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Clumeleon
Basements are pretty rare in the UK. I've lived in about 18 different houses and none of them had basements.
I don't live with my parents. I left for university three and a half years ago and now share a flat with two other students. I still have a bedroom at my mother's house and a load of my crap, but I have no intention of ever moving back there for any extended period of time. That would be a huge step backwards, in my view.
I don't live with my parents. I left for university three and a half years ago and now share a flat with two other students. I still have a bedroom at my mother's house and a load of my crap, but I have no intention of ever moving back there for any extended period of time. That would be a huge step backwards, in my view.
Clumeleon
Thank you to everyone for their kind wishes. I'm happy to report that I had an absolutely amazing birthday!
I've been at a course near London all weekend which, I believe, will change my life. I was given many opportunities to expand my life and care for and support others. I made so many new, lifelong friends and learned so much.
On Saturday night, I accidentally in my tiredness let slip to one of the course leaders that it was my birthday the next day. This led to having around 120 people singing Happy Birthday to me and sincere best wishes all day. I traveled back by mini-bus with all the others who had come from Scotland and, as we crossed the border into my native land, they surprised me with a card filled with beautiful messages and sung to me once again. I've never been so touched in all my life.
To return home and log on to Lush to find this thread has topped off an already extraordinary day. I desperately need some sleep but just wanted to express my heartfelt gratitude for your kind words.
I've been at a course near London all weekend which, I believe, will change my life. I was given many opportunities to expand my life and care for and support others. I made so many new, lifelong friends and learned so much.
On Saturday night, I accidentally in my tiredness let slip to one of the course leaders that it was my birthday the next day. This led to having around 120 people singing Happy Birthday to me and sincere best wishes all day. I traveled back by mini-bus with all the others who had come from Scotland and, as we crossed the border into my native land, they surprised me with a card filled with beautiful messages and sung to me once again. I've never been so touched in all my life.
To return home and log on to Lush to find this thread has topped off an already extraordinary day. I desperately need some sleep but just wanted to express my heartfelt gratitude for your kind words.
Clumeleon
Quote by JohnC
LOL No, been there too. But I have seen forums with that feature as well. I have to admit thought that I was expecting a comment similar to that one.
Being slightly more serious, it has been suggested in the past and discussed at length (in this very forum, I think). Most people who commented (notably, the boss) didn't like it as an idea.
Clumeleon
Quote by JohnC
A "LIKE" button for posts would be nice, so you can show approval of a post without having to MAKE one saying so.
I think you're looking for THIS PLACE.
Clumeleon
I read The Lord of the Rings after having seen the first film. Being 11, I found the book rather difficult to get through but I absolutely loved it and I think it heightened my enjoyment of the remaining two films (the whole trilogy was excellent on screen). I think knowing SO many details from the book helps you understand some of the things going on in the film which are perhaps not laid out there so explicitly.
I think in most other cases I've either read the book first (or exclusively) or only seen the film. I regret having watched any of the Harry Potter movies before having read the entire series because, as subsequent instalments were released, I automatically imagined the characters in the books as the actors who portrayed them and I felt that was quite restricting on my imagination.
I think in most other cases I've either read the book first (or exclusively) or only seen the film. I regret having watched any of the Harry Potter movies before having read the entire series because, as subsequent instalments were released, I automatically imagined the characters in the books as the actors who portrayed them and I felt that was quite restricting on my imagination.
Clumeleon
I've always appreciated a good comedy actor or stand-up act. I'm a big lover of sketch shows.
Who are your favourites in the comedy world and what performances/roles of theirs do you especially love?
Victoria Wood is one of my all-time favourites. If you ever get a chance, watch An Audience With Victoria Wood. The series dinnerladies was also brilliant, with a lot of wordplay humour and some sheer ridiculosity.
I rather enjoy Jimmy Carr, too, although he is not to everyone's taste. There's something about his crude humour that I just love.
Brian "Limmy" Limond is one of the big players in the Scottish sketch comedy scene. He really just gets the Scottish sense of humour, in my opinion, but probably wouldn't make much sense to a lot of English people or Yanks.
Who are your favourites in the comedy world and what performances/roles of theirs do you especially love?
