Kevin's Watch

Generally, you create a thread for each piece of your work, if you want to post a short story, say, or a poem or three. If you have a really long piece, though, it's acceptable to break it up into chunks (or chapters) and create seperate threads for each part. Furls has a wonderful Novella in here somewhere called The Creed, that is broken up into 5 or 6 parts, as I recall, due to it's length.

Ok - Well I have a Prologue and 3.5 chapters of a book done so far - comes to about 42,000 words!!

*Considers options*

It makes it easier for people to read it, when it is long, if its broken into pieces, with different chunks in different threads. For a great example of this, look for Furls Fire's story called "The Creed".

It's harder reading long stories on a computer than on paper, for some peopel anyway (me included).

Welcome aboard, Foul! Glad to have you here as a co-mod!

Yes, the resident mod-poet arrives! Always great to be here! *curls up by the fire*

What happened to the Fifty-five Word Short Story thread?

I shall go hunting for it...it's always possible it got moved over to Mallory's by accident when I moved the game threads over there. If so, I will ask Furls or Damelon to toss it back.


edited to add: I can't find it in either forum. I do not know where it is or what happened to it.

I checked and couldn't find it either.

I saw something like it in the Close of all places, earlier---I'll go check again. Edit: yup it's there under Lord Foul--may be a brand new one tho...

Yeah, that's a new/completely unrelated thread--just happens to use the same word limit for its purpose.

I scrolled through the Hall too, and I don't know what happened to the 55 word short story thread. I may have accidentally deleted it when I was cleaning up my 1000 different poem threads, but I honestly don’t recall deleting it specifically. Weird.

Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure I remember it being moved to Mallory's, something I was a slightly annoyed at. Too bad, too bad.

Finally, another corner on the 'net I can call home!

Forgive my ignorance (I am a n00b), but what kind of poetry is acceptable? Are there certain no-no's to post (e.g. language, erotica)?

TIA

Yeah, since this is a family board (or so our admin says ), anything that's overtly porn might be iffy. I wouldn't mind, though.

As far as profanity, KW is pretty lax. Lots of cuss words go unnoticed or uncensored here. Shit, even "ass" is fine. Still, don't go too crazy with the sailor lingo.

Lord Foul wrote:Yeah, since this is a family board (or so our admin says ), anything that's overtly porn might be iffy. I wouldn't mind, though.

As far as profanity, KW is pretty lax. Lots of cuss words go unnoticed or uncensored here. Shit, even "ass" is fine. Still, don't go too crazy with the sailor lingo.

Thanks, just trying to get a feel for what is acceptable here. I sometimes write suggestive things, but get paranoid posting them in a place I'm not accustomed to.

This is a great idea...I shall be participating as well as looking here for inspiration

i has poemetry i need to post.

Welcome Furls as the new mod! I think it's long overdue. She always felt like a huge presence on this board, nevermind KW!

*bows low*

Hail and well met, Furls Fire!

I hadn't noticed who was modding here. Yeah, seems like a good idea to have the two of you, eh?

Fist and Faith wrote:I hadn't noticed who was modding here. Yeah, seems like a good idea to have the two of you, eh?

What are you saying!?

Woo-hoo!

However...

Seems to me the more this storm rages, the more commitments Furls takes on instead of recuperating...

*shakes head bemusedly*

:hugglessss: Furls.