs to find that punk’s aging portrait in his closet, and put an end to this nonsense.

[Madelaine McMasters]

1 minute ago, Love Zhaoying said:

I was already on fire from @Selene Gregoire, and am sitting in the Section W benches. Speaking of hot, I’m ‘bout to be wet from Dorian. Someone needs to find that punk’s aging portrait in his closet, and put an end to this nonsense.

I hope Dorian peters out before making landfall, but that doesn't seem likely. I wish the best for everyone in Dorian's path. If I see clouds of steam in news video from Florida, I'll presume that's you.

[Selene Gregoire]

23 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said:

I was already on fire from @Selene Gregoire, and am sitting in the Section W benches. Speaking of hot, I’m ‘bout to be wet from Dorian. Someone needs to find that punk’s aging portrait in his closet, and put an end to this nonsense.

I didn't realize that is where you live. Batten down the hatches Bubba, if you can't get out. CAt 1 and 2 are fairly easy to get through... Cat 3s get scary but survive-able. Cat 4s and above, I do the only thing I can. Pray and cling to dear life.

Please, keep those furbabies and yourself safe!

[Lindal Kidd]

6 hours ago, moirakathleen said:

and I enjoy the little stories you post here, whether they're with words or with images.

Me too, @Madelaine McMasters!  Especially the funny, poignant stories you write about your family.  Makes me wish I were a McMasters.

[Polenth Yue]

I've literally written and published a novel, along with other things. But my forum contributions have been small over the years, so I've got a way to go for novel-length foruming.

[Ivanova Shostakovich]

   I'm writing a story. I've gotten to around 19000 words. It seems I have a complicative habit of writing hooks into my story that can force me to get ever more creative the more deeply into it I get. I've decided to call it ambition. We'll see if it's a good thing.

   Another of my habits has been repeating, under my breath, something I'd just said. This happened most often when I'd talk to myself, which is still quite often. I've never really known why I did it. Perhaps I'd been somehow mentally editing myself for future conversations. I wonder if it helped. I don't notice it much anymore, either because I stopped doing it, or it's become so ingrained it's like breathing.

   In live, face to face conversations, I can probably seem occasionally impatient. When I'm talking with someone who has a lot of 'um' and 'ahh' in their speech, or simply pauses, searching for a word or considering sentence composition, I will sometimes feel impatient, especially if it's a conversation in which I am very interested. There is the urge to helpfully supply suggest a word; to which I frequently succumb. I want to be helpful, but I know I'm walking a fine line between that and just being annoying, or insulting, and I can feel a part of my mind playing self-moderator when I do this.

[Selene Gregoire]

4 hours ago, Madelaine McMasters said:

People do this "mouthing" to aid in their comprehension. My emergency backup mom does this when she's tired and Mom started doing it a little after she had a stroke. I once worked with a fella who, late in the day, would do this so severely that I had some difficulty conversing with him. The next time this happens to you, look at the mimic's eyes. They're probably watching your lips to aid comprehension, and that's driving their mirroring. You'll also find yourself watching their lips and being distracted by it because lip-reading someone who's mimicking you requires activating speech recognition mechanisms we normally suppress while speaking.

We all try to anticipate what other people are going to say, but know enough not to verbalize or mouth it... unless you are me. If you are me, then you are not only trying to anticipate what's coming, but are spontaneously generating segues that will complete change the meaning of what they're trying to say. If the other party pauses long enough while searching for the next word or thought, you'll have the urge to blurt out your spontaneous nonsensical alternative. And if you are me, you will not resist that urge.

There you go. We are each other.

Everyone should learn to read lips. 

In case they start suffering hearing loss from things like Swimmer's Ear.

Or tinnitus.

Or both.

[Maryanne Solo]

SL? Dont care. RL day job? about 600 words a day. Since 2012... that makes approximately 1,176.000 words. (say roughly 280 days per year as I do a lot of it from home). Love it too. ❤️ Word count for one day can go as high as 1400 sometimes.

 

Edited August 30, 2019 by Maryanne Solo

[Selene Gregoire]

9 hours ago, Love Zhaoying said:

*sits and burns*

 

[Raevyn Addams]

How many novels have I written (literally)? Hundreds. Thousands. I've lost count - because I'm not keeping score. I've been writing creatively since I was a child; poems, songs, short stories, novels, fan-fiction, text-based paragraph RP, collaborative stories, and on various forums. I couldn't even begin to know what all that amounts to beyond a lot of words. Not that long ago I started a story with the intent of having it published one day. Then real life interrupted and a year passed. Now it feels like climb every mountain to get back to that old mindset, but it seems like such a waste to throw away all I had previously written or edit so heavily. So I'm stuck in a kind of limbo and doing what I always do; procrastinating and being my own worst critic. The forums are a great distraction considering I don't engage in RP here in SL anymore, but it's not conducive to productivity in any meaningful way (beyond possibly helping others, or growing "thick" skin). Having a talent for anything is subjective, but it's quite another to have the confidence to back that up.

