YOU PEOPLE ARE AWESOME

hey- welcome :) been reading your stuff too, like your humour poems. it is true, reading the work on this site is so very educational (not the right word...um...) -it teaches one a lot, as you have said. I know it has greatly improved my writing to be able to read such excellent work and pick up tips. and guess what? you being here makes you pretty awesome as well, you have uploaded so much work and that teaches other people too, so it's all a huge circle of..um...writing, really (fly in that logic ointment, there) anyway what i really meant to say is it's wonderful that you are enjoying the site (I certainly do, just as much.) the best thing is that you voice that enjoyment, we should all do that more often, because the talent on this site IS exceptional. *skips away waving fairy wand in a demented fashion* haha [%sig%]

I agree. Often the stuff I read on here is better than the stuff I am actually reading in published books. Some people do diary entries to a high standard: I'd recommend Allen Banks (I think he calls himself "Jab" on here) and Sooz Simpson, because they update so often that you can follow their lives. And the difference between reading about their lives and reading the published diaries of literary types (apart from the fact that they unfold in the here and now) is that they lead real lives not poncey ones. If you like stories, try Marc Barber: possibly very English, but in my opinion cast-ironically publishable; also Drew Gummerson, who already has an excellent novel out, and who has a sweet clean style (not necessarily clean content, of course, being Drew). There are many more wonderful writers. Perhaps other abcers can make some recommendations. (I'm not a great reader or judge of poetry, so I've left out mention of it.) d.beswetherick.

hehe, thanks! Your faery stories are not so clean, you know?!

D. Beswetherick is being modest here, he's a very good writer indeed. You can select the "Cherry Picked tales" to see whose work tends to impress the site editors, which the above-mentioned writers do pretty often. I certainly wouldn't consider Drew's work "graphically filthy" but unlike some sites (especially American ones) explicit sex isn't censored; the author is expected to give it an 18-certificate though. [%sig%]

Thanks Rita.