good morning, wielders of the pen and keyboard!

collards99 · Apr 4, 2013

...from a newly retired and relatively poor schmuck who has been compulsively writing since I first decorated my bedroom wall with crayons at age three.

This place looks to be just chock-full of interesting people and helpful information. I've been wandering around the site staring at all the goodies with my mouth hanging open; I guess it's time to get down to work. Thanks for being here, guys! <waves>

Snowstorm · Apr 4, 2013

Welcome collards99! See you 'round the boards.

clee984 · Apr 4, 2013

Welcome *waves back*.

thehairymob · Apr 4, 2013

Griffin Hayes · Apr 4, 2013

Welcome to AW!

Ironhorse · Apr 4, 2013

Welcome Collards99...if you look closely, I bet there's a thread some place with writing in crayon!

PorterStarrByrd · Apr 4, 2013

Welcome aboard

Seems like you'd enjoy the Old Farts hangout (office party forum) or, on some days, the Comedy Cabaret (humor forum) .. watch out for LaVerne in the former and Cray in the latter. Kelly's whatever the heck it is wherever the heck it is (too lazy to get the current name) but it shows up real often in the recent posts). Swatsky is a land mine in all three of those ... They play with crayons (dull ones) in Kelly's a lot.

Nekko · Apr 4, 2013

Welcome, welcome!

You'll find there's a niche here for people who use all sorts of writing implements

I hope to see you around the threads!

L. Y. · Apr 4, 2013

Welcome to the Water Cooler!

AW is a huge place, and there's a lot of information to be found here. Take your time and browse around to get a feel of the various forums.

Feel free to stop by Jed's Newbie Pub at the top of the New Members forum. It's a friendly place where you can hang out, have a virtual drink, and strike up a conversation with other members.

And don't forget to check out the Newbie Guide. Enjoy your stay.

regdog · Apr 4, 2013

Take some time and read the Newbie Guide and the Stickies found
at the top of Forum pages. They are your best guide to learning about
Absolute Write.

Please read the FAQ about posting photos.

In fact we have lots of brilliant FAQs check them out.

Members who want to start a thread in Share Your Work to have work critiqued need
50 posts. Don’t make a mad dash to reach your 50 posts. Take some time to greet fellow newbies,
critique other members’ works, or join a discussion.

Announcements, Events and Self Promotion is for active members only. All obvious spam will be deleted on sight!

Robert Gonko · Apr 4, 2013

Welcome!

Tepelus · Apr 4, 2013

Hello, and welcome!

Rockweaver · Apr 4, 2013

first congrats on the retirement i at this point can only continue to wait. and welcome to the cooler

Kylabelle · Apr 4, 2013

Welcome, collards99, meant to say hi sooner but got distracted by the collards because I have some of those I need to cook and then got distracted by the crayons and then the idea of blunt crayons and wondering are there sharp crayons in the world and well,

Hi, welcome, and enjoy exploring here!

rwm4768 · Apr 4, 2013

Welcome. I don't wield the pen very often. I definitely prefer the keyboard.

Pammie Simon · Apr 4, 2013

Welcome welcome! The pen is my favorite to wield! Plus I can't get onto Twitter if I'm using a pen. Make yourself at home and enjoy yourself.

KellyAssauer · Apr 5, 2013

Hi collards!

Welcome to AW!

Don't forget to read about AW basics in the Newbie Guide!

Questions about the forum software can be found in the
FAQ's menu in the handy blue bar at the 'top' of this page.

This common acronym list helps identify our mystifying abbreviations.

Before you ask that Newbie question!!

See if Katiemac has the answer here.
and check out: Sara's 10 Basic Writing Tips!

If you're looking for critiques please read the 50 Post rule.

Posting your writing to the Share Your Work (SYW) area is explained here. This link covers the most common problems posts. found in SYW *Worth reading no matter how long you have been here!*

AW is a community built on the foundations of respecting your fellow writer and helping each other, it's the basic building blocks of how and why AW works.

Welcome to our community! =)

-kelly-

Fun AW social links:
The Office Party
Kelly's Soft Asylum

collards99 · Apr 8, 2013

Kylabelle said:
Welcome, collards99, meant to say hi sooner but got distracted by the collards because I have some of those I need to cook and then got distracted by the crayons and then the idea of blunt crayons and wondering are there sharp crayons in the world and well,

Hi, welcome, and enjoy exploring here!

LOL, Kylabelle, are you Southern with those collards or are you just doing something else with them?....(if you're Southern, there's going to be sweet potatoes involved, I can just tell.)

Jim Riley · Apr 8, 2013

Pepper sauce with mine, thank you.
Jim

good morning, wielders of the pen and keyboard!

collards99

Runs with scissors

Snowstorm

Baby plot bunneh sniffs out a clue

clee984

Bearded and serious

thehairymob

If I had a brain I'd still be dumb

Griffin Hayes

One evil little baby step at a time

Ironhorse

PorterStarrByrd

nutruring tomorrows criminals today

Nekko

Back to purring

L. Y.

Thread surfer and virtual bartender

regdog

The Scavengers

Robert Gonko

Tepelus

And so...

Rockweaver

Kylabelle

unaccounted for

rwm4768

practical experience, FTW

Pammie Simon

Pammie

KellyAssauer

The Anti-Magdalene

collards99

Runs with scissors

Jim Riley

Louisiana: Sportsman's Paradise