Can you write a sad story using only three words?
“PLAYER STORIES”Story 1)She loved him.Story 2)He didn’t care.Story 3)He wanted nudes.Story 4)He acted love.Story 5)She was timepass.Story 6)She sent nudes.Story 7)He cheated her.Story 8)Nudes went viral.Story 9)She committed suicide.Story 10)Yes, love hurts.“STUDENT STORIES.”Story 1)IIT mains exam.Story 2)He couldn’t clear.Story 3)Failure overpowered will.Story 4)He gave up.Story 5)His hopes died.Story 5)Let me sleep.(suicide note)Story 6)1 more suicide.“SCARY STORIES”Story 1)She was alone.Story 2)She got kidnapped.Story 3)They raped her.Story 4)Threw her naked.Story 5)One more nirbhaya.Story 6)People recorded it.Story 7)No one helped.Story 8)She died crying.Story 9)It was destiny.Story 10)R.I.P brave girl.“LOVE STORIES”Story 1)Love got lost.Story 2)“Break up” he said.Story 3)You deserve better.Story 4)We are done.Story 5)They parted ways.Story 6)Lovers became strangers.Story 7)Her smile hid tears.Story 8)Her heart broke.Story 9)I loved you (suicide note)Story 10)1 more suicide.Thanks for reading.P.S. sorry for 3 suicides.
Why do some people think they can be an artist or a writer without even trying to learn the craft?
Every child can dance. Most enjoy singing (or at least music.) They scribble the things that matter in their lives. They listen to stories. They play out scenarios with their friends.Right?The problems start coming up when this expression is measured. Suddenly that kid who made hundreds of crayon drawings tells you he’s “bad” at drawing.So many people stop before they find something they want to express. It’s a little sad. It makes the world a little smaller than it needs to be.Everyone has work they’ve done that’s embarrassing and amateur. It’s not easy to step outside (or inside) and make something good; it’s frustrating. We all have off-days. Even the best artists don’t crank out masterpieces daily. Over time, people who learn the craft gradually get more on-days and create less embarrassing work. Craft is a tool to better help the process.Moreover, I think all forms of expression are just different aspects of the same process. It all comes from the same place. It’s talking, it’s cooking, it’s painting, it’s writing, it’s visualizing, its making, it’s music, it’s problem solving, it’s sex, it’s play.I don’t know who lets you into the artist and writer club. Who gets to decide who’s good enough? It sure as hell isn't me.When I was trying to figure out how to pay for college in my mid-twenties, I applied to several art and film schools. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get the financial aid that would’ve made it possible. One school told me my art was ‘too illustrative’ and denied me admission altogether. I don’t know what they thought of my reel.It really bummed me out. It felt like they were calling me shallow. I haven’t seriously tried to do fine arts since.People can call themselves whatever they want. I’m not the pretentious police. If I don’t get what they’re doing, it’s not for me.I call myself a dilettante so you can take me as seriously as you like.
I made a horrible life mistake choosing electrical engineering as my major. That's not my passion, I want to be a software engineer. What should I do?
That doesn't qualify as a "horrible life mistake", you will be just fine. Let me tell you my experience with this.Most of my friends who studied electrical engineering ended up working software jobs - simply because there is so much more work in software. The soft skills (professionalism, teamwork, etc...) are the most important part of an engineering degree (the ones hardest to get on your own), and they are very transferable.I studied "Computer Engineering" only one year after it had been introduced by my university's electrical engineering department. At that point it still had 80-90% crossover with the electrical engineering degree. I picked up programming by myself while studying, and went through a crisis like yours when I thought "Oh god no I should have taken computer science". The dean of the EE department convinced me to stay, I finished the degree, then left to work at Microsoft as a software engineer.I have a bit more knowledge about transistor design and circuit theory than I need for my day job, and sometimes I wish I had had the chance to do those interesting courses in artificial intelligence and compiler theory, but in general, I can still teach myself anything I am interested in, and I don't feel my career has been in any way disadvantaged by studying electrical/computer engineering. If anything electrical engineering sounds a bit more hardcore (a Google recruiter told me they actually accepted more electrical engineers than computer science majors from my university).There's also a lot of fun in programming closer to the hardware - an electrical engineering degree should let you get some experience with embedded systems; writing resource constrained code and implementing your own devices from the PCB design up is immensely satisfying. When I get bored of working on Excel I intend to return to embedded systems.
Realness of Dracula?
Yes he's real. Vlad the Impaler. I'm intrigued with stuff like that. But man you asked and I feel sorry for you about those answer you get to read. I skipped reading the answers and went right to answering. You were right they really were interested.