Bondwriter

Working in theater then, the live performance must be a more pleasant. Being a movie actor would be good for fame and money, but I don't know if I'd enjor the job per se. Do you wish you could stay in space for a few days?

OK, I'll review before I read others' opinions. I really enjoyed a lot the first two chapters. I loved the setting up of the adventure story, and the whole Nick/ Gabe thing, with all the mystery surrounding the tutor. All the other characters (relatives, friends...) are really good. The dialogues flow easily, the general tone is light and playful, with all the hints and foreshadowing that make me want to read further. The rescue in (and out) of the Mc Donald's is great. I have more trouble buying the whole sanctuary episode. I thought it was the final chapter (dumb me, I could have read it wasn't) so I was really eager to know the end. It's still as playful, but it seems to me to be dragging up a bit, with not many answers as to what this mysterious organization does. The whole "besotted with Martin" part is fun as a part, but from my POV it's a bit annoying plot-wise. It reminds me of the SAS series (fascist French spy novels from the 60s and 70s), in which the hero had three different women in every book. So I'll certainly be eager to read chapter 5, because I like your characters, and your style is extremely entertaining. Oh, darn, I forgot to rate it as I read! I'll go back to give a 9 to chapter 1&2, an 8 to ch. 3 and a 7.5 to ch. 4! (Isn't it strange to consider a story chapter by chapter?)

I'm much too distracted by music to listen to it while working, whatever task I'm performing. I can't help focussing on lyrics, which gets me really off track. And music is definitely banned when I use the dictation software. It gives some interesting results sometimes, if you enjoy nonsense.

Thanks a lot for reading and commenting. You people will get me into writing more! (Hope it doesn't sound too much as a threat... )

An old fantasy of mine, so yes. By just counting to three and looking at him (or the other way around) Do you wish you could have healing magic powers?

Dang! It took me all this time to find the introduction thread. I'm from France, as you'll see on the left. I've been writing for years, but for the last ten years I've been mainly interested in writing bondage fiction (I also write for money for advertising and such, and song lyrics for my band...) I've had stuff posted here and there, in various sub-genres (stories for teens or adults, in English and French) I must have come across this site a couple times and shied away from it since it looked very complete. This time I'm giving it a go. So hello, everybody! I should have a good grasp of what's going on here around Cristmas 2008!

Yes, I would. But even better would be to relive my life from this moment on. Do you wish you could morph into an animal (temporarily)?

Ezra Pound edited TS Eliot's poetry, by having him remove pages at a time (The manuscript of the Waste Land is impressive in this regard). I wrote poetry for a magazine with friends for a couple years, and quite often we had each other remove lines, stanzas, or even discard whole poems. I've found out that I always tended to have "summarizing lines" at the end of the poem that were quite superfluous. But it's quite a difficult task to edit somebody else's poems.

Here is the link to a few of my poems; I intend to put others up. Some have been made into songs, some just stand as they are.

No, mind-reading must be scary. I'd much rather imagine this smile or this frown is genuine. And react accordingly. Do you wish you could travel in time?

It's in your mail box. I hope it may be of some help.

Fun story and entertaining characters. If I may put him my little two cents in on the bilingual aspect, you could just have quotation marks for the translation after having the French in italics. Not extremely familiar with Qu

Here is a link to a gay erotica story, originally written in French, if it may be of interest to some. It is completely fantasy, and is intended as such, and is about fetish, bondage and light domination while trying to keep it entertaining. Input, feedback and criticism welcome.

Poetry, song lyrics, fiction: in my opinion, one should always be his/ her first reader. I tend to like poets who speak of their own experience, however trite it may be, and seem to reach out to a more universal crowd. From my experience, it's nice to have an audience in mind, and with fiction I tend to do that (even though readers usually quicly become a reader, the guy who sent you this positive feedback...) But with poetry I know I must like it and be able to reread it weeks later and still get this first emotion I had when I wrote.

First time I wrote a poem had to be in 6th grade in the school's writing club. It was about advertising, I guess at 10 I thought making a point about my views on society seemed really important. Then song lyrics, then "real" poetry when I was in college.