Things that frustrate us all

[Australis]

I have the oppsite problem: too many ideas, no time to write them.

That said, an interesting esperiment to generate ideas is: pick up a newspaper, find two or three apparently unrelated stories, and relate them.

Man dies in fishin accident, car dissapears on country road.

Plane had to delay landing, political rally in a different city.

Physicists relase new model of the universe, new fossil discoivered.

You can see what I mean.

 

[Amaris]

^ I feel your pain, sir. I have thousands of stories whirling through my mind, but not enough time to jot them down or build them into something greater.

As for myself, what often frustrates me is self-doubt. It's good not to be arrogant, but I used to have confidence in myself. Now, more often than not, I doubt myself, and who I am. I doubt my feelings, and my motives. I know who I am, and I know how I feel, but more and more often I just doubt myself to the brink of giving up. I don't give up, because I can re-assert myself, but man, society has a way of getting you to doubt yourself, and it's frustrating.

Also, I have another one: Anyone who steals a person's joy. Nothing frustrates me, or makes me angrier, than someone's joy being stolen. People who take pleasure in hurting another, whether physically, emotionally, or mentally. That burns me.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

As for myself, what often frustrates me is self-doubt. It's good not to be arrogant, but I used to have confidence in myself. Now, more often than not, I doubt myself, and who I am. I doubt my feelings, and my motives. I know who I am, and I know how I feel, but more and more often I just doubt myself to the brink of giving up. I don't give up, because I can re-assert myself, but man, society has a way of getting you to doubt yourself, and it's frustrating.

Remember that line from VOY's "Blink of an Eye": "I doubt everything. Even my own doubts."

(I have no idea what that is supposed to mean, but it just sounds good. Much better than the abortive self-help novel, Rid Yourself Of Doubt: Or Should You? )

 

[Amaris]

As for myself, what often frustrates me is self-doubt. It's good not to be arrogant, but I used to have confidence in myself. Now, more often than not, I doubt myself, and who I am. I doubt my feelings, and my motives. I know who I am, and I know how I feel, but more and more often I just doubt myself to the brink of giving up. I don't give up, because I can re-assert myself, but man, society has a way of getting you to doubt yourself, and it's frustrating.

Remember that line from VOY's "Blink of an Eye": "I doubt everything. Even my own doubts."

(I have no idea what that is supposed to mean, but it just sounds good. Much better than the abortive self-help novel, Rid Yourself Of Doubt: Or Should You? )

I prefer Troy McClure's self help book from the Simpsons, "Get Confident, Stupid!"

 

[Kelthaz]

I'd rather play with the puzzle box from Hellraiser than do another one of these sliding block puzzles. Just looking at this image is going to give me nightmares tonight.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

I love them =) I have one of these sliding puzzles on my bedside table.
If you can't solve one, just send it to me

What I totally hate are bridge words, though (a game where you get 2 words and must find a third that fits behind the first and in front of the second).
Example: Tree.... Call (tree-trunk, trunk-call)

Somehow I never seem to find the right middle word. *sigh*


@ Joel Kirk: "Book of Ideas" sounds great It'd be a good series title, too. How about a joint venture with Australis since he has so many ideas?

*sigh* I have 2 stories on my desk which I started ages ago and haven't had time and energy yet to finish. I need to have had plenty of sleep to be inspired.
First I have a different project, though: I'm going to record an audio book =) : Roald Dahl's "George's Marvellous Medicine". (A colleague's granddaughter is blind and started to learn English. She's reading the book in braille but it helps to have the text as audio and just read along with it. LOL I dread the day she discovers Shakespeare. I don't think I'll give a good Falstaff)

 

[Random_Spock]

Also, I have another one: Anyone who steals a person's joy. Nothing frustrates me, or makes me angrier, than someone's joy being stolen. People who take pleasure in hurting another, whether physically, emotionally, or mentally. That burns me.

Me too. I really don't like it when people do that to others . It's really sick and sad to see others do that.

