Why I like this Forum

Crazy? I was crazy once. They locked me up in a white room. I died in that room and they buried me in the ground. There a worms in the ground. Worms drive me crazy. Crazy? I was crazy once...

I think when you are involved in both creative endeavor *and* craft - as we are - the striving for balance is itself a colorful seesaw.

I keep telling you: I'm perfectly normal. It's everybody else who's odd.

Now that HM Murdock...he was nuts.

Actually I think too many people around here put too much effort into being acceptable and pleasing. That is a little crazy. Push the boundries people! There are plenty of well written normal books out there, you need to break the mold. The agent shouldn't go 'oh another pleasant little fantasy' but 'Aoowww this is different. I hate it. Therefore I have to get it published!'

Due to recent inflation the value of my advise must now be expressed in fractons of a cent.

I'd be eccentric if only I were rich...

I don't, I've never been a Sheep kind of person, I like to do my own thing; but I guess that's why I'm nearly always the last person on a posting... I frighten everyone else away! lol


Ellie

Kentuk said:

Actually I think too many people around here put too much effort into being acceptable and pleasing.

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I'd be eccentric if only I were rich...

(That's one of my other personalities talking...)

It's okay to be crazy. Here in the South we tend to celebrate our crazy people. We don't lock them away, but set them out on the porch for all to see. Every family has got a couple of them. Wanna guess who gets put on the porch in my house?

Soccer Mom said:

It's okay to be crazy.

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Trust me on this folks. S&M should know.

I knew I would find Teddy in a thread about crazy people.

shush S&M you will scare off Erika....
and besides it is a known fact...
I am the only sane person on this board.
and I am always the innocent one.

(and because I am always right..you can't say a thing either S&M)

waterproof notebooks?!?! ok...I need about 12 of those to start out with.

I_Shrugged said:

This is especially wonderful for those of us who live out in the boondocks, where few other like-minds exist.

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What are boondocks??
Places boons go to unload their cargo?

According to Wikipedia (not my fave reference, but consistent in this one):

"It derives from the Tagalog word bunduk (Bisayan Bukid) meaning "hinterland", that is, inland area. It also carries the implication that it is "backward" or "unsophisticated"; hence taga bunduk "people who live in the hinterland": i.e., people who are backward or unsophisticated.

Boondocks or diminutively "the boonies" has since evolved into a more general American slang term for suburbs in general, regardless of topology or vegetation."

Fondly remember my "Boonie Hat" in the Army...

erika said:

What say you, Absolute Writers? Are we all slightly off?

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Yes. I've been telling you for years. You're all weirdos. The weirdest kind, too. I mean, have you met my friend sassandgroove? Or Stew21? Or Shadow Ferret? Weirdos through and through.

I'm the only normal one here.

Of course we're all crazy. In fact, the more I forget all the rules and let my craziness take over, the better my writing becomes.

I wasn't twisted, at least, not until I came here.

We're not crazy, we're WRITERS.