Once you write a 5,500 word, 23 page proposal and create a 25-slide presentation

[NJ Joe]

You realize all those 5-page research assignments you bitched about and reluctantly did in high school and early college are nothing.

Im halfway between suicide and satisfaction right now, but I feel like a new man.

[Archy]

Congrats. Nothing sucks like writing sucks, and there's nothing sweeter than having written.

I'm busy procrastinating 30,000 words for an editor.

Due yesterday.

[x-tra]

i thought 2500 words was alot!!!

[Archy]

i thought 2500 words was alot!!!

It is. That's my point.

[kim_jong_ill]

i heard that ritalin and adderall can give you a boost.............

[Archy]

i heard that ritalin and adderall can give you a boost.............

I'm hitting the Provigil tomorrow.



I'll tell you how it goes.

[Skinart]

Funny. I'm a writing addict--as long as its mostly random #### for a small audience. Like letters. I am
a 'friendly letter' writing machine. I log in well over 50K words per year just on friendly letters.

Then there's all the journal writing. Everytime I work out, I spend an hour cooling down by writing
in my journal while the blood is still pumping and I still feel that 'controlled passion'. Then I hit the
showers and move on.

Most of the time, when I'm working, I'm stealing time to write things down too. I used to write on
anything and everything. I have a box full of napkins and little scraps of paper that were supposed to
be used to request parts from storage--instead, I have poems and little thoughts and phrases scribbled
on the back of them. I don't know which ones are trash and which ones are treasure anymore. But there's
at least one box full of them that I know of--plus the boxes of journals.

Then all the posts I've made on forums...Plus all the academic writing. I never sweated the academic
writing in terms of pages or words--I always had too damn much to write. The hard part for me was getting
everything trimmed back down and intelligible to humans when the thoughts I was putting to paper weren't
originally linear....Which is probably why I had all that poetry socked away. Poetry lets you be non-linear.

The point of all this is the irony. When it comes to sitting down and say, writing a story or a book. I have
zero discipline. When it comes to writing this? I can't stop myself. It just happened.

[Alpha06]

^^^^Translation>>>>

"Funny. I'm a writing addict--as long as its mostly random #### for a small audience. Like letters. I am a 'friendly letter' writing machine. I log in well over 50K words per year just on friendly letters.

Then there's all the journal writing. Everytime I work out, I spend an hour cooling down by writing in my journal while the blood is still pumping and I still feel that 'controlled passion'. Then I hit the showers and move on.

Most of the time, when I'm working, I'm stealing time to write things down too. I used to write on anything and everything. I have a box full of napkins and little scraps of paper that were supposed to be used to request parts from storage--instead, I have poems and little thoughts and phrases scribbled on the back of them. I don't know which ones are trash and which ones are treasure anymore. But there's at least one box full of them that I know of--plus the boxes of journals.

Then all the posts I've made on forums...Plus all the academic writing. I never sweated the academic writing in terms of pages or words--I always had too damn much to write. The hard part for me was getting everything trimmed back down and intelligible to humans when the thoughts I was putting to paper weren't originally linear....Which is probably why I had all that poetry socked away. Poetry lets you be non-linear.

The point of all this is the irony. When it comes to sitting down and say, writing a story or a book. I havezero discipline. When it comes to writing this? I can't stop myself. It just happened.


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Skinart, I know all those books and media professionals say that serif is the way to go for reading...but it sucks and gives headaches online. Go Sans, seriously.

[Skinart]

I've never read any of the things you are talking about. I chose this font because it best suits my tone and 'voice'.
I find sans serif fonts annoying, lifeless, and tire my eyes more quickly. They are a large part of why I prefer hardcopy
to electronic documents.

[x-tra]

It is. That's my point.

ummm. i think 5000 is alot bigger...