 

[Amaris]

Also, I have another one: Anyone who steals a person's joy. Nothing frustrates me, or makes me angrier, than someone's joy being stolen. People who take pleasure in hurting another, whether physically, emotionally, or mentally. That burns me.

Me too. I really don't like it when people do that to others . It's really sick and sad to see others do that.

I'd much rather lift people up than tear them down. I would imagine (and hope) that most people would be the same.

 

[Joel_Kirk]

I have the oppsite problem: too many ideas, no time to write them.

That said, an interesting esperiment to generate ideas is: pick up a newspaper, find two or three apparently unrelated stories, and relate them.

Man dies in fishin accident, car dissapears on country road.

Plane had to delay landing, political rally in a different city.

Physicists relase new model of the universe, new fossil discoivered.

You can see what I mean.

^ I feel your pain, sir. I have thousands of stories whirling through my mind, but not enough time to jot them down or build them into something greater.

As for myself, what often frustrates me is self-doubt. It's good not to be arrogant, but I used to have confidence in myself. Now, more often than not, I doubt myself, and who I am. I doubt my feelings, and my motives. I know who I am, and I know how I feel, but more and more often I just doubt myself to the brink of giving up. I don't give up, because I can re-assert myself, but man, society has a way of getting you to doubt yourself, and it's frustrating.

Also, I have another one: Anyone who steals a person's joy. Nothing frustrates me, or makes me angrier, than someone's joy being stolen. People who take pleasure in hurting another, whether physically, emotionally, or mentally. That burns me.

I love them =) I have one of these sliding puzzles on my bedside table.
If you can't solve one, just send it to me

What I totally hate are bridge words, though (a game where you get 2 words and must find a third that fits behind the first and in front of the second).
Example: Tree.... Call (tree-trunk, trunk-call)

Somehow I never seem to find the right middle word. *sigh*


@ Joel Kirk: "Book of Ideas" sounds great It'd be a good series title, too. How about a joint venture with Australis since he has so many ideas?

*sigh* I have 2 stories on my desk which I started ages ago and haven't had time and energy yet to finish. I need to have had plenty of sleep to be inspired.
First I have a different project, though: I'm going to record an audio book =) : Roald Dahl's "George's Marvellous Medicine". (A colleague's granddaughter is blind and started to learn English. She's reading the book in braille but it helps to have the text as audio and just read along with it. LOL I dread the day she discovers Shakespeare. I don't think I'll give a good Falstaff)

lol...no, no.

"Book of Ideas" is a collection of story ideas I want to do over time. Currently, its broken up into areas like "Documentaries" or "Comic Book Adaptations" or "TV Adaptations" and so forth.

Many of the ideas I can't really work on now because 1. I don't have the pull or the name to get certain projects off the ground. 2. My writing still needs work. 3. I'm a slow writer because I mull over the tightness and pace of the story. (I'm sure this is something that will come more natural and quick as I get things published or produced).

I've even started a little blurb for my tentative production company, JoelVisual, explaining the goals of said company; what I hope to accomplish. (I did one years ago - 1999 - when I was interning with a production company in Beverly Hills, Ca and my writing was in the very, very early stages. My 'ideas' were mostly remakes of movies). And while I still have tentative remakes I would like to do someday, there are a few original ideas I would like to work on as well.

With that said, I do think Australis should start his own "Book of Ideas." Those recurring ideas that continually pop up will probably be those ideas that need to be formulated into stories....

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Rainbow Dash,

It's difficult, but I feel much of society are 'sheep'...and to make it through each day...one has to persevere.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Much better than the abortive self-help novel, Rid Yourself Of Doubt: Or Should You? )

I prefer Troy McClure's self help book from the Simpsons, "Get Confident, Stupid!"

