Give me something to write about

[Zanick]

I've had too much coffee and I need inspiration to write something and make my day off meaningful, but my problem right now is that you're all just marginally more interesting than reddit's writing prompts sub. Tell me something personal and thought provoking that I can write about! Feel free to do so via PM, if you wish. If it catches my attention I'll make a lengthy writeup.

[Bart the General]

write about how the meritocratic and capitalist society we live in allowed your musician father to not be starving on the streets and instead raise a family in modest comfort, passing on the creative traits he was allowed to foster by not having to work in a coal mine all day and blow on a jug of XXX whiskey at night around a burning gasoline can that he cooked the possum he killed with a pickaxe earlier that day on

[Zanick]

write about how the meritocratic and capitalist society we live in allowed your musician father to not be starving on the streets and instead raise a family in modest comfort, passing on the creative traits he was allowed to foster by not having to work in a coal mine all day and blow on a jug of XXX whiskey at night around a burning gasoline can that he cooked the possum he killed with a pickaxe earlier that day on

That's certainly deep and very personal, but I'm a little too close to the subject for right now. That shit's all fucked up and that's like, novel material. I'm thinking something more short-story material.

EDIT: Fuck, now I'm thinking about my life in the big picture. Fuck you man. Would thank if thanks be had.

[mojo4567]

write a story about how a drug cartel accidently spilled 5 gallons of LSD into the main water supply for all of mexico

[-SpectraL]

Write about how the Zoklet staff conspired to kill off the Zoklet member base one member at a time. That should be good for at least a dozen paragraphs.

[Bart the General]

write about how the meritocratic and capitalist society we live in allowed your musician father to not be starving on the streets and instead raise a family in modest comfort, passing on the creative traits he was allowed to foster by not having to work in a coal mine all day and blow on a jug of XXX whiskey at night around a burning gasoline can that he cooked the possum he killed with a pickaxe earlier that day on

That's certainly deep and very personal, but I'm a little too close to the subject for right now. That shit's all fucked up and that's like, novel material. I'm thinking something more short-story material.

EDIT: Fuck, now I'm thinking about my life in the big picture. Fuck you man. Would thank if thanks be had.

Ok, write about lamps instead

[Bart the General]

Write about how derivative and self referential pop culture is these days and how the term "meta" can be used both creatively and destructively within this context

[Zanick]

write a story about how a drug cartel accidently spilled 5 gallons of LSD into the main water supply for all of mexico

That's exciting enough, but I don't feel it, you know?

write about how the meritocratic and capitalist society we live in allowed your musician father to not be starving on the streets and instead raise a family in modest comfort, passing on the creative traits he was allowed to foster by not having to work in a coal mine all day and blow on a jug of XXX whiskey at night around a burning gasoline can that he cooked the possum he killed with a pickaxe earlier that day on

That's certainly deep and very personal, but I'm a little too close to the subject for right now. That shit's all fucked up and that's like, novel material. I'm thinking something more short-story material.

EDIT: Fuck, now I'm thinking about my life in the big picture. Fuck you man. Would thank if thanks be had.

Ok, write about lamps instead

I'll see what I can do.

Write about how the Zoklet staff conspired to kill off the Zoklet member base one member at a time. That should be good for at least a dozen paragraphs.

You've got it covered, honey. I wouldn't want to step on your toes.

Write about how derivative and self referential pop culture is these days and how the term "meta" can be used both creatively and destructively within this context

To be honest, I never really cared for the term. It's annoying when used casually, I suppose. That's more of an essay topic, one that I'm not so attached to.

[-SpectraL]

You were much closer to the monster, though, Zanick. I think you should be the one to write the book on it.

[Zanick]

You were much closer to the monster, though, Zanick. I think you should be the one to write the book on it.

Surely this is a groundbreaking endeavor, I just don't think I have the skill to write the first nonfiction narrative set entirely in cyberspace. I'll tell you what, if you want to PM me and pick my brain, I'll answer any questions you have for your book research. Full disclosure.

[Bart the General]

It has nothing to really do about the term "meta" it's being used in its literal dictionary sense here, it's more about how "the medium is the message" has been getting louder at an exponential rate, exacerbated by "social media," namely people without creative attributes who gauge everything according to previous things they've seen.

A good reference point is scripted, fake "reality" shows that blur the lines of reality and make me feel like I'm on acid.. "Reality show characters" and whatnot. Is "the medium is the message" no longer important or has it effaced itself in such a way where its encompassing and allowing "reality" to be dictated within the confines of the medium which are extrapolated onto the real world by people who don't know the difference between the two. Pros and cons of fact/fiction blurring in pop culture when some things are still trying to be on one clear side of the medium etc.

 I know you're not interested in it but I thought I'd clarfiy

Write a story about New Guinean cannibal tribes who become eco terrorists because of foreign investment in their mudforest and try to blow up an oil refinery and carry the executives back to the jungle to get eaten

[Zanick]

It has nothing to really do about the term "meta" it's being used in its literal dictionary sense here, it's more about how "the medium is the message" has been getting louder at an exponential rate, exacerbated by "social media," namely people without creative attributes who gauge everything according to previous things they've seen.

