The Isolated Blurt BDSM Thread

[kiwi_submissive]

My blurt for today...Sometimes so much of life feels like a rollercoaster. When you get to the top of the climbs and peer down at the next fall...scream if you must, but do try to throw your hands up and surrender sometimes because at the end of the day or of a life, it's just a terribly beautiful and too short a ride.

Also remember not to take life seriously. It's not like we are going to get out of it alive anyway

 

[Kajira Callista]

Ughhh surgery kicked my ass but i still managed 3 days of work this past week....and since my gall bladder is bye-bye my tummy is way less angry.
Oh and there is always all this percocet that I have permission to take!

 

[Aurelia_Malys]

http://img.xcitefun.net/users/2012/11/309706,xcitefun-happy-birthday.gif

Happy birthday to my wonderful husband, owner, master, love!

 

[Etoile]

Back from India. Have you all been behaving yourselves??

Here is me freezing my ass off at the Taj Mahal...
http://i.imgur.com/U4O5W.jpg

 

[seela]

Back from India. Have you all been behaving yourselves??

I don't know why pics don't usually show up to me in Lit anymore. It's annoying, because up until maybe 2 months ago everything worked just fine. And now I've had the same problem on three computers.

Anyways, I hit quote, saw the url, copy-pasted it and it's a lovely pic, Etoile! I'd love to see Taj Mahal one day, although India per se doesn't really fascinate me like many other places. At least I'd get authentic Indian food, so that just might be a good enough reason for me to go there.

How was the trip? Where did you go, what did you see, what did you do, was the food awesome?

Edit: And NOW the pic shows up, too. Weird.

 

[Etoile]

I don't know why pics don't usually show up to me in Lit anymore. It's annoying, because up until maybe 2 months ago everything worked just fine. And now I've had the same problem on three computers.

Anyways, I hit quote, saw the url, copy-pasted it and it's a lovely pic, Etoile! I'd love to see Taj Mahal one day, although India per se doesn't really fascinate me like many other places. At least I'd get authentic Indian food, so that just might be a good enough reason for me to go there.

How was the trip? Where did you go, what did you see, what did you do, was the food awesome?

Edit: And NOW the pic shows up, too. Weird.

It works now because it's in your cache.

Be very careful with that authentic Indian food. It was very tasty, but I ate something Wednesday that did not agree with me! Other than that it was good, but you have to be careful!

I went to the India Deaf Expo in Mumbai, spent New Year's Eve on Anjuna Beach in Goa, toured around Old Goa, spent a day at Calangute Beach in Goa, flew up to Delhi and went out to Agra for the Taj Mahal before coming back "home" (to Japan).

India's poverty is tough to see, it's true. But the architecture, holy shit, it was gorgeous. Fucking gorgeous. It's a very crowded and dirty country though. I had friends and friends-of-friends guiding me the whole way, so it was the "real" India rather than via a tour, and I found that a little hard to experience - quite a bit of culture shock that way.

 

[cfuhrer]

That hurt, and only made me feel like I had been used.

 

[Keroin]

I know there are some new and aspiring writers lurking around here, so I'll link to my latest blog post with some very highfalutin' advice for beginner writers about social media.

http://www.warpworld.ca/comm/

 

[midwestyankee]

I know there are some new and aspiring writers lurking around here, so I'll link to my latest blog post with some very highfalutin' advice for beginner writers about social media.

http://www.warpworld.ca/comm/

Rule number one of writing and speaking: first, have something to say. Corollary number 1: fancy moves will not substitute for having something to say. Blog bookmarked for future learning.

 

[Netzach]

Meh, Keroin, love ya, love your advice, but I've a small bone to pick.

I know we're in different worlds, but I'm making this my Year of Time Management, and for me, one of the greatest features of twitter is the ability to schedule tweets. Once the work is in the can, one half hour a day in the AM scheduling tweets won't kill anyone.

 

[Ropebunny]

I know there are some new and aspiring writers lurking around here, so I'll link to my latest blog post with some very highfalutin' advice for beginner writers about social media.

http://www.warpworld.ca/comm/

Thanks K! Methinks ima forget social media for now and focus on the writing (or mental planning more like). All that stuff before about social media did squick me a bit, so it's nice to know that my first port of call should be the story, not the hype.

I've got an... interesting idea for a short story. How erotic it will turn out is anyones guess, but if I can get my ass into gear expect to see a plug for it here in a few weeks or so.

 

[midwestyankee]

Thanks K! Methinks ima forget social media for now and focus on the writing (or mental planning more like). All that stuff before about social media did squick me a bit, so it's nice to know that my first port of call should be the story, not the hype.

I've got an... interesting idea for a short story. How erotic it will turn out is anyones guess, but if I can get my ass into gear expect to see a plug for it here in a few weeks or so.

