Thanks Lex

You are definitely an inspiration to other potential writers...your expertise as an established author is phenominal and influential

I believe that everyone who participates in this topic has learned from each other...(ESPECIALLY & MOST IMPORTANTLY, you).. what it will take to be a successful writer!

You ROCK!

There is a lot of talent on this site....

And wouldn't it be a shame to let it all go to waste??

We need to be supportive of each other, and we need to make sure everybody knows that writing is not a "lost art"....!!

And that is a BIG reason why I have decided that I am going to go ahead and start up a site for aspiring or established writers.

Anyone have any ideas for a name?

I need something " catchy " that will get people's attention.

I was thinking about calling it the Writer's Roundtable.

That sounds really GREAT

"WRITE NOW"

Not bad. I kinda like that.

I think, re: the naming issue, there's an urge to come up with something playing off the "right/write" parallelism, such as "The Write Stuff" or "Write This Way." Which is fine, as long as it's clear what the site is about!

Understood.

I just don't know another direction to take the name without muddying the waters as to what we're trying to do.

Not to mention, something like

potentialorestablishedwritersshowyourworkandgetadviceorpointershere.com

might be a little difficult to remember...lmao

See, this is why I should never name a website. I'd end up calling it something like "Industrial Baboon vs. Invisible Vibrating Mosquito in Renaissance Luxembourg." Nobody would have any idea what it was about.

On a completely unrelated note, I've been dabbling with the idea of a story about a couple of writers, one male and one female, who live together. The woman is a successful magazine contributor, and the guy is just starting out, trying to be a novelist. I've been tentatively calling it "Two Writes."

They may not know what it was about, but I'd be willing to bet that people would bookmark it to try to figure out...lmao



That sounds like a pretty good concept.

The dynamic between someone who is struggling to get started and someone who's already established could provide some interesting dialogue.

I'm seeing it as a sitcom kind of thing, actually. But I suppose I'll have to write something before it can get to that level!

Yep. Getting started on it would be a good thing....lol

Yeah, I've only got about 12 projects ahead of it....!

Of course, I never end up doing this stuff in the original (planned) order anyway, so....

Fortunately for me, I only have the one project I am working on...I have a couple of other ideas for the same characters, but nothing really pressing.

That makes sense.

Right now, I'm working on

-- Book Four of the current series and

-- Notes, outlines, and some actual chapters of Books Five, Six and Seven

-- An unrelated anthology using one of the characters from Books Two and Four

-- A philosophy book

-- A collection of my comic strips from the mid-1990s

-- A potential collaboration with a Macedonian sci-fi writer

-- And some other stuff I really shouldn't talk about yet so somebody doesn't steal it....

Gawd. I would drive myself bugshit....lmao

I'll stick with the one at a time idea and just make notes about other stories in a notebook...lol

I have the attention span of a gerbil on acid, so I need to have 140 different things going on at any given time....

Well...there are times that I definitely resemble that remark...lol

But as far as the writing goes....since this is my first attempt in a VERY long time to write anything at all, I am trying to focus as much as I can on this project so that it doesn't get lost in the shuffle, so to speak.

By the way....up to 40K words now.

Yes you do... bastard.

Yeah yeah. I do now. Wasn't sure at that time.

Still might change my mind if it doesn't look good to me.

I'm just not far enough along to 100% know.

You know Im kidding... Anyway.. it wont be such a hard thing.. I mean either its a I do, or I dont.. ya know.. no biggie.