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MikeyLikesIt from Calgary is reading Don't get too comfortable - David Rakoff January 20, 2012 - 10:37am

Hi Everyone,

My name is Mike and I have a writing addiction. I've been writing on and off (mostly off) for the last few years. I made a new year's resolution to "consume less and create more", whether that's growing/cooking my own food instead of going out, writing instead of watching TV, yada yada yada. The first 20 days has been great, and when I found this website, it sounded like the right step to take. I've also joined an in-person writing workshop, but there tend to be more interesting people on the inter-webs.   

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Brandon from KCMO is reading Made to Break January 20, 2012 - 10:40am

Don't be nervous. If you want to go slow we can just do some flash fiction in the backseat of my car.

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Dave from a city near you is reading constantly January 20, 2012 - 11:24am

Wow, another Canuck. Welcome to the Lit.

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wickedvoodoo from Mansfield, England is reading stuff. January 20, 2012 - 12:19pm

Hey Mike. Welcome! So what kind of stuff do you write?

@ Brandon. Ha!

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. January 20, 2012 - 12:21pm

Brandon...I hope LR's HR rep doesn't see that.

Welcome, I like the hat.

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Brandon from KCMO is reading Made to Break January 20, 2012 - 12:23pm

I think Kirk is about as close to an HR rep as we got and I know for a fact he likes it dirty.

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Melissa Ratajcz... from Vancouver, BC is reading About Time by Adam Frank January 20, 2012 - 12:56pm

Welcome! Those are laudable resolutions, good job. Have fun, writing is joy.

Melissa

A fellow Canuck

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Sarah Davenport from Wilmington, Delaware is reading Transcendence: Healing and Transformation Through Transcendental Meditation by Norman E Rosenthal M.D. January 20, 2012 - 1:01pm

Welcome, I'm new too.  But I wouldn't trust a thing these guys say, they're all a bunch of lunatics.  Between you and me, I would get out NOW, before it's too late.  Don't end up like me, imprisoned in this insane asylum.  And PLEASE don't tell any of them I said any of this, I'm begging you.  They'll hurt me.

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Chester Pane from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz January 20, 2012 - 1:24pm

Welcome Mike,

Another Calgarian I see. There's a gaggle of you all formin' around here.

Yeah, be wary of Tietz's fiction flashing. It is so good it hurts.

@Dave, watch out for the ending of that Hemingway you got your nose stuck in.

@Melissa: wink

@Sarah: Can you be my davenport in this insane asylum?

 

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Dave from a city near you is reading constantly January 20, 2012 - 1:28pm

Floggings for the new peeps.  Line up.

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MikeyLikesIt from Calgary is reading Don't get too comfortable - David Rakoff January 20, 2012 - 2:03pm

Mmm...flash fiction and flogging. Sounds like my kind of group! Good to see some Canadians too!

@wickedvoodoo: Right now I write mostly one pagers. Sometimes they are full stories, sometimes they are the middle of a story I wish I could write. Haven't found my style just yet.

@jacks_username: Thanks! I hope the hat helps me blend in.

@Brandon: I'll have to watch out for you, but I see we have the same taste in books. 

@Sarah: Something about your profile pic makes me think you like it a bit crazy in here.

Great to meet you all! Thanks for the warm welcome.

 

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MikeyLikesIt from Calgary is reading Don't get too comfortable - David Rakoff January 20, 2012 - 2:46pm

It may not be in the back seat of your car Brandon, but I've posted my first flash fiction on the Flash Me! message board. Thanks for the push.

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aliensoul77 from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall. January 20, 2012 - 10:40pm

Brandon wrote fiction with me in the back of his car and didn't call the next day.  Then I found out I had adjectives on my genitals a week later.

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Brandon from KCMO is reading Made to Break January 21, 2012 - 7:37am

If you start seeing comma splices I'd call a doctor.  Doctor Joseph Suglia, that is.

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PandaMask from Los Angeles is reading More Than Human January 21, 2012 - 7:54am

O hai.

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aliensoul77 from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall. January 22, 2012 - 12:29am

I just looked that guy up. WTF? 

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wickedvoodoo from Mansfield, England is reading stuff. January 22, 2012 - 9:50am

Suglia you mean? Yeah, the guy is a fucking nut-job if you ask me.

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aliensoul77 from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall. January 22, 2012 - 4:38pm

I watched the trailer to his "film". It looks like a bad student film, it makes "The Room" look oscarworthy.

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Utah from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry January 23, 2012 - 10:28am

You guys better lay off.  Dr. Joseph Suglia is the greatest writer in the world.

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Boone Spaulding from Coldwater, Michigan, U.S.A. is reading Solarcide Presents: Nova Parade January 29, 2012 - 12:37pm

Welcome, Mike - love the "consume less, create more" phrase...exactly my dilhema. As I put it for me, "getting lost in research"...