 4 Weeks Ago | #305 |
 | Sites like Reddit are based around a small number of really active users. Stories won't get picked up unless that group catch on to them and start upvoting them. I'd be patient; keep churning the stories out, get a nice header done for the site so it has a bit more character and wait for it to take off. Good stuff so far. |
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| 4 Weeks Ago | #311 |
 | Like this? http://www.reddit.com/buttons/ http://wisestartupblog.com/starting-...wordpress/716/ NB: I dont know what Im talking about |
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| 4 Weeks Ago | #313 |
 | Don't blow your wad! Giggle! Sorry. I get your meaning though. Perhaps I'm getting a little carried away. The truth is, the amount of work stories I have are always going to be finite, because people only do a certain amount of fucked up things. Mad stuff seemed to happen all the time in the 'old days', but the company has tightened things up, and fun is off the menu, where as 'mean, spiteful and vindictive' are the dishes of the day. i'll keep it to one story a day. I tried your tips, Balki! My first link is up on Digg. Reddit still poses the same problem, though. The little button appears at the bottom of the page I want to link, but it only guides me to the same link set-up field, and my attempts remain fruitless. What a gimp I am. |
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| 4 Weeks Ago | #314 |
| | I know I said I'd only do one a day, but something just came up! http://generallucifer.wordpress.com/...inegar-stroke/ |
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| 4 Weeks Ago | #316 |
 | +1 if you remember the first post [in a different thread] from a couple of weeks ago Lucifer, it was just an outlet of bile about your boss - nothing much in way of a point or direction. However it was concisely delivered in just the right tone to set it off as A. interesting and B. funny. People then remarked "hey, you should write more of these." and this thread came about... So don't think it's just the stories which will soon dry - up, it's every bit your excellent delivery. |
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| 3 Weeks Ago | #321 |
 | I was just thinking, maybe you should number your stories. If you go on your blog vinegar strokes comes up before the original bog wanker story. Readers of you blog who aren't on the forum wouldn't be able to know which stories came first and might miss out the introductory ones by accident. |
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| 3 Weeks Ago | #324 |
| | I'll get onto that tonight - I realised things were getting a bit untidy on there! http://generallucifer.wordpress.com/.../minty-throne/ Latest. |
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| 3 Weeks Ago | #326 |
| | Lol! Thanks again, CYOA. I've got a mate who plays computer games online, using a headset to talk to other players during the game. He says that when you play the Americans, they are always whooping it up, gabbling constantly to each other and giving each other verbal high fives. The Japanese get really excited and involved as well, making loads of noise. Just about every nation he plays against yaps on like mad when they're enjoying something. The Brits? He says he can tell when he's up against somebody from the UK because every now and then, they discreetly clear their throat. Other than that, silence. Never played one of these games myself, but I understand what he means. With the writing, I feel like a contestant on a wank reality TV show like X Factor. I'm tapping away in my dining room, and I think it sounds good, but when I get my stories out there on the stage, as it were, it might be like John and Edward - ridiculous shite. Your feedback does me good! |
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| 3 Weeks Ago | #327 |
| | I've had a drink or three. Better half. I’d like to say that I met her in a club down in old Soho. It sounds so cool. It didn’t happen like that. My mate Barry had a club in Bradford. I met her there. She looked French. She was from Shipley. I was hooked. I met her in a club down in BD 7. I asked for her name, And in a Marlboro voice she said Carol. See Ai Are Oh Elle Carol. She was dating a friend of mine. A good bloke. She used to flirt with me, playfully, to make him jealous. Man, was he jealous. Turns out, he fancied me something rotten. Funny that. He wanted to meet up with me for drinks. I gave him my number. Innocent. She washed his trousers one day. Found my number, a bottle of poppers and some rubbers in his pocket. What were his intentions? I don’t know, but I reckon I got off lucky. They had a fight. Words were said. Cake got lobbed. They were thrown off a party boat. She was single. I made my move. She said yes to a drink. She said yes to a smoke. She said yes to a dance. I didn’t ask. We just kissed. Smooth mover, me. I got her number. I called her next day. She’d moved house. What would you do? Really? Of course you would. I stalked her. Not creepy stalking. That would make Philip Marlow a sex pest. No, I made enquiries. Made some calls. Hung out in clubs. Stalked. There she was. Smokey club. Dressed in black. Leopard print skirt. Packet of fags tucked in her knickers. Be still my beating heart. “What’s a nice place like this doing round a girl like you?” “Buy me a drink and I’ll tell you.” I bought the drinks. We danced. We laughed. We got close. I tried to kiss her. She turned away. “Sorry,” I mumbled. “I was only blowing smoke away. Come here.” We kissed. What a woman. I got her new number. I called her next day. She answered. Thank God. - - - I look across at her. She’s watching the telly. She sees me and smiles. We’ve both changed. I know we have. My hair’s now gone. What’s left is grey. She’s wearing daft pajamas rather than cool black and leopard print. There’s no Marlboros in her knickers. But the smile’s the same. And how come her eyes are more beautiful? Got to be quiet. The kids are asleep. “Fancy a cuppa?” “Go on then, tiger.” Last edited by General Lucifer; 3 Weeks Ago at 01:15. |
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| 2 Weeks Ago | #333 |
| | Thanks for the comments guys. And thanks for not taking the piss out of the romantic crap! The latest. http://generallucifer.wordpress.com/...2/cum-dancing/ |
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| 1 Week Ago | #342 |
| | Ta Sparky. It's only a quick sketch, and speech bubbles are naff. I only put it in to show I didn't download a random scrawl. As for illustrating myself, it's mainly down to time. I can sneak stories onto the blog when I'm at work, but getting the pencils and paper out at my workstation are a dead give away! I might have a go at a few of the others, like Weasel and Jock. I've actually drawn them loads of times, so I'll see if I can dig out some cartoons. |
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