Roger
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Adam fell that men might be
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Post by Roger on Sept 7, 2005 21:53:58 GMT -5
I'm in the depths of despair! There is a great blanket of blackness that does now cover my heart, for you locked the thread I started about afiliation that then turned to random thoughts, but randomality is a wonderful thing! The admin should make a Randomality board so we can all roam the Imagi-Nation. Anyways, I had things to say! But, alas! It was lcokced! So here I now say them: You ROCK Eloith (is that how you spell it?) because you have taken an oath not to drink beer! I applaud you! Hooray and yay and all other meaningless words one will shout when excited! I, too, have also taken an 'oath' of sorts, and I shall never break it! For reasons many of you would not understand, but I will here say that they are bound to my religion, and I am bound to my religion. I try my best! In the great "LDS bubble", also known as Utah, it tends to be easier to follow our guidelines, but, never living outside of this wonderful place, I cannot say that from experience.
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Post by Eolith on Sept 7, 2005 21:57:26 GMT -5
*blushes* Thanks. It's spelled Eolith, but that's okay, I know it's kind of odd.
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Roger
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Adam fell that men might be
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Post by Roger on Sept 7, 2005 21:59:36 GMT -5
Oh, I absolutely love names like that. Reminds me of The Lord of the Rings. And I like that book oh so much! Though I've yet to read it again... oh, well. I must get this down... Eolith? Got it! Oh, and have you been to Pro-boards support? That name seems vaguely familiar...
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Post by Eolith on Sept 7, 2005 22:00:51 GMT -5
Yep, I've been there. I could go into a whole speech about how I decided on this name and its roots and stuff, but I'd only bore you.
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Roger
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Adam fell that men might be
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Post by Roger on Sept 7, 2005 22:06:07 GMT -5
Well, well! It takes time to name a name, that's grood. Great and good. I don't bore easily, I'll have you know. I can be giddy while others will slouch and curse, mutter, and gnash their teeth (one of my favorite sayings from the verses of the grood book... the great and good one, that is... better than the Bible! Aha!) If I put my mind to it, I can be happy at any time! But I'm not happy all the time, I'll have you know. I have my share of trials and hardships. Ah, well, I must go now, as I promised myself I'd write for at least an hour. And then I have other things of the most intrinsic nature... I covet the time you can spend on the internet! I'm much too busy a person to post so very much as I used to anymore... have a spectacular day, all y'all!
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Post by Eolith on Sept 7, 2005 22:09:56 GMT -5
Nice talking to you, perhaps we'll talk more later.
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Post by Shades on Sept 8, 2005 19:22:44 GMT -5
Roger are you Mormon? On another forum it was all Utah Mormons. Alright knew rule don't force your opinion on others including religion, (not saying you were). Alright i might add a random board but common this site is all about imagination. So in the mean time i will let this thread stay open even if it gets random, but anything to do with the bible or religion, i will have to divie out warnings (sorry but those stupid boundries again). SO happy posting. -Shades, Admin.
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Post by coffee on Sept 8, 2005 20:16:33 GMT -5
Well Shades, since you locked that one thread that was going off topic. I think I will say what I had to say there. When you said that saying most writers had a tormented past was stereotypical. I say, you are right. But what I meant by that, was that a lot (like 60% if not more) have had troublesome pasts. I don't (and didn't) mean that in a bad way at all. If you look at a lot of writers, and you look at in-depths biographies of them, a good majority of them had a time in their life which caused them stress or grief. That same stress or grief helped them to write better. I just wanted to get my piece out.
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Post by Shades on Sept 9, 2005 18:23:07 GMT -5
And i can tell you why they turned to writing, because they needed to create a world where they didn't feel so neglected, it doesnt help them write any better, all the skills lies within the person.
-Shades, Admin.
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Post by Eolith on Sept 9, 2005 19:44:19 GMT -5
Yes, a world in which they could defeat evil spirits, learn to use magic and fly on the back of a dragon. And the more they thought about that place, and wrote about that place, the better their writing became. It grew in detail and complexity, nurtured by the advice of others. I love the freedom writing has graced me with.
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Post by Eolith on Sept 9, 2005 20:03:31 GMT -5
It seems as though vampires have become a popular subject as of late. I had two dreams about them last night...
In one, I was a vampire... but disturbingly enough I was a guy... don't ask why. Anyway, some human was after me or something and he threw a bomb at me. I dodged it but it didn't go off. The human just smiled and said something about that not being the danger. Then something I had been holding burst open, releasing gases. I tossed it away but not before inhaling some of it (I have a phobia of breathing in gases, but I won't go into to depth with that). Anyway, then I got all groggy... and that's all I can really remember.
In the other dream I was an onlooker. It was like a TV show about great inventors that had been brutally murdered or something. One of them was rumored to have been killed by a vampire, but then his body was found... and yeah.
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Post by Shades on Sept 9, 2005 20:30:51 GMT -5
Yes, a world in which they could defeat evil spirits, learn to use magic and fly on the back of a dragon. And the more they thought about that place, and wrote about that place, the better their writing became. It grew in detail and complexity, nurtured by the advice of others. I love the freedom writing has graced me with. That freedom is there for everybody, they just need to relize this, and having a tormented past still doesnt make you a better writer, if you had said it gave them insentive, then i would have agreed with you but saying ti makes them better would be to say that being a goody goody makes you a better artist or something odd like that. AND Eolith my m8, Vampires have always been popular since the myth was first created. Although having dreams about vampires would be a wee bit freaky (I have nightmares almost everynight) -Shades, Admin.
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Post by Eolith on Sept 9, 2005 21:29:25 GMT -5
There are many facets to this subject... though I would prefer that we leave it behind soon, as I sense an uncomfortable mood forming. I think all writers are tormented by their unrelenting ideas and thoughts. They are tormented by writer's blocks and tormented by their publishers. A writer who didn't have a tormented past to begin with soon will. LOL
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Post by Shades on Sept 9, 2005 22:26:28 GMT -5
AAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA, that hilarious mate, well the mood you are feeling does not exist because this is a friendly debate, not the house of commons. Well i wouldnt call that being tormented though.
-Shades, Admin.
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Post by coffee on Sept 9, 2005 22:41:58 GMT -5
Hmm. I still don't think you are grasping what I was trying to say. I was not saying that if a writer had a tormented past it makes them a better writer. I am just saying that a good majority of great writers had hard pasts. They then turned those memories and experiences into stories. And if you have experience in something, then you can write it better then anyone else. Lets say you were in Viet Nam during 1967 and wrote a book about it. Now lets say another person, a civilian whos never experienced military life, wrote a book about Viet Nam. Who's would be better? The veterans would be, because he/she experienced it. I was just meaning that experience makes the best teacher. And most writers write about hard times. And if you have experienced hard times, then your writing about hard times will be better then a person who has known nothing but happiness. Damn...I'm confusing myself here. I think I went completely off topic. But oh well. Hopefully you get what I mean.
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