I see you're from Dallas. We have quite a clump there.
Let's see. There's katharina, but she moved to DC. Risuena . . . who moved to Virginia. (Or was it Maryland?) Jim-Me, who moved to I-forget-where. And the ketchups, but they moved to SoCal.
Uh . . . well, there USED to be a lot of Hatrackers in your neck of the woods!
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I am probably older than many here, being born way back in the year of our Lord 1972 AD
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I was born in Texas thanks to Mr. Carrier and his air conditioning. I grew up in Irving, TX, and the Dallas Cowboys are (soon to be was) our main asset.
I've been writing science fiction for as long as could draw triangles and circles and called them spaceships and had them shooting at each other with the red pen/crayon.
Unfortunately I never really kept anything that I wrote and never submitted anything. I see a lot of talk on this board of the "first five pages"... but hardly anything about the last 5.
I have always had trouble ending a story. Many were abandoned in the prime of their story arc and are no more.
In the last few days I have returned to this board, I had scanned it often before that. Now I am signed up and I did that to thank you guys for making sure I saw the term duotrope.
Now I know there are more than a couple of places to send a story, should I finally complete one.
I'm not much on fantasy and all that, I lean toward science fiction very much. I might not write "hard scifi" because I am not a scientist.
My favorites run the ABC's. Asimov, Bradbury, Clarke, Card, Clancey...
I might not be here much for a couple of weeks because I am going on the road with my truck driver brother Dusty. Dusty is a younger version of Larry the Cable Guy.
I have big plans and no money. So I write. Writing is cheap. Writing well, is cool.
I have a recently started 17 page story that probably should get reviewed by somebody which would help me a lot. But I am going to save that for when it is further along.
Like I said elsewhere, I was going to call it EMPIRE... thanks Uncle Orson. =o)
For now the working title is Solidarity.
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"Childhood's End" by Clarke disturbed me to no end, I've gotta say. One of the scariest things I've ever read, along with Philip K. Dick's description of acid trips in Lies, Inc.
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My writing is usually short on the descriptive but that worked pretty well for Asimov. I hope when i get around to asking for advice on a story people don't freak out at its political incorrectness.
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Freak outs generally sell copies though don't they? I mean did you read the "Da Vinci Code?" The book is about as controversial as a sunday afternoon with your grandmother, and still the "debate" was enough to make Dan Brown a multi Zillionaire. He didn't even have to be a good writer! :rant ended sorry:
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I represent, the misinthrope guild, the misanthrope guild, the misinthrope guild. I represent, the misanthrope guild, and we'd like to welcome you to Hatrack Land
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Some of you will really like Solidarity. I think some people will think the 'bad guys' sound too much like them.
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glad to be here... now I gotta go.. bback in a while.. going on the road with my truck driver brother... Dusty the Cable Guy Posts: 57 | Registered: Aug 2006
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