darkfoxprime

Never mind, I was wrong - it was not a shared-world story like I thought. I found it on Nifty, from 2002 - Bathys by Nial Thorne.

Hello all, I'm trying to remember a shared-world story I ran across years ago, about an underground city built a mile under the surface of the Earth. I don't remember if the stories ever got started, I just remember finding (on the web) the premise and descriptions of various parts of the underground world. I know this isn't a lot of info, but does anyone else remember any more about this? Thanks in advance, - dfp

Heh, interesting toy. I ran this on the four completed parts of my "Summer Love" story, and ended up with #1 and #4 getting marked female by a wide margin, and #2 and #3 getting marked male by a wide margin. I didn't think I was that conflicted... - dfp

I just finished reading Desert Dropping for the second time this morning. *happysigh* Now I am going to need to go back and reread the rest of Dom's stories.

I haven't re-read any of them yet, but I probably *will* re-read Desert Dropping again - right now, it's still my favorite of Dom's completed stories. (With Trust was looking promising for that title...)

Not that I write very often, but when I do, most of the time my main character is some projection of myself into a different reality. It's not easy for me to "get inside the head" of some random character I create; it's much easier to say "this is me if I'd grown up in such-and-such an environment". Although, in my submission for Ghosts, my main character is entirely fictional, and I have a cameo appearance as myself (with a different name of course) - dfp

When my boyfriend became my fianc

Thanks, everyone, for all the well-wishes! Wedding and dinner are now over, so it's time to go relax for a while

July 17, 1991 - Forever begins July 17, 2008 - Forever begins again Today, I'm getting married to the most wonderful man I've ever known. We met 17 years ago when a mutual friend pushed us together, asking each of us to comfort the other. We fell in love within the first hour of speaking to each other on the phone. An hour after that, I was making plans to drive the 200 miles from my college to his college to see him the next day. That day, July 17, 1991, I gave my heart to him. This morning at 10am PDT, I get to do it legally. Thanks to the California Supreme Court's ruling of May 15, 2008, it is unconsistitutional in the state of California to bar marriage licenses from gay men and women, on the grounds that (summarized) civil ceremonies are an equal but separate institution and therefore violate the state constitution. Today, on the 17th anniversary that my fiance' and I have been together, we are getting married. I am the happiest man alive right now. And the most nervous.

Hanging On A song from a dream Are songs actually allowed in eFiction? - dfp

I came here because of DomLuka and got hooked on the stories of several authors, so my main reason is "The Regular Stories". I also added in "other" to reflect the learning-to-write that I get from here, despite the rarity of the writing thing on my part. - dfp

I don't remember exactly what you're rereferring to here, but one general way to indicate that the next paragraph is still being spoken by the same person is to *leave off* the quotation mark at the end of the previous paragraph. That signals that the next paragraph is more of the same quotation. Not sure if it would work in these cases, tho, without seeing it. - dfp

I've been using "darkfox" since mid-1991, but ran into conflicts with someone else (who started using the name after me ) and so ended up changing over to "darkfoxprime" for forums and such. "darkfox" came from an online roleplaying system I was part of. The characters were all anthropomorphized animals, and at the time I was playing a fox named "quickfox" who's primary characteristics were an overabundance of energy and-a-tendency-to-go-for-whole-paragraphs-without-taking-a-break-or-a-breath-and-without-using-spaces-and-sometimes-without-ending-sentences-as-long-as-he-could-keep-his-train-of-thought-going. Then I got hit by a massive dose of depression, and as I dropped towards being suicidal I changed quickfox into darkfox, who was basically posessed by a bloodthirsty demon, couldn't handle sunlight, fed off of negative emotions, and basically wanted to tear the living heart out of anyone around him and eat it. That ended when I met my 17-year-partner-now-fiancee', and darkfox fell in love.

I'm not a regular writer, so I'm not sure I fit in to the subject, but for me, most of my "writing" actually happens in my head when I'm trying to go to sleep I'll start getting relaxed and comfy in bed, then my mind will spark an idea, or continue something I thought of earlier, and suddenly I'm drafting out passages in my mind. Sometimes, I fall asleep anyway, and occasionally lose what I've been thinking about that way, but most of the time, I end up having to get out of bed and go type it all in before my brain will let me sleep. - dfp

This was a hard story to read through for editing, because I kept having to go back a few paragraphs and remind myself to read the words, not the story; I kept getting caught up in it! I often insist that I dislike reading sad stories, but the good ones always catch my attention and draw me on through the (bitter) conclusion, always hoping for that miracle ending. Good job!

Pickin' On Pink Floyd - A Bluegrass Tribute I saw this and randomly picked it up, and I love it. It's 12 of Pink Floyd's most popular pieces, redone using bluegrass instruments (mandolin, fiddle, 5-string banjo, guitar, bass, harmonica). It's great

*snicker* Nice

Most of my work is on a unix server I run at home, which has daily backups done onto tape, and the tapes are kept for about 3 weeks before being reused. However, I'm not always good about changing the tapes once a week at home, so when I forget for a couple of weeks straight, I'll start missing backups. I started doing my backups a year ago or so, after I realized I had deleted a directory that contained my only copies of three stories I'd written. Now at least I have *something*. - dfp

Oh - after 17 years already, I'm sure we'll be together long enough I'm just worried about the constitutional amendment proposition that will be on the november ballot.

Yay! My partner / "boyfriend" / OneTrueLove came into my work, brought me a bouquet of 17 roses (one for each year we've been together), and proposed to me. We're going to get our license on our actual 17th anniversary, and have our wedding ceremony and celebration next year (assuming the marriage license lasts that long...) - dfp

Sneak peeks, that's where I recognize this from! I'm still hooked on it as much as I was then. Definitely looking forward to more. - dfp

First off, I love the idea. This is used to great effect in NCIS, where each scene begins black-and-white snapshot from the end of the scene - and where they do a cold-start to set up the episode before the credits. For your introduction, what about a twilight zone-style monologue directed specifically from the author to the reader? "Submitted for your approval: A quiet neighborhood, just like any other neighborhood in any other town. You can sit on this porch and watch people grow up, go to school, fall in love, get married, and move into their own house to start the cycle again. But it doesn't always happen that way. Meet Matt, a young man struggling to find his own way..."

My photo depends on my mood...

Easy one first: The Internet- I have no real fears with the Internet. maybe I'm too trusting in my own system administration abilities. The World Around you - spiders and snakes are easy. I grew up in the desert, with rattlesnakes living in the area and black widow spiders everywhere. The hard one for The World Around You is my "Other" fear - of going blind. Since grade school, I've been terrified of the thought of going blind. Everything I do for relaxation, for enjoyment, for my job, *everything* relies on sight. Without the ability to use the computer (for programming, reading, writing, playing games, everything), I'd almost feel like it's not worth living anymore, except for the love of my life partner. For Personal & Relationships, I voted "Other" - my irrational fear (which might not be so irrational) is of getting attacked whenever I hold my partner's hand in public. Every time I do so, I unconsciously look around to see who's going to beat me up, and I hate that I do it. It sucks to be afraid to show your love.

Thank you for posting this link, by the way. When I saw this, I went and read all of grasshopper's stuff at iomfats.org in a two-day story-fest, and have followed darkfall since then. awesome stuff