Not quite entered as time ran out

[dannyb]

How true. Just let them flow. Don't "try". I once started out writing a story, that I had outlined and researched. After two paragraphs a much better story developed, and took on a life of its own. Most people, who have read that story, can't believe that it wasn't true. (That is what the research is for). I think that is why I like Updike's work. His stories are in times and places that we are/were very familiar with (if we were alive during the time frame of the story).

[Naboka]

I do my cartoons in black and white. Just wooden pencil on paper (pencils #1, #2, #3 ; or B, HB, H) I'm going to take most of the next month off from Wordtwist to finish my current comic book. I have already outlined my next book. I also have three short stories in outline form that I would like to finish.

Have fun.

Creativity is one of living's greastest rewards.

Life writes itself.

So do stories.

Some good, some bad.

You just got to let them flow

then edit and refine them.

Not possible to do epic writing on the first draft.

Oddly, the flaws provide the foundation for the unexpected that make writing interesting. Lot of great song lines were initially fillins.

[dannyb]

I do my cartoons in black and white. Just wooden pencil on paper (pencils #1, #2, #3 ; or B, HB, H) I'm going to take most of the next month off from Wordtwist to finish my current comic book. I have already outlined my next book. I also have three short stories in outline form that I would like to finish.

[Naboka]

Berol.

Classics.

Mechanical or wooden?

Used to have a very large set of Berol Prisma colored pencils. Good pencils. Daughter took them to college and someone stole them. Sadness. They were far better than the Prismacolors of today.

Assuming you use color, what media do you use for coloration of the cartoons? White legal pads suggest something dry, rather than ink or paint.

[dannyb]

Humble is good. We tell the kindergarteners that they can't get better without mistakes. Mistakes are necessary for improvement. You learn a lot from mistakes. So make lots of mistakes--then figure out how to do better. They get pretty enthusiastic about making mistakes and having learned how to do it better. It's a thrill watching their pride about handling mistakes.




I just like the feel of writing in a good notebook with a good pen or pencil.

A Red Chief Tablet with a #2 Berol pencil?

Me? I take notes (for comics and stories) and do my story boards on a yellow legal pad, and I do my finished cartoons and comics on a white legal pad. The stories I write using a word processing program on the computer.

[bwt1213]

I just like the feel of writing in a good notebook with a good pen or pencil.

I am with you on that one. I wish I could do that again. I envy people who can. It just feels so good and pure and right.
But those days are gone for me. Please enjoy it while you can.

[Naboka]

Humble is good. We tell the kindergarteners that they can't get better without mistakes. Mistakes are necessary for improvement. You learn a lot from mistakes. So make lots of mistakes--then figure out how to do better. They get pretty enthusiastic about making mistakes and having learned how to do it better. It's a thrill watching their pride about handling mistakes.

See chem frequently. Usually just a red herring.

Amazing how quickly games can lose the longest or best word. Just played one with 5 plays and both were gone. Odd words too.

Wouldn't know how to save stuff with screen shots and make the information retrievable. Screenshots I mostly reserve for conveying experience to others.

Prefer the pencil to notebook method for words. More intimate.

Of course, the notebooks are a mess and aren't organized well either. Can't retrieve a single thing. But, writing the words down helps me remember them.

Some cooking show we watch brought up a study which found that food tastes better if you eat it with your fingers. Apparently, the more senses involved, the more involved our minds.

That's one reason I try not to let computers do too much of my thinking.

Having notebooks strategically placed allows me to do quick studies without stress. More than a couple of minutes of word study becomes non productive. Have one in the car--for stop lights, idle moments and standing in line at the store. Have one next to my favorite throne. One above the kitchen counter. One by the back door--for sitting outside. One on my night stand. One next to the computer. And extras in development.

I just like the feel of writing in a good notebook with a good pen or pencil.

[lalatan]

Ahhh, now I see. I was unaware I was the record holder on the 4x4 board. (I thought possibly you were trying out 5x5.) Wow, that must be an oldie but goodie. I haven't played 4x4 for many moons. It also explains why my search in the folder I file new words I found and set records with yielded 6 other litho- words but not that one. I only save 5x5 screenshots. Admittedly my memory of new words I found is not flawless. I will go to save a screenshot with a word I'm quite certain I haven't found before and it will inform me there's already a file with that name. Lol, I'm not as smart as I think I am. Another side benefit of having that folder, keeps me humble.

So, yeah, LITHOCHEMISTRIES is probably the one you missed.

Yesterday I found CHEMICOPHYSIOLOGICALLY for the first time but didn't set the record. Dasan already had it. Only the second word I ever found with a chemico- prefix. The other was CHEMICOBIOLOGISTS, another 16 letter word you may see in the future.
Edit: I just found PALEOBIOCHEMISTRIES. Looks like chemistry is the flavor of the week.

[Naboka]

I've never played it. It's a word in Wiktionary (the chemistry of rocks or stones) so it's likely valid.

reason I asked was you had a 16 letter 30 point word, and the only thing I saw that would do it was lithochemistries.

Don't think I've ever seen more than one 16 letter word on a board.

But, like said, dumped the board before I could see the answer.

[lalatan]

I've never played it. It's a word in Wiktionary (the chemistry of rocks or stones) so it's likely valid.

[Naboka]

Lalatan,

just dumped a board so didn't see the end results.

Is lithochemistries a word allowed here?

[Naboka]

Wondering if anyone has ever played invocativenesses.

was following the -ivenesses path.

Saw evocativeness, but evocativenesses wouldn't work because the board had two i's.

Finally, with less than a hundred points, dumped the game, but noticed invocative as I pulled the trigger.

Too late to try it or invocativeness or invocativenesses.

Lexic doesn't have it, but that's not unusual. And word searches just want to give "innovativeness."

[bwt1213]

Why do I keep seeing ness and nesses in virtually every puzzle? Why do I always see a word repeated from the previous puzzle?

It may be a function of you choosing puzzles with good-looking stats. As far as words repeated, there are previous posts from people who are really attentive to such things, with lists of words that occur most frequently. I suspect that if you throw a bunch of random letters at a grid and then throw away puzzles that don't have any words (or enough words) to be interesting, the puzzles you'd get would include words like ESNE, ESNES, NESS, NESSES, and on through volumes of common words, or at least words that become common because they use common letters near each other. I do remember someone posting a list of a whole LOT of words that occurred the most in puzzles, which led me to think that if someone wanted to be a real cheat they'd load up their cheat machine with all those common words and spray them out, and only then enter words manually. But geez, there are thousands of ways to cheat like that and cheaters are too stupid to do any of that because they're cheaters.

[BaronTopor]

Why do I keep seeing ness and nesses in virtually every puzzle? Why do I always see a word repeated from the previous puzzle?

[admin]

Was typing "nudnik"when time ran out.

Anyone know if nudnik and nudniks is accepted yet? It's in Lexic, but...

It is indeed allowed! NUDNIK appears in 31 puzzles, NUDNIKS in 6.