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(2 replies, posted in Prufrock's Dilemma - Poetry)

TirzahLaughs wrote:

I am immensely fond of 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock".  Although full of melancholy and a bit of angst...I love that pieces of the language are like unexpected sweets.   

I think whether you are a man or a woman...we have all felt inadequate,  unable to act ...swallowed by our own insecurities. That's what Prufrock does.  It gives voice to all that self-doubt/anxiety but in a way where the language still brings beauty.

"the sirens are singing but they will not sing to me" (paraphrase).

AH, those sirens sangs to me, I steered towards Sirenum scopuli, but ended up in Hawaii, with Helen (a.k.a. Fifilaru Keanu)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c … _Siren.jpg

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(3 replies, posted in Literary Fiction)

Janet Taylor-Perry wrote:

Okay. Thanks for that definition of literary fiction! I never knew exactly what it was. I really believe this is where my hillbilly stories belong. Thanks for the invite, Max!

If anyone in the group would like to read them, three are on site: Mountain Moonshine, Gator Aid, and For Richter or Poorer (My fav, but don't tell the others.) Homegrown Healer has been pulled and submitted to the Faulkner Competition where it was a semifinalist.

Janet, you were the main reviewer of THE SWIFTNESS of the SEA, and I thank you for that. That novel sunk (and stunk), as did my health, but now I'm floating on the surface, treading water and soon I'll be swimming back to my ideas and tear-proof keyboard.

Here's a great site with great books, great writers and they are a non-profit now.
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/tendency

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(19 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)

Linda Lee wrote:

For writing time, I beg, borrow and steal from any of my other responsibilities whenever and wherever I can. It sometimes pisses off the various people associated to the activities I'm thieving from, but I found it's generally more productive to beg for forgiveness than ask for permission.

I like that! And I understand...

I think I'll adopt the Sir Walter Scott of writing method; write very early in the a.m, then ride at full gallop around the estate on my black stallion, go trout fishing in the afternoon, then attend to the estate business and reviewing after evening tea... kidding.

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(19 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)

after a two year absence I think I can now jump back into writing full time.  previously i wrote in 10 hour stretches, but i'm old and medicated now so that won't work.

i'm thinking, 5 am: coffee, news,reviews.  8 am: lifey stuff, swim. 2 pm: writing $ rewriting. 6 pm: Sangria and salsa dancing in the mind

What is your novel writing schedule?

TX max

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(0 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)

TITLE - TYPE  - ACTION categories are not sortable when these header words are clicked on. I would like the 50+ writings of my portfolio displayed in an ordered list of: Novel, Poetry, Short Story. (clickOn/hold down algorithm variations/macros can also use Ctrl & Alt, etc.)

The sorting parameter/algorithm for individual header categories should be by date written.

I asked for this feature on the old site numerous times. The code for this is not complex. I see you have this type of sorting algorithm used on another area of this wonderful site.

I also recommend a text only version of the entire site using CSS that creates a more horizontal rendering of text, in uniform font size and color, so less scrolling is needed.

And so far, I really love this new site!

MY REQUIEM SINGER by t s elliot


oh, death surprised me

i croaked, doppelganger beside me

died broke, too many tokes,  average bloke

elysian fields, cerberus, or Holy Smoke?

inside me, revolt of years

gnarly fear, repulsion of self-to-self

of cells of never-ending

mitochondrial pilings in

pitches null- abandoned!

the prime, high-numbered life

of slow-dying divisibles of itself

of a million subtractions

always in laughable strife!

loving wife, roaming kids-my traction!

my black raven, over tractor-dug grave

cackling my life-long distractions

in fear, in rants, ink kants

in wants, in smears… Ggreed’s slave!

always bustling my Titan, my proud Phallas

my one-eyed cyclops screaming

mind of its own, but I’m so…

dead now, a phantom, a demon

Still dreaming and scheming

my rotting inside demanding

a magic diamond-laced chalice

a life of love-letters, much-betters

died wishing malice, dead-ringers

on my doppelganger requiem singer

we’re in a coffin, now cramp

myself, this forever darkness! no lamp!

alas, alone with myself and that cowering scamp!

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(28 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)

Love the site! Saw bugs that others have mentioned, but they are minor... so far. I'll stumble around, like everyone else, until the light goes on overhead in those "Ah-Ha!' moments.
Using Web Developer (in firefox), one can see the terrific amount of work that went into this site!

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(0 replies, posted in Prufrock's Dilemma - Poetry)

You know who I mean, so email him, please.

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(14 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Basic)

http://mathbits.com/MathBits/Java/arrays/Initialize.htm
As you can see, all the arrays start with [0]. As did the universe, according to Hawking and Pee Wee Herman..

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(4 replies, posted in Thriller/Mystery/Suspense)

I would start a lit-fic group but I keep getting this error message:


You reached the limit of 5 joined or pending groups for Premium Membership.
Joined Groups : 5, Pending Groups : 0.

