Why did you join a forum?

This is my first and only forum. I've found building friendships here is a lot like it is in real life for me, takes me forever to warm up to and get to know people and once I do I sure dont want to do it all again with new people, so I just stick around here rather than venturing to other forums

I dunno why I joined, I started lurking and reading the political posts here in like 2004 when I was gaining awareness of what my country was doing in Iraq. And then I forgot about it and didnt come back and join until 2010. Not sure what possessed me to return after 6 years and join

 

Though I was asked to join, my main purpose was I wanted to write a book and I wanted to learn about other people and what they did with their life and how they lived their life.

I've yet to really piece together that book, however, I have a few ideas of characters I would like to portray in my books from the people I've gotten to know well from here.

 

This place is good for a character study. You should write your book

 

Sorry... I don't recall

 

I should. I've talked about it before I just don't know how to do it. Basically a character wakes up dead but it takes him a whike to realise they're dead. It's like a dark humor book so he's annoyed and frustrated at why people won't talk or acknowledge him. Eventually he realises he's dead, so starts to do thing you'd do as a ghost. He starts to realise though, that there are other dead people with him. It becomes this mystery of what is death. Ancient gods are also around him and he eventually meets a Polish goddess very old and ancient. Somewhere along the lines he realises he can't even escape as the ancients have been around too long and have never made it outside that realm. It becomes this adventure for the character to leave this realm or dimension and find out where he truly comes from.

I never knew 10 years ago where that story was going to end up or finish. Of course, with what I know now, the character should definitely meet up with a entity of the Anunnaki and maybe they end up going to the home planet or dimension lol.

 

I can also admit that before I joined this forum my style of writing was atrocious. I didn't even know where to use the correct to/too.

I was one of these people: wat u doin 2day

It became a quest for me to learn to write properly which I wasn't really getting the urge to do that talking to people my age at the time in my early 20s or late teens.

I did.get to meet a couple of people here when I was still in Australia, like meet IRL for a drink or what not in my earlier HF days.

 

and after your time on hipforums, now you can write a story about a character/protagonist/fictional entity who wakes up dead/deceased/departed/passed away/bit the dust.

 

Yes. are you asking me for a role?

 

My first thought was hmmm a website that openly discusses the use of various drugs including opioids and Hallucinogens.

I wonder if I can spot a DEA informant among the posters? And well the rest was history.

 

And then did you realise everyone was too dumb to be a agent?

 

well lets just say it didn't take long ...lol...

 

Username: Duck

He was my friend on Teenspot, he's the one that brought me here.

 

I was looking for a site that openly discusses erotica and here I am..........

 

It took me 8 years to write my first book.. I think I can do the second one a lot quicker. It's like, the most obvious advice.. But you just have to do it. I know that feeling of kind of.. Waiting to be able to.. Without really knowing what you're waiting for? Write the story without caring if it's "good enough" because once SOMETHING is written and there is a "structure", you can rewrite as much as you want. My mistake at first was writing the whole thing as if it were the final product.. And it's never going to be. I like the sound of your idea. But compared to writing it, the ideas bit is easy. So many people say "oh, I could write a book, I have loads of ideas" or people will tell me ideas they have.. And it's like, yes okay.. But now write the detail, the dialogue.. It's not so easy. If you have an idea for a particular conversation or scene, just write that bit when you are inspired to. Books don't need to be written in the order you read them (beginning, middle, end). There are parts of my book that were just random bits of writing I did before I even knew how they would go in the story.

The other thing I did was go to a cafe every Sunday where I had to write for two coffees minimum. Even if I didn't write for the rest of the week, I knew it would eventually get finished because of that time.

I wanna read your story.

 

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"Full Time Barefooting"......That Site Directed Me To A Host Of Other Sites Re Barefooting.....And

Hip Forums Was One Of Them......Lurked In The Shadows For 10 Months......Then I Thought...DAMN....

I Kinda Feel Part Of This Place But I Couldn't Post.....So On The 22nd April 2007 I Joined......

It's Certainly Been An Interesting 12 Year Ride......No Regrets Whatsoever......



Cheers Glen.

 

Somewhere on a hard drive on a laptop or a computer or somewhere is the start of the story..

I was writing another one too called "where silent Gods stand guard" which I wrote the first chapter and I was happy with it, but, I didn't actually know what the story was about lol. The first chapter was about a solo Viking who was hunting a deer. I remember making it so in depth hehe. Like I used the correct terminology for "firing" an arrow which was "loose" and I went into this big thing where he had to stalk it and use the wind to his advantage etc. But alas I did not know what the actual story was meant to be about I just liked the title, which is an Amon Amarth song about a Viking who sacrifices soldiers who are out to get him.

 

You don't need to know what it's about. Write every "scene" you imagine and they will eventually make sense : ) happened like that for me anyway. I'd write something and then realise later how it fitted with something else. My subconscious is clearly the brains of my fiction, haha.

 

Ah true, that's a good idea.
My sister and her friend were going to write a fantasy book once and they had a map and a whole timeline written down before they even started writing. Seemed a little full on.

 

I've written 2 chapters of an erotic short story but have a bit of writers block at the moment..

 

"I was put on this planet for one reason, to play hockey. Now I got a new reason, kickin ur ass!"