Hi!
My name is Kym and I'm new around these parts. I'm checking the place out and it seems pretty interesting. I was writing with a small group of people I knew but they kinda flaked on me and I'm into a story and on my own.
Normally, I just write for myself but I've been bitten by the contest bug and have been told I'm a fairly good writer and want to get better. I'm interested in joining another group but have never worked with people I don't know before.
So, I have a question for you... how do you build the trust to know that no one would take your ideas and use them (not that they're so good you'd want them)? I like the idea of receiving and providing feedback and watching others as to what kind of feedback works best for others. I just want to do this right if I choose to move forward.
I am a student of life - I love a little bit of everything from quantum physics to roller coasters. It gives me a wide palate to work from. What I'm working on now came from two sources - first a writing prompt which gave a first line of a story you were supposed to work from and the second was my writing group's topic of the week - blue.
I look forward to getting to know some/many of you and hope this is fruitful for each of us.
Kym
Don't tell anyone your ideas. Any idea that's put out in the open is fair game to steal.
AMERICA!!
We are all so amazingly awesome that we don't need your ideas. So whisper in my ear and I promise I won't tell a sole. Shoe sole that is.
Seriously though most idea's have been thought, its all about the writing. So join, write, share and be prepared to have your amazing idea's torn to shreds, that's a good thing I promise.
Welcome Welcome
P.S. That's a shit ton of books to be reading simultaneously, you must have magical powers and in that case magical ideas.
Above me, as you can see, is Stacy. She's our resident red-head. She's fun, sometimes a firecracker and enjoys all things magical. Also, she has a strong distaste for Burger King.
I'm Rian, the resident... I don't know. But I'm sure some kind soul (not the shoe sole) will fill in that blank for you. Also, I have a strong taste for Burger King.
I say welcome, coming from SW Pennslyvania.
Welcome aboard.
I think a lot of writers initially worry about having their ideas stolen, but this doesn't happen often, and most ideas aren't worth stealing anyway. Like Stacy said, most of it's been done before. Write something amazing. The idea may be just another idea, but if you write it well, it'll end up something else entirely.
Mostly writers don't steal, regardless. They're here because they want to write what they have in their own heads, not what's in yours.
Welcome.
When it comes to submitting here I never really worry about people stealing my ideas. I don't know why. Probably because I never think my ideas are that great.
Um...
America!
I finally like the fries at Burger King. They're similar to the original fries from Wendy's. I guess Wendy's changed their fries, which used to be my favorite (that thicker cut thing), but I haven't eaten at Wendy's in quite a long time. But I've eaten at Burger King, like, three times in the past month or so. Burger King fries always sucked, until the latest change. But, seriously, how do you screw up fries? I never understood that. It's like Safeway donuts; how do you screw that up? But they do.
Welcome.
Writers don't tend to take ideas because it's wrong and we are busy with our own ideas. Also they ideas don't look that great because many of them are in rough/early draft form. Who wants to rob something they have to do a bunch of revision on when the whole point of theft is to be lazy?
Wendy's did fuck up their fries. I think only the dollar ones though, pretty sure you can still get the original fries.
Nothing beats boardwalk fries, why can't some fast food chain buy some peanut oil and make some amazing fries. I would be three thousand pounds, approximately.
Duck fat fries is where it's at. Just saying.
Thrasher's fries are the best I have ever had. I will eat them until I'm sick and then eat more.
America!
I don't understand why a Part 2 was made for this thread! Fuck it! It's a free country!
AMERICA!!
Wtf is with you people and Freedom Fries? I thought adults didn't eat that crap.
CANADA!
Because I CANADA... and you can too!
Also, welcome Kym, whose thread has been subverted by the BK special-interest groups.
BK's keeping an eye on Canada.
Um, who called us adults?
Nothing beats going into a locally owned diner and saying, "Giant plate of fries, please." And being presented with a wonderful plate heaping with greasy deliciousness.
*cheese on the side please
