Crackerwriter

I may have misled you. I meant I put a photo in my personal profile, not as an avatar.

Well if anyone noticed, and I don't believe they did, or there might have been some reaction, however tiny, I actually put up a personal photo in my profile some time back. However as there was no comment I took it down again! It sort of comes into the category of being prepared for someone to recognise you maybe, and some people on here wouldn't dare risk that, I've no doubt. Still, good on you Aleric. I might put mine back maybe! An ancient one perhaps for a laugh.

Myr, you are so right. It is scary. Let's face it, there are and have been, more wars in the name of religion than any other reason. And each has the cheek to claim they are the only righteous ones. Seems like it's human nature, and that thought really is scary.

Hey, come on, we never made any promises like that....

Sorry, I think you missed my point. Agreed Nifty is No.1 for Gay Stories, but it doesn't get a mention if you search 'gay authors'. Now that's more strange. Maybe time for a few more tags to get us to No2, right after Nifty eh? lol

And if you search for 'gay stories' we're fifth on the list, which isn't bad either considering. I noticed though that in the search for 'gay authors' nifty doesn't even get mentioned on page one! Although that's a bit strange I must say. In fact it's not even in pages two or three... There again, if I search for 'crackerwriter' I get about three hundred odd pages to myself!!!

To be honest, if he's bi, that won't make you terribly happy, because you won't have 100% of his attention, will you? And it sounds as that's what you'd like. I think like others said, you need to sort out who you are yourself, first. Are you gay but using a girlfriend as cover? Or do you enjoy a female body too? It's difficult at your age I know, as even though now I know I'm gay myself, I know very well I was quite able to maintain an interest in a girlfriend at your age. I'm hardly surprised you're confused. One thing you could try out, though you'd have to go about it with extreme caution, and that would be when you're both on your own some time, to get your friends views on homophobic people. If there's someone you know who is really badly homophobic, you could get your friends views on what he thinks of them rather than someone who seems quite tolerant. Having an offhand seemingly innocent discussion about homophobia, might give you a lot of clues as to his feelings about it and possibly warn you if he was liable to have a reaction you didn't want before 'coming out' to him! Just another possibility you could think of trying some time, but pick the right moment when he seems in a very friendly mood!

OMG! Do I need a passport too? Well if I get a month of Sundays I'll give it a go or wait until my computer boffin comes around!

Given your likely age, give it time, eh? And don't put your hopes too high that things will go your way, then you won't suffer dreadful depression if they don't. It's unfortunate that feelings we have for special friends aren't always reciprocated, and the feelings you have for him may not be returned the way you're hoping. It maybe that the best you can hope for is that he will remain a good friend to you. Give it time, and time will tell. Do be careful not to make your feelings known to him too soon and unless you are fairly sure that either his are similar, or that he will not cast you off even as a friend, when you do tell him. Good luck, and for your sake I hope you are right about your friend. Just err on the side of caution.

hope things don't get bad like last time Ethan. We'll all be thinking of her for you. I hope you're in a better position than last time? :wacko:

My little machine certainly wasn't prepared to download it, but it didn't tell me why, which is kind of a nuisance. I might well have watched it otherwise.

heights - yes. Unless I've got something solid under my feet. I'm sometimes tempted to sleep UNDER the bed if it weren't for the possibilities of spiders or other creepy crawlies. I have abject fear of something crawling up my nose or in my ear when I'm asleep. I've watched too many late-night movies. Oh, and wasps. I don't LIKE being stung. The only sad one is dying alone and no one caring. OMG! where's my therapist? Oh. I asked a friend about this just out of curiosity. The reply was 'cotton wool and David Bowie. I guess there's no helping some of us.

The sooner this type of site is banned the better. Ok, some may say it's just sick humour, but there's a darker side. We should all know by now that there will be some dumbass out there who believes it and doesn't see the disclaimer. To think that even one kid would suffer at the hands of a moronic father who would claim - 'but the church says it's ok' - makes me positively shudder. It's no use claiming that no one would be that stupid enough to believe it, because unfortunately, there would be quite a few methinks. There's enough child abuse in ths world without risking even more, even if it was intended as a joke, however sick. There's plenty of other types of sick humour around to satify anyone's taste, but let's not even take a chance on risking a kid's life or welfare here.

And while we're at it, SPACINGS! PLEASE, by common consent, the norm is TWO spaces between sentences. ie. between the full stop of the preceeding sentence, and the Capital letter of the next one, whether or not the full stop is contained withing parenthesis! (") eg. "I'm off." His announcement came as.... Where a comma preceeds parenthesis marks, then there follows just one space before the next word that starts with a lower case letter. eg. "I'm off," he said. Stick to the rules and you'll spare many an editor premature baldness.

Valid point Myr, and I did wonder about that actually.

That'll teach me to look sometime - I didn't even realise there was such a thing! Must be getting too old!

It's curious why such a person who is so negative, would bother continuing to read your stuff then! Perhaps that's how he gets off, by complaining about it. If the fellow was so negative about your writing, he'd just ignore it surely? You're right to delete this type of email! Constructive critisism even if negative is sensible at least, but destructive is not. Carry on disregarding!

Welcome to GA Yankee, enjoy your stay.

I totally agree with Comicality. I would NEVER even consider putting a pic to my characters, since like him, I believe the reader forms their own picture in their mind. I know I have for each character I've written about. Of course some of them were real live people, so I'd never put a pic of them in! The more a reader gets into a story, the stronger their imagined picture of the character gets I think, and this adds realism to the story. It's why I'm purposely never over descriptive of the character, prefering the reader with imagination to conjure up their own ideal pic.

I think the point was missed. No one is twisting any arms around here. No one says you HAVE to declare your sexuality. It was a suggestion to reconsider. On the other hand, I can see that some of our younger authors might, (and I only say MIGHT), still be uncomfortable about coming out so openly. As Rainbow says, it took him fifty years to do so. As a suggestion, perhaps Myr could change the default line to: 'I might tell you if you ask' which would leave more room for manoeuvre, especially for those of you who may feel uncomfortable about openly declaring your sexuality. However my personal opinion stands and I'm not at all bothered about declaring mine, and that I'm gay. As Aleric points out, it would be more harmful if some young readers got the message that it was some dirty secret, that they should hide. On the other hand it might cause more worry if they thought that they had to tell everyone. For those that are not openly 'out' (and I don't mean those who shout about it), I can sympathise. There are many of us who've been there. No one says you have to wave a banner and stuff the news down people's throats so they get mad at you. But for anyone who forgot to put the information in, especially authors, please reconsider?

Welcome to ALL new menbers! So many of you since just the other day! It's good to see people responding and joining GA; now come and post your thoughts with us in the forum.

As one who is rapidly falling apart, Mike, I can appreciate your concerns. Glad to hear you are in better health than you thought! I wish I could say the same! T'other Mike

Happy Birthday Reddragyn. I see you have a few to catch up on me, but never mind! Hope you have many more! :king:

You can always make a chapter break leaving a type of cliffhanger Makes a lot of people bald like that, waiting for the next chapter!

Absolutely agreed young sir!