Writing goals

[Somewhere_In_The_Clouds]

What's the estimated read time for it? I did a behemoth 20-minute article last year, and I definitely worried people would clock out 2 minutes in (and they probably did ). What's your topic, if you don't mind sharing? Totally understand if you want to keep that to yourself while it's in progress, too!

It's only 4mins at this stage but there's still a lot I want to add so...
Was that your coop one? I really enjoyed reading that one.
My topic is the infamous house chicken I always get heavily invested in at least reading those threads and feel like I get a good unique position. I can present that idea to the chicken people here and be met with a ton of negativity and I can present the exact same thing to my indoor bird owning friends and get almost the exact opposite response. I want to collect information of both sides basically and put it all together neatly without all the arguing that tends to happen on the threads.

 

[NC_Quail]

My issue with research is that I’m only motivated to research things that I’m interested in, when I actually should research a wide variety of things of world building purposes.

Me: would a technologically advanced society still use metal coins as currency? Meh, who cares.
Also me: that’s a millipede, not a centipede, it has two pairs of legs per segment. Two pairs, not one.

 

[notabitail]

*clears throat in I just spent an hour researching for the sake of one minuscule detail to avoid actually writing*

In the late fourteenth century, a priest's chasuble would have been white for Michaelmas.

Congrats.

 

[notabitail]

I've shifted my writing goals from starting a new novel, to editing a previous novel, to just writing articles on BYC to keep practiced. It has not been a good few months for fiction writing.

I haven't written any fiction in a while. I did just write probably over a thousand words about a laptop at ten PM, but that's about it.

 

[notabitail]

I downloaded Obsidian, once.
Emphasis on once. I only opened it for a minute or so, too, before giving up entirely and deleting the app.

I just use whatever word editor my PC has (LibreOffice in this case). Why learn something new when you can work with what you've got?

 

[notabitail]

Something is deeply wrong with you people.

I must share a relevant meme:

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I fall in between both. Rupert's world is real, but it can have things bordering on odd.

 

[notabitail]

I have a dragon with no mouth. If I start being realistic I have to fix that and I don't wanna

This reminds me of a very specific book series. The dragons have wing stubs, and they drink water from a special well, and they get wings.

 

[notabitail]

My issue with research is that I’m only motivated to research things that I’m interested in, when I actually should research a wide variety of things of world building purposes.

Me: would a technologically advanced society still use metal coins as currency? Meh, who cares.
Also me: that’s a millipede, not a centipede, it has two pairs of legs per segment. Two pairs, not one.

I spent the last few evenings with a cup of tea and articles on various CPU microarchitectures. Did you know the Pentium M has a pipeline that's longer than that of a Pentium III, and shorter than that of a Pentium 4? Also, did you know that Intel's Yonah (Core Duo and Solo) chips use a different socket than the Pentium M, and they also are a bit more than two Banias Pentium M CPUs stuck on the same wafer?

 

[Somewhere_In_The_Clouds]

I spent the last few evenings with a cup of tea and articles on various CPU microarchitectures. Did you know the Pentium M has a pipeline that's longer than that of a Pentium III, and shorter than that of a Pentium 4? Also, did you know that Intel's Yonah (Core Duo and Solo) chips use a different socket than the Pentium M, and they also are a bit more than two Banias Pentium M CPUs stuck on the same wafer?

Hey, go to your nerd thread

 

[thecatumbrella]

It's only 4mins at this stage but there's still a lot I want to add so...
Was that your coop one? I really enjoyed reading that one.
My topic is the infamous house chicken I always get heavily invested in at least reading those threads and feel like I get a good unique position. I can present that idea to the chicken people here and be met with a ton of negativity and I can present the exact same thing to my indoor bird owning friends and get almost the exact opposite response. I want to collect information of both sides basically and put it all together neatly without all the arguing that tends to happen on the threads.

Thanks!

Not gonna lie, I like a controversial article. If you're laying out both sides of the argument and making it clear that this is an opinion piece (and not a soapbox rant), I don't see what people can get upset about. My last flock were partial house chickens towards the end. It really does take some thought to figure out how to meet their needs, and how to protect yourself (and your home) from their inevitable nastiness.

Hope you get to finish it soon! Seems like you have plenty of wiggle room to flesh it out more.