A good reference point is scripted, fake "reality" shows that blur the lines of reality and make me feel like I'm on acid.. "Reality show characters" and whatnot. Is "the medium is the message" no longer important or has it effaced itself in such a way where its encompassing and allowing "reality" to be dictated within the confines of the medium which are extrapolated onto the real world by people who don't know the difference between the two. Pros and cons of fact/fiction blurring in pop culture when some things are still trying to be on one clear side of the medium etc.

 I know you're not interested in it but I thought I'd clarfiy

I haven't heard McLuhan mentioned in the &T community in some time. You remind me of someone from there, but your username isn't familiar.

I think some people would call it 'life imitating art imitating life, etc.' which is fine and good--it worked for centuries past--it's just becoming too circular. Youth today are as needy and gullible as yesterday, but a new trend of distrust for its previous generations has created a vacuum, filled by anything and everything they encounter in the media storm that inevitably accompanies technological advances of modern times. It's a perfect and hospitable environment for any virus to take root, making pop culture a machine, mass producing turds in an exploitative system of 'values for the simpleton'. They appeal to the lowest common denominator, and millions of would-be betters end up reaching for the low hanging fruit. It's a grading curve, conventionalizing stupidity and scaling back society as a whole. People think the problem is our politics, but it's been seeded so much deeper in the woodwork for decades now. The next generation will be drooling retard babies, everybody will ask why and nobody will remember the reason.

Write a story about New Guinean cannibal tribes who become eco terrorists because of foreign investment in their mudforest and try to blow up an oil refinery and carry the executives back to the jungle to get eaten

I like this one better, let me sit on it for a few hours and something will come to me.

[RisiR]

I've had too much coffee and I need inspiration to write something and make my day off meaningful, but my problem right now is that you're all just marginally more interesting than reddit's writing prompts sub. Tell me something personal and thought provoking that I can write about! Feel free to do so via PM, if you wish. If it catches my attention I'll make a lengthy writeup.

Stop being a cocky faggot because you drank a cup of coffee, how about you write about that?

[Zanick]

Stop being a cocky faggot because you drank a cup of coffee, how about you write about that?

Or you could just answer the question, faggot nigger kyke.

[Bart the General]

I think some people would call it 'life imitating art imitating life, etc.' which is fine and good--it worked for centuries past--it's just becoming too circular. Youth today are as needy and gullible as yesterday, but a new trend of distrust for its previous generations has created a vacuum, filled by anything and everything they encounter in the media storm that inevitably accompanies technological advances of modern times. It's a perfect and hospitable environment for any virus to take root, making pop culture a machine, mass producing turds in an exploitative system of 'values for the simpleton'. They appeal to the lowest common denominator, and millions of would-be betters end up reaching for the low hanging fruit. It's a grading curve, conventionalizing stupidity and scaling back society as a whole. People think the problem is our politics, but it's been seeded so much deeper in the woodwork for decades now. The next generation will be drooling retard babies, everybody will ask why and nobody will remember the reason.

That's an interesting but cynical take, part of the "gen X/Douglas Coupland/lego" thing was about derivative culture being re-appropriated with a staunch distrust of everything that came before it. Cynicism, sighing a lot, being nostalgic for things that didn't even really happen etc. That right there brought some innovatively derivative things to the cultural forefront, "grunge", Beavis and Butthead, Tarentino etc. in the big cultural 3.

Something I REALLY hate is transforming aspects of culture into new mediums. Fucking hate it. The example that comes to mind is the comic book "Preacher" which could be the greatest and most innovative comic of all time, definitely transcending the medium etc. and now Seth Rogan decides he's into it and is going to try to write a script for it as a TV show that's "true to the original." I can't think of one good reason for doing this. It's trying to bring something great into the mass consciousness but it's a hackneyed, inorganic way of doing so. Let good things remain good things and don't mix mediums ffs. I dunno, that's kinda off topic.

 "Lowest common denominator" is a phrase that's used a lot in reference to TV but its for good reason. I'd say that "status quo" is a better term for describing the appeal to mediocrity and how "everything is alright, everything is automatic" matt good style if you know what I mean. Of course TV presents an image of the world that's less than accurate but it seems particularly disingenuous to masquerade it as "reality" when it obviously isn't and nobody has a problem with this because it's displaying the same qualities as the "fictional" tv programs so they end up equating reality with reality TV and fake Reality tv with Reality, eventually fakeness with reality. Who was it who said "in the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes?" imagine how surreal that would be if everyones 15 minutes of fame revolved around the blurred line between what's real and what's fake, not actually being able to tell the difference once the 15 minutes are over. That 15 minutes of fakeness is now engrained in everyone and everybody is acutely aware of it and as a result, the collective consciousness strays further and further from what's Real and what's "real."

I think a "libertarian" culture is the answer. Allow people to say "fuck" ,full penetration and livestream terrorist beheadings etc. Making people acutely aware of the good and bad things in the world will raise the amount of knowledge people have on the subject and open doors that aren't opened yet. I was listening to an interview with Wanda fucking Sykes on the radio the other day and the interviewer kept bringing up how she was the first black gay woman to do X, Y and Z and I almost punched my car. Thanks for pointing out this should be weird you status quo representative, I hope you get replaced by a machine that calculates what should be edgy at any given time. Nice job referencing non existent boundaries that not even Wanda Sykes gives a fuck about pushing because she's an artist, not a cultural watchdog. Ugh, I could go on, my methylphenidate wore off a little bit ago so I'm kinda rambling and incoherent, sry, don't even read