Another newbie reports in

[Write Or Wrong]

{Us writers is kinda tetched in the haid, y'know?}

So it's not just me?

Whew.  That's a relief.

Mike

[uncle_al]

Cough *Appalachian State* cough.

Hey, no skin off my proboscis... I don't follow football much anymore. {Or baseball, or hockey, or basketball...}

So do you foresee forum traffic increasing if the WGA strikes?  Writers have to do SOMETHING with all that suddenly acquired free time, right?

I foresee large upsurges in visits to online casinos, MMORPG sites, and various and sundry other time-wasting sites.  Or else, more mental health commitments in the Southland.

{Us writers is kinda tetched in the haid, y'know?}

Al B.

[Write Or Wrong]

Actually, I remember Woody quite well.  I was just trying to reference our current successful season while not dredging up stuff that might upset a Michigan fan.  Cough *Appalachian State* cough.

So do you foresee forum traffic increasing if the WGA strikes?  Writers have to do SOMETHING with all that suddenly acquired free time, right?

Mike

[uncle_al]

Not a problem, Mike.

When I was younger, it was Bo vs. Woody; it may be ancient history, but I remember it that way.
(But who cares about football when there's the exciting world of... CURLING!)

From another one here in "flyover country"...

Al B.
--"How do you tell when an agent's lying to you?  His lips are moving..."
     Probably apocryphal

[Write Or Wrong]

Who's Woody Hayes?  We've got Jim Tressel these days!   Anyway, we Buckeyes and Michiganders have to unite when dealing with west coasters.  To them, we all hail from some vast, amorphous state called, "Corn".

I actually like Michigan.  Ann Arbor is a great town.  The UP is gorgeous.  Just wish Detroit could turn it around.

Fun Akron facts:

The city stands on a continental divide.  To the north, the Cuyahoga (Lenni Lenape for "Some Indian Name") River empties into Lake Erie, and from there to the north Atlantic via the St. Lawrence Seaway.  To the south, the Tuscarawas (Delaware for "Some Other Indian Name") River eventually leads to the Ohio, then the Mississippi, then the Gulf of Mexico.

The first mall was built here.  (Not that we're all proud of that one.)

Alcoholics Anonymous began in Akron.

Several nationally known televangelists got their start in Akron.  (Not that we're all proud of that one either.)  Rex Humbard built most of a 900' tall tower in Cuyahoga Falls; it was to support a revolving restaurant, until the money went south and he did the same.  To this day, people still refer to the unfinished "Rex's Erection", though more refined folks prefer "Rex's Folly".

Devo!  Whip it good.

The Loral Airdock, formerly Goodyear Airdock, is still North America's largest enclosed building without interior supports.  Rumors that the building is large enough to have its own weather in the form of occasional indoor rain, are only urban legends.  It is, allegedly, visible from space.

Thanks for the warm welcome, Al.

Mike

[uncle_al]

Ah. A denizen of the environs of The Mistake on the Lake.

Akron... home of the Goodyear Blimp, the Firestone Tournament of Champions, American Zeppelin technology, and (in next-door Canton) the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

As you might be able to tell, I'm one of those guys from That State Up North, as the late Wayne Woodrow Hayes used to put it.

Enjoy your stay.

Al B.

[Write Or Wrong]

Thank you!

Yes, it's true, my tongue tends to get bonded to the inside of my cheek tissue.  It's surprisingly painful at times; I've considered surgery, but it just seems so invasive...   A fair amount of humor gets injected into almost everything I write, either wittingly or not.  Last year I wrote a romantic comedy on a dare; instead of being the lark I thought it would be, it ended up being the hardest thing I've ever written.

I'm looking forward to the comraderie and solidarity this place apparently offers.  As a fairly new writer without a credit, the whole thing can be very intimidating and monolithic.  It's easy to give in to the fear and isolation.  Probably like a lot of people here, I could use a good pep talk now and again, and am equally prepared to distribute them.

I call home a little town called Cuyahoga Falls, which is attached to the slightly larger town of Akron, which dangles like an evolutionarily useless organ from the roaring metropolis of Cleveland, snug in the upper corner of Ohio -- the state that looks like a smiling, bearded face just under the blue smudge of Lake Erie on page 6 of your Rand-McNally Road Atlas.  There!  Do I get the prize for most mixed imagery in one sentence?

Mike

[ScriptNurse]

Mike,

With that tongue you've got in that cheek there, I do hope you write a comedy now and again.

Welcome!

Where in the midwest?

[Write Or Wrong]

Hello!

Okay.

After a few weeks of lurking, I've put on my goggles, plugged my nose, and am now taking the big plunge.  What a nice site you have here!  Hope I'll make some positive contributions.

I'll save the whole "This is Your Life" bit for a post in the biography forum.  For now, I'll just give you my logline:

An aging Midwesterner realizes his life is shooting by, without his achieving his idealistic dreams of youth.  Desperately, he tries to get back on the path he had always meant to follow.  Starts pounding out screenplays and novels.  Actually gets one script to a producer friend on the Universal lot.  Said producer pushes it for a year or so without much luck.  Aging Midwesterner writes a second, then a third script.  Then, finally, one day, he finds...Script Nurse!

I dunno.  Think it's a bit long; might have to punch up that ending a bit. 

Mike