Something I wrote...

[Wickedly Yours E]

Also, has anyone actually bothered to publish any of this stuff they have written? I hear all you guys talking about writing books but have you bothered to put them on paper? It's harder to be a popular author than you think. I've considered writing sci-fi, then I realized no one would read my shit so I shrugged it off.

Nope.  I've written stuff but that was when I was a kid and looking back on it, a lot of it is very juvenille.  Up until about a year ago, I had serious writer's block and wrote virtually nothing for years.  Anyway, I never tried to get any of it published then and that was probably a good thing.  What I'm doing now I'll publish in one way or another, even if it's just on the Internet or something.  But I'm not even close to done with it yet anyway, so I'll deal with that when I have some finished material.

Another problem is that I'm not sure (and I never have been) what audience I would find in any print form that isn't a comic book or something.  If you think E writes stuff that's like furry fanfiction....

It's already been established D's a dumbass and his opinions are worth less than the stuff I scraped off my boots.
As far as audiences go, that's a hard one. I never write targeting an audience, and as far as writing block goes, thass a bitch. And I agree with the juvenile thing too. I used to write fanfiction...and looking back...It's...I want to gouge my eyes out it's so bad.......

[B E C K]

Well because my target audience is pretty much people like me, it's even more difficult.    I think trying to write for a target audience is what began making my stuff bland.  I just write stuff that amuses me and makes me laugh.  I'm not gonna delude myself with thoughts of being any sort of professional, though I would to be involved in the industry.  Even if I end up some mild mannered accountant, it's just something I have to do to maintain some semblence of sanity.

[Wickedly Yours E]

Always try being an editor. There's something gratifying about yelling, "IT'S SPELLED C O L O R, NOT C O L O U R. WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? JOLLY OLD FUCKING ENGLAND? NO. YOU'RE IN AMERICA. A-STARS AND STRIPES-MER-GOD BLESS-ICA. You wanna SPell like some buck toothed Brit, ship your grammatically challenged ass over the pond and to your Lilypad! On a brighter note, it's a good story." To a writer.

[B E C K]

I love spelling colour with a u.

[Wickedly Yours E]

WHY?!

[Derrick]

Always try being an editor. There's something gratifying about yelling, "IT'S SPELLED C O L O R, NOT C O L O U R. WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? JOLLY OLD FUCKING ENGLAND? NO. YOU'RE IN AMERICA. A-STARS AND STRIPES-MER-GOD BLESS-ICA. You wanna SPell like some buck toothed Brit, ship your grammatically challenged ass over the pond and to your Lilypad! On a brighter note, it's a good story." To a writer.

I always spell it colour.

[ChelseySuzie]

I spell it color like a red-blooded American, ya cheese-eating surrender monkey!

[PapaMidnight]

I also plan to try to get a short story published in a magazine using the some of the same characters that are in my book.

You could also try entering writing contests. If you place in one it'll be a definite sign of quality writing to publishers and in most contests you still own all the rights to the work. There are even some contests that can lead to getting an agent or at least connections to getting one.

[Derrick]

I spell it color like a red-blooded American, ya cheese-eating surrender monkey!

When the hell did the British surrender? They freakin defeated a Nazi invasion.

Plus, the Free French never surrendered, and fought on throughout the Nazi Occupation.

[Wickedly Yours E]

Yeah but they've become pussy's in recent years!

[Derrick]

Not really. When McDonalds tried bringing locations into the rural French countryside, the farmers attacked the locations with extreme predjudice.

Plus the French kill Greenpeace people left and right.

[Rama]

I also plan to try to get a short story published in a magazine using the some of the same characters that are in my book.

You could also try entering writing contests. If you place in one it'll be a definite sign of quality writing to publishers and in most contests you still own all the rights to the work. There are even some contests that can lead to getting an agent or at least connections to getting one.

That's a really good idea. Have to use somthing not connected with my current books, but I think I have just the thing in mind.

When the hell did the British surrender? They freakin defeated a Nazi invasion.

Actually it's more like they held off an invasion. It had more to do with Hitler's invasion of Russia then it did with the fighting ablitiy of the British people.

The invasion of Russia and declaration of war on the US, by NAZI Germany where two of the biggest military blunders of all time and proably actually lost him the war in Europe. Course I heard he was high as a kite when he made those calls.  

[Derrick]

Actually it's more like they held off an invasion. It had more to do with Hitler's invasion of Russia then it did with the fighting ablitiy of the British people.

The invasion of Russia and declaration of war on the US, by NAZI Germany where two of the biggest military blunders of all time and proably actually lost him the war in Europe. Course I heard he was high as a kite when he made those calls.

Of course he was, but then you take too much away from the RAF.

[Buckbeak]

oho?  What's this I hear?  D likes having sex with animals?!?!  Dude i better flee while I can.  X_X

[Rama]

Actually it's more like they held off an invasion. It had more to do with Hitler's invasion of Russia then it did with the fighting ablitiy of the British people.

The invasion of Russia and declaration of war on the US, by NAZI Germany where two of the biggest military blunders of all time and proably actually lost him the war in Europe. Course I heard he was high as a kite when he made those calls.

Of course he was, but then you take too much away from the RAF.

Well no doubt the RAF where good at what they did, but they really were fighting a losing battle. With the development of the V1 and V2 Rockets and the Jet engines just around the bend for the Nazis, it was only a matter of time before Britain fell. If Hitler had let Russia be and landed troops on the isle instead, we would have fought tooth and nail for parts of Whales instead of Normandy in France.

Lucky for the Brits a stroke of good luck came their way and the island was saved, but I wouldn't say they fought off the invasion, more prolonged the inevitable long enough for someone else to become involved. Churchill himself knew that Britain was doomed unless America became involved in the war and was constantly trying to talk Roosevelt into it, but the strict isolationist feelings of the people kept that from happening. Course that all changed Dec 7 1941.

Then came the other great blunder. Japan had attacked America. We declared war on them and only them at first. This would have kept America out of the war in Europe for the most part (Although I'm sure we would have become involved after the conflict with Japan.) but Hitler declared war on us, and thus gave us an excuse to move into Europe first, basically signing his own death warrant.
 

[Bernie]

But what a beautiful time for aviation.  Spitfires & F4U-1 A Corsairs and the Zero-whomping P-38; babes all over the nosecones - sigh....:wub:  

And on the subject of an era forever gone:

In 1962, President Kennedy dispatched Dean Acheson to Paris to brief Charles de Gaulle about the Cuban Missile Crisis. When Acheson proceeded to show the evidence supporting his claim, de Gaulle made it clear that nothing further was required; the word of the president was enough.

Un-believable.









 

[Fiero]

Yeah, like that'll ever happen again.

[PapaMidnight]

First the presidents needs to be able to use words. LOL

[Wickedly Yours E]

HAHAHAHHAHA. Not gonna happen.

[Derrick]

Yeah, the French don't accept stutters.