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BlndDog


A veritable suppository of knowledge on the accurate use of words

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  • 340 weeks
    Coming Up Next...

    So after a long time of relative inactivity, I'm now relatively back. My current plan is to finish Holy Land and Room to Grow in parallel. Both stories are more than halfway done, and especially with Holy Land I need to just get through it. That story did not come about naturally. I had conceived it as a huge 100,000 word+ story, but there's just no time for that anymore.

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  • 404 weeks
    BlndDog in the Big City

    I've been in Toronto for two weeks. Got a bachelor suite that I don't have to share, and it's great. Incredible, given the price. No suspicious stains in the bathtub, no brown stuff baked onto the stove, and there's so much shelf space in the kitchen. And food is cheap here.

    I didn't splurge on a memory foam mattress, so unfortunately I can't do this:

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  • 413 weeks
    The Move

    I've started selling off furniture, looking at plane tickets and sending housing inquiries. By the end of August I'll be in an unfurnished bachelor's flat in Toronto with a suitcase, two at most. It's definitely the biggest move I've had to do on my own. You can't take much when you're traveling by plane. It's going to be hectic and stressful and very exciting. In February I was in Toronto for 2

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  • 420 weeks
    1/4 way to 1000000

    With the new chapter of Holy Land, I have officially published over 250,000 words on this site. As a comparison, the OED contains entries for just 171,476 unique words in current use. I'm doing way better than those hacks at the dictionary factory!

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  • 436 weeks
    Fact or Fiction by The (late) Big Bad Borox, Revisited: Largely the same amount of grammatical problems, and the same story

    A few months is a long time. Long enough for Big Bad Borox to become Barnside, the hero of… barn sides, I guess. My personal head canon is that the current author is actually the adopted daughter or son of the original Big Bad Borox, who died as he lived, balls deep in a hog and firing two assault rifles into the air.

    Thank you Cards against Humanity and Mad Libs.

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Nov
24th
2014

Biceps, triceps and forceps · 6:10am Nov 24th, 2014

I have good news... ish.

After scrapping a few chapters, I've finally planned a satisfactory ending for my first story. Even better, I know just how long it'll take.

But now I have a job. A nice-paying job. A nice-paying lab job.

I'm about 1/3 through the first draft of Chapter 26, and for sure I'll have it up before exams. The end is coming. I swear. It'll be all ending-like and dramatic with epic cinematics and a cocktail bar or something.

This is the first time I've had any kind of readership for my writing, and it's been a great experience. Some things that I thought would be instant hits turned out to be critical failures, while other things that I didn't quite love were really well-received. It's great to get some feedback, I had a few good conversations, and overall it's been fun.

After OTLM ends, I'll finish up my other "long" stories and probably start a new one. I have a great idea.

And by great I mean something that literally no one asked for.

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When you said Triceps, I thought you meant Triceratops! :rainbowlaugh:

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