LoneWolf

Here at WF, I see myself as...the outcast/ well-known writer. Is that an oxymoron? To explain, I'm well known, yet I'm not part of any real group, like most are.

Everyone, here at WF what do you see yourself as? Just a random question!

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My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. --Ernest Hemingway

a15haddad

The young novice who tries to make his work meaningful, rich, and classically written yet ends up looking like nothing more than a pseudo-writer yet still gets good reviews merely due to his wasted talent.

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"I cannot fiddle, but I can make a great state of a small city." -Themistocles

"Conrad transcended all the rules. There have been, perhaps, greater novelists, but I believe that he was incomparably the greatest artist who ever wrote a novel." -H.L. Mencken

journyman161

An older but still novice writer on the forum to see if I actually have any talent & to attempt to strengthen a rather tenuous contact with people. Increasingly isolated & disconnected over the past decade, it helps me maintain sociability & not become the wierd hermit guy who lives down the road.

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*He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary - William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)
*Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? - Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)
*Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it - Moses Hadas
*He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know - Abraham Lincoln

Kane

As a forum junkie who needs to cancel the internet so he can focus on writing more worthwhile thingieses.

Drzava

The member that people refresh this forum constantly (sorry for causing the massive bandwidth usage admins!) just to see if there are any new posts. People look forward to my wisdom and insight, and if I am gone for a mere two seconds an uprising starts and members are dispatched to find me so that WF can get its Drzava fix.

Eve

A loner on the net, and I keep it real in the real world.

I see myself as someone that likes to learn on the net, forums and any other place I give my time to. I also like to share what I know, and what I find of interest.

As I said in my introduction when I first came here; I have been burned before on the net making friends, and therefore I prefer being a loner. I don't share my writing, art, or personal information anymore.

I have all the friends I need in the real world, and I work part time for a publishing co., and get all the advice on writing I need.

Destany

Sincere.

bobothegoat

I see myself as... a goat. *sees a reflection on my moniter where my face should be, then shakes head* I gotta get away from here or something.

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daniela

Ahh! Miss. Lonewolf seems to be looking for some honesty. Well, I just happen to be in the mood to be serious for once. Much of the list below was going to be used on my blog but I might as well put it where someone is actually going to read it. :wink:

I see myself as the community joke. Before you contradict me, let me lay out my case.

1) I can't do things in a timely manner (btw, Hodge I'm really sorry I haven't done the next section of your novella yet - all I'll say is life stinks for me right now).

2) I'm supposed to be setting a good example but I give out advice sporadically. When I do try to help, I'm wondering if my intention is coming across and whether I'm making a huge mistake. I often have trouble explaining myself well so I bet my "advice" doesn't do as much good as it could.

3) While I'm trying to advise others, I can't help but see the problems with my writing. It's disheartening to chide someone and then find out you've made the same mistakes. I feel like a hypocrite and don't give out any feedback for weeks or even months.

4) This one goes along with number three. My writing is not shaping up the way I would like. I feel that I shouldn't be advising anyone when my own stuff is crap lately. I'm not blocked or anything - I refuse to believe in "writer's block." I do churn out a lot of stuff but I don't like most of it (I'm talking about more or less completed pieces; I try not to label my WIP's lest I loose interest in them).

Actually, that's not completely true. I did write two different pieces for my course I absolutely loved; however, they contain several inside jokes that I'm not sure anyone outside of my family would get. The main problem with that is if I didn't balance it right - i.e. make sure the jokes are funny in a more general way - anyone who reads those two pieces will be confused.

5) I desperately want that first adult novel sale so I can justify my obsession with writing. So much so that I abandoned my dreams of mixing writing a literary fantasy novel (no one would probably read it but at least I would be able to say “Hey, look at what I accomplished!”). I deliberately went commercial in the new project I'm working on. Guess what? It looks like I might be good at it. Don't get me wrong, I like commercial fiction. It's just that I was hoping for my first novel to be something more. I'm only twenty-three though so maybe when I'm older I'll get to write something more ambitious.

6) I think it's the opposite with my short stories, children's stories, and YA fiction. With them, I write to entertain and I have been told that they are very enjoyable. The damn things just don't sell though. Maybe I should try to go literary.

7) I asked for sonnets in the current LM competition and I've found that I can't write them anymore. When I was little, I used to just write and write. Okay, they probably weren't completely true to the form and they were very bad but at least I did write them. People - they were mostly teachers so I'm not sure if they were telling me the truth - told me that I was good with words, I chose interesting words, and my subjects were unique. I'm so critical now that I toss my efforts after I get four or five lines in - sometimes sooner. Let me say this again: I am running the competition and despite my technical knowledge, I cannot write a sonnet!

8) I have a very hard time being serious and I always try to slip my brand of humor into things. Most of the time, though, people can't tell that I am trying to make a joke. I usually confuse certain members when I try to have a little fun; they take me quite literally and I get embarrassed when I have to go back to explain the joke.

9) Taking number eight into consideration, how do you know I am being serious here? Am I being straight with you guys or is this all a big joke? Or is it some weird mixture of the two? I defy you to figure it out.

That's enough blathering for now. I've got an assignment to finish tonight; otherwise, I might get myself into trouble and loose out on six college credits. :shock:

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lisajane

The girl who always says EXACTLY what she thinks.

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'Beauty stands and waits with gravity to start her death-defying leap. And he, a little charleychaplin man, who may or may not catch her fair eternal form spreadeagled in the empty air of existence.' - Laurence Felinghetti, 'The Acrobat'

Hodge

The guy that everyone either hates for being a blunt, cynical asshole, or likes for being a blunt, cynical asshole.

bobothegoat

How true that is. But what forum is complete without one or two of those?

By the way daniela, I can empathize with you on pieces not going the way they were intended. My recently posted werewolf story in file 13 is just one of many examples of this. Though mine was probably a pretty stupid idea to begin with .

Because of this, I haven't done as much critqueing as I have in the past, though I'm trying to start doing it more again. Maybe if I do it enough, I can get my own writing back on track.

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Londongrey

One of the strange ones who needs to keep a curb on my sense of humour

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You are only as dull as the light in the room you occupy, everything else is just hearsay - Me, about five minutes ago.

Achilles

A newbie who is soaking up as much knowledge as he can as fast as he can. A student with higher aspirations (not to mention a bad sense of humor).

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The Palace Flophouse

When Newton closed his eyes beneath a tree
and took the apple from the serpent, he
conceived the urge of humanity, plea, plea,
procreant desire and tendency.

BookLover

A newbie who is yet to familiarize with people and know who's who on WTF.