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ForaBrokenEarth wrote:
boomlinde wrote:

I collect money from patent violators on behalf of owners of vague patents.

Literally patent hitler.

professional npr listener.  Actually im a cook, its actually a pretty good skill to have.  The years of burns i could do without but my fingers have at least a d-6's worth of fire damage negation now.

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someone hire me

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my aspirations include mundane repetitive tasks with low payment i'm not even joking that is what i want to do

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Canada
DJCactus wrote:
ForaBrokenEarth wrote:

Literally patent hitler.

professional npr listener.  Actually im a cook, its actually a pretty good skill to have.  The years of burns i could do without but my fingers have at least a d-6's worth of fire damage negation now.

badass.

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Sweden
ForaBrokenEarth wrote:
boomlinde wrote:

I collect money from patent violators on behalf of owners of vague patents.

Literally patent hitler.

You are literally misusing the word "Literally".

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Toronto, Canada

Literally grammar hitler?

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matt's mind

figuratively

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Brunswick, GA USA

The best way I saw it explained is, if you literally kill someone then you are a murderer. Um... Literally.

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Sweden
rainwarrior wrote:

Literally grammar hitler?

You are literally misusing the word "grammar".

EDIT: ... in addition to literally misusing the word "literally"

Last edited by boomlinde (Aug 5, 2013 9:36 am)

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Clermont-Ferrand, France

I'm a dentist. For real.

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Berlin

Running a software company in Berlin that is specialized in the media & entertainment market. smile

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UK

I write a bit of software and make parts for hobby robot stuff.

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Madison, Alabama

This thread is more interesting than past "job/major" threads.

I have an MFA in Fiction Writing, hahahahaha.

I got a job as a technical writer (I write marketing material, proposals, press releases, the occasional instructional document, website text, etc.)

The downside to writing for a living is that I don't write for pleasure anymore.  I write crap all day and usually have little interest in writing when I get home.  After grad school I turned to music as my creative outlet instead.  I've done NaNoWriMo for shiggles but I used to really like writing short stories.  I am creatively satisfied by my music projects, though!

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Canada

Have you ever tried to turn your short stories into concept albums?
This is a great practice... working on the album helps your story progress naturally, and visa versa! A lot is revealed as you try to relate music to your plots/story's emotions.

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Jansaw wrote:

Have you ever tried to turn your short stories into concept albums?
This is a great practice... working on the album helps your story progress naturally, and visa versa! A lot is revealed as you try to relate music to your plots/story's emotions.

Hey!  That's a really cool idea.  I'm going to have to try that.

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Canada

Ya!
If you've got the open mind, the two forms just write each other, haha.