How do you break ?

[ajetrumpet]

if i do too much of this crap work, I get angry that I'm alone for too long and I don't get to talk to anyone. how does everyone else cope with this type of work? i'm about ready to give it to the birds. it is not for me, and I do not enjoy it. anyone else share the feeling ?

 

[georgedwilkinson]

No. You just described why I like it.

 

[Thales750]

I never stop. In my spare time (from when I get home till I go to bed, plus all weekend) for now I'm designing an autonomous underwater vehicle.

Copyright © 2010 Clear Lake Oceanographic

 

[georgedwilkinson]

Do you have a prototype? Can I come by and see?

 

[Thales750]

Do you have a prototype? Can I come by and see?

I live in Virginia.
We are constructing the prototype this spring.

 

[ChrisO]

“Copyright © 2010 Clear Lake Oceanographic”

We are designing a red lead sinker but need to wait till spring for the ice to melt so it can sink.

 

[Thales750]

“Copyright © 2010 Clear Lake Oceanographic”

We are designing a red lead sinker but need to wait till spring for the ice to melt so it can sink.

That would be funny, if it were actually funny.

By the way, sinkers are shaped the way they are for a reason.

 

[Fifty2One]

Everyone needs their own time to there self to do what they enjoy and not just work they like, if there is too much time invested in making a living then it will become crap work. I live where I find is my paradise, in the peace and serenity of nature on a farm, and when I need to persue things other then work and toil I play with engines and mechanics.
Maybe it is time to take a break and do what you want to be doing, it is not selfish but rather can be selfless as it will bring you closer to being perfect you. You can not output 100% if you yourself is not up to that par.

if i do too much of this crap work, I get angry that I'm alone for too long and I don't get to talk to anyone. how does everyone else cope with this type of work? i'm about ready to give it to the birds. it is not for me, and I do not enjoy it. anyone else share the feeling ?

 

[Fifty2One]

WOW! That is impressive!

I never stop. In my spare time (from when I get home till I go to bed, plus all weekend) for now I'm designing an autonomous underwater vehicle.

 

[Thales750]

WOW! That is impressive!

Thank you sir,

If anyone wants to be on the list of interested parties, please PM with your email and I'll put you on the list

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Adam, my pet off-work project is also computer related. For reasons too long to delve into at the moment, I am a hobbyist writer of fantasy and science fiction.

Since I work for the US Government by day writing program documents and work on my own at night writing fiction, I don't have to be retrained during the transitions.

Serioiusly, I understand. You want to do something that either quiets your mind or lets it fly elsewhere. I've been doing this since the mid-1980s. I've got five full-length fantasy novels ready to go (but sadly, no buyers yet...) and two sci-fi novels in work.

Unfortunately, I can't tell you HOW to find the activity that you need. I absolutely understand - and agree with - the need to tend to your mental health, though. Good luck, my friend, at finding your own path to Nirvana.

 

[Thales750]

Adam, my pet off-work project is also computer related. For reasons too long to delve into at the moment, I am a hobbyist writer of fantasy and science fiction.

Since I work for the US Government by day writing program documents and work on my own at night writing fiction, I don't have to be retrained during the transitions.

Serioiusly, I understand. You want to do something that either quiets your mind or lets it fly elsewhere. I've been doing this since the mid-1980s. I've got five full-length fantasy novels ready to go (but sadly, no buyers yet...) and two sci-fi novels in work.

Unfortunately, I can't tell you HOW to find the activity that you need. I absolutely understand - and agree with - the need to tend to your mental health, though. Good luck, my friend, at finding your own path to Nirvana.

I would love to read one of your novels

 

[georgedwilkinson]

Me too......

 

[Kryst51]

Adam, my pet off-work project is also computer related. For reasons too long to delve into at the moment, I am a hobbyist writer of fantasy and science fiction.

Since I work for the US Government by day writing program documents and work on my own at night writing fiction, I don't have to be retrained during the transitions.

Serioiusly, I understand. You want to do something that either quiets your mind or lets it fly elsewhere. I've been doing this since the mid-1980s. I've got five full-length fantasy novels ready to go (but sadly, no buyers yet...) and two sci-fi novels in work.

Unfortunately, I can't tell you HOW to find the activity that you need. I absolutely understand - and agree with - the need to tend to your mental health, though. Good luck, my friend, at finding your own path to Nirvana.

I want to read them..... (said in the same tone as someone would say, "I want to go to there" )

 

[ColinEssex]

I never stop. In my spare time (from when I get home till I go to bed, plus all weekend) for now I'm designing an autonomous underwater vehicle.

It's been done already.

Google Jacques Cousteau, or sou-cou or submarines.

Col

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Thanks for the interest in my work, for those who mentioned it. I'll think about it and post in the Watercooler if I see a way to do it reasonably. Right now I'm using rather odd technology for this project. But then, when I started it, MS Office didn't exist and neither did Word Perfect. My ORIGINAL medium was a WordStar for CP/M on my old Osborne One/Z80 computer. To bring it up to date, I might have to do something like convert it to RTF or something like that.

By the way, I don't claim to have "the Great American novel" in any of this mix. Just some fun writing about a sword-and-sorcery world, or "hack-n-zap" as I sometimes call it.

 

[TessB]

Well, give us a snippet!
Tell us at least the plot of the one you are most proud of.
I love sci-fi fantasy!

 

[georgedwilkinson]

I remember WordStar well. A fine piece of software.

I don't read SciFi for the fine literary talent of the author(ess). I read it to escape. To experience a different reality.

And if you allow me to read yours, I'll have an excuse (I can say it's related to my work on the forum/Access). Who knows, I might even post a review on my FB account. You could go Indie!

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Well, to start with, my best work is a 5-story arc, the shortest novel being well over 120K words (by WordPerfect counting methods), the longest at over 135K. It is set in an alternate universe where magic is actually a psychic ability that redirects free energy in various patterns. The catch is that it is magic because they don't fully understand how the mind controls the magic; they only know the effect of certain patterns.

My heroes are a retired Army captain, who was the champion archer of his battalion; a professor of history and magical exploration of ruins; an student of advanced magical theory who doesn't initially know her own strength; a locksmith and his brother, an armorer; a priest of a life-honoring religion who is also an expert at fighting demons; and the priest's friend - who is a dwarf-of-all-trades-master-of-none type. Each has his or her own reason for adventuring. Therefore, each has a different perspective on how they interpret what they find. Sort of "Magnificent Seven" meets "Conan" with a dash of Randall Garrett's "Too Many Magicians" thrown in for spice. But not derived directly from any of them, actually.

I set it in an alternate universe because if I tried to do this as an ancient-Earth setting, too many "facts" would get in the way. In an alternate universe, you can pick your own history, create your own pantheon, and ignore inconvenient issues from this world.

A friend of mine who was more expert on such things than I was (when I started the project) told me I had what was called an "orderly magic system" as opposed to a chaotic one. That is, my magic borders on science in the sense that it is repeatable if you repeat the process correctly.

 

[georgedwilkinson]

I'm all a-twitter. Sounds like just my kind of thing.