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[maddie]

No Yue it was hailing yestarday .

[maddie]

Wait where do you live Yue? Like in the city?

[Heidi]

Hey hows it going everybody?

[RedPath]

It's aight.

[Amity☺Currently-Awesome☺]

good.

[Amity☺Currently-Awesome☺]

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[Heidi]

Hows everybody doing this morning? :)

[Amity☺Currently-Awesome☺]

good...

[Heidi]

Brigid *Flying Kick-a-pow!* wrote: "All right, but I should be doing my homework. Bleh."

So should I but i really don't want to so I might not do it

[Heidi]

Hope wrote: "How ya doin'?"

Great!! :)

[maddie]

That's ok :) and I'm good......I'm good

[Alyssa]

I'm new here. So can you add a story or anything?

[Sevania]

Yup :) just make your own topic in the appropriate genre folder.

[Brigid ✩, No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.]

Yes ... like Sevania said, all you have to do is make a topic for your story and put it in the right genre folder (that is, if say your story is sci-fi, put it in the sci-fi folder).

[[deleted user]]

Has anyone read Nothing like Us by Jayda in the Realistic Fiction Folder?

[Tempest]

No not me. Sorry if I'm busting in on a conversation here but I wanted to random chat. Hi. Anyone for Tom Lehrer?

[Urth]

What about 1984?

[Tempest]

...?

[Isaac]

Tempest wrote: "...?"

The book 1984.

[Tempest]

Oh. I haven't read it.

[Brigid ✩, No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.]

*revives topic*

[Mindy]

Haha, thanks Brigid! I wanted to ask you how your exams/graduation is going?

[Brigid ✩, No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.]

Aw, thanks for asking! I don't have exams because I go to a hippie college where there are no tests or grades. :P However, during our senior year we have to spend a majority of our time working on a big independent project, so that's what I've been working on lately––mine is an illustrated novel (although the project isn't the whole thing ... it's only a portion of it). I have a big draft due on Tuesday so I'm freaking out a bit, but I think it will be fine. There's only 24 days until I'm set to pass everything, and then graduation is just a couple weeks after that. o_o

How about you? What are you up to?

[Isaac]

I can't believe you're so close to graduating Brigid I still remember when you were a senior in high school O.o

[Brigid ✩, No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.]

Hayden wrote: "I can't believe you're so close to graduating Brigid I still remember when you were a senior in high school O.o"

IKR? When I first joined Goodreads I was a freshman in high school. >.<

[Isaac]

You got to see me right after I ended my sixth grade year. >.<

[Mindy]

Woohoo!
Very exciting. I like the idea of a project as opposed to exams, it puts your learning into more practical application.
Illustrated book...totally down your avenue, I'm not worried for you

[Mindy]

I had to put college on hold for this semester, I had problems with financial aid...I'm looking into scholarships for now and still trying to decide what to do with my life...yeah real teenagerish, I know.

[Brigid ✩, No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.]

My thinking exactly! I much prefer doing my own projects and research than being tested on specific things. Aw thank you. I have to turn in my rough draft today and I'm nervous, but it'll probably be fine. *crosses fingers*

Sorry about the financial aide problems, I know how that is. :( I only got into two colleges, and one of them basically gave me no aide at all. Fortunately the other school (the one I go to now) was much more generous, and I liked it better anyway. :P

[Mindy]

How do I know if I really am a writer, or I just think I am? Sometimes and I'm convinced that there's nothing else I want to do with my life rather than to be a writer, and maybe a literature teacher or something. But other time I realized that my writing really isn't that good, and I'm not trying to be modest here. Do you think it's something I can work on? Or maybe I should just move on, and find something I can do.

[Mindy]

The reason I'm asking it here, and not asking my friends and family, is because at least here it's impersonal. My friends always just want to make me feel good so they're like "yeah sure, your a great writer" but I don't really trust them, because first of all you're just trying to make me feel good. And second of all they don't really like reading and writing so it's not like they're experts on the topic.

[Isaac]

The only requirement to be a writer is to write. Being an author takes a bit more. Fortunately, just like any other skill, you keep practicing and you will improve. Writing is something you just keep learning your entire life.

[Mindy]

You need discipline. Until now I've just been writing when I'm in the mood to. Guess that's not the way.
Hayden, how did you finish writing your book? it's really good. Did you write consistently, or only when you
Were in the mood?

By the way I know that my grammar looks atrocious here but thats just cuz I'm using speech command lol

[Isaac]

I have horrible grammar on other websites, don't worry. I only wrote when I felt like it, which isn't really the best way to go since it is a discipline thing. But writing when I want to also keeps it from sounding forced. I had certain parts of the story I'd be really excited to get to, so I'd tell myself, "You can write that as soon as you write this," and I'd hurry up and write it to get to that.

It helps to be super invested in the story and characters. I'm tempted to keep writing for Josh and Ben because I am too infatuated with them. Thanks for the compliment, though! I'm editing it right now, and oh boy, I have a lot to change.

