Ah swear to you, what you saw will not happen.
on December 12, 2018 at 1:01 amChapter: Ridin' Fences
Location: SEMME downtown housing building
Sal in panel three seems more emotionally intelligent than me, and so I’m wondering how I managed to pull that off. Like when you’re trying to write a credible genius when you’re actually not very smart.
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man, if I could list all the times I’ve been smarter than myself
…I’d have two things, off the top of my head
actually meant to draw this one:
So one time I had a professor who was super friendly to everyone, and I went to see him at his office for something or other. When I got there, he and another (lady) professor were standing around, and he started jokingly brushing off her black sweater, commenting “It was white this morning!”
Then he explained (paraphrased, since I don’t remember word for word), “So I put the empty toner cartridge on the side here, and she came along and knocked it over so it spilled all over her. Who’s at fault?”
I, of course, liked my professor and didn’t know this other lady, so I was going to be all LOL I’ll take your side, but before I could think about it, I blurted, “You shouldn’t have put it where it would get knocked over.”
Prof was disappointed it was his fault but smiled in defeat. Meanwhile I was stunned that the correct answer fell out of my mouth just like that.
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I’ve actually totally forgotten the second one but I’ll more than likely come back to record it, because I know I’ll totally forget it again if I don’t =p
Did he teach Ethics? It seems like the sort of thing ethics professors would love, as a real-world dilemma.
CSCI
which is weird, BC I don’t remember actually talking about computers in that class, so maybe that explains my grades
ok, the other time was back when I temped at a cake place, and they would put all the “failed experiment” cakes in the break room for anyone to have (motto: “gain ten pounds in your first month working here”)
I took one home for my now-husband, and as soon as he started to taste it, I blurted out, “There may be a banana in it… oh.” Because as soon as I said that, I remembered he’s deathly allergic to banana =p (look, we generally don’t eat them, so I forget)
I’m smarter than myself all the time, it’s easy because I’m so stupid.
I can’t give you an upvote, but I can give you these five stars: *****
I don’t try to write credible geniuses because I don’t think I’m smart enough to do so. Also because I’m not that good at writing.
I’m trying to figure out what that thing that suddenly grew out of Walky’s head is.
Looks like a streetlamp with a street sign attached.
There are a range of tricks to achieve such intelligence in your characters, but the best one is that you have a lot of time to think about things that your characters have to spit out in only a few minutes. And they don’t have to be bound by the flaws and foibles in our own personality as long as some part of us knows better.
Also, it’s easy to make a character make a connection we’d have missed when we’re writing with the benefit of already knowing the conclusion.
Let’s see if Walky is capable of listening to his sister