Damian

Excellent Damien!

Great to have you guys on board!

Any comments/suggestions, feel free to post them here.

Damian, I’d love to join but for a while my writing is on hold – hope I can join in a little later? Or can I join now to just learn and read other people’s stories?

like the idea of a short story group damian, how does this thing work?

Damien, had do I add the group to my fav’s? and will there be a forum for our group?

Hi to you my friend, I am one of the lucky few to have met you and your lovely family in person..I once shared with you that I love to write, I have a piece that I would love you to edit….if I am game enough to put it out there….Maybe soon I will send it to you via email or bubble mail…see what you can do to help..

Thank you and your lovely wife for coming to the crea8 opening, hope you enjoyed the rest of your night!!!! lol. Hi” R”. see the computer is back on !!!
talk soon good luck with this project… Love and wishes Kym

Okay guys, I’m new at this one!

@Whirli, feel free to join, and add writing at a later time. No worries.

@ Dave toxteth, for the moment it’s a place we can go to find a heap of stories. An extra home for writers. It’s planned to be a showcase and a playground.

@ Lisa, you don’t need to add the group to fav’s, as your membership is linked off the front page of your public profile.
Group forums are planned for a future upgrade too, but not available at the moment.

@Kym, haha, all my workmates don’t appreciate how lucky they are ;)
I’ll keep an eye out for your email, we need more writers here!

Thanks Damian :))) found the link you refer to…..

Hi Damian,
Do I qualify? At the moment I just do silly essays hoping to amuse people. I can write in the more legitimate style of the short story. Just having a holiday away from serious literature at the moment. You are in me Watchlist so I will await your answer.

Hi Michelle, please join! The groups will become more interactive in time, with added functionality, so please don’t feel that you need to stay away.

The restrictions on types of writing in this group are to leave room for new groups to appear, dedicated to those styles (eg flash fiction, etc, in the way that there is a poetry group), rather than be a barrier to writers coming together.

this sounds promising damian, look fwd to it

Thanks Damian, that’s all good news. I’ll be doing my “joining” thing later in the day once I’ve gone through all my other areas of interest as well.

Cheers guys!

BTW, I’ve got word that until we get some internal group messaging/forum, we can (sparingly) use a ‘written work’ document to put up ideas/topics/challenges for group discussion (because journal’s can’t be added into the group).

Any takers, any ideas?

Damian, Help!
Over the last 10 to 20 years I have taken numerous creative
writing courses/workshops at local universities. Nearly
everything I’ve ever done is memoir/nonfiction/essay/journal-
type writing. With a little tweaking here and there I could work
on a piece by rewriting it in the third person and submitting
it as fiction, or should I wait until your memoir group opens up?
BTW due to job responsibilities I am not able to log onto the
Internet everyday, so will be days between responses from me.
I’ll be glad to help in anyway I can if anybody wants it. Just
keep in mind I don’t get to feed my addiction to RB everyday
or as much as I would like.

Hi Vonney, sorry for the restrictions of type of writing! It was a necessary to place a few limits on the different groups though, just to help the groups have a tighter focus.

Certainly jump in with the groups for memoirs, non-fiction when they appear (they may not be me though).

Why don’t you do just what you’ve suggested, and fictionalise a piece of writing? That can be your first challenge here :)

Ever heard of 365 Tomorrows?

Brilliant short-story sci fi website. They also create audio versions of the best story submissions once a week or month I think.

And is there a sci-fi short-fiction group?

Hi Ash, I hadn’t seen that site before, but it looks pretty cool, and I’ll go rumage around in it a bit more.

There isn’t a straight writing sci-fi group, but a sci-fi group for both images and writing, if you go here

Cheers for the info Damian!

Great Damian! But how does one add a story here? I can’t see any button saying ADD anywhere? (Perhaps I am blind!) :-)

Hi Basil :)
I’ll put these instructions up top as well, but you’ll need to go into the ‘mybubble’ section -> writing -> find the piece you want to add, and hit ‘edit’ -> right down the bottom will be tick boxes for the groups you’re in, click the group you want to add it to -> save changes, and you’re done!

Dang, I’ve outsmarted myself with the formating!

Glad to be working on short stories again. I had a computer crash recentlyso that comuter is dead and I see if I can get work off the old hard drive. if not I will be writing a new. Thanks for creating the forum.

That sucks when that happens Susan! I hope you can retrieve your stuff off the harddrive; it’d be a shame to have to start everything right from scratch again. You’ll have to backup your important stuff to a USB key, or CD-RW :)