Chatterbox Blonde- Rumps Mystical Bartender
Ok video uploaded and posted to the wall. Now where in the seven halls is the blog option?
It might be because I'm slightly tipsy and doing this on a phone, but even desktop mode doesn't show it. Maybe I need a proper desktop view to see it?
Chatterbox Blonde- Rumps Mystical Bartender
What a day. A little poem trickled into my mind during morning meditation and ended up being published.
My first ever published poem. I'm so dizzy with glee.
Thank you all for sharing this wild ride with me, for your kind support, for your endless patience and for giving me lots of reasons to greet every day with a song on my lips.
I love you all more than I can ever say.
I found a few extra large optical of Jamesons for the bar.
The drinks are on me!!
Chatterbox Blonde- Rumps Mystical Bartender
Now I might be a Silly Goose but I've been filling in the bio sheets on the profile and I can't find a single gap
I've seen a few with the biographer badge and wondered if I'd missed something to prevent getting it?
Chatterbox Blonde- Rumps Mystical Bartender
Channel no 5, reminds me of Eimear. Gawd I miss that woman sometimes.
Chatterbox Blonde- Rumps Mystical Bartender
Fingerless gloves in leather or latex. I feel sexy,strong and armoured in them.
Chatterbox Blonde- Rumps Mystical Bartender
Once Curvy got her sock puppets out I did manage to get the format right, it taught me a valuable lesson.
For my next work I'm sending the first pass version to get the red pencil treatment.
I figure a harsh feedback reader will save hours of pointless faffing about when editing.
Shame the tools aren't really good at doing that bit then again Art is so subjective how could you build a machine to edit wisely.
Big hugs and much love to all who shared here.
I learned a lot from your generous suggestions.
Chatterbox Blonde- Rumps Mystical Bartender
As a new arrival here myself firstly, welcome to our little corner of the web.
It can be tough getting your first tale done so here's some advice I was given and some of my own.
1. When you're writing a story, turn everything distracting off and focus on the page or screen in front of you.
2. First attempt keep it short, my rule of thumb is write it in a single writing session. That way you're so focused on getting the story out that you aren't in your head overthinking it.
Spew it all out, with typos, bad grammar, awful layout, the whole deal. Now is not the time to be neat, so get it written down.
3. Take a break for a day or 2 then come back and read it again aloud to yourself. Add in bits you missed, take out bits that don't fit.
I found keeping a notepad window open so I could move sections of text out of the story to keep for something else, very helpful.
4. Run your draft through Grammarly to catch spelling, grammar and clarity. Make the changes you feel are right, then save it to your computer.
5. Get your editors hat on and go line by line through your story, if it doesn't carry its weight that line is being cut.
6. Check you've properly formatted the text so it's in paragraphs and not in one block.
7. Leave it a day and then edit again, being strict with the text.
8. Go to Rumps bar and say hello. There are loads of writers there and they're all friendly to new arrivals.
The point of this is to get to know the people who see the world the way you do.
Then go read their profile and try one of their stories. If you find people who write the way you'd like to it makes things a lot easier.
9. Bounce around the stories section and read lots of stuff, leave comments and find writers with a style you admire.
10. Ask one of them very nicely to run a red pencil through what you've written, beg them to be brutal and send back feedback.
11. Submit that lovely story and tell us all about it.
The reason I mention the getting to know people so often is that when I made my first submission I didn't have anyone to give it a kicking, so the poor story mods had to get sock puppets out and take me through the process of getting the damn thing verified.
Much stress, many tears, and a whole lot of swearing resulted. Poor curvy having to deal with all that.
My next one I sent to some of the writers I knew here to be properly brutal and as a result I'm expecting getting verified to be a lot easier this time.
Just some notes I wish I'd had when I started out here.
I highly recommend Rumps bar as a great place to meet folks, let off some steam and build your network.
I love this place, they really know how it feels to have writers block, a fickle muse, to feel that frustration when the next link in your story has fallen right out of your head leaving you spinning your wheels. Be as smart as you like, as dumb as you like, as serious or as silly just be yourself and join us on this crazy rollercoaster ride we call writing.
I'm off to the bar to cuddle Xander and flirt wildly with bunny.
Don't be shy, the first drink is on me.
Toodles.
Chatterbox Blonde- Rumps Mystical Bartender
A cuddle connoisseur and has great taste in cocktails
Chatterbox Blonde- Rumps Mystical Bartender
It might be the rum talking, but I might just have managed to get something that doesn't make me cry or vomit I might be able to submit to the comp.
As a woman of my word if I get it done I'm dancing on the bar.
Much love everybody.
Chatterbox Blonde- Rumps Mystical Bartender
Gives the best hugs and has a prize winning wink.
Chatterbox Blonde- Rumps Mystical Bartender
What isn't mentioned in the question is was the relationship ever sexual?
I have some incredibly deep relationships with people I've never slept with nor wanted to.
I've have some warm loving relationships that were sexual once and changed over time.
Chatterbox Blonde- Rumps Mystical Bartender
Thank you Darkroot, Verbal and Luca, very valuable feedback.
It's one of the things I love about lush, you can ask these questions and genuine responses.
As a new writer here I need to learn from the experience and wisdom of my peers.
Maybe I need to write more shorter pieces to build the brand before launched into longer works.
Chatterbox Blonde- Rumps Mystical Bartender
This is why I wanted to ask the question, far better to know what you're getting into instead of just blindly jumping into something.
I really do want to hear all sides to this so I have some solid information to base my decision on.
