Hi,
I wonder whether anyone's still around, or this is completely empty.
Hi,
I wonder whether anyone's still around, or this is completely empty.
Hi,
I wonder whether anyone's still around, or this is completely empty.
Hi,
I wonder whether anyone's still around, or this is completely empty.
On Fri, 3 Sep 2021 12:05:00 +0200, "A. Tina Hall"
<A_Tina_Hall@kruemel.org> wrote:
Hi,
I wonder whether anyone's still around, or this is completely empty.
Well, people tell me I'm not all there . . .
This ng is in my list which gets checked for new posts every day.
Whenever there is one, I look in.
On 2021 Sep 03, A. Tina Hall wrote
(in article <FdBTklPstGB@A_Tina_Hall>):
I wonder whether anyone's still around, or this is completely empty.
i?m still here.
On Fri, 3 Sep 2021 12:05:00 +0200, "A. Tina Hall"
<A_Tina_Hall@kruemel.org> wrote:
I wonder whether anyone's still around, or this is completely empty.
I check in nearly every day. And sometimes I think about posting.
I devote my spare energy to non-fiction these days:
On Fri, 03 Sep 2021 12:05:00 +0200, A. Tina Hall wrote:
I wonder whether anyone's still around, or this is completely empty.
Some people drop by now and again.
On 06.09.21, masha@jymes.com <masha@jymes.com> wrote:
On Fri, 3 Sep 2021 12:05:00 +0200, "A. Tina Hall"
<A_Tina_Hall@kruemel.org> wrote:
Hi,
I wonder whether anyone's still around, or this is completely empty.
Well, people tell me I'm not all there . . .
LOL.
This ng is in my list which gets checked for new posts every day.
Whenever there is one, I look in.
That's cool.
I have to admit I kept forgetting about getting new posts for long
stretches ever since I got broadband and soon after started hanging out
on Steam.
Are you working on anything? Want to talk about composition of SF? :)
"A. Tina Hall" <A_Tina_Hall@kruemel.org> wrote:
Are you working on anything? Want to talk about composition of SF?
:)
I have several wsip (works supposedly in progress), but basically my
entire life has been on hold for over a year, and some things have to
get sorted out before I can even hope to have any sort of motivation.
I occasionally post snippets of older stuff on Reddit, hoping a
comment or two might spark me into working on it more. Sadly, so far,
nothing has struck a chord.
Making matters worse, I bought a copy of "Save the Cat Writes a
Novel" by Jessica Brody. It's all about structuring and necessary
parts of a story. Even without accepting it as gospel, it makes
enough sense that I can see/understand why no story over 10K words
that I've written has ever drawn any interest from agents/publishers.
After maybe six months, I'm only about one-fourth of the way through
it and would have to start over if I was to try to really absorb the
info with intent to use it.
I'm open to offering comments (for what they're worth) on problems/thoughts/discussions other want to bring in, but when it
comes to new content which might be even remotely interesting, I'm a
dry hole.
On 07.09.21, Capuchin@jymes.com <Capuchin@jymes.com> wrote:
I occasionally post snippets of older stuff on Reddit, hoping a
comment or two might spark me into working on it more. Sadly, so far,
nothing has struck a chord.
Oh, Reddit. I don't hang out there. A Steam friend mentioned it's an odd >place. He asks a question for a build in Terraria, and gets a ton of
upvotes, but no reply, or something weird like that.
Might be better to post your snippets here? :)
On 06.09.21, E. Liddell <eliddell@no.patience.for.spam> wrote:
On Fri, 03 Sep 2021 12:05:00 +0200, A. Tina Hall wrote:
I wonder whether anyone's still around, or this is completely empty.
Some people drop by now and again.
Cool. :)
Are you working on anything?
On Mon, 06 Sep 2021 09:06:00 +0200, A. Tina Hall wrote:
Are you working on anything?
Alas, not that can appropriately be discussed here. Bad
fan fiction, computer code, and I just finished building
an item of furniture. Also having far too much fun playing
with my 3D printer.
On Mon, 06 Sep 2021 09:06:00 +0200, A. Tina Hall wrote:
On 06.09.21, E. Liddell <eliddell@no.patience.for.spam> wrote:
On Fri, 03 Sep 2021 12:05:00 +0200, A. Tina Hall wrote:
I wonder whether anyone's still around, or this is completely empty.
Some people drop by now and again.
Cool. :)
Are you working on anything?
Alas, not that can appropriately be discussed here. Bad
fan fiction, computer code, and I just finished building
an item of furniture. Also having far too much fun playing
with my 3D printer.
