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[Bella]

Stupid frickin' router keeping me from getting birthday songs. ><;;;

I was born in January, so that means I was conceived in...March? </TMI> Funny, I know a ton of January and February babies...

[Pitkin]

march 10th :3

i know WAAAAY too many people with march birthdays. .__.;

You're the fifth person to be born in the same week in March, and second I know to be born on the 10th. x)

Coincidentally, I was born in December, nine months after the latest championship of the family favourite ice-hockey team in 1985. :/ I'm not sure if I want to think about it any further.

[Chocofreak13]

off the top of my head, i can name 12 birthdays and a wedding anniversary. :\ 2 sets of those birthdays are shared, 7 are before or on the 10th, and 5 of the people on the list we don't talk to anymore, either due to losing touch or death.

included is an ex boyfriend of mine, who's 5 days older than me. xD

[Dr. Kraus]

Pushing my computer to its limit right now.

CPU Usage between 20% and 55% (keeps jumping right now)
Memory Usage at 6.33GB solid

Programs running:
VB running Windows Server 2008 R2 Workstation with 4GB of RAM dedicated
Google Chrome
Foobar2000
Rainmeter (doesn't really intensify anything though)
Thinking of running PS CS5x64 but not going to try that right now.

I love having 8GB of RAM and a Quad-Core

[Red-Machine]

I'm currently 2gigging it, because one of my sticks died and I had to send it in for RMA.  My games still run fine!

[Dr. Kraus]

Newest setup which is going to be like this for a while until I build or buy a larger desk

Bottom left computer- Gateway LX
Bottom right computer- Dell PowerEdge 600SC Server
Top computer- eMachine ET 1161-03

the Gateway is my main while the other two serve as servers and training computers
Gateway runs Win7
Dell runs Win2KAdvancedServer
eMachine will be running WinServer2008R2

Getting crazy around here!

[Chocofreak13]

;___; you have what i always wanted.....

[Bella]

Ever write an entire chapter and then get stuck between two endings, neither of which work,  so you try to combine them into one ending, but it doesn't seem right and THEN you relise the only sane course of action is giving up and rewriting the whole damned thing?

URGH. WRITING. IT MAKES MY BRAIN HURT.

[NejinOniwa]

Brofist, broyah. I feel that shit. ;_;

[Chocofreak13]

this is why i pull all my comic plots out of my ass as i go along. .___.;

[NejinOniwa]

But you miss out on the I FINALLY FINISHED THIS THING JUST AS FUCKING PLANNED feeling. It's epic, I tell you. Epic worth it.

Speaking of which, I just translated the first chapter of my book...anyone want?

[Chocofreak13]

poast toast ^^

and i tried writing a plot beforehand once.....it turned into 13 pages of HOMIGODI'MNOTGONNAFINISHTHIS

;___;

[Krizonar]

I love having 8GB of RAM

Amen

[NejinOniwa]

poast toast ^^

and i tried writing a plot beforehand once.....it turned into 13 pages of HOMIGODI'MNOTGONNAFINISHTHIS

;___;

Will do, then.

And planning your plot is absolutely essential to your writage - what is important, however, is to do it in little bits and pieces.
When I storyboard, I normally just pop up a .txt and write down short little things about the important stuff, chapter by chapter. It doesn't necessarily have to turn out that way, but at least you have a clear viewpoint from which you can start changing things later on. For example, the initial storyboard of the first part of Mertvaya Ruka (up to ch6 since I assume you've all read this far by now, but whitetext'd to prevent spoilers):
ch1 - Enter the Dead Hand: Ruka ascends from the bunker, receives mission (and clothing).
ch2 - Hands-on approach: Sitrep, Ruka exits facility, receives equipment, crosses border into Finland and meets Linux-tan on the train to Helsinki. Takes on the cover name of "Реактор универсальной компьютера альфа", a nuclear reactor safety system, acronymed RUKA with some handy improvisation from her part.
ch3 - Raised Hand: Ruka and Linux in Helsinki, discussion on Torvalds, phone call from Git calling Linux back to Boston.
ch4 - Hand-me-down: Arrival in Boston, Ruka jetlags. Encounter with Git, Ruka uses Aftermath, explanation works.
ch5 - Crouching Player, Hidden Hand: Ruka leaves the W3C compound to join up with Linux, and is unkowingly stalked by Leopard-tan who jumps forward in time in an attempt to inform Unix of coming events before returning and continuing her surveillance. Ruka arrives just as the meeting between Linux, rms and Mister Bee concludes, with Bee staying behind while the others leave. Curious, Leopard confronts him, and is firmly disabled and relieved of the Device before she is KO:ed.

ch6 - Deadly Decadence: Ruka and Linux, during a visit to a downtown café, barely escape assassination by the hands of Colossus Mk2. They flee towards the harbor and hide from their enemy aboard a seemingly abandoned craft; however, it is revealed to be the DECade, VMS-tan's home ship, and the two are taken into custody as the ship leaves shore.

Keep in mind that there are small discrepancies between what actually happened and what's in plotmap - these are changes that I make on-the-fly and don't bother changing in the main map. If I do, however, feel like I need some more detail, I usually do a scene-by-scene map for a single chapter, like so (chapter 6, here, whitetext'd for your non-spoiling pleasure):
1: Ruka meets up with Linux. Explains about rms, Linux uneasy about being in CSAIL ("Like the air is alive"),
2: Jump to café scene, smalltalk on state of the world kinda stuff, Colossus approaching.
3: Colossus gunning, Ruka shielding Linux who's too surprised to react, Linux opens a closed space.
4: Ruka and Linux flees through the CS, pauses to rest, Colossus breaks through, Linux grip-crushed by Colossus' COLOSSUSMARKII-size hand, disintegrates CS
5: Touchdown at shipyard, Ruka carrying Linux to "that old warship", down to the harbor, hiding on the DECade.
6: Jump to VMS-tan, DECade departure, finds "stowaways" in hold. CLIFFHANGER END~
Even here on this level, we have discrepancies, but the general direction of the main plotmap and the chapter scenemap holds true throughout the chapter itself. What I usually get stuck on are the "bridges" - the events that build up for the main focus of the chapter from which things evolve (this was the reason I had to delay chapter 5 almost a month), rather than the endings - then again chapter endings are "bridges" between the chapters themselves, so it's understandable if you get into tight spots there as well.

TL;DR, the easiest solution is usually to create focal points - the harder a piece is to write, the more of them you need, and vice versa. Whether it's a long freestyle run or merely a connect-the-dots between plot points, it's up to you to decide your style; as long as you don't forget to cater to your readers. -w-

[zjhentohlauedy]

March 10 huh D:

in case i forget happy birthday choco *_*