Back-click triggers

[Guest]

It's like the Dalai Lama passing down through the generations. I think we have identified the latest incarnation of Durt Gurl!

Kass: <laughs unroariously>

The Earl

Be afraid.

Be very afraid.

 

[SeaCat]

You shall stand there smirking as I am led out to be shot at dawn for the offenses listed above.

Oh well at least I'm having fun writing.

Cat

(He who is most likely guilty of all of the above on at least one occasion.)

 

[Kassiana]

Rgraham:
Stop! I'll talk! No more!

Ah...the words I've been waiting to hear, so that I can return to writing proper English.

SSS:
Is this the return of Durt Girl?

Who is this "durt girl" of whom you speak?

TE:
It's like the Dalai Lama passing down through the generations. I think we have identified the latest incarnation of Durt Gurl!

Kass: <laughs unroariously>

Who is this "Dalai Lama" of whom you speak?

I've written my share of Mary Sue parodies, but this is my first attempt at a bad porn story. Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all week. Please be sure to tip your strippers.

SSS:
Be afraid.

Be very afraid.

No! Trust The Computer! The Computer is your friend! /end Paranoia reference

 

[dr_mabeuse]

You shall stand there smirking as I am led out to be shot at dawn for the offenses listed above.

Oh well at least I'm having fun writing.

Cat

(He who is most likely guilty of all of the above on at least one occasion.)

What's bad about these things is not that they exist, but that they usually indicate a lazy writer phoning it in. That why these are "triggers" - their presence usually indicates a bad story ahead. They're symptoms. Just like a high fever and enlarged lumps in the armpit and groin mean you've probably got the Black Death, numerical measurements during a mirror scene in a second-person story probably mean you're looking at a cheesy piece of writing.

Personally, I'll use the quote opening and the mirror scene and all the rest when I need them, but I'll try to bring some freshness to them. I'll be aware that I'm dealing with dangerous chiche's and use proper protective equipment.

 

[The_Darkness]

What's bad about these things is not that they exist, but that they usually indicate a lazy writer phoning it in. That why these are "triggers" - their presence usually indicates a bad story ahead. They're symptoms. Just like a high fever and enlarged lumps in the armpit and groin mean you've probably got the Black Death, numerical measurements during a mirror scene in a second-person story probably mean you're looking at a cheesy piece of writing.

Personally, I'll use the quote opening and the mirror scene and all the rest when I need them, but I'll try to bring some freshness to them. I'll be aware that I'm dealing with dangerous chiche's and use proper protective equipment.

Like rubber gloves and a flame thrower.

 

[TheEarl]

Who is this "durt girl" of whom you speak?

There once lived a girl in California, whose name was MathGirl. A favourite of the board and a good laugh. Unfortunately she disappeared into the ether about a year and a half ago and hasn't been heard from since. I know Pear tried to get in contact with her (as they were good friends), but haven't heard a peep. Sorely missed.

She had an alt, called DurtGurl, who wrote excruciatingly bad porn: http://english.literotica.com/stories/memberpage.php?uid=209212

Durtgurl was the inventor of the greatest one line story ever, "I kikced down the dor and camed in her fase."

The Earl

 

[The_Darkness]

There once lived a girl in California, whose name was MathGirl. A favourite of the board and a good laugh. Unfortunately she disappeared into the ether about a year and a half ago and hasn't been heard from since. I know Pear tried to get in contact with her (as they were good friends), but haven't heard a peep. Sorely missed.

She had an alt, called DurtGurl, who wrote excruciatingly bad porn: http://english.literotica.com/stories/memberpage.php?uid=209212

Durtgurl was the inventor of the greatest one line story ever, "I kikced down the dor and camed in her fase."

The Earl

LOL

I miss the Math Girl. I thought she posted last December here and there, though....I could be wrong....besides, it's not all that uncommon for some of us to drop off the face of the Earth and into the Æther.....

 

[TheEarl]

LOL

I miss the Math Girl. I thought she posted last December here and there, though....I could be wrong....besides, it's not all that uncommon for some of us to drop off the face of the Earth and into the Æther.....

Nope. She hasn't posted at all since her disappearance. If she had then Pear would have known about it and so I would've known about it. Makes me worry that something happened to her, as she was very good friends with several people on the board and I can't imagine her not even giving them a goodbye.

My best friend has been instructed to tell my friends on here should something happen to me; I have no wish to just disappear.

Impressed with the dipthong by the way. I would've been lazy and just written ether.

The Earl

 

[The_Darkness]

Nope. She hasn't posted at all since her disappearance. If she had then Pear would have known about it and so I would've known about it. Makes me worry that something happened to her, as she was very good friends with several people on the board and I can't imagine her not even giving them a goodbye.

My best friend has been instructed to tell my friends on here should something happen to me; I have no wish to just disappear.

Impressed with the dipthong by the way. I would've been lazy and just written ether.

The Earl

So true about the responce to a reappearance....my bad....stupid sleep deprivation.

The Æ character is more or less ingrained in me. One of my side projects is inventing a role-playing game (with dice and a table folks, not with costumes and a bed) called Æther. Type one of those damn things a few thousand times over two years and it's damn near second nature....

 

[Guest]

Nope. She hasn't posted at all since her disappearance. If she had then Pear would have known about it and so I would've known about it. Makes me worry that something happened to her, as she was very good friends with several people on the board and I can't imagine her not even giving them a goodbye.

The Earl

I've wondered about that, too.

I've always just assumed that the AH wasn't smart enough to keep her attention for long. Brilliant girl, our Maths.

(My favorite AV was her big-butt baby.)

 

[SeaCat]

What's bad about these things is not that they exist, but that they usually indicate a lazy writer phoning it in. That why these are "triggers" - their presence usually indicates a bad story ahead. They're symptoms. Just like a high fever and enlarged lumps in the armpit and groin mean you've probably got the Black Death, numerical measurements during a mirror scene in a second-person story probably mean you're looking at a cheesy piece of writing.

Personally, I'll use the quote opening and the mirror scene and all the rest when I need them, but I'll try to bring some freshness to them. I'll be aware that I'm dealing with dangerous chiche's and use proper protective equipment.

Bad attepmt at humor I know doc, but what I was trying to say is we are all guilty of using these things from time to time. What the hell even the best authors have used them or their equivalents.

How I write is determined by the story I am wirting. If I am writing some hand slicking story then it will probably be about as bad as you can find. It will most likely have every bad cliche known, and I will probably have used them wrong. (Hell I've done this on one story just to see the reaction it provoked. Not much of one as it turned out, although Annon did seem to like it.)

If I am sitting down to write a story with a reason or message behind it then I spend a lot more time working on it. I then try to avoid the most obviouse pitfalls, unless I feel they are needed for some reason in the story. (In "Watching" I did spend some time describing the woman because how she looked and how the main character viewed her was the main point of the story. I did however avoid the numbers.)

Can we avoid these "triggers" and should we? I think we can avoid them at times, and should at times. The usage of them, at least from my point of view, is driven by the story and it's characters not by us as authors.

Cat

Yes I know my argument is seemingly simplistic, then again that's how so many people view things and people until they look closer.

 

[CrimsonMaiden]

There was a post sometime after Mathgirl's first disappearance about a hospital stay. But I don't think anything was posted after that.