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.