On Tue, 7 Sep 2021 13:49:00 +0200, "A. Tina Hall"
<A_Tina_Hall@kruemel.org> wrote:
On 07.09.21, Capuchin@jymes.com <Capuchin@jymes.com> wrote:
I occasionally post snippets of older stuff on Reddit, hoping a
comment or two might spark me into working on it more. Sadly, so
far, nothing has struck a chord.
Oh, Reddit. I don't hang out there. A Steam friend mentioned it's an
odd place. He asks a question for a build in Terraria, and gets a
ton of upvotes, but no reply, or something weird like that.
Reddit has something like fifty different subreddits for writing,
divided by genre, focus, etc., and they're all different.
Your friend doesn't know the old wisdom about any group on the
Internet -- to find out something, you don't ask a question, you post
wrong information. A thousand people who'd never bother helping a
stranger will leap at the chance to show off their expertise.
Might be better to post your snippets here? :)
I think I sort of wore out my welcome doing that some years ago.Then,
as now, I was searching through my old stuff, trying to find which
(if any) might be worth working on again. It was lively for a very
short while but quickly petered out.
On Tue, 7 Sep 2021 13:49:00 +0200, "A. Tina Hall"
<A_Tina_Hall@kruemel.org> wrote:
On 07.09.21, Capuchin@jymes.com <Capuchin@jymes.com> wrote:
I occasionally post snippets of older stuff on Reddit, hoping a
comment or two might spark me into working on it more. Sadly, so far,
nothing has struck a chord.
Oh, Reddit. I don't hang out there. A Steam friend mentioned it's an odd >>place. He asks a question for a build in Terraria, and gets a ton of >>upvotes, but no reply, or something weird like that.
Reddit has something like fifty different subreddits for writing,
divided by genre, focus, etc., and they're all different.
Not much going on here for years I think, could be a welcome change to
the quiet.
I can add bits from the stories I started that never got anywhere, maybe >alternate one you one I, per week? :)
On Wed, 8 Sep 2021 21:28:00 +0200, "A. Tina Hall"
<A_Tina_Hall@kruemel.org> wrote:
Not much going on here for years I think, could be a welcome change to
the quiet.
I can add bits from the stories I started that never got anywhere, maybe >>alternate one you one I, per week? :)
I just realized I don't remember the rules for posting, i.e. word
count limit, any restrictions on content, etc..
The only thing I'm even mildly interested in writing now is a treatise
on how social changes have affected the regular moving/reinvention of >immortals through the ages (e.g. 3rd Century -- just walk a week in
any direction, and no one will suspect you're older than you look, but
you can't have more wealth than you can carry; 21st Century -- can
just move across the city and huge fortunes transferred
electronically, but you have to forge a new biometric identity).
"A. Tina Hall" <A_Tina_Hall@kruemel.org> wrote:
Not much going on here for years I think, could be a welcome change
to the quiet.
I can add bits from the stories I started that never got anywhere,
maybe alternate one you one I, per week? :)
I just realized I don't remember the rules for posting, i.e. word
count limit, any restrictions on content, etc..
The only thing I'm even mildly interested in writing now is a
treatise on how social changes have affected the regular
moving/reinvention of immortals through the ages (e.g. 3rd Century --
just walk a week in any direction, and no one will suspect you're
older than you look, but you can't have more wealth than you can
carry; 21st Century -- can just move across the city and huge
fortunes transferred electronically, but you have to forge a new
biometric identity).
I'd digress into something else though. If immortals have been around
all the time, why are they hiding, how could they not be known. And in
the end, how could it be the same world with them around? (I have that >problem with every story that puts magic or other non-real things into
our world.)
Whatever any additions brought to Earth's inhabitants would have had to
have changed history at some point and branched off a different
timeline. So I need an explanation on why it looks the same despite
that.
On 08.09.21, E. Liddell <eliddell@no.patience.for.spam> wrote:
On Mon, 06 Sep 2021 09:06:00 +0200, A. Tina Hall wrote:
Are you working on anything?
Alas, not that can appropriately be discussed here. Bad fan fiction,
computer code, and I just finished building an item of furniture. Also
having far too much fun playing with my 3D printer.
