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Yeah, I'm sorta like that too.  Me it is rushing to get my presentations ready for agents who want the Saga and the Radio Revolution. And having to put a website with my music and radio shows up on a web page along with spouting off about my novels..  The agents said they won't touch it until they see my website. It's called stirringneurons.com.  And Suin, I put a demo of the songs from the Saga of the Mighty Valentine Cosmos up on the web.  It's crazy what you can do with this web stuff. But it is another two weeks of getting it fully up. I still try to do a few reviews inbetween but Marriana's suggestions will probably have to wait a month And the music for the radio revolution and Grandville is still being recorded.  And of course all of you probably know how sick I am.  I put up my writing composition from when I was seven, edited at 17 up on the site completely. My masterpiece:  Dick and the Steam Shovel, a Dick and Jane Story. I'll probably blow away all the agents on that one.  What the hell.  Anyway I'll review here and there a little bit for awhile.

okay, I've read your reasons you are writing fiction or not sure why you are writing fiction.  And even me, What i said, I'm beginning not to believe. We need to analyze our actions more deeply. It is so important to know why we are writing, how can you even critique someone if you don't know why they are writing?  One thing I'm beginning to think.  What about, there is a pool of human thought out there. We drop our self, our vulnerability into that pool, looking for our presence within it. We write our slant to fill the pool to put our own idenity within in it. To share our lives with the great pool, to feel apart of that great pool. Suin, I can identify with you this way. You are opening up your own world, afraid, but nevertheless wanting to put it in the pool.  CJ, there is so much rage mixed with storytelling, so dark, but it is so apart of your contribution to the whole. Gacela, you have a slant on the bigger world, that's why the Helga story could be so important, you are looking for more than what is here in the normal, and we all are that, but you concentrate on that more than the others, and Rhiannon, I see you being a friend to everybody, the heather/Rhiannon/Lido/Rosanne, you want friendship above all else.  and me, sorry, I can't see myself very well, but our individuality, meshed in the pool, is why we might be writing.  And why this site is an asset to our endeavors.  yeah, I'm drunk, but what of it, I always write as they say "under the influence."

shit I don't know what stream of consciousness means.  Somebody enlighten me.

Suin, I got involved in this thing.  You don't have a chance of losing me as a reviewer unless you want to. I've said my piece.  I'll  read on.  Problem is with you, and CJ, and Gacela, I do get myself inside the stories, and sometimes I need to scream. And outside of you guys and few other readers, I should mention I prefer to read physics books to fiction.  So I don't really know what the fiction market is like as you pointed out with Girl on the train. And my writings are way out of the normal. Lots of times my reviews don't fit what you are lookin' for, but I still feel obligated to speak my mind. Cause sometimes it might help.  I just don't know when.  My apology if got too drastic with your last review.  I'll try to be careful from now on.

You can't write a novel and know where it is going.  How boring.  And when it doesn't make sense you just pound on the door, til you break through, and find a way to make sense of it. But I don't like to go back and change things. No.  But I don't mind going back and adding things.  I figure the story says it for a reason, you just need to expand the story, add more connective tissue, and in one of my books even add more dimensions---in order to follow it. To me, the story is sacred.  You don't mess with it.  Saves all those rewrites also. Weird, yet on this site, when things don;t add up like a Gacela's latest story, I go around telling her to expand it, but shit, she thinks that means a rewrite.  I guess we just got our own words. It is wonder we can even talk to each other, our languages are so different.

I'm hoping Gacela is starting at the second chapter and bringing Aethens to life in the story.  But I think she is just busy.

I don't know what tag means.  I just publish under all...internet...

you know Rhiannon, you did describe what that creature vro... whatever was.  As far as keeping the reader in the dark and write to a mythical audience who never will read this, to me, that borders on insanity.  I don't care who's done it. When we write we are fundamentally translators living in our minds that no one else has a clue of, writer's are a lonley breed, who live in their own worlds. Our quest is to make these strange worlds acceptable to others who have some of the same time constructs we have, but not all the same time constructs. Writing sly hints, sneaking in clues, being devious, shadowing the story in unneeded mysteries, only makes it harder to translate.  Mysteries are only fine if they are absolutely essential to the structure of the story. Finding a common chord for our minds to be translated to others is thinner than a strand of hair.  Fogging it up with such shennagins doesn't help.   Just a raging comment from a blunt writer. I spoke my piece.

where's the waterfall, and when water falls over it, what does it splash on.. I told him plot was missing.  He said, that's my style.  I thought we lived in a space-time arena where event upon an event cascade into a moving story. Maybe he should change or keep it to poetry.

I'll give it a try