Jolly Rogers

[verlaine]

I don't want to jinx anything, but the writing is going moderately well. I have a short story that I think I will make it to the end of, and another couple brewing for later. I am a slow and indolent writer, and only managing to produce ~1000 words a day, but who cares, I have no NaNoWriMo-style end-of-month target, and at least this is

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[shewho]

actually those answers are all far to binary but i can't be bothered to explain because i'm off home and need feeding but imagine an explanation here

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kthxby

[verlaine]

I know, I know, but in my medium-long experience of these things, if you give intelligent, indecisive people more options than a brute binary, you just end up with a lot of votes for "it depends".

[mrlloyd]

Well said. Death to ambiguity.

[dracunculus]

Even though I clicked "no problem" for the intergenerational questions (certainly intergenerational friendships are struck up all the time) I *also* could see how in Juno the relationship read to the guy as flirtation, and to Juno as fatherly interest. I think that kind of wire-crossing also happens pretty frequently.

You should make a writing filter, but you should put me on it!

[absinthecity]

...not that I'd expect your writing to be anything other than first rate. I just know I wouldn't have time to read it.

[ravenblack]

It's not "they deserve it", it's "it'll stop them from doing it again".

If they were killing various of my friends for going around murdering their family for no reason, then I wouldn't kill said mass-murdering psychopath because that's fair enough and further would imply that they're not going to kill me or those of my friends who aren't themselves mass-murdering psychopaths.

Your binary would make me as bad as they are, and by the same criteria someone else would be justified in killing me for killing a number of mass-murdering psychopaths.

In other comments, that Silver Surfer fanfic is written dreadfully, but would make a pretty good computer game plot.

[strange_complex]

1000 words a day sounds pretty good to me! Glad to hear it's going along nicely, and hope the rate doesn't drop off catastrophically now that you have mentioned it on LJ. :-)