I've also been considering reading 'War and Peace', thing is, I just don't have the time!! I'm sure I will eventually!

This is certainly the best community thread on MusicianForums/MX/Sputnik whatever yuou want to call it. I haven't seen many that have the same range of conversation topics, and people tend to be able to express their opinion and not get killed for it!! It's probably because we're all literate (or pretend to be anyway)

Timmy P

My suggestion for a book would always be The Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs.

/gets all sentimental

Yeah. Very good community. Even if Burt spanks us every once on a while for getting off topic about the lyrics... but anything related to literate conversation should be somewhat a topic.

On a related note, I'll see if I can get hooked up with some music later. And I just had the second craziest sushi/ribs buffet in my life. I feel like a pig and I can barely breathe, but it's all good since it was only 5 bucks. :D

Hahaha, sounds good to me, nothing like lots of decent cheap food!! There's a chinese place near me that does an all you can eat thing for £3.50, and an indian restaraunt that does an all you can eat for £5.00. Crazy prices for such awesome food!!

I think eating is one of my favourite past times, I'm giving up comfort eating for Lent though, so it could be interesting. I'm also giving up alcohol, fast food (I don't have that much anyway so it's not a problem), and I'm also giving up fizzy drinks/pop. It's the most I've ever given up before, but it shouldn't be too hard. It'll do me good!!!

Timmy P

[QUOTE]There's a chinese place near me that does an all you can eat thing for £3.50, and an indian restaraunt that does an all you can eat for £5.00.[/QUOTE]

Good god. I'm glad I'm not your digestive system. :p

Hahaha, it's a rare treat, it's rare that I eat out like that. I go to these places perhaps once every couple of months at the most. I much prefer eating a salad at home. But then again, I do have an extremely fast metabolic rate, and I do a lot of exercise; I run about every other night, I go hill walking or climbing every other weekend. During the athletics season I train for at least an hour every day, either jumping - I hold my school and district high jump records, I also have the under14's county record though i can't defend it any more as i'm 15. Or running - I hold the school record for 400m, and my house relay team holds the school record for 4x100m (I take final leg)

Timmy P

Nice. What's your record at high jump? At about 15 I was jumping 1.60ish I think, but I was always pretty good at high jump because I'd been doing gymnastics for about 8 years at that point.
I hate you all, by the way. You're all writing really well, and I can't string together two words. :mad:

I haven't jumped in a few months, but this time last year i was jumping about 1.60outdoors, 1.65 indoors (when i was 14), i'm aiming for 1.70 indoors this year. if i get that, i'll crack the county record for under 15s, and beat all the school records!!

I'm proud that I jump higher than my teacher, he's a qualified high jump coach, and I was jumping about the same as him last year, should be more this year, unless he's been practicing in secret!

Timmy P

^ Well someone has a high opinion of himself. Lol, jk. That's sweet, I should exercise more...I find writing much too addicting, however.

Hahaha, I like to show off about the few things I am good at!!

Anyway, I'm gonna grab a shower and go to bed, school in the morning, and it's already 11:10pm.

Hopefully my attempt at livening up the place tonight half works, who knows.

I'll be back tomorrow, hopefully a little more awake than now!!

Night everyone,

Timmy P

That's pretty damn good. :)

I was always better at the triple jump though - at 15 I was jumping about 10.5m consistantly, which was fairly good even if I do say so myself. I don't do it any more though, as I ruptured the ligaments in my knee playing football, and I can't risk the high impact of the jumps. :(

I like to show off about the few things I am good at!! < Hah. I feel ya. All I'm good at is writing, so I get cocky about that sometimes.

Oh man. Chinese food is amazing.

My girlfriend is to paranoid about eating a lot... so I feel bad when we go out to chinese buffets. We went to one on Valentines day because Applebee's was full. Haha. We could have waited around... but I would rather have had General Tsou Chicken, or whatever they call it.

I have to give a demonstrative speech Thursday for my Public Speaking class. I think I plan on telling people how to make a good house out of Legos for 6 minutes. If anyone has any better ideas, let me know. :)

My other one was making tea... Boiling water for a few minutes then drinking it. Probably talking about it while I made it, but still. Tea rocks.

Do you guys think a flash-fiction thread would work in here? Something for short, 100-500 word pieces? I wouldn't mind it as a break from all the poetry.

I think short fiction would be kind of nice, I enjoy reading it, though I wouldn't really give a critique other than if I liked it or had a question.

Yah, critiquing would be a pain, but I'd probably enjoy reading some of them at least.

Yeah, I was thinking it'd just be a place to post [i]whenever[/i] and as often as someone wanted. No crits or anything.

lawl, now watch as it fills up with amateur scene-kid erotica. *shudder*

I may submit at some point, although right now my creative juices have frozen solid. :(

Hopefully it won't turn into Lyric Game Fing II. :)

I'll probably submit something later tonight, after practice. Have to at least spend [i]some[/i] time with the guitar. :)

It could be meade, without the critiquing hassle. Maybe a comment or two or whatever.

It can be made.

I submitted. Haven't checked yet.

I'm writing my first short story for it.

[QUOTE=A_Perfect_Sonnet]I'm writing my first short story for it.[/QUOTE]
Post it in the Short story thread in the pit.

You know you want it... c'mon...

I'd submit, but no story of mine is under 10 pages.

I write semi-fiction a lot. But just like DeadReligion said, it's never less than about 20 pages. It seems like a lot, but when you've spent so much time on it, and you really have the feeling for it it kinda flies by.

I also use a lot of description in my writing, I'm a little like Steinbeck in 'Of mice and men' at the start of each chapter he'd have a page or two of description. That's because it was originally written to be performed on stage though, the description at the beginning of each chapter is like the introduction and setting at the beginning of each scene or act in a play.

Would certainly be good fun to read some other peoples work though. As you've said, just leaving comments and stuff instead of full crits.

Timmy P

Post it in little sections then. :)

Personally, I like flash because I don't have a whole lot of time (or an attention span) to read internet stories. Which is wierd because I don't have that problem with books at all.

'Of mice and men' < Heh, I'm reading that for the second time in English. Great book.

Personally, I like flash because I don't have a whole lot of time (or an attention span) to read internet stories. Which is wierd because I don't have that problem with books at all. < I'm the opposite.

Heh, books used to put me to sleep [i]instantly[/i].

I've always been an avid reader. I've been reading an awful lot since I was about 9, I used to sit in an armchair by the fire with the cat on top of me and read for hours. Quite a story book moment!!

When I write fiction/semi-fiction I can never keep it down to a decent length I have to get my ideas down in the ebst way possible, and most of the time that involves description (I'm quite a sucker for beautiful descriptions). Unfortunately in writing my description tends to be fairly long winded. Though in person I can describe something in very few words. It's quite strange and annoying on occasions.

Timmy P

I usually like reading, but I don't like when I'm too hooked up.... which happens very often, and I keep reading and reading until I finish a good chapter or two... Other thimes I'm lazy and stop in the middle of something.

I should get back to reading more. I need to clear my mind and start doing mentally productive things.

the flash-fiction thread is dying, post some work, guys