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    Well, I write for living (from content for social media to essays, relatories and journalistic stuff for webside of the group I work - but I am no journalist and I claim fake news if someone say I am), also movie reviews and essays for a guy (the website just turned into a facebook page in the end, but still get the invitations for those pre-release exhbititions, but who doesnt those days?). As side note, had some poems and short stories published in anthologies (or alternative "medium" like in candy wrapping papper) and a Graphic Novel with my script was publish a few years ago. And an edition of Benito Cereno by Melville was printed with my preface, but maybe that does not count much as the whole idea of re-publishing it was mine in first place...
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    Candy wrapping paper is an interesting medium. Perhaps I could get my Civil War book on that paper they give you in a shoebox. Candy paper seems better for poems and aphorisms. Then again, you'd need a lot of shoes. I may have to resort to grocery bags. ;-)

    It doesn't surprise me you write for a living, JC. How long at a time can you write well? It sounds like you set your own deadlines, which must be convenient. Do you work with an editor?

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    I write to take my mind of things but also to make a mark on something or someone in a good way.
    Words are the medium to sane thinking and living they are the gateway to betterment and improvement when used sparingly and correctly. I have this belief they do fire back when abused and used in an inappropriate way. Trust.
    Words are free and never complain in fact they come when you least expect it and show things you never thought you would.
    They are the must have full package to any adventures of thoughts.
    That is my take on it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by cacian View Post
    Words are free and never complain in fact they come when you least expect it and show things you never thought you would.
    That's a good way of putting it, Cacian. I see words as a kind of art people make from thoughts, and thought as messages from realms largely uncharted. We have to organize thoughts anyway, or we would lack, as you say, "sane thinking"; but converting thoughts to words and words to art means that thoughts can be meaningfully shared between individuals and even follow separate trajectories from one to another. That's why reading is such a miracle. It allows you to touch the mind of another human being--even one long dead.
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    I write small children's stories. I have two small children and this is my main audience) I love to read and sometimes I use characters and their character from books I read. For example, I used the image of the Great Gatsby in a small instructive essay for my children, which you can find here https://samples.edusson.com/the-great-gatsby/. It seems to me that this is a great way to quickly create the right character unless of course it is plagiarized. I do not sell my stories, so it seems to me that this can be done)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Charlie Guerard View Post
    I write small children's stories. I have two small children and this is my main audience)
    I think it is a wonderful thing to write for family members--although also a miracle that a parent would have the energy for it! If you don't mind my asking, do you improvise stories? Or maybe use folktales or stories you heard from your parents as a child? In any case, it is fine thing you are doing.

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    I think it is a wonderful thing to write for family members--although also a miracle that a parent would have the energy for it! If you don't mind my asking, do you improvise stories? Or maybe use folktales or stories you heard from your parents as a child? In any case, it is fine thing you are doing.
    I'm trying to combine the modern interests of children and classic stories) For example, the Avengers instead of three piglets Of course, I'm joking about the avengers, but I think you understand the meaning

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pompey Bum View Post
    Candy wrapping paper is an interesting medium. Perhaps I could get my Civil War book on that paper they give you in a shoebox. Candy paper seems better for poems and aphorisms. Then again, you'd need a lot of shoes. I may have to resort to grocery bags. ;-)
    Sadly, I never got one of the papers myself. It was a kind of social project to promote literacy, but in another state. A few years they also used one of my poems (alongside many others) for a game to be used in schools. Now they would distrubte the candies with the poems (along wiht many others) to kids in celebration to a Saint's day (actually two, Cosmas and Damian), on their day it is a costume to distribute a lot of candies to kids.

    It doesn't surprise me you write for a living, JC. How long at a time can you write well? It sounds like you set your own deadlines, which must be convenient. Do you work with an editor?
    Daily work, no editor. Web publishing must be fast, so I cannot wait much for someone else to look after the texts, even in my previous job, when there were actually someone with skills to revise the text. Now, it is me and another woman, she has no skill to do it. Of course, all the reading - i kind became a fake journalist - demands a lot more reading and research. For my own texts, I have no discipline, I write when I want, usually weekends or at home, when I am not reading or tired. Since, most of stuff are short, I do not need to stay put hours and hours like in academic research and the deadlines are mine (albeit, I must fill some weekly quota for work).
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    Quote Originally Posted by Charlie Guerard View Post
    I'm trying to combine the modern interests of children and classic stories) For example, the Avengers instead of three piglets Of course, I'm joking about the avengers, but I think you understand the meaning
    Yes, it sounds very sweet and a good way to combine culturally meaningful material with things kids like. Everyone wants to be J. K. Rowling these days--just doing the same thing over and over again. It's nice to hear about someone using her own imagination. I'm sure your kids are very lucky.

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    Like Charlie, I write stories for my family (I have two grandsons, ages one and three). My grandsons also insist that I tell them stories constantly (I babysit them every week and my story ideas are running thin). I have also written professionally writing: advertising, magazine articles (you'd be shocked how many magazines have published my articles without any editing, when the articles were puff pieces for my company's products), and writing and editing a company magazine.

    I seldom post my stories here, because they are designed for young children and because I don't know how to incorporate my illustrations on LitNet. However, as an example, I'll post one in the short story section now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JCamilo View Post
    Daily work, no editor. Web publishing must be fast, so I cannot wait much for someone else to look after the texts, even in my previous job, when there were actually someone with skills to revise the text. Now, it is me and another woman, she has no skill to do it. Of course, all the reading - i kind became a fake journalist - demands a lot more reading and research. For my own texts, I have no discipline, I write when I want, usually weekends or at home, when I am not reading or tired. Since, most of stuff are short, I do not need to stay put hours and hours like in academic research and the deadlines are mine (albeit, I must fill some weekly quota for work).
    My wife edits my material. She's not a native English speaker but she publishes in her field--in HIGHLY technological prose, though, so we have many aesthetic quibbles. But at least she catches my dumb mistakes. My discipline is too high, which may be why I burn out by noon (or maybe I'm just getting old). I guess I've been goofing off a little lately. I'll probably have to leave the site again before too long and go back to the 19th century full time. I suppose that makes me a fake war correspondent.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ecurb View Post
    I seldom post my stories here, because they are designed for young children and because I don't know how to incorporate my illustrations on LitNet. However, as an example, I'll post one in the short story section now.
    Oh, I'm looking forward to reading it, Ecurb. Writing for family members is an overlooked--genre? My father and I exchange our book reviews over email and all my writing is destined for my nephews and nieces--including a great nephew who, if he lives as long as my dad, will see the 22nd century. His children can publish it. People will want to know how we cavemen lived by then.

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    So my reply that I just spent 10 minutes writing was sent to a moderator for approval. I'm guessing that after (x) amount of words your post becomes a story and needs approval? I'm wondering why the moderators chose to change this forum in such a way. This makes me not want to post.

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    I also noticed that there has been more moderation of late.
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