Listen… my entire personal life is fucked… but I have written over 2000 words without using the letter ‘i’ even once… does that count for anything…
This is… I mean. Incredible. But terrifying.
You’ve written over 2000 words with no ‘it’. No ‘ing’. Oh God, no ‘ing’.
You’re a force to be reckoned with.
No ‘it’, no ‘is’, no ‘-ing’, no ‘in’, no ‘I’. I’m on 2,700 words now, and I’m… not sure how I’ve managed to do this. Dialogue is proving the biggest challenge, unsurprisingly. Why did I do this to myself?
So this is going to be like 15-20k when it’s done… um
If I finish this, I will probably count it amongst my greatest achievements.
Op you’re the most powerful person on writeblr right now
That’s good to hear because I’ve lost all semblance of control with respect to every other facet of my life, but
I’m maybe a third of the way through now?? So that’s good???? And now I’m going to have a very relaxing bath??????
I probably have about another 14,000 words to go and honestly, when I hit 10k (the expected halfway point), I’m going to treat myself to writing 100 words of something else that has the dang letter ‘i’ in it
Nearly wept when I realised I couldn’t use the word ‘frantic’ earlier, but
7.5k is my next milestone, and it actually might happen tomorrow, which is unnerving. How should I celebrate??
Getting really bad impostor syndrome today and feeling 95% sure that I will never amount to a thing and will probably never finish this story, and so in response to that dumb brain thought I did this
Suck it, subconscious.
You are a force of nature and I am both impressed and terrified.
Please publish this somewhere when you a e done so we can read it holy shit
I absolutely will!! In other news I hit 10k today and that’s without a thesaurus and oh golly, my poor think-box
This author is a sleeping God among mortals
The Earth fears their awakening into their full powers
Full powers yet to be confirmed, but after a short hiatus, I have returned
When I get to 12k, I might do a very elaborate jig
I really hope the title of your story is “Team.”
Alas, as good a pun as that is, it would not really suit a story about Eurydice escaping her failing marriage to Orpheus by fleeing to the Underworld and becoming a powerful undead entity, but the name of it will be a sort of pun. Ish.
pasta, lasagna, and pizza were actually brought to Italy from China by Marco Polo during the 13th century but okay.
This armour is late 16th century. That gives my mother of Italian origin 3 centuries to develop her pasta in order for me to vomit it on myself. This meme is historically accurate.
Not to critique evolution, but I would think orange and black stripes wouldn’t be as good for camouflage in a forest as, say, green and black would.
It turns out a lot of animals can’t see the difference between orange and green! Elephants, for instance, have dichromatic vision (two types of cones, rather than three like most humans.)
Check out this diagram from ResearchGate. It deals with the color vision of horses, who are also generally dichromatic. (I think, though I’m not sure, that zebras would have the same color vision as horses.) See how orange and green look to them?
Not to critique evolution but I think prey animals should be better at telling when their predator is dressed like a traffic cone.
It doesn’t matter what zebras see, because tigers are not native to Africa and do not naturally hunt zebra. Tigers are Asian and mostly hunt animals like deer, elk, and buffalo. These aren’t animals with great color vision. They don’t need to have it because they don’t eat fruit and so don’t need to know when the berry is ripe vs when it’s not. Good color vision is too expensive to have if you don’t need it. Deer put their vision stats in a wide field of vision that is sensitive to motion, low light capabilities, and possibly seeing UV light. They don’t have great color and lack a lot of acuity, but have a great sense of smell and good hearing. That’s way more useful if you’re prey. Deer see well in the blue end of the color spectrum and less well in the red. This makes sense because deer are most active in the dawn and dusk periods, when there is more blue in the light. Tigers are taking advantage of deer eyesight by being orange.
We see tigers are being obviously colored because tigers are fruit colored to our tree ape brains.
I don’t know what the best part of this is: implying that deer chose their attributes on a character sheet, or the fact that we get to see tiger colors because they look like a snack.
apparently the whole range of human experience is loosely based on snacks
memeotional 