Aleric

Hiya Pyro, well, as direct result of this thread, I found your site and started reading 'In Time'. I read the first 4 chapters so far (they are not so long, so read 4 in one evening) and I like it a lot! You got me both laughing and crying, really! Still, I think I'll finish first what I started first and will finish reading 'Do over' by dkstories, which will take me another week or so. I didn't give feedback about 'Do over' yet, so - lets do that now... Hopefully you don't mind that I do that in public, dkstories... When I started to read it, I realllly enjoyed it. The chapter that Davey went to school the first day was such that I felt that I couldn't compete with that, the humor and way it was written was such that I thought for a moment... I might as well give up writing, I can't even come close to genious like this. Unfortunately, that changed later... It started with your description of the boys involved (I am 5'9"/143lbs myself and I like boys that are half a head smaller, not TALLER ). [side note, why does every author think they can't have a boy in their stories with a dick smaller than six inches? I mean -- even at 12 or 13 they ALWAYS have 6 inch dicks (and adutls 9 inch). That is such utter bullshit!. If an adult has 6 inches he should be glad already (assuming you think longer is better, which is nonsense to begin with). A 13 y/o without pubic hair can easily have just 4 inches imho. Well, unless you start measuring at his asshole of course. But I think that starting at the base on the top side is more logical ] Even later, the boys got older and turned into real 'football hunks' of 6'2" and all muscle etc, ... but ok, the story was still interesting, especially the often genious way that Davey could talk himself out of the most seemingly lost situtation; and well, I can enjoy a good James Bond too. Later I got a bit bored with the detailed history lessons in it though... there is a LOT of history in it, and although I think that you did an amazing job with the research that was needed for this story, I am reading those part with a feeling that nothing is happening... hoping for better parts soon. Now the story has turned into a war-novel and has little to do anymore with the subject that caused me to start reading it... Its still interesting enough for me to want to finish it, but nothing like it was in the start. Of course, that is just my opinion . Things that interest ME are: 1) Boys (till 14 or 15 say), and not tall - make 'm 5'5" or so, and say 110 lbs (50 kg). 2) Psychological and personal problems that come with 'coming out' and or coming-of-age of gay teenagers. 3) Boys with special powers (immortality, telekineses, or like in your case, 20 more years of experience than expected and a very high intelligence), SF thus. Powers that are used sparsely, amazing the 'adults' and 'bullies' around them in little bits. This is one part that I liked a lot in your story thus: (SPOILER) when Davey is sitting in the situation room as a 15 year/old with his braces and the Generals and Admirals just HAVE to admit that he is valuable, even more valuable then they are, given the current situation - and that he enforces respect that is in fact so incompatible with his age that people around him keep having trouble with it. (If anyone else likes this too, then you are gonna LOVE my story but not until chapter 2... I use the entire chapter 1 (which is HUGE) to get to a certain point) Aleric

Ok, the problem was that when I tried to open http://dkstories.gayauthors.org/do-over/ my browser showed me the cached http://dkstories.gayauthors.org/do-over/index.html only after a shift-Reload I got the index.php with the correct links. Thanks PS Myr, I posted to you a while ago in private that I am working on my own site that aims on providing authors with feedback, and that once that was working I'd be willing to help you get it to work on gayauthors too. After I posted that to you, you asked in public for people to help you with stuff like that, and now you are moving the stories to .php, which no doubt has to do with making your own system for this. I don't understand that, you want help or not? I guess that since you started to work on this on your own that you will not be interested in whatever I made... I can't show that yet because I first want to finish my first chapter (so I have a story on it ). Oh well.. I'll be just as happy to use what I worked on in the past months for just me Well, not really happy, I'd feel sad about that.

The requested URL /do-over/do-over-33.html was not found on this server. What happened to http://dkstories.gayauthors.org/do-over/do-over-33.html (and all other chapters of that story)? Now I can't read it before I go to sleep ... Going to read Pyro's story now I guess. But, but... I prefer to finish one story before going to the next Aleric

