I don't know why people have stopped posting comments there. I keep hoping it will change but I don't know. I'm starting to feel a little unwanted there but that doesn't hurt my feelings or stop me so whatever...
I'll keep posting there either way in hopes of good advice.
small forum, and half the members at least dont even read threads but post self-promotion stuff or a sample of their own writing without reading others. And you gotta admit there's a weird stiff brit vibe that undercurrents things there.
I can’t disagree with that. It is of course a .UK site so were the outsiders if you want to get right down to it. I still like it though. Either way it seems to have gone down again or else I’ve been ban from it for making one too many typo filled crap stories. I notice it went down just after I ripped something off from Ross. That’s why I think I may have been ban. I am however prone to paranoia.
On the profile comment thinig that appears on the botttom I did something along the lines of: Novel Title-The unwriten Word Count-0000 I have been writen off I'm using the RossWorren method of getting of my lazy ass.
Something like that anyway. I'm doubt he even bothered to look at it much less was botherd by it. My word count is still down at zero.
I was the first person to do that on this forum, the word count, title thing at the bottom in the signature line! Not him, you stole from me! But then I stole that from another forum.
Well, shit! Now I do feel bad. Not for stealing, bot for giving credit where credit wasn't due. Having no life, I just hope the forum goes back up soon. It's also the only way to have any of my writing read until I finaly finish something I start and get the balls to try publishing. I'm sure your the only one who knows of my blog, and I havn't bothered trying to fix the format problems I have with it. Oh well. If nothing else I may as well try to do my job while I'm at work before I get myself fired.
honestly, the reason for the lack of stories being posted there is pretty simple... no one's writing! Ive hardly written anything in the past few weeks, and this Lester Crow thing isnt going anywhere, bah.
Lester Crow has a lot of potential to go somewhere. As it is, it's a bit to scatterbrained. I kind of jumps from point to point losing me a bit. For example, when he laughs at the kid who broke his arm there needs to be a bit more explination. Then when he's speaking of the dream it seems to slip out of the dream but at the same time not really.If you orginise this a bit you could really have something. In They Never Sleep,you absolutly have something good going. If your stuck on it you could try to begin again at a later point in the story (a later chapter) and when your ready you can go back and connect it. I imagine that if you have a clear place to go to, it may be easier to get there. I'm not sure if I just came up with that idea or heard it somewhere before, but I think I'll try it out with some of my junk. I really need to start busting my ass at it I think. I'm getting a little desperate to atempt publishing in an effort to validate myself. A rejection could at least let me know profesionaly weather or not I have any hope, or if I'm lucky a publisher may tell me what I should do to improve. Not that I don't value or trust the opinions of you or anyone else at the forum, but I think that a profesional responce would be more direct with no consearn for my feelings. I showed some of my writing to my wife and she told me it was good. I asked her about a spacific part and her responce told me that she hadn't even read it. I wish the same were true for my personal emails I send to my friends!She reads the hell out of those.
i think someone mentioned the site, critters.. where you can get serious critques..might want to check there.. Ive had bunches of rejection slips from different places Ive tried to publish and recieved very little if any critical response. Usually, unfortunately it is just, a plain old rejection slip. When I was 20 i sent a bunch of poems to The PAris Review and they sent a very encouraging rejection slip back to me, so it does help your mindset, to get some kind of positive feedback from professionals. Ive had poems published in the 90s in various little rags, but havent sent out a thing since then. Its really only since 2000 Ive tried to seriously write stories and novels. The key thing is, if you do work really hard on a piece and polish it up and send it out, and back comes a rejection.. I wouldnt take that as a end note to your writing career. I need to concentrate on They Never Sleep, I felt the buzz of something good as I was writng the first chapter but been dealing with emotional rollercoaster crap since my fiance dropped my ass cold turkey, The Bitch! I hope she reads this-- but probably wont. She never read a damn thing I wrote.
ok, what you're good at, as far as I can tell..is the short modern horror-tinged fable... maybe there's a market for that, maybe not. Just work on your delivery.
also it's important to understand.. that at various rungs on the Talent ladder, you can still make a career at Writing.. Garrison Keilor is not Stephen King, and Stephen King is not HP Lovecraft, and HP Lovecraft is not Vladimir Nabokov, and Vlad the Impaler is not Dr. Suess.. ok, you get the point.
Why not post this in the forum? I'll give you some comments soon if you'd like.
ReplyDeletewas gonna do more on it today, polish it up then post...
ReplyDeletenot to mention only you and karswell ever comment on my posted stuff there anyway.. feel free to comment here anytime, positive or negative.