Or the Borg version: Calm, Cool & Collective

 

[Random_Spock]

Also, I have another one: Anyone who steals a person's joy. Nothing frustrates me, or makes me angrier, than someone's joy being stolen. People who take pleasure in hurting another, whether physically, emotionally, or mentally. That burns me.

Me too. I really don't like it when people do that to others . It's really sick and sad to see others do that.

I'd much rather lift people up than tear them down. I would imagine (and hope) that most people would be the same.

Yea. It's not worth getting anyone's stomach in knots. Only exception is when someone's being a compete jerk (I'd use a stronger word, but it's not worth it). Then they get what they're owed.

 

[Australis]

I kind of have a 'Book of Ideas'. Because said ideas flowed through my head in a coninual stream, I called the first one 'Notes From The Flowq'. It was just a little A7 kind of thing, mostly for song lyrics. When I filled it, I put it away and started NFTF 2 After about 6, I swapped to larger ones. The first 10 or so took me about three years to fill, and then, in a move... my wife threw them away. But I had swapped to A4/Foolscap size and taking a year each. The last one just finished last week, A4, 250 pages, was NFTF 24, took 3 years to fill, and has some really good ideas for scripts, novels, songs, poetry, a musical and a stage play, amongst other stuff. it's not just the basic ideas, sometimes I write the basic plot, to see it all hangs together as a story should, maybe throw in character notes, or other times it'll be stuff I found online that I werite down, to retain it. If I never had another original idea but could write full time tomorrow, I think I have enough to last me twenty years... if I write flat out every day. Given my age, I probably have more ideas than I can ever write.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I would probably never get over those books being thrown out

I never write anything by hand. Type everything, save everything online. It's nice to know a bushfire or someone else cleaning stuff can't destroy any of it.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

^except for the NSA, viruses, hackers and crackers, DOS-attacks, server hickups, physical damage to the server (it might even fall prey to a bushfire or cleaning stuff).
There is no 100% safe way of storing data, I'm afraid

 

[Australis]

I would probably never get over those books being thrown out

And I never have.

The only consolation is that the ideas I have now are infinitely better than what I had then. There may have been things worth keeping, but the stuff I come up with now is simply better, and that's the stuff I keep secure - notebooks in safe boxes, typed stuff in redundant backups plus CDs. Never again.

Oh, and I'm not that sure about the cloud. For many reasons, starting with a huge data outage/loss a month ago, plus an experience at a company I worked at. it has to be under my hand.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

^except for the NSA, viruses, hackers and crackers, DOS-attacks, server hickups, physical damage to the server (it might even fall prey to a bushfire or cleaning stuff).
There is no 100% safe way of storing data, I'm afraid

Sure there is: keep it in your brain!

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Store on an external drive that you keep in a safe or something equally "safe". Shouldn't be any online footprint there.

Australis should scan his work & save in such a way. Not just in case of anything getting thrown away, but in case of fire or other accidental loss.

I did this with a 100 year old book I bought that has references to ancestors of mine, though I really did so to make it a searchable PDF.

At least one company makes an affordable "book scanner".

 

[SPCTRE]

^except for the NSA, viruses, hackers and crackers, DOS-attacks, server hickups, physical damage to the server (it might even fall prey to a bushfire or cleaning stuff).
There is no 100% safe way of storing data, I'm afraid

Sure there is: keep it in your brain!

 

[Robert Maxwell]

^except for the NSA, viruses, hackers and crackers, DOS-attacks, server hickups, physical damage to the server (it might even fall prey to a bushfire or cleaning stuff).
There is no 100% safe way of storing data, I'm afraid

Sure there is: keep it in your brain!

We were right to exterminate the telepaths.

 

[Pingfah]

^except for the NSA, viruses, hackers and crackers, DOS-attacks, server hickups, physical damage to the server (it might even fall prey to a bushfire or cleaning stuff).
There is no 100% safe way of storing data, I'm afraid

Sure there is: keep it in your brain!

Great, as long as you are the only person who needs it. That pesky death virus can cause issues with brain storage, so I hear.