Oh, how can you have too much fun with a 3D printer? :))
What item of furniture did you build? Anything you could imagine being inhabited by a folk of gnomes? (To try to stay somewhat on topic. :P )
On Sat, 11 Sep 2021 "A. Tina Hall" <A_Tina_Hall@kruemel.org> wrote:
I'd digress into something else though. If immortals have been
around all the time, why are they hiding, how could they not be
known. And in the end, how could it be the same world with them
around? (I have that problem with every story that puts magic or
other non-real things into our world.)
Being immortal comes in many flavors.
Ever watch the movie "Only Lovers Left Alive" (2013)? It's sort of a day-in-the-life (but it's about vampires, so maybe night-in-the-life
is more appropriate) study of romance/ennui/and the basic psychology/psychiatry of immortals.It's implicit how vulnerable they
are and shows why they must keep themselves hidden. (I highly
recommend watching it. It's not in the terror/horror genre. One
reviewer said it's "of mood and metaphor." Quite beautifully shot.)
Another kind of immortality is shown in the tv series "Forever"
(2014-2015). Whenever he's killed, he's resurrected (naked in the
middle of a river).
That series also has a different character (an insane one) with the
same condition. He went through a period where he was also studied by
leading scientists, Nazi scientists. I think it's quite
understandable why he now keeps it secret.
(This series can be streamed for free on the "CWseed" channel.)
Whatever any additions brought to Earth's inhabitants would have had
to have changed history at some point and branched off a different
timeline. So I need an explanation on why it looks the same despite
that.
Until you can examine other timelines and make comparisons,
everything will always look normal. Everyone from biologists to
geologists to cosmologists always find a rational explanation for why
things are the way they are. Anyone who says "No, this can't be
normal, some weird alien/time-meddler/god/magic must have effected
this" is automatically branded a crackpot and roundly ignored.
One of my pet projects (so far only on paper, awaiting winning the
lottery before I can do anything about it) is a model railroad layout
based on the idea that Greeks invented a steam locomotive (Heron of Alexandria was so very, very close . . .). To maintain some aspect of socioeconomic reality, it's a single engine and one small flatcar
moving blocks of stones from a quarry to the seaside where they're
used to build a fortress or loaded onto ships for export.
Another project (of the same stature) is to build a quad-bike using
only late 19th Century materials and techniques. It has always seemed
odd to me they weren't invented alongside motorcycles. People did
propose tricycles, but they were inherently unsafe and impractical as personal vehicles. To my way of thinking, quad-bikes should/could
have been a natural step between horses and automobiles.
Is there a timeline where railroads have been around since the 1st
Century? Is there a timeline where quad-bikes became the norm and
automobiles never really developed?
Why would anyone within those timelines ever question it?
On Wed, 08 Sep 2021 21:30:00 +0200, A. Tina Hall wrote:
Oh, how can you have too much fun with a 3D printer? :))
By doing things that require leaving it on all the time?
(Well, okay, the truth is that I've just been spending
too much time with it that I should be spending on other
things instead.)
What item of furniture did you build? Anything you could imagine
being inhabited by a folk of gnomes? (To try to stay somewhat on
topic. :P )
It's an entertainment center (basically a glorified
shelving unit). I needed one that would fit into a
specific space and accommodate three game systems,
a blu-ray player, a DVD player, and a VCR.
I doubt there's enough empty space in it for gnome
occupancy. Or for the conga rats to practice their
line dancing, either. ;)
On 12.09.21, E. Liddell <eliddell@no.patience.for.spam> wrote:
On Wed, 08 Sep 2021 21:30:00 +0200, A. Tina Hall wrote:
Oh, how can you have too much fun with a 3D printer? :))
By doing things that require leaving it on all the time?
(Well, okay, the truth is that I've just been spending too much time
with it that I should be spending on other things instead.)
Hehe, does sound like fun though!
What item of furniture did you build? Anything you could imagine being
inhabited by a folk of gnomes? (To try to stay somewhat on topic. :P )
It's an entertainment center (basically a glorified shelving unit). I
needed one that would fit into a specific space and accommodate three
game systems,
a blu-ray player, a DVD player, and a VCR.
Oooh, a VCR! Couldn't find one when I went to buy one some years ago
(mine stopped working some time before that). These days I have a hdd connected to the TV to 'tape' things.
What game systems are those? Consoles? (I don't know anything about
them, I'm just playing games on the PC, Steam games mostly these days.)
I doubt there's enough empty space in it for gnome occupancy. Or for
the conga rats to practice their line dancing, either. ;)
Hehe, but gnomes have inter-space-dimensional-warping abilities, they
can squeeze even into space that isn't there! ;P
Though I guess the rats do have to line up somewhere on the top maybe.
:)
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