ReplyDeleteI don't know why people have stopped posting comments there. I keep hoping it will change but I don't know. I'm starting to feel a little unwanted there but that doesn't hurt my feelings or stop me so whatever...
ReplyDeleteI'll keep posting there either way in hopes of good advice.
small forum, and half the members at least dont even read threads but post self-promotion stuff or a sample of their own writing without reading others. And you gotta admit there's a weird stiff brit vibe that undercurrents things there.
ReplyDeleteI can’t disagree with that. It is of course a .UK site so were the outsiders if you want to get right down to it. I still like it though. Either way it seems to have gone down again or else I’ve been ban from it for making one too many typo filled crap stories. I notice it went down just after I ripped something off from Ross. That’s why I think I may have been ban. I am however prone to paranoia.
ReplyDeletehmm, I missed that one.. what did you rip off from Ross?
ReplyDeleteOn the profile comment thinig that appears on the botttom I did something along the lines of:
ReplyDeleteNovel Title-The unwriten
Word Count-0000
I have been writen off
I'm using the RossWorren method of getting of my lazy ass.
Something like that anyway. I'm doubt he even bothered to look at it much less was botherd by it. My word count is still down at zero.
I was the first person to do that on this forum, the word count, title thing at the bottom in the signature line! Not him, you stole from me! But then I stole that from another forum.
ReplyDeleteWell, shit! Now I do feel bad. Not for stealing, bot for giving credit where credit wasn't due. Having no life, I just hope the forum goes back up soon. It's also the only way to have any of my writing read until I finaly finish something I start and get the balls to try publishing. I'm sure your the only one who knows of my blog, and I havn't bothered trying to fix the format problems I have with it. Oh well. If nothing else I may as well try to do my job while I'm at work before I get myself fired.
ReplyDeletehonestly, the reason for the lack of stories being posted there is pretty simple... no one's writing! Ive hardly written anything in the past few weeks, and this Lester Crow thing isnt going anywhere, bah.
ReplyDeleteLester Crow has a lot of potential to go somewhere. As it is, it's a bit to scatterbrained. I kind of jumps from point to point losing me a bit. For example, when he laughs at the kid who broke his arm there needs to be a bit more explination. Then when he's speaking of the dream it seems to slip out of the dream but at the same time not really.If you orginise this a bit you could really have something.
ReplyDeleteIn They Never Sleep,you absolutly have something good going. If your stuck on it you could try to begin again at a later point in the story (a later chapter) and when your ready you can go back and connect it. I imagine that if you have a clear place to go to, it may be easier to get there. I'm not sure if I just came up with that idea or heard it somewhere before, but I think I'll try it out with some of my junk. I really need to start busting my ass at it I think. I'm getting a little desperate to atempt publishing in an effort to validate myself. A rejection could at least let me know profesionaly weather or not I have any hope, or if I'm lucky a publisher may tell me what I should do to improve. Not that I don't value or trust the opinions of you or anyone else at the forum, but I think that a profesional responce would be more direct with no consearn for my feelings. I showed some of my writing to my wife and she told me it was good. I asked her about a spacific part and her responce told me that she hadn't even read it. I wish the same were true for my personal emails I send to my friends!She reads the hell out of those.
i think someone mentioned the site, critters.. where you can get serious critques..might want to check there.. Ive had bunches of rejection slips from different places Ive tried to publish and recieved very little if any critical response. Usually, unfortunately it is just, a plain old rejection slip. When I was 20 i sent a bunch of poems to The PAris Review and they sent a very encouraging rejection slip back to me, so it does help your mindset, to get some kind of positive feedback from professionals. Ive had poems published in the 90s in various little rags, but havent sent out a thing since then. Its really only since 2000 Ive tried to seriously write stories and novels. The key thing is, if you do work really hard on a piece and polish it up and send it out, and back comes a rejection.. I wouldnt take that as a end note to your writing career. I need to concentrate on They Never Sleep, I felt the buzz of something good as I was writng the first chapter but been dealing with emotional rollercoaster crap since my fiance dropped my ass cold turkey, The Bitch! I hope she reads this-- but probably wont. She never read a damn thing I wrote.
ReplyDeleteok, what you're good at, as far as I can tell..is the short modern horror-tinged fable... maybe there's a market for that, maybe not. Just work on your delivery.
ReplyDeletealso it's important to understand.. that at various rungs on the Talent ladder, you can still make a career at Writing.. Garrison Keilor is not Stephen King, and Stephen King is not HP Lovecraft, and HP Lovecraft is not Vladimir Nabokov, and Vlad the Impaler is not Dr. Suess.. ok, you get the point.
ReplyDeleteA sea cucumber is not a brick…
ReplyDeletethat has been scientifically established, sir.
ReplyDelete