Hey...
New here. So yeah, hi. I've joined several writer's forums over the years and haven't really been overwhelmed by any of them. That is, until I stumbled upon this site. Finally a forum full of people who can agree on something, Palahniuk.
Most of the other sites I joined were full of people stroking their ego and verbally masturbating on and on about how their writing will someday change the world. I appreciate the optimism, but your essay about the family dog that just passed away ain't gonna change shit, let alone the world. There was that stuff and the shitty poetry. Not trying to sound like a douche, but damn, some of that crap is like the first day of American Idol. Every kook in the world thinks they're the next Robert Frost.
Anyway, a little about myself.... I'm 42, laid back, and currently a film student in Colorado. I can be pretty cynical, but not in a bad way, I'm never cruel or vindictive. I'll try to respect everybody's opinion on this site. I can talk about anything, so don't be surprised to see me popping up here and there.
I think I just got through with my mid-life crisis. I'm a former smack/coke/booze addict and one day after horribly injuring myself while on a bender, I decided it was time to go clean. It was then that I really looked at the world I had created for myself and thought, what the fuck am I doing? I had a job that I hated, lived in a placed I couldn't stand, and had to face the bleak probability that I was fucked unless I did something dramatic. So, I told my boss to fuck off, walked away from a lucrative career, and wrote a novel. Still haven't had it picked up, but whatever. Life's too good right now to care.
Long story short, hello. I look forward to meeting you all....
Looking California, feeling Minnesota
Tru dat. Seriously, I've been on something like five writer's forums and if it wasn't predominately occupied by blue blood east coast trust funders talking about their time at their summer home on the lake, it was full of goth kids ripping off Poe. I'm not saying I'm above all that, I'm just saying it was a bad fit for me. You guys seem alright. 
Looking California, feeling Minnesota
Oh, man...
Um. Heya.
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i wouldnt say we agree, but its what brought (most of) us here, at least once upon a time ago.
www.triplebeard.com
http://darkroomreview.blogspot.com
“...There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one's head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people's pain. You ought to have some apprehension that the man you see before you was once even younger than you are now and arrived at his present wretchedness by imperceptible degrees.”
-James Baldwin
Most of the other sites I joined were full of people stroking their ego and verbally masturbating on and on about how their writing will someday change the world. I appreciate the optimism, but your essay about the family dog that just passed away ain't gonna change shit, let alone the world. There was that stuff and the shitty poetry. Not trying to sound like a douche, but damn, some of that crap is like the first day of American Idol. Every kook in the world thinks they're the next Robert Frost.
Anyway, a little about myself.... I'm 42, laid back, and currently a film student in Colorado. I can be pretty cynical, but not in a bad way, I'm never cruel or vindictive. I'll try to respect everybody's opinion on this site. I can talk about anything, so don't be surprised to see me popping up here and there.
I think I just got through with my mid-life crisis. I'm a former smack/coke/booze addict and one day after horribly injuring myself while on a bender, I decided it was time to go clean. It was then that I really looked at the world I had created for myself and thought, what the fuck am I doing? I had a job that I hated, lived in a placed I couldn't stand, and had to face the bleak probability that I was fucked unless I did something dramatic. So, I told my boss to fuck off, walked away from a lucrative career, and wrote a novel. Still haven't had it picked up, but whatever. Life's too good right now to care.
Long story short, hello. I look forward to meeting you all....
This has been you'll find out that we still have those writer types that love masturbating to their unpublished novels but we also have a good bunch of writers helping each other stroke their egos and what not. Either way I'm sure you'll fit in here. Welcome.
Hey dude.
I feel more like I do now than I did before.
Alright guys, thanks for the welcome... So... How 'bout that baseball, huh?
Looking California, feeling Minnesota
baseball suuuuckkkksss! get out of here noob!
just kidding
welcome
this is the best one i have found, too. im testing out another one with someone from this site, but right now im underwhelmed by the amount of sci-fi/fantasy bullshit. im glad i didnt pay for the experience there.
www.triplebeard.com
http://darkroomreview.blogspot.com
“...There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one's head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people's pain. You ought to have some apprehension that the man you see before you was once even younger than you are now and arrived at his present wretchedness by imperceptible degrees.”
-James Baldwin