I don't think that is a question that will help anyone. The Goal of Life is: To Become Happy (not to BE happy), or rather that is the reason one should live imho. Knowing that is not enough however, you need to know how to live your life according to this insight. The answer to the question 'How do I become happy?' is not easily explained, you can only really understand it after having a lot of life experience. But I'll make an attempt anyway: Being happy needs no reason, it is a state of mind. The trick is to simply ENJOY what you have, and not want what you can't get. If you feel depressed then change your mind setting, look around you and ask yourself what you DO like in your life, what can make you happy. That can be very simple things, like the fact that the sun will always shine, or a bird you see flying, a boy that smiles at you in the bus. But there is more to it, because unless you achieve an enlightment in which you are happy simply with BEING, you will need opportunities that make it easier to feel happy. Just sitting at home every day will not get you a boyfriend, nothing will HAPPEN and therefore there is less to enjoy. I think therefore that a good mindsetting is to not expect anything, but still seek change and challenges. Have some variation in your life (go out; say yes if they ask you; take little risk, do things that scare you a little), but don't tell yourself: it has to be like THAT or I won't enjoy myself. You can enjoy just BEING (or that bird) anywhere, and that is what you should do. It won't hurt however to see people and go places at the same time. If I go to a party, I go - but I don't think in advance: they must have my kind of music - or, if there isn't a cute boy I will be bored... I just go, look around and enjoy myself with what is there. If I stand in front of that mirror and open my eyes, I don't ask myself if I happy with my life because that leads nowhere. I AM happy. Don't worry too much and smile a lot . I am also not asking myself if I live the live that I wanted, wanting something leads to disappointment. Aleric

I am working 7 days/week on my site. As posted before, this site will aim at getting feedback from readers. I want it finished before I post the first chapter of my first story . Next to that, I am reading 'Do Over', one chapter every evening before going to sleep. Its pretty cool. I am not really into 6'2" football players (at all), but there is little sex in it, so I am also not really bothered by it Aleric

Thanks Miguel. I don't understand what you mean your last remark though. Aleric

Why post this in General Discussions? I'd like to write something, but apparently I am not allowed to. And when I click on that I get: Sorry, an error occurred. If you are unsure on how to use a feature, or don't know why you got this error message, try looking through the help files for more information. The error returned was: Sorry, the link that brought you to this page seems to be out of date or broken. So, why not post it in the forum for authors only, OR keep the 'entries or questions' thread in a more public forum too?! Aleric

Hey, thanks for the feedback Kel and reapersharvest. And thanks to Myr for trying it out. To everyone else: apparently the *readers* aren't the only ones having trouble responding with feedback. After ending my post with "Feedback, feedback!" I am kinda disappointed. Aleric

QUOTE: "I think... I want to be a boy. [...] But, being a girl would be nice too. Can't I be both?" To make it easier, I'll include the image of the movie at the moment it was said: Aleric PS I think I fell in love with this *doll*, he's so cute! I like especially his teeth Isn't it amazing how much expression they can put into a doll's face? What amazes me most is that he is ugly as hell, and still cute. I suppose its just the little things that do it: Large eyes, small nose and chin and a large head compared to the body. Thats what is in our genes and makes us love our children. But it is still weird.

The way he left (suddenly and through the backdoor, taking every trace of him being here with him) makes me conclude that there has been a fight between Myr and CrackerWriter. This fight can have been going on longer than a week . I suppose it is none of my business, and normally I wouldn't even ask, but I wonder what is the reason for this assumed fight? The reason I ask is because it seems also related to this "walk out" that Patrick mentioned (crackwriter having been his editor, it seems clear those two have been talking about this and that that was one of the reasons for Patrick to bring up the topic, on the list). Bottom line, as you see I am just guessing - and I suppose that everyone else is doing this too (and we're supposed be good at making up stories . In order to put this behind us, I think that it might be good to explain what actually has happened. Can you enlighten us, Myr? Love, Aleric

Huh, we moved? I never noticed it! Aleric PS Great move Myr, heheh.

Hiya all! I noted that www.gayauthors.org doesn't have a favicon.ico. This is a little 16x16 icon that browsers show in front of the URL. I spend a few hours on an icon, and if Myr likes it (or when everyone else like it so much that they persuade him) then maybe you can use it? :king: The icon exist of two 'male' signs (a circle with an arrow) that are linked together. One of the two is a little smaller than the other . I cannot show .ico file here, so I made a little "screen shot" that shows how it would look: You can see the icon in front of the url and,in this case, on the menu bar (since I have a direct link to gayauthors from there). Feedback, feedback! Aleric

Hiya Myr! yesterday I read the last chapter of HP that you posted. I've read one chapter every night before going to sleep in the past month. It was a nice month, and I'll miss it You comment before the last chapter was that it had been a full year before you posted that -- and that you hoped to be a lot sooner with the next chapter. But in three months it will be AGAIN a full year Nevertheless, thanks for writing it, I have enjoyed it a lot. Going to find another series to read now, Aleric

