Comments on: Painting With Shotguns XXVII

By: Gloria Oliver

Gloria Oliver — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:15:46 +0000

I say why not have Beard and Writing Advice? Hm? Why not? Hm?
Love Chuck, watch it religiously. Cassey is in a heap of doo.
And now I wish I’d gone ahead and watched Justified! Darn it! Hubby took a look at a commercial and went ‘eh’ so I didn’t do it. Stupid hubby.

By: terribleminds

terribleminds — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:17:52 +0000

@Eric, @Bethini, @Brian –

Awesome. Glad to see you guys are continuing to come back.

I’ll keep up the yammering, then. I’m please I’m not just shouting into the void.

– c.

By: bethini

bethini — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:58:27 +0000

Yo dude, I got hooked on this place and its stink through your writing advice! You got style and you got the goods — seriously good advice, a lot of it, which resonates with me and has me muttering later “hey…yeah!” at things no-one else in the room was talking about. I love it. And then you got posts about other stuff too: it’s why I love it here. That and the pottymouth, obviously. Keep it coming!

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:32:25 +0000

Finished another chapter, so I can post.

I like your writing advice. It makes me feel like I’m not the only one going through the same shit, trying to put one word after another. Yeah, I hope I end up with a decent story, but sometimes I just end up with a pile of turd.

I bought the Sith edition of Force Unleashed, but I haven’t been writing fast enough to play it. I have to finish up a chapter before I get to play with the Internet or play games. But lately, I’m experiencing a writing funk. I had hoped to write a chapter or nearly a chapter a day, but I’m just not pacing where I want to be. And my outline still needs work.

Yeah, keep the writing advice coming. Just don’t suggest I put a sex scene in every odd or even chapter. That’s just too much:)

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:36:50 +0000

I’m diggin the writing advice so please keep it up. I enjoyed hearing about your different approaches to the different projects and mediums you have been writing for recently. The piece on dialogue came at a perfect time for me and helped me smooth out a rough patch in a piece I was working on at the time.

Thanks for that. Keep ‘em coming.

By: terribleminds

terribleminds — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:03:57 +0000

Damn. Eddy heard us talking about him.

Hopefully, he won’t listen to the Darker Days podcast, where we discuss the licking of his ears.

– c.

By: Eddy Webb

Eddy Webb — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:33:50 +0000

So, first off, as I mentioned on the Twittertubes, I don’t mind your writing advice because you, you know, write. I’ve always read it as “Hey, you, just learned this cool thing and want to share,” rather than “YOU MUST DO THIS OR I WILL EAT YOUR FACE, PUNY WRITER.”

Well, the latter might be cool, too.

I’m with you on Mass Effect 2 > Dragon Age. I thought maybe I was burned out on RPGs, but I’m also playing Persona 3 and liking it, and I had a blast playing Final Fantasy VII for a while, so I think there’s something about ME2 over DA for me as a player.

Hrm, what else? Oh, Happy St. Patrick’s Day. I mean, that wasn’t it, but I just remembered that.

No, there was something else I was going to say… Hrm… what was it?

Oh, yeah. I WAS RIGHT, BITCHES.

By: Danielle

Danielle — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:04:01 +0000

My problem with BioShock 2 (and I think most people’s) is purely story: there’s no need for it. The story of the first game very cleanly tied all loose ends together. Lamb was never mentioned, ever, so she feels shoehorned in to make room for a new story. It suffers the way many sequels do in that it’s unnecessary. At least Mass Effect knew it was going to have sequels and made room for them, BioShock did not. But I’m not a fan of sequels in general so you may not entirely agree.

I can’t speak to the mechanics personally, but I know a lot of people hated that bit on BioShock 1 where you protect the Little Sister, and this game’s full of that, so. Your mileage may vary.

By: terribleminds

terribleminds — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:11:11 +0000

@Tome:

You didn’t get your jetpack yet? Huh. Sorry, man.

Boy, this air-conditioned dome is comfy.

…

Oh, and “retard humping a dictionary” gets points, too. That plus SCHADENFRIES totally beats any of the witty shit *I* said today.

– c.

By: Tome

Tome — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:57:47 +0000

First off, I’m not a writer. When I try to be witty on paper, it looks like a retard humping a dictionary, but I still love reading your rants. Say what you will, but there’s something fun about being able to sit with a raving homeless guy every day without having to drop a fiver in his cup (although the smell is about the same).

Face it, Chuck, you’re Nathaniel Ayers with a typewriter, and you’re damn good at what you do. If everyone’s writing practice was as witty and well written as yours, we’d be living in domes and flying with jetpacks by now.