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Do you struggle to write every day? Come join an accountability team and compete for the prize of most consistent writers!

Here's how it works:

1️⃣ Reply to this message seeking an accountability partner, or reply to another user's request. Each team must consist of exactly two members.

2️⃣ This coming week, keep track of the number of days you have spent at least fifteen minutes working on your book, blog, or other writing project. The number of successful days is your score.

3️⃣ Add your score together with your partner's. The maximum number of points a team can earn is 14.

4️⃣ Next week on Sunday, a new announcement will be posted. One member of your team must reply with the team's score. Be honest. If you lie, your pants will spontaneously burst into flames.

5️⃣ The team with the highest score will be declared the winner! In the event of a tie, the winning team will be chosen randomly. Remember, the goal is not to write a million words. Rather, the goal is consistency—writing every day.

🎉 Prizes! 🏆

Bragging rights

Becoming a better writer

Two links of your choice (one from you and one from your partner) will appear at the top of next week's announcement.

This week's competition will run 1/14 - 1/21.

Happy writing!

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You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.

-- Octavia E. Butler

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The easy-looking, and the simple things in all art matters are more difficult than the complex and intricate. It is a rule that easy reading is hard writing, and to construct anything that the mind takes in without effort, and without being puzzled by it, is a triumph of art.

-- Charles Allston Collins, 1860

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by CaspianXI@lemmy.world to c/mentalhealth@lemmy.world

My life is, by every objective measurement, very very good.

And in spite of all of that, I struggle every day with my self esteem, my self worth, and my value not only as an actor and writer, but as a human being.

That’s because I live with Depression and Anxiety, the tag team champions of the World Wrestling With Mental Illness Federation.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by CaspianXI@lemmy.world to c/keepwriting@lemmy.world

In 1876, Leo Tolstoy lamented to a friend that the book he was writing had become “sickening to me,” “unbearably repulsive,” “terribly disgusting and nasty,” and “a bore, insipid as a bitter radish.”

After nearly two years without making any progress, a concert sparked an intense surge of inspiration. Tolstoy wept as the music surged. Reinvigorated, Tolstoy returned to writing, viewing his characters with newfound empathy.

After two uninterrupted weeks of writing, Tolstoy completed what would become his most influential -- "Anna Karenina".

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Linda went to an Ivy League university, but, like many others, found that the prestigious education came with its own set of challenges and pitfalls.

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[-] CaspianXI@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago

What are you upset about? $0/hr is a generous salary.

[-] CaspianXI@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I write a blog on Medium.

You need to have a ton of content to make any amount of money. After writing 200 articles, I started making a consistent $100/month. Not quitting my day job any time soon, but I have a lot of downtime at work, so it's a productive way to pass the time.

Oh, and the $100/month is pretty consistent. I took a month off from writing, and they still sent me money for the read time on my old articles. The pay is low... but my boss wouldn't send me a small stipend if I decided not to show up for a month. So, I really can't complain.

[-] CaspianXI@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

These are people who want to be mods of communities. If you don't understand the basics of how this platform works, you probably need to spend more time as a regular user before becoming a moderator.

[-] CaspianXI@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I don't cry when I chop onions. If I'm chopping dozens of them, everyone needs to get out of the kitchen because the air will get potent (but I won't notice).

[-] CaspianXI@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

They needed examples. How long is a meter? How heavy is a kilogram?

[-] CaspianXI@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Phone, keys, headphones, wallet, loose change, pen, mask, portable battery pack.

At least, that's what's in my pockets this very moment. Not including trash (random receipts, etc)

[-] CaspianXI@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In simple English... A number is divisible by 7 if the difference between 2 times the last digit and the remaining digits is divisible by 7.

Examples:

  • Is 14 divisible by 7? 4*2=8. 8-1=7. Check.
  • Is 28 divisible by 7? 8*2=16. 16-2=14. Check.
  • Is 182 divisible by 7? 2*2=4. 18-4=14. Check.
  • Is 1323 divisible by 7? 3*2=6. 132-6=126.
    • Is 126 divisible by 7? 6*2=12. 12-12=0. Check.

OP, if I have misunderstood your reasoning, please correct me.

[-] CaspianXI@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

I like liftoff too, but the notifications screen won't show me which post people are replying to, so ot gets confusing.

Is there a way to fix this?

[-] CaspianXI@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Why haven't clothing manufacturers figured this out yet?

[-] CaspianXI@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This should get you started:

import requests

# Fetch post from Reddit API
def fetch_reddit_post():
    reddit_url = "https://www.reddit.com/r/{subreddit}/comments/{post_id}.json"
    subreddit = "python"  # Replace with the desired subreddit
    post_id = "abcdef"  # Replace with the desired post ID

    url = reddit_url.format(subreddit=subreddit, post_id=post_id)
    headers = {"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.3"}

    response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
    if response.status_code == 200:
        post_data = response.json()
        return post_data
    else:
        print("Failed to fetch post from Reddit API")
        return None

# Post to Lemmy API
def post_to_lemmy(post_data):
    lemmy_url = "https://lemmy.ml/api/{version}/post"
    version = "v3"  # Replace with the desired Lemmy API version

    url = lemmy_url.format(version=version)
    headers = {"Content-Type": "application/json"}

    # Extract necessary information from the Reddit post
    title = post_data[0]["data"]["children"][0]["data"]["title"]
    content = post_data[0]["data"]["children"][0]["data"]["selftext"]

    # Create payload for Lemmy API
    payload = {
        "title": title,
        "body": content,
        "community_id": "abcdef",  # Replace with the desired Lemmy community ID
        "auth": "your_auth_token"  # Replace with your Lemmy API authentication token
    }

    response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)
    if response.status_code == 200:
        print("Post successfully created on Lemmy")
    else:
        print("Failed to post to Lemmy API")

# Fetch post from Reddit API
post_data = fetch_reddit_post()

if post_data:
    # Post to Lemmy API
    post_to_lemmy(post_data)
[-] CaspianXI@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago

My kids didn't want a dog until I planted the idea. Now, I roll my eyes along with my wife every time the kids ask for a dog.

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