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  • #16
    Triple post, it seems...
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    • #17
      Well, I am not quite sure we need to go into this discussion, but...

      Here we call them porcelain gods, and they receive lots of worshipping after an exciting friday night.
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      • #18
        Goober Im glad you call them shi tters, so do we over here but you are correct in that the wealthier classes use the term Loo. It would be interesting to compile a list of peoples favourite pet names for their sanitary ware.

        Jeremy 2.0 my advice, go take a dump. Honestly there's nothing quite like it for getting a real load off your mind, trust me if you spend more time in the laboratory youre story production rate will match SKILORD'S.

        Guitarist thats my point exactly,
        Quote " but then when I actually sit down to write it, it all comes out at once"
        Yes the inspiration can certainly flow especially the day after a heavy drinking session and a curry.

        vovan thats a new one on me, porcelain gods, but who gives a s**t.
        A proud member of the "Apolyton Story Writers Guild".There are many great stories at the Civ 3 stories forum, do yourself a favour and visit the forum. Lose yourself in one of many epic tales and be inspired to write yourself, as I was.

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        • #19
          Hmmm...

          I rarely use Word - only if I can't get to the net will I use Word. I prefer to just do each post as it comes, and copy it just incase the forum crashes (also I type it here then copy and paste it to CFC usually lol, CFC is a lot more unstable).

          Any revisions I make while I'm typing - the story usually rushes out of me once I'm at a keyboard, and I edit it as it comes out, and sometimes edit what I've already typed if needed (ever hate that first paragraph, or realise something doesn't fit, then rush back and delete entire paragraphs to make them fit better? It's damned annoying, isn't it lol?).

          Finally, as for inspiration, it's usually while listening to music that I get ideas, or a great film - ie; a trailer for Gangs of New York inspired the beginning to Dulce Et Decorum Est, and and Gladiator inspired the first ever Dangerous Games if I remember correctly. Also, I do also get ideas when watching history programmes, like Centauri18, and also from reading some books - the laser-guided missile through the bedroom window in Their Finest Hour(I think it was that anyway lol, might have been The Hunting Season) was an idea taken from Executive Order by Tom Clancy, where the bad guy gets a missile right at his house on live TV lol.

          Basically, I just get ideas pop into my head. Some I reject, some I add into stories as sub-plots or as part of the main plot, and quite a few I turn into stories. Most ideas are thought through before they reach the keyboard, and are changed slightly in my mind and merged with others, until finally I get to type it, and even then the plot changes as I go along - in Illusions of Victory I was considering having Alexander and Spartacus both die in the last battle, but at the last moment I decided it would be better for Alexander to die at the hands of a civilian who had been hurt by his evil ways.

          Basically, I'm a very random person lol

          Chris
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          • #20
            Since everyone else hs extensevly divulged their writing process I might as well place mine in more detail than i have on previous posts.

            Sometimes I am inspired, Crusader's Legacy is an example. I was reading Cradle of Thorns, the chapter about the discovery of Monotheism, when I began to wonder about thaat particular tech, what if, It had been a prophecy, actually at first I thought a theory along scientific lines, but i have settled with prophecy. This story leapt fully formed into my mind.

            Manifest Destiny was another beast entirely. I wanted to advertise my MOD (I'm shameless about this) and so I decided to write a story set in it. The night before, while I pondered it the opening line about Forest marring the tundra came to me and I built the plot as I went, this is the way I usually do stories, in the past I have written about games even as i was finishing the games.
            Read Blessed be the Peacemakers | Read Political Freedom | Read Pax Germania: A Story of Redemption | Read Unrelated Matters | Read Stains of Blood and Ash | Read Ripper: A Glimpse into the Life of Gen. Jack Sterling | Read Deutschland Erwachte! | Read The Best Friend | Read A Mothers Day Poem | Read Deliver us From Evil | Read The Promised Land

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            • #21
              Somewhere in between.
              I wrote Civ III Poem on the spur of the moment... but revised my other poems... and as for my stories... I wrote them; posted them; then went back and edited them as I wrote the later bits. (Such as The Charioteer's Campaigns)

              I always use word for my longer pieces... especially because of its good search feature... i just like using its find rather than notepads for some strange reason... and the autowrap features serve well.
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              • #22
                LOL I just had an installment to Yuute disappear because of A O HELL
                Weaseling out of things is what separates us from the animals....except the weasel -Homer
                Who's up for some scroungin'? -Homer

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                • #23
                  goob: copy it to clipboard before you post.
                  Read Blessed be the Peacemakers | Read Political Freedom | Read Pax Germania: A Story of Redemption | Read Unrelated Matters | Read Stains of Blood and Ash | Read Ripper: A Glimpse into the Life of Gen. Jack Sterling | Read Deutschland Erwachte! | Read The Best Friend | Read A Mothers Day Poem | Read Deliver us From Evil | Read The Promised Land

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                  • #24
                    I forgot to mention in my above post: I use a text editor that I made with VB. No Word for me...

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