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[whowrotethisshit]

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[Hypoxia]

delete

Bye bye. Don't let door etc.

Meanwhile, I was going to start a quiz. About guilt. Who here writes and posts because they try to expiate guilt? I have guiltily committed many atrocious acts in my life. Some work their way into my writings. Are you driven by guilt?

Are you really sorry?

 

[whowrotethisshit]

Bye bye. Don't let door etc.

Meanwhile, I was going to start a quiz. About guilt. Who here writes and posts because they try to expiate guilt? I have guiltily committed many atrocious acts in my life. Some work their way into my writings. Are you driven by guilt?

Are you really sorry?

I posted under the wrong account! Dang it. I re-read it over and over again to make sure everything in the post was right and then I posted it under the wrong account.

I'm mostly driven by lemonade.

 

[TxRad]

Lemonade leaves a sour taste in my mouth. I need to add more sugar.

Having more than one ID does have its drawbacks. By the way, this is the AH, the GB is several boards down. More than one alt here is not recommended. Down there it is a way of life.

 

[SamScribble]

Lemonade leaves a sour taste in my mouth. I need to add more sugar.

My go-to drink in the warm weather is lemon barley water. A bit of sharpness is refreshing.

 

[KeithD]

Bye bye. Don't let door etc.

Meanwhile, I was going to start a quiz. About guilt. Who here writes and posts because they try to expiate guilt? I have guiltily committed many atrocious acts in my life. Some work their way into my writings. Are you driven by guilt?

Are you really sorry?

Umm, no. More often than not I write to remember and savor again.

 

[yukonnights]

Lemonade leaves a sour taste in my mouth. I need to add more sugar.

Having more than one ID does have its drawbacks. By the way, this is the AH, the GB is several boards down. More than one alt here is not recommended. Down there it is a way of life.

I can barely keep up with one ID. Personally, I find it kinda creepy...like maybe I'm interacting with a schizophrenic with multiple disguises or something...which sounds like the set up for a murder mystery And of course, they can't put a list of the many names in their signature because then what would be the point of having so many pretend personas?

I can see it for authors who write more seriously in several categories, because in a sense they are different "people" writing in a different style, etc. The debris from a raunchy "stroker" might turn off someone reading romance, for example.

Oh well, just another of life's little puzzles...

ETA: ooops, forgot about the question about guilt. No, guilt never plays a part in my writing. Mostly I play in a make believe world where love always finds a way...maybe it's more of a creative respite from the realities of life where the actions that bring guilt are all too obvious and prolific...escapism maybe?

 

[Kantarii]

Guilt leads to regret. I don’t regret or feel guilty about anything I’ve ever done. If I find myself at that point, I probably should have made a different choice. Keep in mind, at the time I made those choices, I thought it was the right thing to do and it was something I wanted. Kant.

 

[yukonnights]

Guilt leads to regret. I don’t regret or feel guilty about anything I’ve ever done. If I find myself at that point, I probably should have made a different choice. Keep in mind, at the time I made those choices, I thought it was the right thing to do and it was something I wanted. Kant.

Oh, I have a lot of regrets...mostly the people I've hurt with my own stupidity. Perhaps I could write a story about such regrets, but regrets tend to take up enough of my 'hard-drive' space as it is.

 

[LoquiSordidaAdMe]

Bye bye. Don't let door etc.

Meanwhile, I was going to start a quiz. About guilt. Who here writes and posts because they try to expiate guilt? I have guiltily committed many atrocious acts in my life. Some work their way into my writings. Are you driven by guilt?

Are you really sorry?

Sadly, I've lived a pretty guilt-free life - safe but dull. My only regrets are not having more interesting regrets. I suppose I write characters whose live are more interesting and complex than mine so I can live vicariously through them. Does that count?

No. No, I didn't think so.

 

[Blind_Justice]

I've tried to make peace with my mistakes and have a pretty clean conscience. If I can't commit fully to a course of action, I won't do it. For example, I have no issue explaining what I write in the real world. People either tolerate it or they don't, it's no skin off my back.

I can empathize with people suffering their guilty conscience though and guilt makes a damn good motivation for characters, either for a heroic attempt at redemption or a further descent into depravity and madness.

 

[CoffeeWithMonkeys]

Sadly, I've lived a pretty guilt-free life - safe but dull. My only regrets are not having more interesting regrets. I suppose I write characters whose live are more interesting and complex than mine so I can live vicariously through them. Does that count?

No. No, I didn't think so.

Same, sadly. My kids say my characters are parts of my personality I suppose of who I wish I could be.

I only have one alt and that was for submitting some stuff that was very different from the romantic drivel I usually write so I thought a new persona was appropriate.

 

[MelissaBaby]

Bye bye. Don't let door etc.

Meanwhile, I was going to start a quiz. About guilt. Who here writes and posts because they try to expiate guilt? I have guiltily committed many atrocious acts in my life. Some work their way into my writings. Are you driven by guilt?

Are you really sorry?

I definitely started writing as a means to expiate guilt. For the most part, I succeeded. The tricky part was figuring out how to keep writing afterwards.

 

[Hypoxia]

Answering my own question: I've accumulated enough personal guilt for realtime; I try to leave it behind in writing. I *am* informed by paths not taken. More than a few stories are explorations of those paths, whether or not I could have controlled them. An event beyond my grasp put me HERE; a choice I made put me THERE; I or someone else may have done something very different, with what results? But I don't report my worst sins.

 

[whowrotethisshit]

I can barely keep up with one ID. Personally, I find it kinda creepy...like maybe I'm interacting with a schizophrenic with multiple disguises or something...which sounds like the set up for a murder mystery And of course, they can't put a list of the many names in their signature because then what would be the point of having so many pretend personas?

I can see it for authors who write more seriously in several categories, because in a sense they are different "people" writing in a different style, etc. The debris from a raunchy "stroker" might turn off someone reading romance, for example.

I post-romance stories on my main account. I created this one to write quicker little fantasy stories that take up less brain space. I never meant to post on the forums with this account.

 

[TxRad]

Abandoned threads have a tendency to take on a life of their own. Something like the walking dead but with even less class.

Most authors have more than one pen name.

 

[oggbashan]

Abandoned threads have a tendency to take on a life of their own. Something like the walking dead but with even less class.

Most authors have more than one pen name.

I do. I've been neglecting jeanne_d_artois.

 

[jeanne_d_artois]

I do. I've been neglecting jeanne_d_artois.

You have. I'm annoyed.

 

[ChloeTzang]

You have. I'm annoyed.

I recommend increasing his coffee intake.