DU writers - Isn't just F*ckin cool being a writer?

[HEyHEY]

I mean, I'm a reporter...which is a bit different, but I still get paid for it, and I love my job. Plus it's just so damn cool...

Are you a writer, what do you write...we should start a DU writing club where we can critique each others work. Waddya say?

[furrylitldevil]

1. I pretend to be a spoken word poet on the weekends

Here's one I wrote yesterday:

I remember when I was 18 years old,
I used to say that my generation had no identity.
Our parents had Vietnam, their parents had World War II,
What did we have?
What will be our legacy?

I mean, Michael Jackson and O.J. Simpson
Don’t quite compare to
JFK, Vietnam, or Richard Nixon,
And maybe I’m mixin’ up my priorities,
But I certainly didn’t want anything bad to happen,
I just wanted us to matter.

Back then the only thing I had to protest
Was some black & white letters
On the cover of my 2 Live Crew CD’s and cassettes
While my parents had somethin’ more important to say when they chanted
“Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids didja kill to-day?”

And then I see Winston Churchill up on a stage sayin’
“We will fight them on the beaches,
We will fight them on the shores”
While Ronny Reagan’s in space playin’ reality Star Wars
And Wild Bill’s in the back getting a blowjob from some 2-bit whores
It always seemed like there was suppose to be so much more to all this…

And then
Things changed

I used to say that my generation is unimportant,
Now I say, careful what you wish for.
Now it’s my turn to stand here and say
“I was there.”

I was there
When two kids showed the world just how bad high school can be.
I was there
When George Bush stole and election ‘cause we were all to blind to see.
I was there
When three planes took a detour to New York and DC.
I was there
When congress eroded our civil liberties.
I was there.

I saw change in action,
I saw evolution unfold,
I saw the force of the new
Do battle with the old
I was there…

Now I can say that we have an identity.
Now I can say that we are important.
The decisions we make
And the actions we take
Can start a movement
That makes the whole world shake
It’s not a game anymore, there’s too much at steak
Together we can be bent
But there’s no way we can break.
Together we need to make history
Just for history’s sake.

[HEyHEY]

3. Well done

I agree with that 100 per cent...

In fact last week's editorial was very similiar.

Good show.

I'm unfamiliar with your Du persona...tell me about yourself

[furrylitldevil]

8. Tell you about myself...

where do I start? I really don't have a DU persona, what you see is pretty much what you get in real life and on DU.

I'm just finishing up college after a four year sabattical, I've got one more course to take this summer until I graduate.

I'm unemployed currently, but will hopefull be getting back to my old job of being a slave to the credit card machine.

I live in Denver, Repub central despite all the things liberals love being close by. Go fig.

That's all I can think of right now, anything else, just ask

[Minstrel Boy]

2. Hey, yeah - it IS effing cool!

Though lately, I seem to be writing at DU most of all. Damn huge deadline over my head right now, too. What they hell am I doing here?

What do I write? Fiction and satire. Yes, I'm a professional satirist. Been writing for Frank magazine for 11 freakin' years. Used to also write arts stuff for The National Post, back in the Tubby Black era, when they were throwing money at freelancers.

Had a novel published a couple of years ago, too, titled Anxious Gravity. Would like to have the first draft of my second book finished this year. I better soon: it's a dystopia set in the near future. I don't want it to become alternate history.

[HEyHEY]

5. Cool

Yeah, DU takes up alot of my writing time...I keep meaning to get down to writing a TV pilot and a book (My life story - not for publication, I'm only 25 and as they say no one wants to know your life story at 25...plus it hasn;t been publishable...I'm just writing it for me...because I never kept a journal..when I'm 80 I wanna look back and read that book..might be fun.)

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. I write freelance pieces for DnD and other games

and we are working on our own game

Which reminds me, once this is ready for any offiical announcement will do such.

It is cool yes, but pay could be a tad better.

Also for any of you thinking of freelancing in the gaming industry, DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT write for anybody who refuses to give you a WRITTEN contract... or you are setting yourself for trouble.

I do not care if this is your FAVORITE game, there are standards in the industry and if the companieds do not meet them, DO NOT... PM me if you want names of Companies that are kind of sort of in the black list insofar as contracts...

