Phasmus

A Lachrymose Lament:

Once I wrote collaborative fictions prolific.
Then I found employment (in IT to be specific).

Now days all my writing is technical prose,
Amidst the fine software I am assigned to compose.

I hoped to find a place to rekindle my muse
And a forum to subject to poetic abuse.

Poems (I'm sure you guessed) aren't my speciality.
I prefer humor, horror and science fiction (set near singularity).

So here I shall lurk and (maybe) offer feedback
But there is one unit of data which I still lack:

Is it safe to post writings one might want to publish elsewhere?
When it comes to 'IP' loss I get easily scared.

-Phasmus

Dephere

To ensure that your writings are safe to be published elsewhere I would stick to the writer's workshop. Go check it out!

Oh, and welcome.

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Talia_Brie

You're far too witty to be posting here, and I especially like that you managed to rhyme 'speciality'.

Well done.

Dephere is right about the protected section of the site. Sign up for entry and you should be pretty safe. There's a lot of debate about whether publicly posted works can be considered published, or whether a publisher is going to be interested in something that is freely available.

Good luck with everything, and feel free to contact a Mentor if you need any assistance.

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Nickie

Hello, and welcome to the forums! I guess the advice offered makes sense, so I can add nothing to it. Have a great time here!



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delirium

Hello Phasmus

Phasmus

Thank you for the warm welcome, one and all. With luck I'll be able to dust off my muse and contribute something sooner than later.

Apologies for the introductory rhyming, by the way. Hopefully such outbursts will be few and far between.

-Phasmus

cellardoor

hi
what the hell is your avatar?
i'm not going to say what i tlooks like
but i think everyone knows what it looks like.

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Wyndstar

Please, don't apologise for the poetry--it was a nice, apropo way of introduction. You're a fine addition to the forum already!

Enjoy your stay here!

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Phasmus

Well... that's a new one.
It's an eye, actually. I borrowed it from someone's impression of a dalek creature (not to be confused with a dalek travel machine).
Here it is in context: http://rorymcleish.com/Sketches/html/Dalek.htm

Wyndstar

I would have guessed it was an eye from the aliens on the new War of the Worlds movie, which I haven't yet seen so---

But Dalek? Davros maybe. Daleks are robots. At least the old versions were. Haven't seen the new versions yet...

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Phasmus

A common misconception! At the risk of diverging from topic, allow me to elaborate:

The dalek 'machines' usually seen are actually like little personal tanks. They hold the nearly helpless, slimy, brain-like dalek creatures inside. This is shown a few times in the old series.

Davros discovered that his people were mutating into something dalek-like. He accelerated the process while taking steps to A: provide the creatures with a deadly machine to ride around in and B: engineer dalek mental development toward a race as evil and xenophobic as he was.

Wyndstar

Yep, you're absolutely right. I remember that now (okay, my roommate just reminded me I slept during that ep, so they remembered for me).

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