carl8447: I want to be published


carl8447: Im scared to write


carl8447: Im working on a movie and a kids book. Just life has kicked my ass. Hopefully I'll be back this summer


carl8447: I'm still here.
    carl8447: Hi? Been gone through the ringer and back. I might write some more. Feel free to stop by anytime. Check out my plays and what I used to be like. -


carl8447: I think I'm back. I've just been too busy going to school
    DIS-illusioned: Well, when you're sure you're back, don't let us know, will you. :) -


carl8447: I may or may not come out of retirement. Have a tale to tell about it. I think I might write it down.


carl8447: whats up guys!
    DIS-illusioned: My obnoxious upstairs-neighbors. *Tapping the ceiling--again--with my broom stick*
    :) -
    Linda England Bonam: Had to laugh when I read this. I had the neighbors from hell living above me one time in an apartment. It sounded like the whole family did jumping jacks together before a game of basketball!! I punched the ceiling so hard with a broom that it put a broom size hole in the ceiling!! -


carl8447: ive been really busy ill be back in the summer
    Cumbrianlass: That was a perfectly good mouthful of tea. Dammit. -


carl8447: is there anything to be joyful about?
    Bellydanser: ...tick tick...every second...tick tick... -


carl8447: I've been a bit busy lately. Creativity has hit a brick wall. i think I need to shut up and write.


carl8447: im back! been taking a five week course in bio


carl8447: On vacation this week, so I think I'm going to post something new. Been listening to a lot of Sex Pistols and a lot of Thelonius Monk. It should be interesting.


carl8447: last act of ashley will be posted tonight


carl8447: OKAY NOW I'M MAD! I get blasted for putting up my own political views and put a disclaimer for saying that they're my OWN political views; so I back off and leave it alone. My piece never got to the top of fanstory and I didn't care that it did. So I log on and I see a haiku about Glenn Beck. It's the number two poem. Are you kidding? If you're going to use the site for politcal conversation do so and stop whipping out your credit card and spending money to put your views on the top of this website. It's stupid and it's not the point of this website. The point of this website is to get your stuff read and get feedback and to learn from other writers. If the Glenn Beck poem was actually a poem of some sort instead of a promotion or a plug, I wouldn't had a problem. Just pay fanstory money to advertise, other then that, stay off the site.
    another jim: carl8447 sez: "It's stupid and it's not the point of this website."

    I guess that all depends on who you ask, Carl. As a fledgling writer, I'd have to agree with you in principle, i.e., the "point" of FanStory is to get your stuff read and critiqued, and to become a better writer as a result.

    However, it takes money to run a website like this, and the business model for generating that money isn't necessarily aligned with the individual wants and needs of us writers. The idea that one can promote one's work to the top of the page by simply spending cash may not sit well with the artist in us, but it's how the site sustains itself (in part, at least).

    It's those deep-pocketed individuals who "whip out their credit cards" that keep the site solvent and, I might add, make it affordable for the rest of us. I can live with that; if I couldn't, I wouldn't be here.

    I can't stand Glenn Beck, either; and yeah, he's probably the last person I'd wax poetic about. But if someone else wants to pen a paean to Beck and then spend their own money to promote the hell out of it? Hey, knock yourself out...

    Artistic expression comes in all shapes, sizes, and colors. And as long as it remains within the site's rules, where's the harm? Not a fan of odes to loudmouthed ideological buffoons? Just skip 'em and move on to something more to your liking. -
    carl8447: all im saying is if you're going to do a commercial, do a commercial! i agree with you about the financial in this climate. -


carl8447: Im coming to own fanstory. Oh yeah.


carl8447: I THINK IM GOING TO WRITE A HORROR STORY ABOUT A CAT


carl8447: I hate when people post stuff on this site that is actual topical and they "pretend" it's a poem. When I wrote my political piece I was upfront and saying that I'm writing about a topic. Of course I got blasted for it! However somebody in the top ten gets the number one spot on a topical "poem" if you want to call it that. If you want to make this your political platform just SAY IT!


carl8447: i think my next posting may be mat 1st, i think. Just editing stuff to make it perfect


carl8447: Part six of Ashley has some new revisions with Collette, and Part seven the WARRIORS is out. Enjoy


carl8447: I'm going to revise the previous part to ashley and post a new chapter to ashley this week. I promise.


carl8447: im on twitter. carl8447


carl8447: im sorry the next installment of dinner with ashley is taking so long, im working on a new dimension to a character, but i always start from act one and keep reading to catch up.


carl8447: You know what, I'm not ashamed of myself for anything and I encourage everybody to be who they are.


carl8447: I'm just going to write what I feel from now on. I'm not going to Hallmark like the rest of this website!
    another jim: That's fine. But you won't get to share the royalties for all those cheesy greetings we write... -
    carl8447: True, true there is a lot of money if you write about flowers and trees
    -
    another jim: And puppies and babies and kittens and vegetables and...vegetables? -


carl8447: sorry for offending everybody I'll go stand in the corner


carl8447: Finished the political essay and am tweaking Ashely, added a new monoulouge, it's been a year and two months now since i wrote it.


carl8447: Its coming, the next chapter probably tommorrow, just working out the kinks.


carl8447: thank you for everybody who is following my ashley play.Im very happy with it and want to make it better, stay tuned for the next chapter


carl8447: will post new act in ashley very soon, possibly this wed or sun, sorry


carl8447: next ashley chapter will posted sunday night!


carl8447: i realize my best stuff comes from me taking my time. this play took a year, my book which is taking a bit longer is five years, but so much stuff has happened to me that i'm adding it in


carl8447: im excited people are reading my stuff again and im in the warming up phase, but guys if you are going to read me and are offended by bad language, that's why they're disclaimers on the top of the story. And please don't judge the whole show on one chapter, i know i do that too but i give people the benefit of the doubt, but i have a lot to offer im just giving it out in doses.


carl8447: new act for ashley!
new act for ashley


carl8447: My dinner with Ashley has premiered!


carl8447: I'm like a fish, have to keep swimming or I'll die


carl8447: I've been depressed working on huge projects and a political essay


carl8447: I will return just been working and going through a lot


carl8447: Poetry is a coming and possibly my play but fanstory sucks posting it.


carl8447: Piper and Kinski are coming back! They take on aliens!


carl8447: HEY GUYS anybody joining me right now for the first time click the bubble "portfolio" above for my recent and ancient writing


carl8447: Lots of stuff to finish and do and I feel like I don't have a lot of time.


carl8447: I've written a new play and sometime in January I'll be posting the first act


carl8447: Well this is refreshing. I come to the fanstory website and oops it looks like facebook. Well isnt this ironic, the website that prides itself on creativity is using an already used idea.