I am getting the impression that at least several of us write.  I thought it would be fun to see how successful we are getting out thoughts published.

Genre matters not!

Chaunte

Hello Chaunte,

I have to agree.  Some of the topics, replies and advice that are posted here at Susan's definitely demonstrates the talent of her writers, and I would be surprised if they didn't have aspirations along those lines, as there are several stories here that would make wonderful reading.

For myself I'm afraid that my writing is limited to my Blog and my journal.  Although I've often thought about writing my own story I wake up and thankfully realize that it was a dream

Steph

I only write submissions for court and posts.

As Dorothy Parker said: "I love to have written. I hate to write."

Dennis

Hiya Chaunte!
good poll.... I voted Yes I'm published! but must admit i cheated a little. I write a lot, poetry, short stories, scholarship (medieval st / women's st/ celtic st), a little 'journalism' for socs i'm a member of, and i am a free-lance editor for a few scholarly publications (biology, thru my dad), and keep a journal on and off.
I'm published if the editorial work with my name on it counts, if the fact that my own scholarship is in the process of getting published counts, and if websites like this one count for poetry and such. I send things out on occasion but so far no luck. Thinking of publishing independently... maybe i'll be able to say 'I have my own book for sale" soon ... also working  on building a webpage.
cheers
Alex

I said I was published but that isn't on paper.

In the 1970's, a few years before my SRS, I wrote a lengthy response to a radio show on suicide and I told the TS story. The host of the show was so moved by the piece that he took the first part of his next show to read the whole piece verbatum on-air. (I still have it on tape somewhere but find it VERY hard to listen to.) I have never heard a talk-show host come so close to crying on-air - it was powerful! He had a listenership of over 10,000 so a lot of people heard that piece.

I drew a cartoon strip for a local paper for 3 years, so I guess that would count as being "published" to, wouldn't it 

I guess that if you have shared words, and they are out for the public to read (or hear), than I say you are published!

Chaunte

I've written op-eds for a couple of local papers and have had my own bylines. I was also a staff writer for The Vangaurd which is the paper for the University of South Alabama. I have been working on a Scinece fiction novel off and on for a few years, mostly off. It's about 150 hand written pages right now. I need to transpose it but just haven't found the time to work on it for awhile. My wife has a book for sale on our website called Art Gallery Safari: Bagging the Big One. It's a how to for artists on how to get into art galleries. I helped her with some of it. So you could say we co wrote it although the how to is all her. I just helped with some of the verbage.

Cassie

I write poetry sometimes, I used to write more.  All poems I write are written to specific individuals and they are the only ones I want to see each poem. 

My mother got a hold of one and had it published in a magazine, when I found that out, I got very upset and burned all of my work so no one could see them again. 

Edgar Allen Poe is my favorate poet and most of my poems were in his style.

Sarah

Hi Chaunte,

I assume you allow academic scripts to be counted in your poll? Hope so as I'm not creative enough to write poetry and stories like others here. Have tried and once while reading what I wrote I put myself to sleep

Shelley

I write RPGs for another forum on the internet...

Not quite prose or a book, but its in the same family! 

I like to write, I have a few stories in which the plot trailed off somewhere, so I got anoyed and they're left alone for a while, except one. I also write some songs... though I only started doing that about 6 months ago, so I'm not exactly great at that yet. I keep a diary every couple of days too.

Though I've never shown any of my writing to anyone... it's for my own entertainment really.

Hi Steven,

Here's a chance to step to the plate in a very safe and non-judgemental arena.

Here you go post one.

Shelley

Ahhh it is now obviuos that you have detected the deviousness behind these forums.

Devious means number 12:  to encourage members to participate >

Shelley

I write all the time. I started on several stories, but never finished. I write poetry a lot.

Thro a few up then. It's nice to read the work of others.

Shelley

Shelley,

What kind of writer are you looking for?

Yes, I have published freelance magazine articles, published my own special interest magazine and spent.. umm 14 years in previous lives as a technical writer...

Dennis

Hi Dennis,

It's not a job interview. No need to throw out your resume. The thread was just to find out how many people were writers because a lot of folks are very eloquent on paper here at Susan's. This may intimidate some but they should post just the same  and not worry about it. If you want to show us some of your stuff post in the entertainment section. There are limits to the size but I'm sure you can figure that out.

Cassie

You're right Cassie, my apologies.

Afraid I was working in DUH mode when I posted. I have sleep apnea pretty bad and was on about my third day of an hour of sleep a night. That's usually followed by a 12-16 hour sleep marathon, and then we start over.

I'll try to make sure I'm making sense beore posting when my brain is moving in slow motion.

But you're very correct that there indeed some wonderful writers on this site. Very intelligent and well thought out posts, talented poets, etc.

Dennis

Quote from: Shelley on November 18, 2005, 03:29:23 PM
Hi Steven,

Here's a chance to step to the plate in a very safe and non-judgemental arena.

Here you go post one.

Shelley

I have been thinking about posting the one I'm working on... but it's not done yet. I may post it in future, but all my stories are way personal to me...

Yeah, I'm published.  It's at a place called "Susan's Place."

Seriously, many decades ago I won a Quill and Scroll Award for having the "Best Editorial in a High School Newspaper in the U.S."  Very big deal.  I got a certificate in the mail and everything.  My editorial was about how our school buses were "Unsafe At Any Speed" (Ralph Nader was, at the time, very much in the news as he tried to fight G.M. over the Corvair's safety record).  The main problem our shool had was there were not enough buses.  The brilliant solution was to have three kids sit in seats designed for two kids.  The third kid had to ride uncomfortably, one butt cheek on the seat, the other hanging in mid-air in the bus aisle.  Girls at the school never had to sit that way, of course.  They boarded the bus first and then could save seats for the popular guys.  This lead to Gump-like situations where we non-masculine guys and nerds would end up hanging precariously in the aisle, praying the bus didn't go around corners too quickly.  Luckily, the ride home was only forty minutes.  Looking back, I find it a wonder that all the guys in the school didn't decide right then and there to become female.

These days (stop me if you've heard this one before), I'm working on my great American screenplay.  Also (highly original, I know), I dabble in creating my autobiographical transsexual transition story.  Ooop, wait....knocking at the door.  Probably my literary agent.  Hope it's not Ed McMahon!  What a pest...Aw, Geez!  "Leave me alone, Ed!  No!  I don't want any more of your money!"