Red's Thread - come in and read a bit, post a bit, and lick a bit... okay... alot!!!
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RedHairedandFriendly
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I agree, there are so many folks out there that write with their own voice that no one should ever be intimidated by another. I'll admit, it's hard not to be intimidated by others. I know I am. I sometimes read other authors and think, "I have a long way to go." But in the end, as long as I'm happy, then that's what matters. 
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I appreciate the compliment. I can try to dumb it up (though I'll admit, it'll make my head hurt and my eyes cross).
i wood like 2 cee u n the nudity.
Ouch, that hurt. Tell him, thanks and sorry if I am scary.
Not scared, he's just very impressed. It's a good thing though. It will spur his own development.
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Oh, I'm all for helping a man develop.
However, having a man talk about me to another man is a bit unnerving. It would be more settling if I knew whom you spoke of, unless you wish for me to assume I know who you're speaking of. Maybe you are speaking of yourself, yet you fear to admit it.
*pats the couch and offers to listen to you* Strictly professional, mind you.
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Eye akchewally thot abowt wryting a storie lyke this - fonetikally. Just two see if eye cud dew it.
It would take too long - so not going to happen.
Writing develops over time, although some folks have it early on. I've read a few of my early ones I still think hold up very well and I am sure RED has a lot she says "I still like that one". One of my earliest was "Programmed for Love" and I still like it.
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It would take too long - so not going to happen.
Writing develops over time, although some folks have it early on. I've read a few of my early ones I still think hold up very well and I am sure RED has a lot she says "I still like that one". One of my earliest was "Programmed for Love" and I still like it.
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Oh, I'm all for helping a man develop.
Maybe you are speaking of yourself, yet you fear to admit it.
*pats the couch and offers to listen to you* Strictly professional, mind you.
Alas, no, I've not had the privilege and pleasure of working with you. Sent you a pm revealing the writer in question. And no, nothing bad or unseemly was mentioned, only praise for your writing ability.
RedHairedandFriendly
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That would kill my eyes and give me a migraine - writing or reading a story like that!
My best story - or at least the one that I can say "launched" me a fan base - is my first group story and first FF story "The Drive-In". I tried to use those same characters in another story, but it bombed. It could use a serious edit, but I don't want to touch it. It's perfect, just the way it is.
Survivor:
Box started the new thread, this one for Feb. and I do indeed have another Immunity to use. I'm leaning toward Mind Control (yes, another one of those yuck categories). I'm also considering NonHuman. I like that one, but I don't feel strong enough of a writer to carry it. I got lucky with my vampires a few years ago, but my muse died, and the story remains stale and not complete.
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Phonetic spelling works best in dialogue when one is conveying a dialect or accent. Best exemplified by Kypling and Clemments (Twain).
there was this wonderful short story I read when I was much younger, 'Mayhem in ce Classroom' (title not spelled accurately) in which the writer was proposing a series of changes to the English/American alphabet to make the language more 'phonetic', and would write with the proposed changes as soon as he made them. By the end, if one just read the last paragraph, it was all but unintelligible. It was a venture into the absurd and funny as hell. Sure wish I could remember the author's name...
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That sounds like it would have given the author a migraine. lol
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Found it!
MEIHEM IN CE KLASRUM
by Dolton Edwards from Isaac Asimov's 'The Golden Years of Science Fiction' 4th Series
Because we are still bearing some of the scars of our brief skirmish with II-B English, it is natural that we should be enchanted by Mr. George Bernard Shaw's current campaign for a simplified alphabet.
Obviously, as Mr. Shaw points out, English is in much need of a general overhauling and streamlining. However, our own resistance to any changes requiring a large expenditure of mental effort in the near future would cause us to view with some apprehension the possibility of some day receiving a morning paper in-to us-Greek.
Our own plan would acheive the same end as the legislation proposed by Mr. Shaw, but in a less shocking manner, as it consists merely of an acceleration of the normal processes by which the language is continually modernized.
As a catalytic agent, we would suggest that a National Easy Language Week be proclaimed, which the President would inaugurate, outlining some shortcut to concentrate on during the week, and to be adopted during the ensuing year. All school children would be given a holiday, the lost time being the equivalent of that gained by the spelling shortcut.
In 1946, for example, we would urge the elimination of the soft 'c', for which we would substitute 's'. Sertainly, such an improvement would be selebrated in all sivic-minded sircles as being suffisiently worth the trouble, and students in all sities in the land would be reseptive toward any change eliminating the nesessity of learning the differense between the two letters.
In 1947, sinse only the hard 'c' would be left, it would possible to susbstitute 'k' for it, both letters being pronounsed identikally. Imagine how greatly only two years of this prosess would klarify the konfusion in the minds of students. Already we would have eliminated an entire letter from the alphabet. Typewriters and linotypes kould all be built with one less letter and all the manpower and materials previously devoted to making 'c's' kould be turned toward raising the national standard of living.