I'm sorry...did you say something? I was distracted.

 

[BiBunny]

I stepped on a sweet gum ball today in the parking lot on the way to the mailbox and twisted my already bad ankle. I blew this one up when I was about 14, and it's been nothing but trouble ever since. Now, I'm back to hobbling around and listening to the bones in the joint crunch together sickeningly every time I move it.

 

[Keroin]

Meh, Keroin, love ya, love your advice, but I've a small bone to pick.

I know we're in different worlds, but I'm making this my Year of Time Management, and for me, one of the greatest features of twitter is the ability to schedule tweets. Once the work is in the can, one half hour a day in the AM scheduling tweets won't kill anyone.

I get what you're saying but that post was directed to new or aspiring writers of novel length fiction. I see a lot of "writers" on twitter who've yet to finish a full manuscript but seem to have oodles of time to post pics of their cats, or talk about their breakfast, or...?? Those aren't the kind of tweets anyone would bother scheduling.

You are a different story. You are a business entity. You need to tweet. As far as I know, you are not trying to write a novel and get it published. I could be wrong?

I stand by my assertion. And I know lots of people will disagree. That's OK.

ETA: I did mention that new writers can still use social media, just not when they're working and that they should strictly limit their time - which is kind of exactly what you suggested.

 

[intothewoods]

Meh, Keroin, love ya, love your advice, but I've a small bone to pick.

I know we're in different worlds, but I'm making this my Year of Time Management, and for me, one of the greatest features of twitter is the ability to schedule tweets. Once the work is in the can, one half hour a day in the AM scheduling tweets won't kill anyone.

Weirdly, I kind of meet people through twitter, or at least make connections. I'm in a different space than both of you though.

The people I enjoy who are also marketing or selling me something do it in a way that's fun and entertaining. I appreciate that.

 

[Keroin]

Weirdly, I kind of meet people through twitter, or at least make connections. I'm in a different space than both of you though.

The people I enjoy who are also marketing or selling me something do it in a way that's fun and entertaining. I appreciate that.

I'm thinking I may have totally missed the mark with that post. I was trying to say that if you want to be a good writer, (as in novel writer, someone who wants to do it as a career), and you're just starting out, you should spend less time on social media and more time...writing.

Welp, back to the drawing board, lol.

 

[Keroin]

OK, let me frame my argument in a different way...

Your goal is to become a professional athlete, a swimmer, let's say. You possess some natural ability, and you enjoy it. Good start!

You go to the pool a few times a week but there is plenty of time that you could be at the pool, or at the gym, or otherwise improving your swimming skills that you spend, instead, on Twitter or Facebook. How do you expect to become a professional swimmer that way?

My suggestion, spend less time on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, etc, and more time swimming or doing swimming-related activities. Activities that directly translate into becoming better at what you want to do.

You can still tweet, post, etc, but the bulk of your time and focus should be on the thing that you want to become your job.

Or, you could give up social media entirely, or mostly, and really buckle down.

Maybe you need social media to help get sponsorship? Fair enough, and so you should do what you can, but ultimately it will be your performance in the water that wins gold and KEEPS those sponsors.

Does that make more sense?

 

[Netzach]

I get what you're saying but that post was directed to new or aspiring writers of novel length fiction. I see a lot of "writers" on twitter who've yet to finish a full manuscript but seem to have oodles of time to post pics of their cats, or talk about their breakfast, or...?? Those aren't the kind of tweets anyone would bother scheduling.

You are a different story. You are a business entity. You need to tweet. As far as I know, you are not trying to write a novel and get it published. I could be wrong?

I stand by my assertion. And I know lots of people will disagree. That's OK.

ETA: I did mention that new writers can still use social media, just not when they're working and that they should strictly limit their time - which is kind of exactly what you suggested.

I am sloooowly writing a genre book. Sorta. But I feel ya, you're talking to the person who's procrastinating and justifying it as social media time. It's hard not to do this, for sure. It's really hard. That's why I am trying to flagellate myself into doing these automated postings, so that I'm doing something AND not sitting there.

I guess I'm so out of touch with other writers, need to join a group. I'm out of touch with anyone who's got romantic ideas about writing, like that it's easy. I know that you can't just blog and daydream about being picked up, like some people do.

For me social is NOT fun. It's like pulling teeth, but monetarily the option of just not participating, is, for me, out of the question. While I don't write and sell the writing per se, I am selling obscure audio genre erotic, that's most of what I do, and twitter just matters.

I think there are just so many schools of thought on it. For me, it's a tool, that's it. It's not a means of expression I'd miss.

 

[Netzach]

Weirdly, I kind of meet people through twitter, or at least make connections. I'm in a different space than both of you though.

The people I enjoy who are also marketing or selling me something do it in a way that's fun and entertaining. I appreciate that.

