Yeah, I'm new here.

i secretly want to be a cowboy. For real.

Hey welcome to the Cult. So what is your favorite book?

also, Trinn is kind of a girly name. jus sayin.

Hello Trinn,welcome!!

You ask, I answer:
Famous: Wow.... this won't be short. 1984, overall. I've got a thing for dystopian books, so Brave New World and FC are also up there. Cujo, as it was the first 'grown-ip' book I read (at age 10 - I've been a King fan since). I also really like The Stand and The Gunslinger by King. I've also got a soft spot (in the heart or head, I'm not sure which) for R. A. Salvatore's Drizzt books.

Nathaniel: Good luck with that. And the name I usually take on forums was taken, so I went with If you don't like it, tongue my taint. Just sayin'. :-p

I'm also toying with bumping up to sooper-deluxe status, but I'll hang a bit first before dropping the money on it.

And now a question - what's the ratio of interesting people to "I saw FC and now I'm gonna shave my head and start my own FC!" idiots?

don't spend the money on the premium thing yet. the workshops are in a shambles!

any thoughts about the feng shui of the site here? any thoughts about the pronunciation of feng shui?

The site faces south, which could be a problem. I'll let you know about the pronounciation as soon as I learn to speak Mandarin Chinese (or is it Cantonese?).

It's dirty knees, look at these.

of all the things we talk about here, chuck and fight club are pretty much in the minority

hey, trinn

the homie nate's right, the workshop is hard to use at the moment, but the premium membership is very inexpensive and provides resources that are amazing, including but not limited to a resource page and thiry four (thus far) essays on the craft by chuck and several on this site by other authors

the workshop will work at the moment, but you really gotta make it work:

before, you would review five stories and "up" a story and have your story reviewed by five people. now, though, since you dont have to reviews stories to "up" them--there is an automated system now that graduates stories automatically when they are submitted and we dont reject any stories now--when you up a story you really have to search members out who review stories and review their work to receive a review back. in other words, you have to pick and choose serious workshop members in order to make things happen. i havent reviewed a story in month for that reason and one other:

the THAT reason is, no new members have reviewed any of my stories
the OTHER reason is that the last several reviews ive crafted looked stupid because there is no format in the reviews.. you just have to write in narrative

without breaks

and without underlines and bolds et cetera
it's like reading faulkner's stream of consciousness writing in sound and the fury, one full page and no breaks.. i'm not going through that process for members who do not go through that process for others

and neither are any of the other vets

so. the workshop can and does work if you really work for it. still hands down better than any other online workshop on the net

unquestionably

so when you get some work you want to look at seriously, get your premium membership and spend a month with the essays and then rewrite one of your pieces and up it. then read some other submissions. really put some work in. there is no better way to locate your own flaws that to notice those flaws in the work of other novice writers. it preps you to see flaws in writers who have developed the ability to write so well that the flaws that are present are mostly invisible to the layman's eye.

good luck with school
and welcome to the cult
-kabol