Mel's Forum?

E. Don Harpe wrote:

Alice, I've known that for a long time.

hee hee.

E. Don Harpe wrote:

Alice, I've known that for a long time.

Then why push the on button?

Me, the wicked witch? The very idea!

She is the perfect publisher.

zizban wrote:

And I heard she serves grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat dinner rolls, too.

Where did Virtual Tales go?

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"...you writers are so funny..." went the goblin now, adding "...the publishing world is in deep decline, and still you choose to play "king of the molehill" again as if it mattered one bit, while all around you this forumland is just expanding as more and more people turn up ready to read the very posts that most of you writers disdain as not being writing at all...",

Forums are for fun. Getting published is for serious. I don't see evidence of the publishing world being in deep decline. Writers will always be needed to bring information to the masses. As long as I think I can do that, and be paid for my trouble, I'll work it.

(Marshall McLuhan was right.)

The medium is the message. Right.

Right. You see it happen often on forums such as this one. A thread turns into an intense discussion of forums and threads.

I don't mind. It is clearly of interest to the forum members. Administrators are treated like children only instead of being seen and not heard, they should be heard (prepared to join in the discussions) but not seen (stay in the background and have no greater say than anyone else about how the forum is run). Another word for administrator is dogsbody.

alice wrote:

zizban wrote:

And I heard she serves grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat dinner rolls, too.

Where did Virtual Tales go?

They're there and I'm still one of their authors. I just wanted to link to other things for a while. I'll shamelessly promote my book as soon as it's out.

Meanwhile, here is their new press release about me and my book. Cue my fifteen minutes of fame:

http://www.virtualtales.com/Press-Releases/ouroboros-acquisition.html

Thanks, Zizban

Shelagh,

I say you are a great forum administrator also. After all, if you allow freedom of speech, you ought to have it also.

Nice press release! Congrats.

Nice work, Chris

Ann

Hey, Chris,

Maybe you know what happened to Mel's forrum?

Why not ask Mel?

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Forums are for fun. Getting published is for serious. I don't see evidence of the publishing world being in deep decline. Writers will always be needed to bring information to the masses. As long as I think I can do that, and be paid for my trouble,
I'll work it.

"...one click on the lupus forum soon nips that forums are for fun conjecture in the bud..." replied the goblin, where there were many very real and serious forums out there, adding "...forumland is still in its infancy so of course writers are not seeing it as where those readers are, but given the choice between offering a downloadable pdf file as an ebook, or actually conversing with my readers here, I guess I would rather go with the flow, and explore the growing potential of forumland now, against that declining publishing world that is, oh and please don't shoot the messenger just because I am pointing out what so evidently is, of course I too wish it was otherwise, but here we are and here you are too, why, because you want to converse, and you can't converse with a book, you can only converse about them here on forumland...", in fact, the goblin had never met someone who hadn't seen that the publishing world was in sharp decline, saying "...can I have your autograph please..."

decline of the publishing industry

I agree. I wrote a small blog post, Is Writing Replacing Reading? that received a great response (much better than any of the blog posts about books) on Literature & Fiction:

http://shelaghwatkins.wordpress.com/2009/08/12/is-writing-replacing-reading/

Everyone needs a voice, I guess. That's what "forum" means, and today, there is at least one out there for everyone who has something to say. We cannot trust the mainstream media to be honest with us; even the leaders, who are often misquoted and even maligned can turn to Twitter to set things straight, or at least give their own perspectives.

Hopefully, in time we will remember that there is a difference between writing and literature, and recover out taste for the latter. The chaos of the old order breaking down will be replaced with a new order, and for a little while, we will be back on track.

Ann

alice wrote:

Hey, Chris,

Maybe you know what happened to Mel's forrum?

Not a clue. One day it was there, the next, gone.

Abe F. March wrote:

Why not ask Mel?

Good idea! Maybe she will pop by and tell us.

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Perfection
is not lovable. All the Buddhas are alike, and they have left the world so as
not to live in it. If you're going to live in the world, you live with
imperfections. And what is lovable about a person is precisely that cute little
twist of the nose that doesn't belong to the Greek tradition. What is lovable
is the fault; what is lovable is the humanity.



The
Collected Lectures of Joseph Campbell, Series I, Volume 4: Man and Myth

This just popped up on my homepage widget. It seemed to fit in with some of the posts on this thread, especially the ones about forums in general.

Ann

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. and when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."

I am "fearfully" sorry I asked?
I am glad we remain!