So TL;DR: zero novels but a lot of words - and counting.

Edited August 30, 2019 by RaeLeeH
To edit - because that's my superpower! (Or my Kryptonite, either way)

[Arduenn Schwartzman]

I wrote a novel once. ISBN 90-901XXXX-Y. It has lots of nice pictures in it. That's what counts most.

[Maitimo]

16 hours ago, Clarrellae said:

If you love to write, and so many of us do, how many words have you written in recent history?  I've suddenly become obsessed with inadvertent achievements and I have come to the conclusion that within the SL forum alone one of the esteemed contributors has written the equivalent of 7 novels. Edit: 7 Excellent novels.

Words matter, and this is wonderful.  So, how many novels have you written?  Are you a roleplayer who churns out 5000 typed words a week in-scene?  Are you a forum contributer who churns out a pile of good advice every day?  Are you a data-entry specialist who churns out screen after screen of essential visual data over many months at a time?  

I was using Pride and Prejudice as my novel-word-count anchor,  a novel with 122,189 words.  I figured out that in my 3 years of roleplay, such as they were, and within my SL presence generally since 2012, I almost achieved what RaeLeeH has achieved in the forums alone. 

As a conservative estimate, I probably write at least 2,000 words a day, between work and home. Say 15,000 a week, on average.  That's 780,000 words a year, or six-and-a-half novels the length of Pride & Prejudice. In one year.

Eat your heart out, GRR Martin! 

[Love Zhaoying]

Lots of..novel ideas in this thread.

[Love Zhaoying]

10 hours ago, Madelaine McMasters said:

I hope Dorian peters out before making landfall, but that doesn't seem likely. I wish the best for everyone in Dorian's path. If I see clouds of steam in news video from Florida, I'll presume that's you.

Luckily, I am on the opposite coast from landfall. 

[Love Zhaoying]

10 hours ago, Selene Gregoire said:

I didn't realize that is where you live. Batten down the hatches Bubba, if you can't get out. CAt 1 and 2 are fairly easy to get through... Cat 3s get scary but survive-able. Cat 4s and above, I do the only thing I can. Pray and cling to dear life.

Please, keep those furbabies and yourself safe!

Because I am on the opposite coast, it’s expected to be Cat 1 by the time it crosses Florida. 

[Love Zhaoying]

4 hours ago, Selene Gregoire said:

 

Yes, I remember this but was a couple years too old for one. But I remember it was maybe on “Laverne and Shirley” that they said, “Sit on it!”, and sometimes added, “and spin!”

[Clara Hollyberry]

3 hours ago, Matty Luminos said:

Eat your heart out, GRR Martin! 

I laughed out loud at that; that's absolutely right!

[Selene Gregoire]

5 hours ago, Love Zhaoying said:

Because I am on the opposite coast, it’s expected to be Cat 1 by the time it crosses Florida. 

You know as well as I do it can't be predicted. There's more to the storm than just the eye.

[GoSpeed Racer]

21 hours ago, Madelaine McMasters said:

I don't think you can completely avoid being taken the wrong way. After decades of trying to appear more approachable, some people still find me intimidating. But that means some people don't!

It boggles my mind that I encounter people who are intimidated by me!

[Ivanova Shostakovich]

4 minutes ago, GoSpeed Racer said:

It boggles my mind that I encounter people who are intimidated by me!

   (… she said with an exclamation point)

/me tickles you.

[GoSpeed Racer]

I've written one short story (unpublished; 20k words), three full length novels averaging 90k each, and am almost finished with a short story anthology of about 40k words. I have also started writing my 4th novel. I'm self published on Amazon and Smashwords. IM me if you'd like a link.

[Ivanova Shostakovich]

9 hours ago, Arduenn Schwartzman said:

I wrote a novel once. ISBN 90-901XXXX-Y. It has lots of nice pictures in it. That's what counts most.

   You wrote a book about folding proteins?

[Rolig Loon]

1 hour ago, Ivanova Shostakovich said:

You wrote a book about folding proteins?

It's a good thing he washed his hands first.   Otherwise, he'd get histocompatability complexes all over the pages from folding all those proteins bare handed.

[Madelaine McMasters]

1 hour ago, Rolig Loon said:

2 hours ago, Ivanova Shostakovich said:

You wrote a book about folding proteins?

It's a good thing he washed his hands first.   Otherwise, he'd get histocompatability complexes all over the pages from folding all those proteins bare handed.

...swoons.

I love this kind of talk!