Goodbye Patrick. I am not going anywhere, thats for sure. And apart from your post, I've seen NOBODY else say anything like this. Blah, Aleric

This is EXACTLY what I am working on Right Now. In fact, I am learning SQL and PHP for the sole purpose of assuring myself feedback once I post my story! Once I post my story you will see for yourself. If the system that I will design appeals to the other authors here, then of course I will give them (or Myr - for this site) the needed info and support. But bear with me - I am still learning php! heheh Maybe in a month or two I'll be ready to go 'online' with my story. Aleric

Thats beautiful. Put lots of young boys in your stories and I am sure I'll like to read it. Note that I will like it with or without sex. The best stories on this site turn out to be those with almost no sex in it anyway: its not the sex scenes that carry the story - although sometimes it can be that looking forward to a sex scene can make it better - but more as a teaser. Will they get eachother? Slow, real slow... thats how I like it Aleric PS My first chapter is now 18828 words and there is no sex anywhere insight heheh. That is... you KNOW it going to come - but not this chapter. Yet, that is precisely what makes the story more interesting for our target audience I think.

Hey Patrick, that was definitely the right thing to do. Don't worry about losing Mike as friend - you really don't want to have friends that steal from their employer (or anyone else). I understand that you feel bad about betraying "a friend" but there was simply nothing else that you could do imho. Nothing saying something when you find out about something that happened is one thing - but he was STILL stealing and going to steal MORE in the future, and your manager was ASKING you! That means you'd have to LIE !!!! No way. I'd have told my manager for sure too, in your situation. Aleric

To my utter horror - I found that the links on MB's page are broken: http://www.geocities.com/madbomber_78/ I think that "A Circles End' was one of the best SF stories that I read so far, even though it doesn't contain any gay characters (but neither does it contain sex scenes, so it isn't annoying ). I mailed MB in the past, but he never replied. Does anyone know if he's still among us? Where are his stories? I searched the web, but there is no other copy of Circles End anywhere! That would be unacceptable. Hopefully, someone has a local copy, in the case that MB really doesn't respond to email anymore . Anyone? Aleric

Oh Please let us know how he is doing when you hear it! Aleric

Hi Patrick! don't take it personally man . I didn't read your story yet, because I am in the middle of another series (the HP series of Myr). Once I finished that, I'll look for another series to read - preferably one that is long or finished. Normally it could take a year or two years before I started to read your story - simply because I read all stories of one author before going to the next author and have a preference for long stories. However, if you ask me *personally* to read you story, then I will as soon as I finished the HP series ok? But then you have to promise me to read my first chapter too when I publish it heheh. Aleric PS No matter what, I WILL read it some day!

Duh, is that Daniel? Back to writing, Aleric

Ok, cut the crap^H^H^H^Hchit-chat, and post an url to a picture of this Daniel already!

Woah! You wrote a whole BOOK already! Huh... I thought about 'publishing' my first chapter online as soon as I finished the first chapter heheh. The story itself won't be finished then - I have no clue actually what I will write after the first or second chapter (vague ideas that I'll probably forget again before I get to it). Aleric PS I had printed out a part when i was visiting my parents (to correct it there), and my dad read it... He liked it and he wanted to know how it would continue heheh. I told him that I'd put it online for him (it is, I'm just not giving you guys the url which is actually NFS linked to my home directory where I am working on it. So, every change can immediately be read. In the meantime he has mailed me already four times that he wants to know how it continues (and that the parts that I added are good too ) Well - my dad is NOT a boy-lover, or gay, so if he already likes it this much, then maybe maybe others will think its a good story too? ) Not withstanding, I told my dad that he couldn't read the sex scene once I started to write them - that would hold me back (And yes, I am 100% out to my parents and brother) :king: Heh, my mother knew already that I was gay, and then after I returned from a holiday and told her beaming about meeting a boy on the camping in france who turned out to live in the same city (after that we were inseparable for many years ) ... well, you know how to talk and act when you are in love... And then my new friend called me, asking if I was at home... Oops. Something about his voice made my mother ask THE question Fortunately they never made a problem of it and we've been very good friends, inseparable as I already said, so either I did eat dinner at his house (his parents liked me too, I am a nice person *giggle*) or he was eating at our house Yeah, my (and his!) parents rock! )

I saw the movie "Stargate", but that is about it. I have no idea what you mean. Topic? You mean write a story? Aleric