In the fase of so many notable improvements, it is easy to foresee that by 1948 'National Easy Language Week' would be a pronounsed sukses. All skhool tshildren would be looking forward with konsiderable exsitement to the holiday, and in a blaze of national publisity it would be announsed that the double konsonant 'ph' no longer existed, and that the sound would henseforth be written 'f' in all words. This would make sutsh words as 'fonograf' twenty persent shorter in print.
By 1949, publik interest in a fonetik alfabet kan be expekted to have inkreased to the point where a more radikal step forward kan be taken without fear of undue kritisism. We would therefore urge the elimination at that time of all unesesary double leters, whitsh, although quite harmless, have always ben a nuisanse in the language and a desided deterent to akurate speling. Try it yourself in the next letter you write, and se if both writing and reading are not fasilitated.
With so mutsh progres already made, it might be posible in 1950 to delve further into the posibilities of fonetik speling. After due konsideration of the reseption aforded the previous steps, it should be expedient by this time to spel al difthongs fonetikaly. Most students do not realize that the long 'i' and 'y', as in 'time' and 'by', are aktauly the difthong 'ai', as it is writen in 'aisle', and that the long 'a' in 'fate', is in reality the difthong 'ei' as in 'rein'. Although perhaps not imediately aparent, the saving in time and effort wil be tremendous when we leiter elimineite the sailent 'e', as meide posible bai this last tsheinge.
For as is wel known, the horible mes of 'e's' apearing in our writen language is kaused prinsipaly bai the present nesesity of indikeiting whether a vowel is long or short. Therefore, in 1951 we kould simply elimineit al sailent 'e's', and kontinu to read and wrait merily along as though we wer in an atomik ag of edukation.
In 1951 we would urg a greit step forward. Sins bai this taim it would have ben four years sins anywun had used the leter 'c', we would sugest that the 'National Easy Languag Wek' for 1951 be devoted to substitution of 'c' for 'th'. To be sur it would be som taim befor peopl would have bekom akustomd to reading ceir newspapers and buks wic sutsh sentenses in cem as 'Ceodor caught he had cre cousand cistls crust crough ce cik of his cumb'.
In ce saim maner, bai meiking eatsh leter hav its own sound and cat sound only, we kould shorten ce languag stil mor. In 1952 we would elimineit ce 'y'; cen in 1953 we kould us ce leter to indikeit ce 'sh' sound, cerbai klarifaiing words laik yugar and yur, as well as redusing bai wun mor leter al words laik 'yut', 'yore', and so forc. Cink, cen, of al ce benefits to be geind bai ce distinktion whitsh wil cen be meid between words laik:
ocean - now writen - oyean
machine - now writen - mayin
racial - now writen - reiyial
Al sutsh divers weis of wraiting wun sound would no longer exist, and whenever wun kaim akros a 'y' sound he would know exaktli what to wrait.
Kontinuing cis proses, year after year, we would eventuali have a reali sensibl writen languag. By 1975, wi ventyur tu sei, cer wud bi no mor uv ces teribli trublsum difikultis, wic no tu leters usd to indikeit ce seim nois, and laikwis no tu noises riten wic ce seim leter. Even Mr. Yaw, wi beliv, wud bi hapi in ce noleg cat his drims fainali keim tru.
MEIHEM IN CE KLASRUM
by Dolton Edwards from Isaac Asimov's 'The Golden Years of Science Fiction' 4th Series
Because we are still bearing some of the scars of our brief skirmish with II-B English, it is natural that we should be enchanted by Mr. George Bernard Shaw's current campaign for a simplified alphabet.
Obviously, as Mr. Shaw points out, English is in much need of a general overhauling and streamlining. However, our own resistance to any changes requiring a large expenditure of mental effort in the near future would cause us to view with some apprehension the possibility of some day receiving a morning paper in-to us-Greek.
Our own plan would acheive the same end as the legislation proposed by Mr. Shaw, but in a less shocking manner, as it consists merely of an acceleration of the normal processes by which the language is continually modernized.
As a catalytic agent, we would suggest that a National Easy Language Week be proclaimed, which the President would inaugurate, outlining some shortcut to concentrate on during the week, and to be adopted during the ensuing year. All school children would be given a holiday, the lost time being the equivalent of that gained by the spelling shortcut.
In 1946, for example, we would urge the elimination of the soft 'c', for which we would substitute 's'. Sertainly, such an improvement would be selebrated in all sivic-minded sircles as being suffisiently worth the trouble, and students in all sities in the land would be reseptive toward any change eliminating the nesessity of learning the differense between the two letters.
In 1947, sinse only the hard 'c' would be left, it would possible to susbstitute 'k' for it, both letters being pronounsed identikally. Imagine how greatly only two years of this prosess would klarify the konfusion in the minds of students. Already we would have eliminated an entire letter from the alphabet. Typewriters and linotypes kould all be built with one less letter and all the manpower and materials previously devoted to making 'c's' kould be turned toward raising the national standard of living.
In the fase of so many notable improvements, it is easy to foresee that by 1948 'National Easy Language Week' would be a pronounsed sukses. All skhool tshildren would be looking forward with konsiderable exsitement to the holiday, and in a blaze of national publisity it would be announsed that the double konsonant 'ph' no longer existed, and that the sound would henseforth be written 'f' in all words. This would make sutsh words as 'fonograf' twenty persent shorter in print.
