how have you changed since you first came to this forum?

[SleepyWitch]

I've read a few books I didn't even know existed
I'm interested in books from all cultures now (which doesn't mean I've read any), before it was only English and American ones.

Before I joined LitNet I hated my literature courses; I still don't like them now but I've found out I can even enjoy reading classics as long as I read them for pleasure (vs courses) and can discuss them with cool people
LitNet has even made it easier for me to talk to some English Lit M.A. students I met in my courses. Before I joined I wouldn't have known what to talk about with them, although I've always liked reading.

I've become seriously addicted to this forum and spent way too much time on the internet

EDIT: I've also taken up writing stories again, which I hadn't done since I was 15 (i.e. 10 years ago)

[Idril]

Well, my interest in Russian Lit has become a full blown obsession that has gone beyond the 19th Century authors that I was most interested in when I came here to include Soviet lit...by the way, I'm always open to suggestions.

And I spend more time on the general and game boards than I used to and less time on the Author and general lit boards. Being a very non-confrontational person, I get frustrated with the fact that people often don't so much as discuss literature as argue about it so I've become quite selective about when and where I post. There are occasionally some profound insights among the arguments so I do still enjoy reading them, I just have no desire to partake in them.

And I have made a couple of great friends here, expanded my horizons a little bit and that's all good.

[grace86]

I've become an escapist.

[Taliesin]

We were an escapist before and are still one now.
We were 15. Now we're eightteen. That is actually quite a lot of time.
We changed schools and became from the silent kid at the corner who never spoke to anyone but a few another people to a social person with a bit strange imagination and strange sense of humour.
Became a role-player and met lots of them.
Met with lots of people on this forum.
Just grew.
Wrote short stories.
Quit writing.
Started writing again.
Wrote music.
Started blogging.
Read stuff then and read stuff now too. Only there is more stuff to read.
And we also became plural in this very forum. Does anybody actually remember the post where we said that we would go plural?
Thereare probably even more things.

[underground]

i wish something as drastic as becoming a we could happen to me too.

[Shalot]

EDIT: I've also taken up writing stories again, which I hadn't done since I was 15 (i.e. 10 years ago)

Sleepywitch, how did you take up writing again after being away from it from so long? I am only a couple of years older than you, but when I was in high school (and grade school too for that matter) my English instructors would encourage me to write and I did so while I was in highschool but not in college and I don't do it now. I will attempt to write and when I go back to read it later it's just so crappy....I just can't get back to where I was then.

Do you think writing is a "use it or lose it" talent? How do you reconnect with your creativity or your muse?

[Pensive]

We were an escapist before and are still one now.
We were 15. Now we're eightteen. That is actually quite a lot of time.
We changed schools and became from the silent kid at the corner who never spoke to anyone but a few another people to a social person.

Oh, it actually happened to me too....hmmm.....but I was never too silent....was I..............but more quiet than I am now....

[papayahed]

But you *still* haven't got yourself a computer!

Yeah, I'm working on it........

[SleepyWitch]

Sleepywitch, how did you take up writing again after being away from it from so long? I am only a couple of years older than you, but when I was in high school (and grade school too for that matter) my English instructors would encourage me to write and I did so while I was in highschool but not in college and I don't do it now. I will attempt to write and when I go back to read it later it's just so crappy....I just can't get back to where I was then.

Do you think writing is a "use it or lose it" talent? How do you reconnect with your creativity or your muse?

ahm, I'm not sure... heehee, I'm not even so sure I've got any talent for writing it's not like I've written lots of stories since I joined the forum. Actually, it's only 3...
I've found that I'm most creative when I've got hundreds of other things to do, for some reason. E.g. when I have to study for exams and don't have any time to write, a story will pop up all by itself. Then one of my brain cells goes off somewhere to think about the details while the other keeps studying and after a couple of weeks I type the story up on the computer.
.. nope, I don't think it's a "use it or lose it talent". Of course you can practice your style and improve over time (i.e. nobody's born a perfect writer), but I think if you wrote well once you'll be able to do it again.

[Koa]

Taliesin, I wish I remembered the very moment you multiplied, but it happened out of my attention.

Nighty, with that box of chocolate, my address is...

Me? Changed?

Well sometimes I look at the forums I frequent and see how they have changed and my life hasn't. But well some things have changed I guess...

I don't read as much as before lol
I was at uni, still had to make the most amazing experiences of my life... now i'm a graduate...but still a student lol trying to take advanatge of it as long as I can
I was dreaming of going to England, and now I'm in England
My English improved of course
And I'm not the depressed 22-year-old who ranted on the forum in 2004, but I enjoy things around, despite remaining the cynical me.
And I'm still hopelessly single but it's probably better.

[subterranean]

I was at uni, still had to make the most amazing experiences of my life... now i'm a graduate...but still a student lol trying to take advanatge of it as long as I can
I was dreaming of going to England, and now I'm in England
My English improved of course
And I'm not the depressed 22-year-old who ranted on the forum in 2004, but I enjoy things around, despite remaining the cynical me.
And I'm still hopelessly single but it's probably better.

Good for you, E .

[Virgil]

I was dreaming of going to England, and now I'm in England
My English improved of course
And I'm not the depressed 22-year-old who ranted on the forum in 2004, but I enjoy things around, despite remaining the cynical me.
And I'm still hopelessly single but it's probably better.

(1) Yes, you're dream has come true.
(2) Your English is excellent.
(3) You do seem happier than even just last year.
(4) I don't think you're as cynical as you used to be. I haven't seen any outbursts.
(5) Still single, but you're still young, and it's never hopeless.

I'm glad to see you're doing better.

[Bluebiird]

I don't really think I've changed yet, perhaps in another year or so. But, I am a bit more confident about giving presentations, and that's down to Lit.net, otherwise I'd have been completely stumped for some of them and I'd have written three pages of drivel and nonsense. So, I suppose I have changed a bit

[Nightshade]

. Does anybody actually remember the post where we said that we would go plural?
Thereare probably even more things.

How sad is this? I actully DO know....rember the forum quiz I set up?
ahh well post your looking for is #729 of random thought of the day

[Scheherazade]

ahh well post your looking for is #729 of random thought of the day

Aaahh, another productive in Night-land, eh?