[QUOTE=crimson hands]just a sorta random question, how old are people on here? there seems to be a real contrast of ages/maturity, going by the subject matter of the work posted.

(I'm nineteen)[/QUOTE]
I'm 16.

Also this new rule... do you have to crit something BEFORE you post a new piece?

22.

21 in ten days.

15

I have the muse!! I'm back, with inspiration. I got it at school today and sat in German with a pad of paper and scribbled down every image/idea that came into my head. I've got about 5 pages worth of ideas running through me!

It's fantastic to be back...Tonight's piece has been put up on the board:)

Timmy P

21... My Birthday is in a few months... 22 scares me.

I'm 15, I started here at 14.

18 on May 16th.

18. High School is dwindling.

18 on June 21st.

Solstice for the win :p

ah, that's good news. I thought I was the old fart around here. Good to know there's always someone nearer death than you are. :p

Quote of the day;

[QUOTE=Magnus55]Poetry is like a steak, you want to cut off as much of the excess so you only have the most important content left. Other than that, good job. :)[/QUOTE]

Wonderful!! I don't necessarily agree with it, but it's quite a simile!

I'm 18. And hawt. a/sl, pix? thx u.

Grah. I am writing my final paper (not final for the class...) right now. My professor has given me 14 and 15s out of 15 on all my essays thus far, but I am afraid of this one. It's due tomorrow. I am writing about PETA and how deconstructive they are. Intense? I thought of it monday.

Oh! I heard half of one of Chuck Palahniuk's short stories Wednesday. "Guts". Don't read it. It will mess you up.

Also, I picked up [I]Eats, Shoots & Leaves[/I] by Lynne Truss, along with a few other books. Check it out. It's good thus far.

It's about punctuation.

Chuck Palahniuk is overrated. I like Fight Club as much as the next guy but his writing's not very good.

Good luck on your paper,metaliq.

His writing is very contemporary. The short story wasn't badly written... in fact, his imagery was quite ellegantly depicted, too much almost. Very... graphic.

Eww. I dont want to think about it right now.

Thank you, sir. Once I get this out of the way... I will be able to get back on track with my writing. I have been idle recently. But school is just a scapegoat --- I am learning how to write. :)

I quite liked Diary and Survivor (Chuck Palahniuk) I've still yet to read Invisible Monsters but I don't think I can be bothered with reading Fight Club... I Hate seeing a movie before I read the book; I can never get the movie imagery out of my head and constantly think about how it deviates away from the plot in order to be entertaining in an audio/visual format.

Eats, Shoots and Leaves is really interesting but I doubt I could sit down and actually read it... I just pick it up everynow and then. My grandfather & grandmother have it because they are a language and grammar nazis. They absolutely hate it if I say [i]"Me and *Insert Persons Name* did blah blah blah"[/i] or if I start a sentence with [i]"but..."[/i] and are constantly telling me how to pronounce the letter "H". Old people are funny. They think about silly things.

I agree with you jurialmunkey. Once I see a movie I fail to see the point in reading the book. Of course I'd love to read the book [I]before[/I] the film, but oh well. I get the same imagery stuck in my head and it's annoying not being able to create my own.

Hmm. I liked the imagery in [I]Fight Club[/I].

The movie was quite faithful to the book, might I add.

My point was that seeing a movie before reading the book kind of destroys the magic of why I read a book in the first place. I loved Fight Club I thought it was great, but because I've seen the movie I'm not going to rush out and read it... If someone lends it to me I'd most likely read it.

Haha. It's cool. :)

I need to finish [I]Player Piano[/I] still.

[QUOTE=Classlessness]I agree with you jurialmunkey. Once I see a movie I fail to see the point in reading the book. Of course I'd love to read the book [I]before[/I] the film, but oh well. I get the same imagery stuck in my head and it's annoying not being able to create my own.[/QUOTE]

One of the books that I'm glad I read before I saw the film was Clockwork Orange. The film has such a distinctive look that it's hard to get it out of your head.

i really need to start posting here again. plus i havent had much inspiration for writing lately. it REALLY sux

hmmm, Kurtnovogrohl is about again.

I'm about to eff Jason up again.

The British Coastguard is a trivial job, everyone knows an air siege (WWII) is most successful.

Ordered a few cds today: Welcome the Plague Year, Funeral Diner, and Hot Cross.

eff up failed, Sonnet. ;)

The British Coastguard is a different entity altogether from the US Coastguard - we're a non-military organisation concentrating solely on SAR (Search and Rescue) missions, and we don't even actually have more than a handful of specific Coastguard boats, and even then, they're certainly not armed. Most of the actual rescue side of things at sea is handled by the RNLI, which is a voluntary lifeboat service funded entirely by donations. The role of the Coastguard over here is to save lives, not to sit there with a 9-inch cannon on deck blowing Cubans out of the water. :cool:

But remember with Americans, anything and everything is armed to the brim.

haha, good point. Guess it's more fun if you're holding a big gun anyway.

on an unrelated note, am I the only one that's noticing a recent increase in the number of emotional pop-punk style 'almost witty and clever but not quite' lyrics a lá P!ATD and Fall Out Boy?

Whilst I've got no doubt this will get irritating fast, let's just be thankful it means new writers are at least [i]attempting[/i] to be clever instead of whining in the same old '4-lines AABB rhyming' structure.

i ain't 'fraid to die
i ain't got **** to lose

What about the love and support from all of your internet friends?

Kind of on a related note, could we make it a rule where people ca not put up partially completed pieces? I'm sick of giving someone a critique and then they just blow it off by saying "oh yeah well I wasnt done with it anyway".

I mean people should be only posting up their finished polished pieces, not partially constructed skeletons of lyrics. You wouldn't ask me to taste test your food when you're not done cooking it, why would you ask me to critique your writing when it's not complete?

Then again, I've posted some half-done stuff and gotten a decent critique.

Why don't we make a rule where you don't get so serious over the internet.