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[Frumple]

Not without hunting up a recipe or whatev', no. I'm not terribly fond of it (I mean, it's alright, but... not something I'd go out of my way to cook.), so I haven't gone out of my way to learn how.

Unless it's the (edible, if highly subpar) frozen stuff. That's easy

[Mr Space Cat]

Today is Homecoming, and I'm staying home.
I want to go, but I know I'll just stand awkwardly by myself, hanging off a wall. Or I'll end up hiding in the bathroom.

Either way: fuck that.

School dances and crap like homecoming are really only interesting if you're an extroverted, popular, socially adept individual with a date and tons of friends. Otherwise it's pretty stupid. Extrovert privileges.

I'm kinda tempted to go to mine next week, in the sense that it's my senior year and I'm interested in just how lame of a thing it is. Also I want to see what music is played at these things. I'd probably hate it because I'm introverted, socially inept, have few friends, no date, and I don't like any of the pop or dance music I'm assuming they'd play at these things. But still, I gotta go, I can't just not go to the school dances on senior year, right? [/sarcasm]

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@egg conversation: I'm impressed at the wide variety of topics this forum can talk about. From the science of Hitler committing genocide by stabbing everyone in the face himself to the ethics of eating animals compared to banging them to how eating meat is less efficient than eating bugs to how Einstein didn't like eggs. Bay12.

[Lagslayer]

... eggs do pretty well cooked into a lot of other things. Eggs and rice, ferex. S'other stuff, too, but that's the only one I know how to proper cook, as opposed to cooking the eggs separately and stirring them in.

Are you saying you don't know how to make French toast?

I used to love french toast when i was much younger, though I never liked just plain eggs. Then my aunt had to go and ruin it for me. She soaked a piece of bread in eggs. Like, completely saturated it. Then barely cooked it. Could never stomach even the good stuff after that.

[Thecard]

Today is Homecoming, and I'm staying home.
I want to go, but I know I'll just stand awkwardly by myself, hanging off a wall. Or I'll end up hiding in the bathroom.

Either way: fuck that.

School dances and crap like homecoming are really only interesting if you're an extroverted, popular, socially adept individual with a date and tons of friends. Otherwise it's pretty stupid. Extrovert privileges.

Um... I am extroverted.

I just suck at it.

[Descan]

I'm not very good at writing...

I wanna write a alt. hist. fic about what a Gaelic empire that formed in opposition to the Roman Empire while it was still growing (Say, around 100BC, after Spain has been conquered but before Gaul has been touched?)

Possibly with the addition of two early techs, railroads and telegraphs (Plus the more obvious attendant techs, like electric lighting and coal power. But no guns!)

BUT I'M NOT GOOD AT WRITINGGGG ;-;

[Xantalos]

The motto of every bowel-movement suicide bomber...

Actually, that motto is
Pretzels+water+pretzels+water x50

[Thecard]

I'm not very good at writing...

I wanna write a alt. hist. fic about what a Gaelic empire that formed in opposition to the Roman Empire while it was still growing (Say, around 100BC, after Spain has been conquered but before Gaul has been touched?)

Possibly with the addition of two early techs, railroads and telegraphs (Plus the more obvious attendant techs, like electric lighting and coal power. But no guns!)

BUT I'M NOT GOOD AT WRITINGGGG ;-;

You'd be surprised at how much of that is simply a lack of confidence blocking you from following through on your best ideas.

But hey, if you want writing help/tips, let me know. I doubt I could ever write a book, but that's mainly because I lack creativity. I'm actually pretty decent at writing itself, when it comes down to it.

[Graknorke]

Writing 101:
1: Disregard what you were told to write like in school because it will probably end up reading as either pretentious or unoriginal.
2: Write something
3: Read that something
4: Change the bits you don't like

I'm still stuck on step 1, because I kind of need to go through with all that arbitrary shit to satisfy the examining boards.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Especially disregard all the grammar rules you were taught. If you have any reason to break a grammar rule, break it.

[kaijyuu]

Yes speak you how you want to and don't afraid of anything.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Let me rephrase that: If you have a good reason to break a grammar rule, break it.

[Willfor]

Writing 101:
1: Disregard what you were told to write like in school because it will probably end up reading as either pretentious or unoriginal.
2: Write something
3: Read that something
4: Change the bits you don't like

I'm still stuck on step 1, because I kind of need to go through with all that arbitrary shit to satisfy the examining boards.

I'm sorry, but rule #1 of writing is "Read". Read something close to what you want to write. If that doesn't exist, fuck it, read anything. Now take the book you just read, read it it again, and this time watch how they use language.

The rest of your numbers are correct.

[kaijyuu]

Let me rephrase that: If you have a good/i] reason to break a grammar rule, break it.

Same goes for any "rule" in any form of art, incidentally.

[misko27]

I don't know. I like the Grammar rule that says "Avoid ambiguity; rephrase and simplify". A lot of sentences would be more readable if they obeyed this rule. A lot of people tend to simply flip the bird at the rules of grammar, and the logical conclusion that they are misunderstood. English is only ambiguous when you make it so,.

Most people fear Grammar. but it's very useful. I can use semicolons without fear; I keep the tenses in line. The odd thing is I simply don't remember the actual names for what I remember.

Yes, speak as you wish; don't fear anything.

I could go full Grammar Nazi any day now. I just don't have the will.

Writing 101:
1: Disregard what you were told to write like in school because it will probably end up reading as either pretentious or unoriginal.
2: Write something
3: Read that something
4: Change the bits you don't like

I'm still stuck on step 1, because I kind of need to go through with all that arbitrary shit to satisfy the examining boards.

I'm sorry, but rule #1 of writing is "Read". Read something close to what you want to write. If that doesn't exist, fuck it, read anything. Now take the book you just read, read it it again, and this time watch how they use language.

The rest of your numbers are correct.

This too. I went from shitty to decent at writing without actually doing much writing. Reading and learning, noting how so-and-so is done. You notice certain writing conventions, you notice how a certain thing is accomplished, etc.

[kaijyuu]

Random anecdote: I was writing a crappy fanfiction ages ago, and decided to look for a book around the house to get some examples of prose. Except bibles, I could not find a single book of fiction.  It was horrible.