Just do your best.
Just do your best.
Yeah for this reason I worry about illustrators and concept artists. Those used to be dream jobs, now I’m not so sure they’re even jobs anymore.
What are the odds of a bird landing on your keys on a day when your nails are in perfect order are unbelievable
Just going to shamelessly paste this one for the memories
< Cthon98 > hey, if you type in your pw, it will show as stars
< Cthon98 > ********* see!
< AzureDiamond > hunter2
< AzureDiamond > doesnt look like stars to me
< Cthon98 > < AzureDiamond > *******
< Cthon98 > thats what I see
< AzureDiamond > oh, really?
< Cthon98 > Absolutely
< AzureDiamond > you can go hunter2 my hunter2-ing hunter2
< AzureDiamond > haha, does that look funny to you?
< Cthon98 > lol, yes. See, when YOU type hunter2, it shows to us as *******
< AzureDiamond > thats neat, I didnt know IRC did that
< Cthon98 > yep, no matter how many times you type hunter2, it will show to us as *******
< AzureDiamond > awesome!
< AzureDiamond > wait, how do you know my pw?
< Cthon98 > er, I just copy pasted YOUR ******'s and it appears to YOU as hunter2 cause its your pw
< AzureDiamond > oh, ok.
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Ah yeah that makes sense. I’m an eternal hobbyist with different creative things (art, games, stories, etc), so I get the challenge of just finishing something.
PS feel free to send me what you’ve got if you want a totally impartial “beta reader” or whatever that’s called
yum keep em coming
I want to eat it
That’s cool. And if it continues to be useful / enjoyable to you, then you don’t necessarily need to “end” it ever, unless you really want to.
Excellent advice. I’ve sat down to write about a boring day, only to be shocked at the shit that was festering just below the surface. Like negative attitudes and resentment to people in my life, that would have just kind of hung around in the back of my head totally unknown and unacknowledged, but still there and unchallenged until I took a few minutes to consciously follow my own thoughts and feelings.
Anyway 10/10 would recommend the examined life.
Don’t try, just write in it whenever you feel like it: congratulations! You have a diary! That could be several times a day, or once a month, depending what you need and want out of your diary. But realistically if you’re just starting out it will probably be diary meta, like about the writing you’re doing in the diary lol.
For me I find it useful for
Anyway, here’s an example of me just talking about Quake 2 and having trouble focusing at work:
At the end of the day, I just like making marks on the page.
does it… keep increasing?
Ditched centralized social media and started a personal diary
What’s wrong? I mean aside from everything
Thanks for sharing this. I’d heard of tit-for-tat and the selfish gene before, but this exercise really helped me grok the concept
somethig with sweaters as I recall
A hundred percent, but the fact remains that journalists have a very hard time supporting themselves in their profession. A job that is critical (when done well) to an informed public.
It must be depressing knowing you could just take a TypeScript React bootcamp and probably double salary in a year. Like, journos have an important job. It’s just not lucrative, despite its value to people/society.