Introduction
Hey, I'm Carissa, age 24, from North Dakota.
I've wanted to write for a living since before I was able to pick up a pen. I'd tell stories to any one who'd listen and I'd write out these stories (in symbols that only I'd be able to decipher) and read them allowed to my parents.
I've only really been happy my entire life when I've been writing. And I've said my entire life that I've wanted to be a novelist and realized it's about time that I probably started actively working that job. (i.e. your chances of becoming a novelist go up when you actually start writing novels...)
I sought out this place cause it looks like a good place for me to grow as a writer and really stay focused.
Writing novels is a crap ambition. You should just quit now and start dealing crack to bearded people who wear sandals. Otherwise you'll grow old and unfulfilled. Go back to college and become a doctor or something.
As beer is to brain cells, corellion is to cult writers: he only takes out the weak ones.
Welcome to the bar none best writing community on the web.
VP - Workshop Dog
Haha.
Welcome,
Wow Fargo is a real place, cool!
[QUOTE=Barca Boy;946047]Welcome,
Wow Fargo is a real place, cool![/QUOTE]
Wow, you had to draw attention to that. Now, I'm going to hear all of her sentences tilt up at the end like a question. Irish has a nice lilt, but Fargo's got a tilt. For flat country especially. It's annoying. I think they actually belong to Canada.
VP - Workshop Dog
Welcome to The Cult.
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welcome! have fun! was that movie true, one guy really grind his mate to bloody stain?
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Yah !
[QUOTE=corellion;946041]Writing novels is a crap ambition. You should just quit now and start dealing crack to bearded people who wear sandals. Otherwise you'll grow old and unfulfilled. Go back to college and become a doctor or something.[/QUOTE]
Wow, I go to bed for the nigth then come on next day at work and I've gotten quite the welcome! Thanks all!!
And I only sell crack to bearded people who wear socks with sandals. Cause I figure it's a kindness so they cope better with their ridicule.
you don't write anything about junkies or unicorns do you?
[QUOTE=vigorous puppy;946054]Wow, you had to draw attention to that. Now, I'm going to hear all of her sentences tilt up at the end like a question. Irish has a nice lilt, but Fargo's got a tilt. For flat country especially. It's annoying. I think they actually belong to Canada.[/QUOTE]
Yah, you becha, we all have that strong accent here, doncha know?
Actually, it's quite frightful when you get all my aunts together, cause they start dropping all those phrases like they're the height of style.
Personally, I work answering phones for a reputable company... my job pretty much depends on me being able to talk with the generic American accent (or face constant ridicule). So try not to think about that too much.
[QUOTE=karbunkle;946257]you don't write anything about junkies or unicorns do you?[/QUOTE]
Not as of yet.... though unicorn junkies sounds like an awesome satire now that you mention it. 
[QUOTE=RizNeuro;946262]Not as of yet.... though unicorn junkies sounds like an awesome satire now that you mention it. ;)[/QUOTE]
I'd play it straight, so as not to offend any of your unicorn junkie readers.
[QUOTE=RizNeuro;946260]Yah, you becha, we all have that strong accent here, doncha know?[/QUOTE]
Are you the people who talk like this? I've always been trying to figure out where it comes from..
Also, welcome; I writes too.
[QUOTE=Mr.Shadov;946079]welcome! have fun! was that movie true, one guy really grind his mate to bloody stain?[/QUOTE]
One guy? Just one?! Nah, it's tradition here! Every time you have a falling out with one of your friends it's a race to see who can get the other down the chipper first... which reminds me, Jessica ruined my last wood chipper when I sent her through, I need to pop by the corner store and pick up a new one cause Steven and I have been exchanging words as of late.
I kid! I kid! Nah, it's not based on a true story at all. In fact only one scene takes place in Fargo and absolutely none of it was shot here.
[QUOTE=Westontinople;946263]I'd play it straight, so as not to offend any of your unicorn junkie readers.[/QUOTE]
Oh noes! You are so right! I hope I didn't offend. I'm sure if I were a unicorn junkie reader that I'd take the works very seriously. Since it's such a realistic topic and all.
[QUOTE=chimney scott;946265]Are you the people who talk like this? I've always been trying to figure out where it comes from..
Also, welcome; I writes too.[/QUOTE]
God, I hate to admit it, but yea, that's from around our area. It's not Fargo so much as the smaller towns and farm communities in MN/ND. It's all the norwegian decendents that have echos of that in their speech.... though I will admit that during holidays when you get my mother's family (all 7 children) together under one roof suddenly that accent pops back in amongst them. And I mock them terribly. It's pretty awesome.
Welcome. That was interesting.
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Enjoy. I've heard mostly and seen good things about the workshop. Hopefully you'll get a chance to participate in some classes in the future when another writer decides to help us out with that like so many have done in the past.