Will I be banned from the Forum?

Started by Last Hussar, 18 July 2015, 07:45:48 PM

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Last Hussar

This isn't fair.

I enjoy writing

I want to be a Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, Jasper Fforde

I can do SF

But the book I've shown friends, the one that is full length, not short stories, the one where they have become involved with the characters, the one where I made them cry....
It turns out I'm really rather good at...




Chick-lit.

>:(


IM A 40 SOMETHING BLOKE FOR CRYING OUT LOUD

Do you know how hard it is to write a woman character if you are a bloke?
I have neither the time nor the crayons to explain why you are wrong.

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Techno

Well.....Tell us the title of one you've written, so we read the reviews on Amazon.  :)
Cheers - Phil

Subedai

Have you tried regression hypnosis? Perhaps you were a female author in a previous life.
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fsn

It's just something to ground you as human.

The little flaw that makes you interesting.

Do you have a fantastic pen name?
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Last Hussar

I'm getting up the courage to start submitting
I have neither the time nor the crayons to explain why you are wrong.

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Duke Speedy of Leighton

Seriously, let us know what it's called, my wife will love it! 8)
You may refer to me as: Your Grace, Duke Speedy of Leighton.
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Orcs

 
Quote from: Last Hussar on 18 July 2015, 07:45:48 PM
It turns out I'm really rather good at...

Chick-lit.

IM A 40 SOMETHING BLOKE FOR CRYING OUT LOUD

Do you know how hard it is to write a woman character if you are a bloke?

I am getting a Little concerned here LH.  Last one of my wargamer freinds who got in touch with "His Feminine side". Went further than expected and dissappeared off the wargaming circuit.

The cynics are right nine times out of ten. -Mencken, H. L.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Orcs

Quote from: Last Hussar on 18 July 2015, 10:18:24 PM
I'm getting up the courage to start submitting

Talk to FSN, He loves submitting to Miss Whiplash

Just make sure you have a "safety" word  ;D
The cynics are right nine times out of ten. -Mencken, H. L.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. - Robert Louis Stevenson

fsn

She told me it was Bulgarian for "rhododendron".

Unfortunately, I don't speak Bulgarian.
Lord Oik of Runcorn (You may refer to me as Milord Oik)

Oik of the Year 2013, 2014; Prize for originality and 'having a go, bless him', 2015
3 votes in the 2016 Painting Competition!; 2017-2019 The Wilderness years
Oik of the Year 2020; 7 votes in the 2021 Painting Competition
11 votes in the 2022 Painting Competition (Double figures!)
2023 - the year of Gerald:
2024 Painting Competition - Runner-Up!

Techno

You should worry....I can't spell rodododendron in English let alone Bulgarian...

It might be this...."рододендрон".....But I don't know how to say that, either. :-\

Cheers - Phil

fsn

Well, it's not "stopitstopitforpityssakepleasestop".


I tried that.
Lord Oik of Runcorn (You may refer to me as Milord Oik)

Oik of the Year 2013, 2014; Prize for originality and 'having a go, bless him', 2015
3 votes in the 2016 Painting Competition!; 2017-2019 The Wilderness years
Oik of the Year 2020; 7 votes in the 2021 Painting Competition
11 votes in the 2022 Painting Competition (Double figures!)
2023 - the year of Gerald:
2024 Painting Competition - Runner-Up!

Last Hussar

Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 19 July 2015, 06:46:25 AM

I am getting a Little concerned here LH.  Last one of my wargamer freinds who got in touch with "His Feminine side". Went further than expected and dissappeared off the wargaming circuit.



**** NO!
I have neither the time nor the crayons to explain why you are wrong.

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Westmarcher

Quote from: fsn on 19 July 2015, 08:53:01 AM
Well, it's not "stopitstopitforpityssakepleasestop".


I tried that.

;D ;D ;D
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

Westmarcher

Quote from: Last Hussar on 19 July 2015, 09:32:46 AM
**** NO!

Well, never mind. If it happens, we can always call you, Last Hussy.   :)
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

Last Hussar

I have neither the time nor the crayons to explain why you are wrong.

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
Franklin D. Roosevelt

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