This is true, and I think I hit that balance between being fun/hot/informative, and YO BUY MY SHIT fairly well.

 

[Netzach]

Just re-occurred to me that you're talking about people in the process of writing something they are trying to get going, not people with that first work in the can, halfway into the next.

Yeah, by all means, spending a day on the twitter while I'm in the middle of a recording is baldfaced stupid time waste. Do it when it's DONE.

 

[seela]

Note to self:

Do not watch movies that make you cry when your nose is already all clogged up.

 

[Keroin]

Just re-occurred to me that you're talking about people in the process of writing something they are trying to get going, not people with that first work in the can, halfway into the next.

Yeah, by all means, spending a day on the twitter while I'm in the middle of a recording is baldfaced stupid time waste. Do it when it's DONE.

YES! That's exactly what I was saying. Once the work's done, tweet your face off.

Cod knows, I do.

 

[Keroin]

Rule number one of writing and speaking: first, have something to say. Corollary number 1: fancy moves will not substitute for having something to say. Blog bookmarked for future learning.

Yep, applies equally well to speaking. And while the post is about social media, it could apply to any "distraction".

Thanks K! Methinks ima forget social media for now and focus on the writing (or mental planning more like). All that stuff before about social media did squick me a bit, so it's nice to know that my first port of call should be the story, not the hype.

Not a terrible idea but you don't have to abandon all social media. As ITW pointed out, it is a good way to meet people and there are things to be learned. Just set limits and make sure the work comes first - that's my philosophy anyway.

I've got an... interesting idea for a short story. How erotic it will turn out is anyones guess, but if I can get my ass into gear expect to see a plug for it here in a few weeks or so.

I look forward to reading!

I am sloooowly writing a genre book.

Cool!

Sorta. But I feel ya, you're talking to the person who's procrastinating and justifying it as social media time. It's hard not to do this, for sure. It's really hard. That's why I am trying to flagellate myself into doing these automated postings, so that I'm doing something AND not sitting there.

YES! Even me, Mrs. Self Discipline, I get sucked in by it. Twitter is text crack. I think the scheduling thing is a fantastic idea for people who really do need to be on there. I plan to start doing that, as well.

I guess I'm so out of touch with other writers, need to join a group. I'm out of touch with anyone who's got romantic ideas about writing, like that it's easy. I know that you can't just blog and daydream about being picked up, like some people do.

Well, it's a good thing you're out of touch with the romantic idea writers, lol.

I don't know the exact statistics but my best guess is that the odds of making a career and paying the bills as a fiction novelist are probably about 8 billion to one. Perhaps a slight exaggeration, but not entirely. And, sure, there are some total flukes out there but the vast majority of professional writers are the ones who treat it like a job, as a business, and WORK their asses off. The dream that you're going to write that amazing bestseller and publishers are going to fight over the rights and offer you suitcases full of cash (a dream often helped along by misguided but well meaning friends and family members who LOVE your work and think you're the next JK Rowling) is as far from reality as earth from the sun.

I have a friend, a four time Emmy winner, close to 30 years under his belt, brilliant writer, signed with one of the Big Six (now five), several fantastic novels out there...he takes on ghost writing gigs to pay the bills. He has three different manuscripts in progress right now and only one is his. He's pumping out ten to fifteen thousand words a day. This is how hard it is.

For me social is NOT fun. It's like pulling teeth, but monetarily the option of just not participating, is, for me, out of the question. While I don't write and sell the writing per se, I am selling obscure audio genre erotic, that's most of what I do, and twitter just matters.

I think there are just so many schools of thought on it. For me, it's a tool, that's it. It's not a means of expression I'd miss.

I totally get this, which why that blog post wasn't really applicable to you. I do find some fun in my Twitter and Facebook interactions but it is also mostly a tool for me, too, and I definitely wouldn't shed any tears if I no longer had to do it.

And when L and me leave for Baja on January 27th I will get six (mostly) social-media-free weeks! Yay!

ETA: I should add that I feel very differently about social media for non-fiction writers or spoken word writers. The former relies heavily on building a platform and the latter on mastering social interaction.

 

[midwestyankee]

If I read one more post filled with homonym-replacements ("wear I'm at" and "there not coming to dinner tonight because she's sick" are examples) I think I'm going to explode in a rage of red-penitis that will make SirWinston look like the fluffy pink bunny of the grammar patrol. Ye gods, is there no end to the stupid?

 

[Curious_in_Cali]

If I read one more post filled with homonym-replacements ("wear I'm at" and "there not coming to dinner tonight because she's sick" are examples) I think I'm going to explode in a rage of red-penitis that will make SirWinston look like the fluffy pink bunny of the grammar patrol. Ye gods, is there no end to the stupid?

Your funny.