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  • Writing @lemmy.ml
    Christian @lemmy.ml

    Screenplay for ninety-second trailer of a Christmas-themed horror movie

    Hey all, this is my original work which I am very proud of. I worked very hard on this and would appreciate receiving praise and constructive criticism.

    screenplay:


    Open with a scene of a man alone chopping wood on a snowy day. He is large-bodied and looks visually menacing, it should be clear that he is the villian. He sings an eerie and discomforting tune: "Da Da Da Da Da Da Da"

    The next sixty or whatever seconds build up a horror movie featuring the aforementioned villain and a hero named John, a boy around 17 years old, as well as a couple friends around the same age who support him. A couple times cut back to the opening woodchopping "Da Da Da Da Da Da Da" scene.

    Nearing the end of the trailer, scene with John and his couple friends walking through the city on a snowy day. The townsfolk jeer and yell obscenities at them. John narrates: "Before the incident, we were treated just like anyone else. But now, whenever we go out, the people always shout."

    (word

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    o_o @programming.dev

    Mayflies

    cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/240893

    The crowd went silent when the human entered the bar. You didn’t see many of their kind here. He grumbled, uncomfortable for the attention, walked up to the counter and signaled for a mug.

    That’s when the whispers started. Mayfly. Young one. The walking dead. He was happy to down his ale.

    You see, this wasn’t your average bar. This was a speakeasy, one of the few scattered across the world where the elves and the dwarves shared a drink. Where the seraphim flirted with yokai, while fae fluttered from table to table. Where the orcs played chess at their own table, practically drowning themselves in ale. Where seldom a human showed his face.

    They aren’t rare, of course, humans. No, quite the opposite. They simply didn’t live long enough. Speakeasies are illegal, you see – no self respecting elf could be seen drinking with a dwarf, or dare I say, an orc – so they’re not exactly advertised. The humans who helped found

  • Writing @lemmy.ml
    Bluoltremauri @lemmy.ml

    Do you use specific software for writing?

    Apart from normal editors such as LibreOffice or Word, do you use programs specifically designed to keep track of the characters, places and chapters of your novels or stories? I have never felt the need. I have found OmniaWrite, for example, but I have not tried it yet. Does anyone use it or similar ones? Does it really help?

  • Writing @lemmy.ml
    mindaslab @lemmy.ml
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    Alixander Court @lemmy.ml

    Where does your writing live?

    Do you use something like #git to you house your writing locally? Is it all typed up with a typewriter, or is it all in loose leafs of paper?

  • Writing @lemmy.ml
    Ghvsty @lemmy.ml

    Human Error(s) at core, Bug fix alternative.(Issue)

    If a human was a machine, How I function is I'd [1]generate random text of information relating current and past events, or imaginary events (thoughts). Then [2]frequently dump them to RAM. [3]Append more information relating to it, and later on I would [4]move it to SWAP memory when I needed more RAM, then automatically through the [5]process of corrupting and removal of information that has not been accessed.

    This is some of the basic process framework, when every part of the brain function normally.

    It would be a useful tool for humans to have a logfile around the process [2] and [3]. You would have access to the initial data, commits, and the written file itself.

    So at stage [5] we wouldn't need to worry because we already stored a copy of the data loss.

    +++++ git issue (PersistentLogfile-diff-rc0.0-1) git::/git.com/ghvsty/Brain-Microchip-LogfileDump

    ::: spoiler DEFINITIONS:

    core= the brain without any extentions(external/internal devices, connectors, microchips).

    RAW (data)

  • Writing @lemmy.ml
    Katie Ampersand @sopuli.xyz

    A Hexagonal Slab Of Wood, by Cîang Raokji

    A Hexagonal Slab Of Wood is a book written by fictional Baishu player Raokji Cîang, in which he talks about how he came to know the game of Baishu after escaping from his town in Hrastaiqua, and how he came to see the magic in it while learning strategies to make the game interesting, and then to win the game competitively.

    I started writing this story after I showed the first version of Baishu to my friends and they liked it. I decided that I had to set it in a world of its own, where maybe it had some kind of importance in the societies in which it's present. It's not finished yet, but I hope it's a good read!

  • Writing @lemmy.ml
    qwerty_in_me @lemmy.ml

    My thoughts on an original Isekai novel

    As the weeb I am, I read a lot of manga and light novels, more speciffically; Isekai [other world]

    Many of them seem to be very similar in plot: I died got reincanated/was summoned to another world, then s#!t went down and now I'm OP.

    I want to rectify this by suggesting an alternative plot; a mage/sorcerer is mocking about with/researching spacial distortion magic and tears the spacetime continuum/teleports geting isekai'd to modern day giving way to two bossibilities:

    1. a slice of life as the mage is adjusting to modern day life or
    2. an Epic about how a man was researching sorcery and is now trying to incorporate science into his research advancing lightyears ahead and subsequently becoming a demiurge
  • Writing @lemmy.ml
    Christian @lemmy.ml

    My screenplay idea for a horror movie titled “John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt”

    Synopsis: Our hero John ventures into an attic, where he finds a dusty old photo of the villain. “Oh my god”, John exclaims. “His name is my name too.”

  • Writing @lemmy.ml
    copacetic @lemmy.ml
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    copacetic @lemmy.ml

    Roald Dahl on His 7 Tips For Writers