[HEyHEY]

6. Thanks for the warning

I don't write for gaming mags.....but I have had stories ripped off by scumbag corps....Anyone who this warning may apply get ahold of this person..we need to stop bastards from stealing our work.

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. You welcoe

and a writers group would not be a bad idea, can be handled over PMs

[Langis]

9. I wish I could write

I envy you. I can barely stumble through the papers I have to write for class. Although I would love to be able to write for a living.

[HEyHEY]

10. Hey, I said I was a pro writer - I didn't say I could write!

It's easy man....don't think too much..what you think, you write...don't write for anyone but yourself. It'll come.

[WilliamPitt]

11. It gives, it takes

I enjoy being able to frame an issue, an argument, really well, and in a way that motivates and inspires.

On the other hand, reading 30 newspapers a day and keeping on top of things 24/7/365 and stoking the passion to care every minute about these things when any normal human would have quit a year ago when the endorphins crapped out...well...the accelerated aging process, shall we say, has exacted a price.

Being stupid, on the whole, is better in the long run. But since I don't plan on making it past the short run, I say fuck it, who wants pie?

:)

[HEyHEY]

12. Good points

I wish I could read the papers....I don't even know how I get my intenational/national/provincial news. I rarely sit and READ a paper..I'm either busy making one, or busy trying to escape the stress of making one.

But it does give and take, you eat a lot of shit in this field. BUt as my ethics instructor said.... "'ve seen a lot of people die at the bottom of a bottle, it's not worth it, when you get strapped just laugh at the grand comedy"

Gerry Porter said that, he was a respected BC journalist..that is what he said to my ethics class during his retirement speech in which he started to cry. Hell of a man..sorry to wax emotional - I'm drinking

[cliss]

13. Dontcha love it?

Like the addict who always returns for their fix, I return once again, to jump in that black pool of sarcasm and dark humor. I consider myself a wordsmith. I paint pictures with words.

I will humbly admit that I have returned to the really good ones to admire my handiwork. And I can't deny - there are some pretty awesome writers here.

Blame it on George. He just does something to me -- just call it odiosity.

[HEyHEY]

14. Black humour and sarcasm - the soul of the Vancouver sense of homour

And of the Irish writer - you got the celtic blood in ya?

That's one thing I love about being awriter I fit the stereo type..a drinkin Irish writer..it's great.

[cliss]

19. You're right, Hey.

The Irish... There's a group of people who captured my interest for about a decade. I just couldn't get enough of their history: the sad stories, the amazing resilience they've shown through the centuries. I think they've lent themselves to many stereotypes, but too often they've been misunderstood.

And no, I'm not Irish - just an honorary Irishman. I'm actually from Sweden, so we're probably related anyway.

Holds up glass of Black & Tan - cheers!

[bif]

22. You're the stereo type? You like stereos?

n/t

[sfwriter]

15. Clarion West baby! I write nonfic and SF genre...

Though at the moment, I'm movie making and seeing to the needs of a dying father and coming baby.

www.americanscary.com

[eileen from OH]

16. I'm a playwright. . .

www.mysteriesbymoushey.com

eileen from OH

[FlashHarry]

17. I'm a writer... and I love it.

Actually, my title is Writer/Producer, but I still write for a living.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

18. Would that include poetry and lyric writing?

Since I dabble in it and my fiance is quite an accomplished poet, I'd be really into it!

[bif]

20. I write copy for car catalogs

And yes, it's pretty cool As a friend points out, you're out of the rain and there's no heavy lifting.

[ZenLefty]

21. It's only cool if you can write whatever you want.

I guess that means it's even F*ckin cooler to be an editor or a publisher. :shrug:

By the way, I write some fantasy fiction. I can write whatever I want, mainly because my work has yet to be published.

[skip fox]

23. Or a DU bibliography!

I write poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction as a creative write in an Eng. dept. of a state univ. But I have compilled massive bibliographies as well: Robert Creeley, Edward Dorn, and Robert Duncan: A Reference Guide (1989).

4 chapbooks and 1 book of poetry/creative prose.