By 1949, publik interest in a fonetik alfabet kan be expekted to have inkreased to the point where a more radikal step forward kan be taken without fear of undue kritisism. We would therefore urge the elimination at that time of all unesesary double leters, whitsh, although quite harmless, have always ben a nuisanse in the language and a desided deterent to akurate speling. Try it yourself in the next letter you write, and se if both writing and reading are not fasilitated.
With so mutsh progres already made, it might be posible in 1950 to delve further into the posibilities of fonetik speling. After due konsideration of the reseption aforded the previous steps, it should be expedient by this time to spel al difthongs fonetikaly. Most students do not realize that the long 'i' and 'y', as in 'time' and 'by', are aktauly the difthong 'ai', as it is writen in 'aisle', and that the long 'a' in 'fate', is in reality the difthong 'ei' as in 'rein'. Although perhaps not imediately aparent, the saving in time and effort wil be tremendous when we leiter elimineite the sailent 'e', as meide posible bai this last tsheinge.
For as is wel known, the horible mes of 'e's' apearing in our writen language is kaused prinsipaly bai the present nesesity of indikeiting whether a vowel is long or short. Therefore, in 1951 we kould simply elimineit al sailent 'e's', and kontinu to read and wrait merily along as though we wer in an atomik ag of edukation.
In 1951 we would urg a greit step forward. Sins bai this taim it would have ben four years sins anywun had used the leter 'c', we would sugest that the 'National Easy Languag Wek' for 1951 be devoted to substitution of 'c' for 'th'. To be sur it would be som taim befor peopl would have bekom akustomd to reading ceir newspapers and buks wic sutsh sentenses in cem as 'Ceodor caught he had cre cousand cistls crust crough ce cik of his cumb'.
In ce saim maner, bai meiking eatsh leter hav its own sound and cat sound only, we kould shorten ce languag stil mor. In 1952 we would elimineit ce 'y'; cen in 1953 we kould us ce leter to indikeit ce 'sh' sound, cerbai klarifaiing words laik yugar and yur, as well as redusing bai wun mor leter al words laik 'yut', 'yore', and so forc. Cink, cen, of al ce benefits to be geind bai ce distinktion whitsh wil cen be meid between words laik:
ocean - now writen - oyean
machine - now writen - mayin
racial - now writen - reiyial
Al sutsh divers weis of wraiting wun sound would no longer exist, and whenever wun kaim akros a 'y' sound he would know exaktli what to wrait.
Kontinuing cis proses, year after year, we would eventuali have a reali sensibl writen languag. By 1975, wi ventyur tu sei, cer wud bi no mor uv ces teribli trublsum difikultis, wic no tu leters usd to indikeit ce seim nois, and laikwis no tu noises riten wic ce seim leter. Even Mr. Yaw, wi beliv, wud bi hapi in ce noleg cat his drims fainali keim tru.
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So considering the number of yuck categories people have, what are your fav categories to write?
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Hi there.
I know, I'm terrible aren't I. lol
I like Erotic Couplings, Lesbian (though I'm not a lesbian, nor am I bi. I can write it and write it HOT), Group, Romance, Sci-fi/Fantasy (unless we're talking Space Travel - that's tricky for me too), Letters/Transcripts, How To (if the topic comes to me easy enough). There are 35 categories after all, it's okay for me to "yuck" some of them.
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Nah, just means you've spent too much time on the internet...
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Hi there.
I know, I'm terrible aren't I. lol
I like Erotic Couplings, Lesbian (though I'm not a lesbian, nor am I bi. I can write it and write it HOT), Group, Romance, Sci-fi/Fantasy (unless we're talking Space Travel - that's tricky for me too), Letters/Transcripts, How To (if the topic comes to me easy enough). There are 35 categories after all, it's okay for me to "yuck" some of them.
Hehe oh I'm sure there will be a couple I'm going to yuck but until I've written most of them I'm not sure what will be my favorite categories. Though I do have to say, the people in Crossdresser/Transgender are quite friendly folk.
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Yes, they are. I've written a couple stories for that genre and I think I've done well.
Edited to add: With another immunity, I have to write 3 more in another category, so another mini-goal should be covered. I really need to get back to my Mercy story.
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It says something of us, doesn't it. lol
Hehe and I only know cause I have as well.
Working my way through a LW story, this one is going to be more of a stroker but eh considering that categories reputation...
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Going back - is the immunity you won a THIRD or is this the one you won last week? I thought the numbers didn't go up until Thursday morning?
I am just - plain and simple - going to opt out of categories I don't care for, contest or not.
BrettJ in Canada
I am just - plain and simple - going to opt out of categories I don't care for, contest or not.
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I like to write in that one, but mine usually aren't the typical ones you see there. They still get harassed.
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The numbers are pulled on Wednesday (UK time) and if Box is online, he'll post them as soon as he sees them. Which is sometimes not until Thursday morning. Tonight he posted them early, but we can see them before he posts them if you go to this website:
http://lottery.merseyworld.com/
And... this is my 3rd one.
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