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Roy Steves
Roy Steves
San Leandro, CA
Member since: Aug, 2008
Last login: 05/25/2009
Last update : 05/20/2009
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  • Catchup time?

    November 18, 2008

    • Oh my.  I had some things come up, and took a couple days off from writing.  Apparently a couple days ballooned into a week before I noticed!  I'm sitting at about 15,000 words, which is only about a fifth of where I should be?  How could this have happened?  What ever will I do? Well, the good news is that I'm not out of the running yet.  I got those first 15k done in about eight days. ...
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  • Archetype or Stereotype?

    November 7, 2008

    • I needed another character.Worse than Diana Troy? Could be.The narrator and the protagonist were getting boring, like two guys locked in a space ship for days on end might tend to do. I was considering a female or a robot. Or maybe a female robot. The theory being that I needed something other than just another guy. The narrator was good enough to fill that generic male role. A writer ...
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  • Action scenes

    November 6, 2008

    • I write slower than I read. Sometimes I forget that. No, I don't have cyborg gorillas fighting robots... but I really should. After getting to 8600 words (still more or less on track) in my NaNoWriMo novel, I've had a couple situations where I was trying to capture an action scene that was going on in my head. I'd be typing and typing, and feeling like I was going too slow, my description was ...
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  • Politics and Friends

    November 5, 2008

    • Sadly, I won $20 last night.Let me provide some background.  While back in my hometown over the weekend for a birthday party, I was arguing with a friend of mine about the attitudes of people on either side of Prop 8.  His view was that Prop 8 detractors needed to calm down and approach the issue with civility.  Apparently, around there, they were the more likely to be flipping off their ...
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  • 7500 Words in...

    November 4, 2008

    • NaNoWriMo: Enter the Protagonist Day 4: Last night I made it to 7500 words. I'm more or less on track. The characters are interesting, the short-term plot arc is forming, and I haven't had to use too many sci-fi crutches. One of the major things I'm struggling with is keeping things back. I've put all this effort into the backstory of one of these characters, and if I lay it all out on the ...
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  • awesome

    Nice, I got 502 words in 9 minutes.  My target was 500 in 10 minutes, and very nearly jumped out of my skin when I passed the 500 mark.

  • Love's Labour's Found.

    Except it was sucked into another dimension along with an army of witches as Shakespeare banished them with his masterful prose!

    ...I watch too much Doctor Who, don't I?

  • despite my deep hatred of

    despite my deep hatred of the majority of silly internet memes... there's something fundamentally amusing about anthropomorphized kitties.

    My name is Roy, and I like LOLcats...

  • Just so crazy...

    I'm particularly irritated by the "homosexuality must be contagious" unstated premise.

  • First for a reason

    I grew up in north Idaho, an area only really known to the nation for fairly regular Arian Nations marches in Coeur d' Alene, and their "compound" near Hayden Lake.

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