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word-slinger
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Not Really Here
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Damn the both of you.
Why, why, WHY won't it snow here???
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Grand Pooba Unto Thyself
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Browntown, WI--the land of cheese!
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We had some rain/slush/snow here today. Bah!
Ok, so Spirit Halloween is having a 29% Off Sale today. Fun to check out. It's only 245 days until Halloween so we gotta get crackin' to make this place ready. I've been on Netflix catching up on Archer episodes. Dear Gods that show is funny! |
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word-slinger
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Not Really Here
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Et tu, eh Ted?
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Today is your last day.
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Broken Arrow, OK
Posts: 7,018
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So, I guess tonight is the last time that a lot of movies on NetFlix are going to be available due to some deal with a movie distributor. NetFlix is going to be concentrating on TV series now according to the report I heard.
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Grand Pooba Unto Thyself
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Browntown, WI--the land of cheese!
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*puts Bos in a giant snowglobe, seals it and shakes it like a giant screaming baby*
How's that? Anything else I can do? Greg, did you feel the earthquake in Oklahoma or was it pretty far from you? |
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word-slinger
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Not Really Here
Posts: 38,142
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Yes, yes it is.
*looks out the window* You need to shake harder, Ted. Nothing's happening here.
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Today is your last day.
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Broken Arrow, OK
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Pushed past the 24 thousand word mark on Third Pulse this evening. The MC has just lost a friend of 5 years to murder, another old friend on the police force is closing the trap on him and one of his closest allies in Golden Gate Park, and he has just confronted the antagonist, a villain of immense power, intelligence, and cunning from his past. Unfortunately, right now, even I don't know who the hell this guy is! Ack!
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Today is your last day.
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Broken Arrow, OK
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Here was an earthquake? Really? I didn't feel a thing.
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word-slinger
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Not Really Here
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Quote:
Problem solved.
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Writing for the brand
Join Date: Mar 2009
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Mr. Body actually, in the library with the wrench
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Speling & grammer murderer, Sorrie!
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Philadelphia PA
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word-slinger
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Not Really Here
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I must watch that movie again.
Soon.
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Speling & grammer murderer, Sorrie!
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Philadelphia PA
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That's my favorite movie of all time, hell its been my favorite movie since i was 5. I could watch that on repeat all day and never get bored.
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Legend of the Freaks
YA Horror/Thriller Series 8 of 12 books complete WiP Re-write of first book FREAKs Unsung Zeros Psychological Thriller Rewrite -1/2 done On Hold The Amnesia Journey YA Fantasy RBSL Contemp/romantic comedy Legend of a Freak (Blog!) |
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Today is your last day.
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Broken Arrow, OK
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Col. Mustard in the Library with a candlestick!
It can't be the butler. Max never had a butler. He was never that rich. He started his superhero career when he was about 26 years old. He accidentally killed a normal human while battling zombies the same day he got his powers. The villain has got to be somebody from that first year. a cross between Prof. Moriarty, Jack The Ripper, and Heinrich Himmler. It's somebody close to him. So close it damned near destroyed him when he found out. So close he had trouble doing the right thing and putting the bastard in the ground when he had the opportunity. Max has no siblings. All his close friends are dead. Who is this person? Damnit. Wait - I wonder... That person he killed on his first outing, the one who formed him into the hero he became - what if that person was never really killed. Maybe it was all a ploy, an accident of the Pulse that created the first superheroes, that thrust Max and his enemy together in that supposed "accident". Maybe it was all staged. The villain is brilliant. He could have been responsible for the First Pulse, and staged the whole "accident" thing to cover up his activities. No one would have suspected at the time...
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Speling & grammer murderer, Sorrie!
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Philadelphia PA
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classmate, childhood friend that moved away, x-girlfriend????
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Legend of the Freaks
YA Horror/Thriller Series 8 of 12 books complete WiP Re-write of first book FREAKs Unsung Zeros Psychological Thriller Rewrite -1/2 done On Hold The Amnesia Journey YA Fantasy RBSL Contemp/romantic comedy Legend of a Freak (Blog!) |
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Today is your last day.
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Broken Arrow, OK
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No, no. Total unknown to him at the time. It really was an accident, but the victim didn't know nor did he care. He's plotted, killed, deceived, and bought his way to power in the last 12 years and now he's finally in a position where he thinks he can't lose. He's fought the MC many times before and he's even, apparently, faked his own death by the MC's hand 6 years ago. But he's still that same original, accidental victim of a hero who was just beginning to learn how to control his powers - and he's kept the truth of all that secret for more than a decade.
Or, maybe it wasn't the victim of that accident. It was his brother, or a sister who then made herself up to look like her brother, or a close relative or lover. That's got real potential too. Oh, yes. Revenge really is a dish best left to simmer a long, long time...
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word-slinger
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Not Really Here
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watching you talk to yourself like this is kind of amusing, Greg.
![]() You know we have a sandbox section at AW. It's the kind you use for spitballing ideas like this, not the kind the cats use.
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Today is your last day.
Join Date: Jun 2007
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Well, sometimes it works, Bos. Sometimes I even talk back to myself. Sometimes the comments if others helps me work out problems with a story.
I've heard of the Sandbox. I might even have visited there once or twice, but I always thought it was more for fighting, like TIO, than brainstorming.
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Speling & grammer murderer, Sorrie!
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Philadelphia PA
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I think I need the sandbox often but I feel awkward going on a rant about my book. Plus i write series, i can see that thread being one very very long explanation of past shit.
I should look at that place for this newest book i'm working on.
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Legend of the Freaks
YA Horror/Thriller Series 8 of 12 books complete WiP Re-write of first book FREAKs Unsung Zeros Psychological Thriller Rewrite -1/2 done On Hold The Amnesia Journey YA Fantasy RBSL Contemp/romantic comedy Legend of a Freak (Blog!) |
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fire breather
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Arizona
Posts: 25,886
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TIO is for fighting? I thought it was for sidetracked threads, ones who got off topic.
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writing
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: At the portal to the Pacific
Posts: 15,773
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And it's password protected now. Which is even better. I am so glad they did that. To me it always felt like a close cousin to SYW.
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fire breather
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Arizona
Posts: 25,886
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Good to know, though I've never been there [that I know of], and have no idea where it is.
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Benefactor Member
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 3,300
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Good morning.
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