Aleric

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I am afraid to post my story What if nobody has time to look at it? Aleric

Hi Robbie, welcome to gay authors. I badly need an editor, would you be interested to read my unpublished chapters and correct them etc? The only 'demand' I have is that you are native english (living in the USA or California and speaking english all the time), cause that is my biggest problem: I am NOT native english and in a lot of cases I don't know how to say things in a 'natural' way Aleric

I missed it, I was with my parents this weekend But then again... There isn't MSN for non-windows (linux) I suppose? And I don't know how to translate PDT into GMT. Please give times in GMT next time? Aleric PS I'd prefer IRC for chatting -- there are clients for that for every OS.

Happy Birthday reapersharvest! Aleric

Hi from me too. I don't like it that there are so many forums... people will just read one of them in most cases, imho. I know that I stay in 'general' anyway, that way I might miss interesting conversations and people, but well - the alternative is to read all the different forums, isn't that just a lot more work? I don't know how to improve that though, I am not saying those other forums should be removed heheh -- I never really read them, so I don't know how different/needed they are. Aleric PS I gave feedback to 'Do Over' a while back in one of of the threads in 'General', but dk didn't reply... so I guess he missed it Therefore, after I *finished* reading 'Do Over' I went searching for his own personal forum, to add some text to it... and couldn't find it. I guess I am just stupid I noted he is a moderator of 'Dan Luka's' forum, but 'Dan Luka' and dKstories doesn't sound the same, that would be dlstories

Heya dkstories, just a quick note. The 'Story Code' of 'Do Over redux' is wrong. It says 'tt', but a 't' is defined as 13 till 17 years old. I just finished 'Do Over' and didn't read redux yet, but I assume that there will be hardly sex scenes and if there will be, then it will be between Davey and Brian, which are already at least 19. If that is correct, then the code should be 'MM'. Thanks, Aleric

What is 'Internet Explorer'? Must be one those things where non-Winf**k users are considered to be non-existant. I don't use Micro$ofts products, that includes windows. But there isn't even a vote option 'I don't use IE'. By the way, did you know that IE is the number one reason that people can break into your PC? Spyware, sure. More dangerously is the fact that the criminal world is really interested in your PC: to send SPAM mails from or to use it for DDOS. The current worms and virusses are probably written by real (criminal) professionals. Using IE is irresponsible imho. If you have to use windows, then at least secure your machine so that it can't be used for DDOS, and that means/includes (it is by far not enough) DONT use IE.

Me too (because of Comicality). In the past I read stories from nifty, and thought that most was very badly written. Once I found comicalities site, he was The Best, and I assumed there was no other writer in existance that I'd want to read stories from anyway. However, then I read 'Coup

People here saying they 'hardly dream anymore' are incorrect. You always dream, you just don't remember them anymore. Also I do never remember my dreams, or when I do when I wake up then still those memories are totally gone 10 minutes later. I do remember to have dreamed things, whole stories, that are exactly the same as what I dreamed before - I think that is a normal kind of thing. Doesn't happen too often to me though. I never have scary dreams that I can remember. Things like that girl from the ring and stuff don't scare me at all; I think I can explain that with my psychological problem, perhaps... I have Asperger Syndrome and feel detached from reality (if anything scares me then it is THAT, I have medicines against panic attacks, which are often caused by me losing the contact with reality too much, which scares me). It's why I love the computer so much and have no social life: when I live 'inside' the computer, in virtual worlds (including chatting) then I can forget and ignore the horrible feeling that the detachment with the real world gives me. My day-to-day way to stay alive is to ignore the world around me as much as possible... I don't wish that to anyone else. I am not crazy though (in fact, I have very high IQ), you could see as just a disturbance of perception (but then one that doesn't go away when you close your eyes). Anyway, a girl like from the ring creeping up to me would feel like she is creeping up to someone in a movie: its not real, not even when it WAS real, let alone in a dream or on tv, heheh. 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