Time to be thankful ... for AW

I'm thankful for the excellents folks here, the information and the levity.

I'm new. So, I guess I'll find out what I'm thankful for!

I can only ditto the OP, well said, nice thread.





oh, and handy helpful sadistic hangover sympathies. These are important.

I'm thankful for the amazing amount of information I can find here, from how to format a manuscript to how to install a new piece of software. For Silly Friday, 6 page threads with pics of beautiful men, for arguments, interesting politics, language theory, and commiseration on the crushing reality of the submission process. For 8-paragraph flounces with 7 pages of critiques afterward. For the friends I've found, the advice I've gotten, the new words I've learned, the correct spelling of words I thought I knew, the encouragement, the way people here take care of each other in spite of the fact that not that many of us have met outside the internet, and the buckets of tea I've snorted onto my monitor.


And for the mods *shameless (but earnest) brown-nosing* who ride this bull, keep us largely in line, and come up with great thread titles for spam.

I'm thankful for the information I've found, and especially for those willingly offering up information. There is always someone here to cheer you up, make you laugh, kick you in the butt to motivate you, and offer chocolate, booze, and hugs when things get rough. I've made some great friends who understand what a writer's life is really like.

I'm thankful for finding a bunch of people who are as loony as I am, who love writing as much as I do, and who know everything from how to format a query to what to do if a baby finch falls out of its nest.

Mostly I'm thankful that I found my way here.

I'm thankful for III's awesome threads...Cray's tollerance for my crap...Virtual drinks and bad cabaret jokes...loonies worse than me in ORPCC...

Too many things to list. AW is a 2nd home away from home.

Now if you'll excuse me, I need a tissue.

Damnit Jay!

I'm thankful that there is a place to go when I don't feel like writing, where I can tell myself I'm still furthering my writing. Yeah Office Party, I'm talkin' to you.

sunna7kore said:

6 page threads with pics of beautiful men,

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Oh, and this one too.

auntybug said:

...loonies worse than me in ORPCC...

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To whom are you refering here, aunty? Is this how you really feel about us? I see how it is...

I'm thankful for:

~All the tips and suggestions for writing queries (Lord knows I need it!)
~All of the laughs I get from other members here. Some of you are hilarious!
~A place to post my work and the honest people who critique it. It's always good to get an unbiased opinion!
~A place to vent when rejections arrive.
~Updates on politics--since I don't watch TV this is the only place I hear about current events! Scary, huh?!

I'm thankful that this place has truly enriched my writing. And I've met some pretty nice people along the way too.

KTC said:

I'm thankful that this place has truly enriched my writing. And I've met some pretty nice people along the way too.

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ditto.

I'm thankful to finally have found a place where everybody knows your name. Except for the "knowing your name" part.

I'm thankful I can't be indicted on murderous thoughts alone.

I also would have never gotten back to poetry if it hadn't been for AW.

(big shout-outs to KTC, Trumancoyote, Poetinahat, NeuroFizz and Haskins - to just name a few of the people I consider mentors and guides).

and I'm not sure how I would have gotten through my second novel without AW.

I'm thankful for Perks' new avatar.

Seriously, Jay you just read my mind this morning. I was writing to a very dear internet friend (on another writers' site) about "who'd have thought 10 years ago, that some of my best friends would be online buddies." You get some strange reactions from people sometimes if you admit that--but this morning I've been thinking of you people at AW and how much you've enriched my life...not just with the help with writing, but the personal support and friendship I've found here. Makes me want to send a super-cyber hug to you all!

Oh fine. There are a good few of you I'd like to bring home and keep as pets.

And I'm thankful that I've followed a chain of chance meetings, that started here at AW, to find mentors and friends and people who sort of get me.

I'm thankful that everyone around me has gotten a modship and I keep getting overlooked.

Oh wait. Was that a little snarky?

I'm thankful for the fantastic critique partners I've met through this site.

I'm thankful for discovering what all of AW has had to offer, and I'm thankful for allowing myself to use this help to further my love of writing, and expression. I'm also thankful to AW for providing us, with such a diverse range of people who I am fond of meeting everyday.

As an author, my life is isolated.
As a military wife, faces constantly revolve.
Goodbye is said much more than hello.
Living abroad these past seven years has been awesome, but now I find myself in a country where one doesn't simply go for a walkabout. Too much political strife.

Plug in laptop, click on icon...AW pops up.
And so do all my friends.

My life choices don't matter here, my religious beliefs aren't held against me, my views on politics...er....okay, stretching here...I discover new ways of thinking, more insight to the world around me, and an inner depth to those that have become more than just some avatar on a screen...

No matter if my knees are killing me, robbing me of a day outdoors, or my daughter's illness has taken a turn for the worse, I can laugh, advise, mentor, lurk, and debate with people from all over the world.

And very rarely, unlike the military life, do I have to say goodbye.

So, that is how I'm thankful for AW.

I'm thankful for finding a wonderul family who I and my hubby consider real friends. Many thanks for all your prayers, help and being such fabulous peeps. Happy Thanksgiving!

I'm thankful for Susie, Shwebb, III and Potatoinahat's warm fuzzies, Cel, Soccer Mom, Turkey, Soph, Meow, Monkey and Pance man's lolcats, Mac putting up with my naive argumets, Med's kindness, Mel, Rump and Gray Rose letting me be goofy, BrokenFingers, Haskins, Jean Marie, Thrills, Neuro and all the P&CE people making the news funner than Jon Stewart. Joe270 and celebrity ambergris. Delores, Dama, Max, and all those helping out with the USofGarcia bid to overthrow the man. Jess and Inked cuz I lurve you guys. The laughter and all the spit on the monitor at times when I wanted to smack myself in the head with a brick. The info and the insistence that none of us get hooked up with any predator types without going into it fully informed so we've no one to blame but ourselves if we get screwed. Uncle Jim for all the sageness, even though he may be indicted soon for attempted murder , Victoria and Cao Paux, because really, that's a hell of a lot of work, Quid, Fahim and Roger because my computer hasn't burst into flames yet, Shady, Az, Rose, Jess, Kiwi and SYW because my rejection rate isn't half as bad as last time. Brownies, lolcats, sarcastic wit, generosity, Kristie cuz she's too ghetto, Silverking cuz he's the nicest guy evah, Turkey for spanky smilies, and Stew, Sass, Janna, Jen, John Paton, Unique, Jud, Sun, Siddow, aadams, Stew, Nerds, JJ, KTC, jamie, jcd, ferret, Cass, Red, rob, Seun and all the people who are nice to the noob. Auntybug and PattiTheWicked for having excellent taste in men, and preyer for all the rep points from my sig. Just...freakin' almost everybody here.

I'm thankful for everyone who stops, reads, helps, cheers, cajoles, mends, laughs, spills, cites, finds, shows, shares, and cares.

So, it's a much shorter list than Voyager's, but...

--kidding, it's all of youse!