![]() FanStory wrote to Sherry Asbury: Rainy Day finished first in the contest "Free-style poem: human suffering" |
||
![]() | ||
| ||
|
Sherry Asbury: Dear Fanstorians - I must share this with you: I have crippling rheumatoid arthritis in my hands - if I give you a number you question - please, please check with me. Some of our friends have caught my goofs and helped me and for this I bless them. |
||
![]() | ||
| ||
| ||
| ||
|
![]() |
||
![]() | ||
![]() | ||
|
![]() |
||
![]() | ||
| ||
![]() | ||
|
Sherry Asbury: I am frustrated that I have been here so long and get so few views that I never get a ribbon. I have to assume my writing is not that good and perhaps leaving would be my best option. |
||
![]() | ||
Carlos' girl - | ||
| ||
Don't let others decide your course of action. Reviewers cannot be figured. I find I receive fewer than before, then all of a sudden more come in. The ATB seems difficult to obtain. Lack of reviews isn't a comment on the quality of your writing. Please stay. Jan - | ||
| ||
|
![]() FanStory wrote to Sherry Asbury: haiku (The Child in You) finished third in the contest "5-7-5 Poem" |
||
![]() | ||
| ||
| ||
|
![]() FanStory wrote to Sherry Asbury: senryu Rheumatoid Fingers finished second in the contest "Senryu Poetry" |
||
![]() | ||
|
Sherry Asbury: IO have chapter four of I will never leave you...ready but it is late in the month and I have no funds, no more poems that would help, so can't post it or chapter 5 |
||
![]() | ||
Take care. 😊 - | ||
|
![]() |
||
![]() | ||
![]() Stsy Safe! - | ||
| ||
| ||
| ||
|
Sherry Asbury: Thank all you beautiful people who answered my poem Despondency with kindness, love, and especially to the person who suggested noise-cancelling headphones!! I have decided to ask them to move me away from here...even if I must seek lesser quality quarters...it will be worth it! |
||
![]() | ||
- | ||
| ||
Stay strong! diane - | ||
I hope you are settled into your new living quarters and find it tolerable, or better yet that it is going to be great. God bless, Senyai - | ||
|
Sherry Asbury: Thanks to the selfless generosity of a member of Fan Story I will be able to be here for a year!! I so appreciate all of you and the kindness you show me. Fan Story really is my home. |
||
![]() | ||
Smiles and hugs, Carol - | ||
| ||
|
Sherry Asbury: I have been away facing things of a terrible nature to me...but found this site is where I feel I belong and am returning today... I have missed you all and can't wait to read your work |
||
![]() | ||
| ||
- | ||
| ||
| ||
- | ||
|
Sherry Asbury: I am very sad to tell this. I must leave...I cannot afford the site any more...I also had a serious heart incident and the doctors have put me on bed rest. Keep writing your wonderful work!! |
||
![]() | ||
Sending you lots of love and wishing you a speedy recovery. Debra x - | ||
| ||
| ||
| ||
| ||
|
Sherry Asbury: Finally feeling human - but all of left side of face is blue and black and green...look like movie monster! |
||
![]() | ||
| ||
|
Sherry Asbury: I fell last night and am quite injured and bruised - have a black eye worthy of a prizefighter...so I am slow to get to things...I cherish all of you and will read and comment soon!! |
||
![]() | ||
| ||
Sending healing thoughts your way! diane - | ||
| ||
Wishing you a speedy recovery. Sending hugs, Debra x - | ||
- | ||
|
Sherry Asbury: It seems to me since I came back that there just aren't as many people posting or new poems to review...I don't want this site to fade away! |
||
![]() | ||
| ||
The prompts for prose (I'm a prose writer) that come from the site are nothing to make you flex your writing muscles or imagination. I suppose that's true for poetry as well. My problem with the prose contests is that almost all of them have become things like 'tell an entire story' in 50 words, 75 words... Poetry is usually 5/7/5 (yawn.) No thanks. I want to tell GOOD stories, so don't limit me. - | ||
- | ||
It used to be that when you won a contest, you actually won the jackpot. Now there is an option to make the contest winner take all as it always used to be. Members can create contests, but many don't. Those that do may not realize the template can be changed from the default, i.e., blind and not winner take all. Young children are joining. Prose writers and probably poets as well have left because there isn't enough variety. It's changed from a place to polish your writing skills to a place to hang out. - | ||
| ||
I wish there were more serious reviewers, people who are seeking to help others improve their craft by telling them how. I wish the site's ancient contests would go away and newer, more interesting ones would be offered. How many times have we seen two women sitting in an otherwise deserted bar? How many times has it been 'someone is about to be or is in war'? I've won that one twice over the years! Oh, and how interesting is talking to a dying houseplant? And what about the prompts for poets? Write a poem about a season, trees, birds, etc. Usually a haiku or one verse... See what I mean? The site needs to make things more interesting or we all need to sponsor contests and do that ourselves! - | ||
ad nausem . . . Here's my idea for a contest ~ No disqualifications Write a one word poem. I remember well those you mentioned, and hate to see them as the daily prompt again and again and again . . . I try to sponsor some contests, but usually get just half the available entries. I believe many members vote on 'name recognition' rather than technical attributes in many contests. I have seen questionable entries win, while great ones beg for a read or a vote. - | ||
- | ||
|
![]() |
||
![]() | ||
| ||
| ||
| ||
|
Sherry Asbury: I moved last week to an Assisted Living Bldg Oh, moving is heck...had been at the other place for 27 years. It is nice here and they treat me like a queen... It is 4 times the size of my last place. I even have an office here, so no excuse for not reading all your wonderful work! It will take a bit to get resettled in here, but I will work hard... |
||
![]() | ||
| ||
| ||
| ||
| ||
| ||
| ||
|
Sherry Asbury: Just moved 7 days ago - will be back on track soon!! |
||
![]() | ||
|
![]() FanStory wrote to Sherry Asbury: Yoda Says finished second in the contest "May the fourth - Star Wars Haiku" |
||
![]() | ||
| ||
|
![]() |
||
![]() | ||
|
![]() |
||
![]() | ||
| ||
|
![]() |
||
![]() | ||
| ||
|
Sherry Asbury: I have "met" many of you and am feeling that family thing going on!! |
||
![]() | ||
| ||
| ||
|
Sherry Asbury: I am a writer and poet with many years of experience, but the years have kept me from writing as much as I desire. I think now is the time and this is the place. |
||
![]() | ||
- | ||
|
![]() |
||
![]() | ||
| ||
|