So, I found this forum when I decided to do a little internet snooping about the company I found, wlwritersagency.com
I got all the way up to, Lets get you set up with a 70-90 dollar critique. At that point I was like, OK, its time to see if the money is going to disappear as if i had used a toilet to critique my work.... I'm glad i decided to do some checking.
About me, I'm 28, three months away from getting out of the Air Force, moving to the Los Angeles area when I have my DD214 in hand. I'm married to a beutiful, intelligent, and all around wonderful woman that makes Great money, can cook, loves me for all my strange qualities and not so great quirks, and in general is the best damn woman alive.
We married 4 years ago this Dec. and she had had three kids before we met, looking forward to having some of my own, kids are wonderful. Getting to teach them logic and the ability to reason and debate subjects that otherwise no one thinks about at their age is one of the joys of my life. I look forward to getting out of the military and decontaminating my brain from the garbage that i had to pollute it with to survive for the last 6 years... Having said that, I'm not a hater of military, I'm a hater of My Own Military service. I spent 6 years in and Never deployed, Never went TDY, Never did anything other than work on heavies... call it a hero complex, I just wanted to be a more active participant in world events, and never got that chance... Now I'm in a position to get out and take care of my family and get back to who I used to be, a thinker and a dreamer, and add storyteller to that.
I've been writing in my (not so copious) spare time since late 2007. I've got a project that is very dear to my heart worked up to the 55k word stage, and I look forward to finishing it Very Soon once I'm out and loose the headache of having to report to duty that requires me to eliminate all creative thinking. I'm planning on taking it to the 200-250k word level which is what my understanding of what a full novel length piece of work is supposed to be. Having said all this, I've had No formal education for writing other than my high school classes that I didn't really appreciate at the time. There are so many things I need to start self educating myself on as far as mechanics and structure and procedures to get the job done. All in due time, I've had lengthy conversations with the wife on that subject, and as I'm going to be living in LA very shortly, I'm going to do my best to take the opportunities available to me to network with people in the area that are there to be networked with. I have a fully intact GI bill, and when I can convince myself to actually make that step, I'm going to pursue a degree that will benefit me for this career path. Getting to hear my family, (and more importantly) random people whom have nothing to gain by praising my work say what I've got done is in the least entertaining, and at best remarkable considering the lack of formal education has been a great boon to my personal sense of worth.
About the subject of wlwritersagency and my work that I casually submitted to them, is that company known to steal work, I read the numerous threads and thousands of comments quickly and I didn't see any reports of stolen work, just incredibly shady practices for getting money in a piecemeal basis. Is my work that I sent them lost, or can/should I continue with the story as it stands now? Thanks in advance for any comments relating to this!
Wow, what a windy opening post! I look forward to examining this site for all its many jewels of information that I really need to know.
Hope everyone is well.
J
I got all the way up to, Lets get you set up with a 70-90 dollar critique. At that point I was like, OK, its time to see if the money is going to disappear as if i had used a toilet to critique my work.... I'm glad i decided to do some checking.
About me, I'm 28, three months away from getting out of the Air Force, moving to the Los Angeles area when I have my DD214 in hand. I'm married to a beutiful, intelligent, and all around wonderful woman that makes Great money, can cook, loves me for all my strange qualities and not so great quirks, and in general is the best damn woman alive.
We married 4 years ago this Dec. and she had had three kids before we met, looking forward to having some of my own, kids are wonderful. Getting to teach them logic and the ability to reason and debate subjects that otherwise no one thinks about at their age is one of the joys of my life. I look forward to getting out of the military and decontaminating my brain from the garbage that i had to pollute it with to survive for the last 6 years... Having said that, I'm not a hater of military, I'm a hater of My Own Military service. I spent 6 years in and Never deployed, Never went TDY, Never did anything other than work on heavies... call it a hero complex, I just wanted to be a more active participant in world events, and never got that chance... Now I'm in a position to get out and take care of my family and get back to who I used to be, a thinker and a dreamer, and add storyteller to that. I've been writing in my (not so copious) spare time since late 2007. I've got a project that is very dear to my heart worked up to the 55k word stage, and I look forward to finishing it Very Soon once I'm out and loose the headache of having to report to duty that requires me to eliminate all creative thinking. I'm planning on taking it to the 200-250k word level which is what my understanding of what a full novel length piece of work is supposed to be. Having said all this, I've had No formal education for writing other than my high school classes that I didn't really appreciate at the time. There are so many things I need to start self educating myself on as far as mechanics and structure and procedures to get the job done. All in due time, I've had lengthy conversations with the wife on that subject, and as I'm going to be living in LA very shortly, I'm going to do my best to take the opportunities available to me to network with people in the area that are there to be networked with. I have a fully intact GI bill, and when I can convince myself to actually make that step, I'm going to pursue a degree that will benefit me for this career path. Getting to hear my family, (and more importantly) random people whom have nothing to gain by praising my work say what I've got done is in the least entertaining, and at best remarkable considering the lack of formal education has been a great boon to my personal sense of worth.
About the subject of wlwritersagency and my work that I casually submitted to them, is that company known to steal work, I read the numerous threads and thousands of comments quickly and I didn't see any reports of stolen work, just incredibly shady practices for getting money in a piecemeal basis. Is my work that I sent them lost, or can/should I continue with the story as it stands now? Thanks in advance for any comments relating to this!
Wow, what a windy opening post! I look forward to examining this site for all its many jewels of information that I really need to know.
Hope everyone is well.
J
Marcus!
my bad Marcus!
