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meg_evonne:
Hey K. Love, how cool! And thanks for the reminder about character tags. Putting that to use right away.
From your free style writing, I suspect that dialog is your strong point. Welcome!
PS. don't purge too deeply of your younger writings. You'd be amazed how your 'voice' in those and the situations will help you retain a youthful outlook when you're 50 trying to remember what it was like in high school! LOL
RobJN:
I don't know that I consider myself an author, as much as I do a writer. In my brain, authors write with publishing in mind -- I just write to write, and have been doing so ever since I can remember.
In school, I wrote mainly for my D&D campaign, adventures, adventure logs, bits and pieces of "history," that sort of stuff. I wrote a few other things in my later high school years, and my senior year English teacher strongly advised that I attend a summer writing workshop, which I did, and have not regretted.
When I reached college, I studied journalism and creative writing, and wrote what I think is my most powerful short story ever -- I finally screwed up the courage to post it online on AOL back in the day, and it was the most downloaded story in the Writers Club's file libraries. Ahh, the good ol' days.... Sadly, when my HD got reformatted some years ago, I lost the manuscript. :(
I recently got back into writing after a long dry spell, busy with living life, buying a house, losing a great job and having to find another. The stories have percolated in the ol' head for five or six years, and finally found a couple outlets. I don't know if I should hug my sister or not for her nagging me, once a month or so, to "post the next section!"
There are links to the two stories I've been picking away at down there in the sig.
And if anyone downloaded a story called "Darkest Road Yet Travelled" an age and a half ago from an AOL file library, please send me a copy!
meg_evonne:
--- Quote from: RobJN on June 19, 2009, 03:26:17 PM ---I finally screwed up the courage to post it online on AOL back in the day, and it was the most downloaded story in the Writers Club's file libraries. Ahh, the good ol' days.... Sadly, when my HD got reformatted some years ago, I lost the manuscript. :(
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Oh Wow and then Oh NOOOO! My heart aches in empathetic pain!
--- Quote from: RobJN on June 19, 2009, 03:26:17 PM ---I don't know if I should hug my sister or not for her nagging me, once a month or so, to "post the next section!"
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I can never get enough huggles, so consider her hugged from me as well.
Welcome and thank you for sharing!
--- Quote from: RobJN on June 19, 2009, 03:26:17 PM ---And if anyone downloaded a story called "Darkest Road Yet Travelled" an age and a half ago from an AOL file library, please send me a copy!
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Well worth another mention, just in case someone with tech wiz knows how to drag one from the AOL files. They must have them stored somewhere?
Starbeam:
--- Quote from: meg_evonne on June 19, 2009, 04:25:37 PM --- Well worth another mention, just in case someone with tech wiz knows how to drag one from the AOL files. They must have them stored somewhere?
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It could be possible, but I think that a lot of that stuff probably went bye-bye when AOL started changing their board and websites. I know my AOL page was deleted, or something, quite a while ago.
RobJN:
Many thanks for the welcome!
I don't hold out much hope for the data to be floating around on any of AOL's servers these days. With the closing down of the Community Leader program, the volunteers who maintained the file libraries, moderated message boards, and hosted chats went bye-bye. And the File Libraries were about as legacied as a system can get.
Still, with as diverse a crowd as seems to gather here, I figured there's no harm in checking to see if anybody'd even heard of it.
It's nice to have somewhere to "talk shop."
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