Victoria Wood is one of my all-time favourites. If you ever get a chance, watch An Audience With Victoria Wood. The series dinnerladies was also brilliant, with a lot of wordplay humour and some sheer ridiculosity.
I rather enjoy Jimmy Carr, too, although he is not to everyone's taste. There's something about his crude humour that I just love.
Brian "Limmy" Limond is one of the big players in the Scottish sketch comedy scene. He really just gets the Scottish sense of humour, in my opinion, but probably wouldn't make much sense to a lot of English people or Yanks.
Clumeleon
Quote by Mazza
See that Clum? He's a right guid chanter....
I actually do chant a bit, although that's obviously not what I meant. I used to be in musicals (I was the only bass in my school).
Quote by filthydiamond
oh he is, he chanted the arse off of me.
Way to keep it discreet! You dirty-minded Newfie.
Clumeleon
Why look to the past? Look forward! What are you going to do with what you know now? Create as much value from your life as possible.
If you went back and did it all again, you'd probably learn a whole bunch of new stuff along the way and, by the time you caught up on yourself, you'd want to go back and see if you can do it EVEN better. Don't dwell on the mistakes you've made but concentrate on the great things you're going to do with your life.
It starts with you. It starts from NOW!
If you went back and did it all again, you'd probably learn a whole bunch of new stuff along the way and, by the time you caught up on yourself, you'd want to go back and see if you can do it EVEN better. Don't dwell on the mistakes you've made but concentrate on the great things you're going to do with your life.
It starts with you. It starts from NOW!
Clumeleon
Quote by orangefox444
Indeed, and perhaps it was this prefix that caused the greatest consternation within the whole thread.
Nevertheless, you have written a story so you (in my book) are a writer...that is all I was attempting to convey, semantics perhaps?
(or two pennies as I'm from the UK)
I was just being a pedant. Writers are like that sometimes.
Clumeleon
I remember MagnificentRascal once spoke about the time that someone asked her what she did and she answered, "I'm a writer," and believed it herself. I think someone who is able to do that would be a fair definition of a "real writer", if we had to define it.
I know I made a comment about E.L. James in the other thread but that was really just a comment on my view of the quality of her writing. She should be incredibly proud of what she has achieved and I'm pretty sure she believes she's a writer.
I don't think that genre should come into it at all. Factual writers are just as "real" as those who write fiction; erotica writers are just as "real" as those who write non-erotica (is there a word for that?). Nor do I think that whether or not you are published is relevant.
Writers know that they are writers. I hope that, one day, I'll be able to do what Maggie did.
I know I made a comment about E.L. James in the other thread but that was really just a comment on my view of the quality of her writing. She should be incredibly proud of what she has achieved and I'm pretty sure she believes she's a writer.
I don't think that genre should come into it at all. Factual writers are just as "real" as those who write fiction; erotica writers are just as "real" as those who write non-erotica (is there a word for that?). Nor do I think that whether or not you are published is relevant.
Writers know that they are writers. I hope that, one day, I'll be able to do what Maggie did.
Clumeleon
This is one, I suppose?
http://www.lushstories.com/stories/love-stories/love-machine.aspx
http://www.lushstories.com/stories/love-stories/love-machine.aspx
Clumeleon
Quote by orangefox444
I still firmly believe that the term "Writer" can be used to describe everyone who has written anything, by all means prefix such statements as "good" "published" "best selling" or whatever term you may wish to add, for me that is an important point to make.
He did prefix it with "real", I suppose.
Clumeleon
I have to say, it doesn't sound like something we would approve on this site.
Source: http://www.lushstories.com/forum/yaf_postst22383_An-A-to-Z-Guide-for-Lush-Stories-Authors.aspx
I know we're not talking supernatural powers here, per se, but everything still needs to be consensual on Lush.
Perhaps you read it elsewhere.
We don’t allow mind control through supernatural powers, as all sex (even supernatural sex) needs to be consensual.
Source: http://www.lushstories.com/forum/yaf_postst22383_An-A-to-Z-Guide-for-Lush-Stories-Authors.aspx
I know we're not talking supernatural powers here, per se, but everything still needs to be consensual on Lush.
Perhaps you read it elsewhere.