Upgrade for Platinum Membership to be able to apply to this group or to create a new group.

Platinum Membership (wow!)- This costs: first born male child, an ocean-going yacht for SOL, and indentured servitude at the Next Big Writer sugar plantation in Alabama.

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(14 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Basic)

njc wrote:

The Greeks didn't believe that one is a number.
The Romans didn't believe that zero is a number.
It took until about 1600 for for negative numbers to be accepted.
It took until nearly 1800 for imaginary numbers to be accepted (depending on the mathematician, of course.  Euler doesn't count.  Euler was ahead of everything.)

You've just broken the Classical Roman barrier!  smile

i was a dunderhead in math, but I do remember my teacher's explanation of imaginary number— like rainbow colored sheep, counted in your sleep— loved that teacher!

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(2 replies, posted in Prufrock's Dilemma - Poetry)

Purfrock... and here is what Wikipedia says:

The poem, described as a "drama of literary anguish", is a dramatic interior monologue of an urban man, stricken with feelings of isolation and an incapability for decisive action that is said "to epitomize frustration and impotence of the modern individual" and "represent thwarted desires and modern disillusionment." Prufrock laments his physical and intellectual inertia, the lost opportunities in his life and lack of spiritual progress, and he is haunted by reminders of unattained carnal love. With visceral feelings of weariness, regret, embarrassment, longing, emasculation, sexual frustration, a sense of decay, and an awareness of mortality, "Prufrock" has become one of the most recognised voices in modern literature.

Me to a 'tee', or is it 't', or is it 'tea', or is it 'tee-hee'? smile

https://www.tumblr.com/search/keanu%20and%20poetry

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(14 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Basic)

SolN wrote:

Hi,

You can delete it by going to the group, going to Members, and then deleting yourself. You will see an option when you delete yourself to also delete the group.

BTW - how did you create your groups? I ask because right now there is a limit of 5 groups total (joined or created) per user. You seem to have six.

Thanks,
Sol

Hi Sol,
How did I d0 it? I sat down with a bottle of Sangria and started typing... beats me.

But when I was a mad-hatter coder, when I got +1 errors,  I always checked my SQL rows creation code and limitations, AND math functions and precedence of expressions, making sure that the code started from 0. So, 0 though 4, not 1 through 5, in an array... means evaluating, counting from 1 through 5 which would give you 6.

Time for a new bottle of Sangria and some Friday night salsa music!

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(14 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Basic)

Made mistakes... happens.Now I want to DELETE GROUP (S).
I'll try again after I watch the video, lol.
Blame jack the knife for getting me into this...hahahah!

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(0 replies, posted in Purfrock's DIlema)

How, where? Thanks SOl

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(0 replies, posted in Purfrock's DIlema)

How, where? Thanks SOl

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(4 replies, posted in Thriller/Mystery/Suspense)

jack the knife wrote:

Hey, Max - Why don't YOU start a litertary fiction group?

Hey, Jack— I not that literate, and besides, I'm waiting for the literary return of JEliz.

And, grammar and, me and good spellen (lol) don't get along toooo well; lol. Then there's finding a name, making a graphic... get me another Paxil!

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(4 replies, posted in Thriller/Mystery/Suspense)

Went to see NIGHTCRAWLER... Jake Gallyenthal, wow!, man plays a terrific psycho in the character of Lou Bloom. A clamped-down, claustrophobic and creepy performance! An insane Leopold Bloom in LA.  Fast-action car-fag action, raw ambitions of your typical LA mad-man confabulating, flim-flamming Dale Carnegie logic , all-the -while  espousing a wacko used car salesman's moral and ethical issues on a reluctant intern with bloodshot, but with starry eyes and business school musings.  Story plays out in LA-LA Land under mostly horror nights of mercury-vapor lamp skies.  Rivals Paul Schrader's New York Gothic tale, TAXI DRIVER, IMHO.

The tone: Dostoevsky's future nightmare. The location:  The pain/gain LA neighborhoods of Nietzsche's later ramblings. The moral & ethic questions:  Oden, when he gets really heavy. The tempo: Terry MacDonald's letter and word perfect jammings of dialog crisp, and— bam, bam! bam! Then toss in a bit of vsworld for poetics!

A forceful performance by Renee Russo that amps up the insanity of Bloom. Stong female, another, wow!

AND BTW- can someone here start a literary fiction group? thanks.

Crime writing now scares me! LOL

max

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(260 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)

Great site, SOl. The simple, uncluttered design is well though out. The useability seems pretty good so far. 

Mental and physical health sidelined me for 22 months.Things can only look up for me and everyone here.

This is an easy-on-the-eyes eyes interface. No childish do-dads or trendy-to-be-bendy nonsense. WTG!

Professional fiction writers and poets are bound to gravitate here when word-of-eMouth spreads about the quality of intelligent reviews, quantity of the reviews and the maturity and depth of most reviewer's comments.

max