I'm still here TP just been very busy this summer, and not to sure about my feelings for the new gallery and Forums.  I'll try to get some new stuff posted.

Thanks for the Info.

K-I-S-S

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In the Engineering profession we have another term, we call it... Idiot Proofing

Message edited on: 02/06/2006 09:23

Hey jon, I was having the same thoughts myself. A friend of mine is sending me his Hemmingway Collection. I would like to find the Iliad, the Odyssey and the Aeneid. Who is the reader and where did you find them? Moby Dick would be another good one I hadn't thought about. Thanks Japes

My first thought was the book as I don't remember the movie The Secret of Nihm. But my next thought was from the toon Pinky and the Brain. "We are going to do what we do every night Pinky, We are going to try to take over the world."

Actually he apparently had the first chapters up on his site. I remember reading more than the one here in his gallery. I assumed they both were short stories at the time but now I realize they are the beginnings of his novellas. They were very entertaining. I remember the site had a lot of samples of writing not just Max.

So that was only the first chapter I read...I thought they were short stories. They did stand well on their own. As I recall you had a website with more stuff available but the address I no longer have.

I love Max Mann. At least the ones I have read. Are you going to post this one?

I have another translation to add. 5. Why would someone with your qualifications want to work here. You could make more money elsewhere, perhaps your resume is fake. (Maybe I am just not as stuck on making more money as you and I wanted to do something I would enjoy and have more time with my family, you idiot) I have also experienced your #2

My job used to have me driving alot also and my best idea's used to come from that solitude. Unfortunately a lot of it was lost b/c once I reached my destination I had no time to write it down before the work questions started coming at me. My solution was also to bring along a recorder as I had been using one at home in my music room for years. I don't know why it took me so long to think of it for driving...some of my better songs came from me listening back to recordings that I did. When your mind is on cruise control your brain doesn't have time to get in the way. Of course now my drive is only about 30 minutes total for the day. P.S. The recorder idea doesn't work as well in traffic mostly on road trips though its great...unless you are one of those people that doesn't realize how angry you get when in traffic, perhaps when you hear it later you will see just how much you need to mellow out ;)

My theory on why the earth seems to rotate faster as you get older... It is all about perception and frame of reference... When you are 10 a year is 1/10 of your life and the summers last about 2.5% of your life. When you are 50 a year is 1/50 of your life and the summers only last about 0.5% of your life. My wife who is a HS teacher always wonders where the summers went and she swears the summers were longer when she was a child. What this has to do with finding time to write...probably nothing. Sorry for that detour.

Yeah I know and when you call someone on it (in a message board) they alwyas reply back that they were in a hurry that is why they typed like that. It seems like it would take longer to type out most of the stuff they do... M = one character I/I = 4 character. over at animotions some guy started a thread asking for something and after a week no one had responded and he got mad and started another one in which case others (including myself) said that if he wanted a reply he should type a request that we could understand. Amazingly enough that once he did that he had several replys the first day. I tend to ignore people like that and if more people did maybe it would go away...at least on the more intelectual boards.

Jon, Now there is the main problem for most of us.

midrael - "When you finally do have a moment's reprieve, all you want to do is turn the television on or sleep, anything that doesn't involve use of the brain cells." The only time I watch TV is when I am trying to NOT us my brain cells. Seriously though If in fact you are writing for a hobby, and hobbies are suppose to be fun and entertainment try thisinstead of watching re-runs or reality shows on the tube use that block of time to write. I know people (my wife) that used to get home from work and watch re-runs of the same shows over and over again. The new stuff doesnt come on until 8 pm local time here so that was about 2-3 hours for fixing dinner and eating and after that wasted time. So just eliminate one sitcom rerun from your life and use that time to write30 minutes a day of writing for a hobbyist is a LOT of time.

Fearsome, Sorry I missed your post...Welcome also. I too am occasionally inspired by a poorly written movie that was based on a wonderful premise. about your book depending on the genre you can usually find someone here willing to give you feedback. Some of us just don't browse the free area that often and may not have even known about it. Feel free to post in the forum a description of a story in the free area. Otherwise it may go unnoticed. Most of the people searching Free area are looking for something and don't do much browsing