Jozanny
06-08-2009, 06:18 AM
I am probably going to regret this (sigh), but for those of you who pay attention to my posts, you know I have this thing about my old creative writing hang-out @ Poets & Writers. I trotted over to the main web site because I feel I need to get back on top of my literary markets too, (my discipline is getting lax) as well as my paying ones, and I have to say, I am impressed with P&W's makeover. Everytime they upgrade they seem to get more efficient.
I shouldn't have done this I know, but curiosity got the better of me, and the Speakeasy no longer needs my personal information for a login account (like I need another board again anyway!) so I logged in with a new password and id, and boom. It has been roughly seven years since I've been there, and they got rid of their personal writing section, and though this makes me happy, maybe for those students who want to workshop could use LN here if I last long enough to suggest it.
The moderator is the same person I interacted with back in the day, and though I might get away with a few posts, eventually she'd recognize that I had returned.
Now, I don't really need advice from practicing writers (at whatever level) right this second, but I would like to keep the resource in my back pocket.
I have three choices:
1. I can lurk and never post.
2. Attempt to post when needed and never never mention the past:eek:
3. Send the moderator a pm (they have that now) offer a mea culpa and feel wounded when she closes my account again or hope that she doesn't.
And no, I cannot afford therapy or a new round of mood balancing drugs:p (and I am not sure how they cure for poverty, marginalization, and significant mobility limitations, in any case, even if I could afford them).
Let me turn it around, and ask, has anyone ever been forgiven their sins in such instances?
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Never mind. They have a whole thread section called Mediation, and it's being run like a police state. I'm laughing. The regulars I posted with were or became highly career oriented, and had a much greater freedom of expression to engage in issues that concerned us. I guess I don't need it.
I shouldn't have done this I know, but curiosity got the better of me, and the Speakeasy no longer needs my personal information for a login account (like I need another board again anyway!) so I logged in with a new password and id, and boom. It has been roughly seven years since I've been there, and they got rid of their personal writing section, and though this makes me happy, maybe for those students who want to workshop could use LN here if I last long enough to suggest it.
The moderator is the same person I interacted with back in the day, and though I might get away with a few posts, eventually she'd recognize that I had returned.
Now, I don't really need advice from practicing writers (at whatever level) right this second, but I would like to keep the resource in my back pocket.
I have three choices:
1. I can lurk and never post.
2. Attempt to post when needed and never never mention the past:eek:
3. Send the moderator a pm (they have that now) offer a mea culpa and feel wounded when she closes my account again or hope that she doesn't.
And no, I cannot afford therapy or a new round of mood balancing drugs:p (and I am not sure how they cure for poverty, marginalization, and significant mobility limitations, in any case, even if I could afford them).
Let me turn it around, and ask, has anyone ever been forgiven their sins in such instances?
***
Never mind. They have a whole thread section called Mediation, and it's being run like a police state. I'm laughing. The regulars I posted with were or became highly career oriented, and had a much greater freedom of expression to engage in issues that concerned us. I guess I don't need it.