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WCDT Strips 3451-3455 (3rd to 7th April 2017)
Buggman:
--- Quote from: jheartney on 07 Apr 2017, 00:41 ---Nice to see that these two have progressed past the firing schism. If I were Dora, I'd be a bit nervous about placing my finances in the hands of an alcoholic, though.
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Faye's been sober for a long time. More importantly, Dora's been trying to get Faye to move beyond being a service peon for at least a couple thousand strips. Giving Faye the final leg up into the wonderful world of self-employment makes perfect sense--and suddenly invading Faye's personal space after doing so makes perfect sense in-character.
shanejayell:
Plus there's the whole 'Bubbles is SCARY honorable' thing. If they get behind on rent, I expect Bubbles would pawn off a leg or something....
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: mikmaxs on 06 Apr 2017, 20:57 ---
--- Quote from: Gyrre on 06 Apr 2017, 20:52 ---
--- Quote from: mikmaxs on 06 Apr 2017, 20:27 ---So... That's another conflict solved, I guess? I'm glad I don't read QC for the story, because it seems like, recently, Jeph doesn't like writing try/fail cycles very much, and prefers just to skip the success.
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Well, "life is what happens between failures".
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In QC, though, there haven't been any failures for life to happen between.
Also, that's a really dumb quote if it's supposed to be taken literally or metaphorically. In many ways, failure has more impact on life than success - That's why most succesful stories don't let their characters be succesful until the story is over. If your characters overcome every single conflict with relatively little difficulty, then the story loses tension quickly.
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1) it's a paraphrased quote and the name drop for a webcomic
2) Full quote from pg 305:
--- Quote ---Much of our time is spent looking to the moments when we succeed, or fail. But those moments are only a tiny part of our lives. I'll always remember the day I started living in the times between.
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The conversation that prompted that character revelation starts at #222 Dead Inside.
jwhouk:
Gyrre, there was a time that some argued that Between Failures was a QC ripoff...
wlewisiii:
--- Quote from: Gyrre on 07 Apr 2017, 17:50 ---
--- Quote from: mikmaxs on 06 Apr 2017, 20:57 ---
--- Quote from: Gyrre on 06 Apr 2017, 20:52 ---
--- Quote from: mikmaxs on 06 Apr 2017, 20:27 ---So... That's another conflict solved, I guess? I'm glad I don't read QC for the story, because it seems like, recently, Jeph doesn't like writing try/fail cycles very much, and prefers just to skip the success.
--- End quote ---
Well, "life is what happens between failures".
--- End quote ---
In QC, though, there haven't been any failures for life to happen between.
Also, that's a really dumb quote if it's supposed to be taken literally or metaphorically. In many ways, failure has more impact on life than success - That's why most succesful stories don't let their characters be succesful until the story is over. If your characters overcome every single conflict with relatively little difficulty, then the story loses tension quickly.
--- End quote ---
1) it's a paraphrased quote and the name drop for a webcomic
2) Full quote from pg 305:
--- Quote ---Much of our time is spent looking to the moments when we succeed, or fail. But those moments are only a tiny part of our lives. I'll always remember the day I started living in the times between.
--- End quote ---
The conversation that prompted that character revelation starts at #222 Dead Inside.
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Good stuff.
To add to the idea of failure, I'll offer this from "Schlock Mercenary"
Maxim 70. Failure is not an option - it is mandatory. The option is whether or not to let failure be the last thing you do.
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