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Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

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I see you're from Dallas. We have quite a clump there.

Let's see. There's katharina, but she moved to DC. Risuena . . . who moved to Virginia. (Or was it Maryland?) Jim-Me, who moved to I-forget-where. And the ketchups, but they moved to SoCal.

Uh . . . well, there USED to be a lot of Hatrackers in your neck of the woods!

Welcome to Hatrack anyway. [Wink]

Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :

I already welcomed him in the Randian thread =P

=)

Pix

Posted by GeronL (Member # 9674) on :

I have come here off and on for a while but I finally decided to sign up. I mostly write sci-fi but I have never tried to sell anything.

Of course I only just recently heard of duotrope and I see my last decade has been completely wasted. =o)

I am glad to be here.

Posted by GeronL (Member # 9674) on :

I went back to the Randian thread to clarify something

Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :

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-pH

Posted by GeronL (Member # 9674) on :

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Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :

Tell us about yourself!

-pH

Posted by GeronL (Member # 9674) on :

I am probably older than many here, being born way back in the year of our Lord 1972 AD

/sarcasm

I was born in Texas thanks to Mr. Carrier and his air conditioning. I grew up in Irving, TX, and the Dallas Cowboys are (soon to be was) our main asset.

I've been writing science fiction for as long as could draw triangles and circles and called them spaceships and had them shooting at each other with the red pen/crayon.

Unfortunately I never really kept anything that I wrote and never submitted anything. I see a lot of talk on this board of the "first five pages"... but hardly anything about the last 5.

I have always had trouble ending a story. Many were abandoned in the prime of their story arc and are no more.

In the last few days I have returned to this board, I had scanned it often before that. Now I am signed up and I did that to thank you guys for making sure I saw the term duotrope.

Now I know there are more than a couple of places to send a story, should I finally complete one.

I'm not much on fantasy and all that, I lean toward science fiction very much. I might not write "hard scifi" because I am not a scientist.

My favorites run the ABC's. Asimov, Bradbury, Clarke, Card, Clancey...

I might not be here much for a couple of weeks because I am going on the road with my truck driver brother Dusty. Dusty is a younger version of Larry the Cable Guy.

I have big plans and no money. So I write. Writing is cheap. Writing well, is cool.

I have a recently started 17 page story that probably should get reviewed by somebody which would help me a lot. But I am going to save that for when it is further along.

Like I said elsewhere, I was going to call it EMPIRE... thanks Uncle Orson. =o)

For now the working title is Solidarity.

Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :

"...hope you survive the experience!"

I read too many X-Men comics as a kid.

Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :

"Childhood's End" by Clarke disturbed me to no end, I've gotta say. One of the scariest things I've ever read, along with Philip K. Dick's description of acid trips in Lies, Inc.

-pH

Posted by GeronL (Member # 9674) on :

My writing is usually short on the descriptive but that worked pretty well for Asimov. I hope when i get around to asking for advice on a story people don't freak out at its political incorrectness.

Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :

Freak outs generally sell copies though don't they? I mean did you read the "Da Vinci Code?" The book is about as controversial as a sunday afternoon with your grandmother, and still the "debate" was enough to make Dan Brown a multi Zillionaire. He didn't even have to be a good writer! :rant ended sorry: [Smile]

:sings:

I represent, the misinthrope guild, the misanthrope guild, the misinthrope guild. I represent, the misanthrope guild, and we'd like to welcome you to Hatrack Land

:Feeling very odd tonight. Probably needs water:

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

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Originally posted by GeronL:
I am probably older than many here, being born way back in the year of our Lord 1972 AD

Ah, you'll need this then. *hands over cane*

Just be careful. You are not OTB, so he'll try to take that away from you.

Posted by GeronL (Member # 9674) on :

Some of you will really like Solidarity. I think some people will think the 'bad guys' sound too much like them.

Posted by MyrddinFyre (Member # 2576) on :

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Posted by GeronL (Member # 9674) on :

[Big Grin]

glad to be here... now I gotta go.. bback in a while.. going on the road with my truck driver brother... Dusty the Cable Guy [Wink]

Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :

Hey! My lil bro was born in Ft Worth in 1973.

BTW, You're a youngin'.

Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :

Welcome!