[Gemma]

Hey guys, so since this is a random chat, I was thinking of getting the Selection series. Is it worth purchasing? Or should I just borrow it from the library?

[Brigid ✩, No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.]

Mindy wrote: "How do I know if I really am a writer, or I just think I am? Sometimes and I'm convinced that there's nothing else I want to do with my life rather than to be a writer, and maybe a literature teach..."

If you write, you are a writer. If you have a desire to improve your writing skills, you are a writer. It's actually a very good thing that you realize you are not perfect. There's a quote I really like by Steven Pressfield:

"If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), 'Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist?' Chances are, you are. The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death."

In other words, people who think they are perfect are usually far from it. Whereas, people who question their skills, who constantly learn from mistakes and from feedback, are the ones who end up being the better writers/artists in the long-run. No one's writing is flawless when they first start out. Keep writing, keep reading, keep putting your work out there and listening to feedback––and I promise you will only see yourself improve. :)

[Dana]

hello this is random but today i realized -

YOUNG WRITERS HAS 2000 MEMBERS!!

[Brigid ✩, No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.]

Holy moly, that's a lot.

[Sam~~ we cannot see the moon, and yet the waves still rise~~]

And very few of them ever post... ??

[Isaac]

Sam~~ we cannot see the moon, and yet the waves still rise~~ wrote: "And very few of them ever post... ??"

I know? 5 years ago this group was always so active and now it's dead a lot of the time and there's even more people now than back then. Post everybody, I miss doing stuff on this group.

[Dana]

^ me too. I remember back when I first joined (of course, it was a lot later than y'all) there was so much stuff going on all the time.

[Mindy]

wow, it's been a long time guys! i don't have internet access at home anymore so i can only check in when i'm at the library without my daughter. So how has everyone been? Brigid you must have graduated already! Hayden, any new writing?
I've been writing more recently, and want to post my latest short story. I just have to finish typing/editing it first.

[Mindy]

Thanks Brigid for the encouragement! Someone actually just reccomended the book The Artist's Way to me, and it is very helpful! It's very religious if you don't have a problem with that. It talks alot about connecting with your inner creativity and believing in yourself.

[Brigid ✩, No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.]

Mindy wrote: "wow, it's been a long time guys! i don't have internet access at home anymore so i can only check in when i'm at the library without my daughter. So how has everyone been? Brigid you must have grad..."

Yes I did graduate! It feels weird to be done with college ... and I still have to find a job. And I really have not been productive lately at all. But things have been okay.

You're welcome! I'm not religious so I don't know if it would really be my thing, but I do really like that one quote. :)

[Anastasia]

@Hayden: I agree with you. This place used to be active almost daily, but it's like wandering through a large ghost town now.

I started to notice that happening around NaNoWriMo this past year (or maybe it was just that thread). Usually, once we finish NaNo, the group goes silent for a little while, but is back and functioning by January. That didn't happen this year, and I'm still trying to figure out why.

Maybe it's because of school. I know that's definitely the reason why I've been so inactive as of late. I've been lurking around the threads, even if I never really post anything anymore. (Sorry.) Perhaps this really long post will make up for it, eh? ;)

[Anastasia]

@Mindy: I'm on the app, so I can't reply to your comments directly because this app is stupid like that, but my mother gave me The Artist's Way as a Christmas present last year. It's nice to know someone else has read it and enjoyed it. I'll have to make the time to look at it myself.

[Sam~~ we cannot see the moon, and yet the waves still rise~~]

Anastasia [I'm Wonderstruck...] wrote: "@Hayden: I agree with you. This place used to be active almost daily, but it's like wandering through a large ghost town now.

I started to notice that happening around NaNoWriMo this past year (o..."

anastasia you exist what is this

[Isaac]

Dana \\i believe in the sky// wrote: "^ me too. I remember back when I first joined (of course, it was a lot later than y'all) there was so much stuff going on all the time."

There's been like, three major waves. There was the first one when this group was made that I wasn't around for, and then I joined in 2010 and the second wave started like, the next year, and then the third wave was like, 2013. Maybe it'll pick up again soon.

Mindy wrote: "wow, it's been a long time guys! i don't have internet access at home anymore so i can only check in when i'm at the library without my daughter. So how has everyone been? Brigid you must have grad..."

No new writing, unfortunately. Just some poems.

[Anastasia]

Sam~~ we cannot see the moon, and yet the waves still rise~~ wrote: "Anastasia [I'm Wonderstruck...] wrote: "@Hayden: I agree with you. This place used to be active almost daily, but it's like wandering through a large ghost town now.

I started to notice that happ..."

A miracle, maybe? I'm ALIVE, y'all! :D

[Sam~~ we cannot see the moon, and yet the waves still rise~~]

@hayden- any new ideas for some writing? (i'm a horrible person, though, i still haven't read picket fences.)

@anastasia- oh, man. craziness!