The Drop in Centre

[Thorn Wilde]

Coffee with my new friend was awesome. We have so much in common. We like a lot of the same things (but not enough for conversation to get boring), we talked about practically everything. I talked about gender, he asked good, respectful and well informed questions, I just had the most wonderful time. And he’s a little bit queer. Like, he doesn’t want to put a label on it, but he says he’s not entirely straight. Which is cool. Means if he wants he’ll fit in nicely with my friends. Even though I’m definitely on my way into a depressive episode, I feel happy right now. New friends are great.

[Brayon]

The Second story now Beta Read.

 

It is my hope everyone is doing better today.

[Thorn Wilde]

So, I don’t know if anyone here has heard of the Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgård, but I just watched a 90 minute take-down of his awful, misogynistic, rape apologist, homophobic, borderline Nazi six volume memoir by a woman who used to babysit me as a kid, and it was glorious. This has been a good day. 

Edited December 13, 2018 by Thorn Wilde

[Mikiesboy]

Nice pictures of active volcanoes

 

[Thorn Wilde]

11 minutes ago, Mikiesboy said:

Nice pictures of active volcanoes

 

 

Amazing how something so destructive can be so beautiful.

[Starrynight22]

10 hours ago, BHopper2 said:

I'm in a love/hate relationship with my Amazon Fire tablet. It does everything I need, but it's a pain in the backside to type on. I'd still would recommend it.

Get a keyboard for it. 

[mollyhousemouse]

2 hours ago, Mikiesboy said:

Nice pictures of active volcanoes

 

awesomely powerful

thanks for sharing

[Thorn Wilde]

Anyone else occasionally find themselves reading their own old stories and thinking, damn, this is actually pretty good? Or am I a particular brand of narcissist?

[Thorn Wilde]

Bedtime for this guy. Goodnight, everyone!

[Reader1810]

31 minutes ago, Thorn Wilde said:

Bedtime for this guy. Goodnight, everyone!

Good night Thorn...happy dreams 

[Mikiesboy]

i need to work ... if i am here i am not working ... if you need me.. pm .. those who have email can do so.  i'll reply.  ... carry on.

[MichaelS36]

50 minutes ago, Mikiesboy said:

i need to work ... if i am here i am not working ... if you need me.. pm .. those who have email can do so.  i'll reply.  ... carry on.

Indeed.

[Kitt]

Morning everyone.

 

Hope you slept some since your last post tim!  Enjoy your day off!

[mollyhousemouse]

good morning

 

[Thorn Wilde]

Morning, everybody. Hope you're all well. Tired today. Possibly too much social interaction for this introvert yesterday. And I find myself having one of those second guessing my worth and wondering if people actually like me or not days.

[Carlos Hazday]

10 hours ago, Thorn Wilde said:

Anyone else occasionally find themselves reading their own old stories and thinking, damn, this is actually pretty good? Or am I a particular brand of narcissist?

 

Sometimes...

 

More often I read and groan. "Damn this sucks" is more likely to come out of my mouth.

[Thorn Wilde]

7 minutes ago, Carlos Hazday said:

 

Sometimes...

 

More often I read and groan. "Damn this sucks" is more likely to come out of my mouth.

 

I mean, it depends on how far back I go. If it's pre-2013, I'm more likely to think it's terrible. But I think that year is when I really came into my own as a writer... When I got here, basically. 

[Carlos Hazday]

2 minutes ago, Thorn Wilde said:

 

I mean, it depends on how far back I go. If it's pre-2013, I'm more likely to think it's terrible. But I think that year is when I really came into my own as a writer... When I got here, basically. 

My experience is different. I never wrote fiction before I joined GA and almost everything I've scribbled's out there for people to see.

[Mikiesboy]

11 hours ago, Thorn Wilde said:

Anyone else occasionally find themselves reading their own old stories and thinking, damn, this is actually pretty good? Or am I a particular brand of narcissist?

most of my early work is poetry... it is my heart and soul during some horrible times, when it was all i had. there were no friends or family, only poetry.  my later prose such as Michael and Me, simply shows my growth. it was my skill level at the time ... i've become so much better.

the only way we get better is to write and READ! ... so @Carlos Hazday embrace the past because without it, you wouldn't be where you are

[Mikiesboy]

 

aint that the truth

[Mikiesboy]

zibeline    noun | ZIB-uh-leen

Definition

: a soft lustrous wool fabric with mohair, alpaca, or camel's hair

 

Though zibeline is woven from the hair of alpacas, camels, or Angora goats, its name actually traces back to a Slavic word for the sable, a small mammal related to the weasel. The Slavic term was adopted into Old Italian, and from there it passed to Middle French, then on to English in the late 1500s. English zibeline originally referred to the sable or its fur, but in the 19th century it developed a second sense, applying to a soft, smooth, slightly furry material woven from a mixture of animal hairs. It's especially suited to women's suits and coats, or, as a fashion columnist in the December 6, 1894 issue of Vogue observed, "Zibeline ... makes an exceedingly pretty, warm theatre cloak, not too fine to be crushed into the small one-chair space."

 

 

***i have never heard this word before... and i have written about goats, though not Angora ...

[Thorn Wilde]

58 minutes ago, Mikiesboy said:

most of my early work is poetry... it is my heart and soul during some horrible times, when it was all i had. there were no friends or family, only poetry.  my later prose such as Michael and Me, simply shows my growth. it was my skill level at the time ... i've become so much better.

the only way we get better is to write and READ! ... so @Carlos Hazday embrace the past because without it, you wouldn't be where you are

 

Exactly this. And I think occasionally rereading things you wrote a long time ago can be beneficial for further development and improvement.

 

I have some stuff published under a different pen name from ages ago, though, and it's so, so bad! I am never divulging that pen name to anyone here. Ever. I'd delete every account I had, but truth be told, I don't remember my passwords and don't even have access to the e-mail addresses I used back then.

[Brayon]

My current mood watching this second 3-hour long video.

[Backwoods Boy]

8 minutes ago, BHopper2 said:

My current mood watching this second 3-hour long video.

Oh, my!  The opportunity here for inappropriate comments are endless.  But I'll refrain...

[Thorn Wilde]

1 minute ago, Backwoods Boy said:

Oh, my!  The opportunity here for inappropriate comments are endless.  But I'll refrain...

 

Refrain? How boring!