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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: nihil who wrote (27310)12/28/1998 1:56:00 AM
From: Kid Rock  Respond to of 108807
 
nihil,

sorry to have brought up feelings about an old lover of yours.
No short story or novel forthcoming - so your heart can be at rest!

Actually, I'm just learning to write. Did you review the thread and read some of my older ones. I'm quite proud of them. The genre is 50 words or less ( excluding title, which some use as a clever way to make suttle points or add info with). It is actually pretty tough to come up with a complete "story" in 50 words. I would love for you or anyone else on the feelings thread to give it a try.

I was thinking about writing one a day starting on Jan 1 but have not committed myself yet. Not sure if anyone really reads them. The brevity sometimes makes me cut things out and the stories might not make sense. At the same time, the impcompleteness can also add to the readers imagination and the story can be read many different ways.
I think this genre also forces one to make a single word have more than one meaning in the story. I used Norman as a sublimanal method for showing a state in the future of "normalcy" in that androids are commonplace. Queer?

Thanks for the response.

Tom



To: nihil who wrote (27310)12/28/1998 2:20:00 AM
From: Kid Rock  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 108807
 
nihil,

your response got me thinking...

wouldnt it suck to have a last name such as Hitler, Stalin, Dahmer, Bundy, Gacy, Simpson.. er nevermind ....

Actually, when writing fictional characters, how does an author protect themselve from "slandering" someone. Could I write a best-seller and use names like "Penni Westbrook" and "Christine Grace Barley"???

serious question

Tom