Valkoinen Raivo / Discussion

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Author Post

Zesc 09 Aug 2021 21:09

This one is a cold post, and you can expect more of them this week, since I decided I'll try something and make a write-a-thon of my own.

I decided to write one article every day this week, and connect them losely by theme of the 7 basic emotions. So here we have Monday's: Anger.

I don't expect this to be the best of my work, but getting over my perfectionism was the core idea behind this write-a-thon in the first place. So don't hold back your critique.

+ Explain the Title

So the title is based on a neat distincting in finnish I recently learned about. Apparently in finnish, there is a difference between "White Rage" (Valkoinen Raivo) and "Black Rage" (Musta Raivo), the latter being wild, fiery and uncontrollable, whereas the former is cold, precise and calculating.

I think that's a neat distinction more languages should have.

I decided against using the translated term because of obvious reasons.

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Re: Author Post

Meta Wonderrat 10 Aug 2021 19:06

Some things:

• As someone who made a series of cold-post that backfire hard:

This can go horribly wrong. It happened before and it happened again recently.

• As a perfectionist:

Why not instead make the things and have a one week deadline? Write it on the days seven days prior to posting and than spend a week tweaking? I like sitting on things for the long-haul as well, but by the time I post them I can be sure that I could have not made it better from the sandbox.

• As someone who wants more content:

Go for it. It sounds fun.

• As an admin:

Cold-posting has some mayor drawbacks. I wont stop you from trying as other authors do it as well, but Baron seems to have taken a lot of hits in quick succession pretty hard. As the one that critiqued these pieces I only find it fair to warn you. Also, please don't just delete stuff before I make backup copies of originals and related threads for futur reference (*stern look at Baronjoe*). I do want to help.
Also, thank you for keeping the title clean. Unintentional messages not withstanding, that is a problem I don't want to deal with. The legal grayarea in just saying two words in order and having different people hear different meanings is a strange wonder of context.

• As a fan of old CI gems:

Nice to see "Bad Doughnut" still kicking. Your new spin was a really fun read, +1 from me.

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Re: Author Post

Zesc 12 Aug 2021 15:04

+ Some replies

Oh, I'm not expecting this to go anywhere far. I'll be happy about every article that survives the week. If I produce only masterpiece, that's fine by me (and should earn me bragging rights). If not, YOLO. This is all just an experiment.

And I decided to shovel these out in 24 hours because I know very well that if I set them back into my sandbox for "polishing", they're dead for good whilst I wait for some sort of epiphany. Like ripping of a band-aid, it's the least painful if you grip your teeth and do it fast. The perfect is the enemy of the good and yada yada yada.

Oh, and whilst burning the evidence and running is absolutely my style, I'm not going to kill anything here without valid reason. I think a post-write-a-thon overhaul won't harm, so I might take some extra time to hone the articles, but they're here to stay.

Oh, and spending most of my times finding disreputable subtext in jest, I'm prepared should anyone try that on me.

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