Introductions - Break Writer's Block With New Stories! Forum

Topic: Introductions

So, come here to introduce yourself. Who are you? How are you? What's your favorite food?

You know, just chat. We're a family here.

#1 Mar 25th 2008, 4:27pm

So, anyway, I'm Flipper! I started doing this because I kept hitting walls on my main piece, but stepping back and writing a new story for a while really helped me out. I thought that this would not only be a great way to help other writers through their problems, but also show off how good we can all be when we really try.

#2 Mar 25th 2008, 4:30pm

*raises paw*

Hi, i'm the resident lime-cat known as Lime. =)

I joined in on this fun because I think this will force me to write stories and get better at them instead of sitting there and telling myself that I'm not a story writer. Well, this is me trying to convince myself that I can write stories. haha.

#3 Mar 25th 2008, 6:45pm

I'm Foxtail12, more commonly known as Nicky.

Actually, I found this forum by accident *grins* I was browsing through forums, this one came up and I clicked it on it because it looked cool. C:

But now that I looked around, this forum will help me keep focused on one story and actually -finish- it before moving on to some totally random other idea.

#4 Mar 31st 2008, 10:29am

Well, welcome aboard! It's nice to have you. We're at the end of our current writing session, but since we've only got four people at this point and I think Lime's the only one who's got a piece (I wrote a piece too short to be five thousand, a piece too massive to deal with, and another that seems okay but isn't finished), I personally think we should write again next month as well. While reviewing our current stories, of course!

Have a good time! I'm dead on my awesome nickname giving skills this afternoon and am currently fighting a massive urge to call you Brer or Peter rabbit O_o... eh, Jump3r? XD I'm a cheater.

We can call you Nicky if you really want, but it just seems so normal ;D

#5 Mar 31st 2008, 11:05am

Cottontail! Who's with me?

#6 Mar 31st 2008, 11:07am

lol...thumper.

cottontail is a little long and plain (on second thought)...i say thumper! lol. bambi. foxtail, are you a guy?

#7 Mar 31st 2008, 11:14am

Hey, I like Thumper.

What difference does it make if he's a guy or not (yeah, I'm guessing he is for some reason)? They're pretty androgynous.

#8 Mar 31st 2008, 11:19am

Out of curiousity, what makes you think I'm a guy?

#9 Apr 02nd 2008, 10:37pm

Um... well, I sorta took a coin....

Yeah. It was heads. ^^;

#10 Apr 03rd 2008, 6:31am

This sounds like a great idea! I'd love to participate in May, I guess. I'll gt started on mine after the Review Marathan!

So... I'm a girl, just to clear things up. Lol. I have a ton of story idea, but I never get past the prologue. I never do anything unless I have a deadline to meet (and even then, I don't always do it). Hopefully this'll kick my sorry butt into shape!

#11 Apr 19th 2008, 7:01am

YES! The more the merrier! I think I'm the first person to have the guts/ time to show their face back in this forum after crap with the RL knocked all of us out of commission and no one posted the March/ April stories.... I guess we all have to fall off sometime.

Yeah, starting for May now is probably a good idea... ^-^;;

#12 Apr 21st 2008, 12:38pm

Hi!

I hope I didn't have to do any fancy registration crap before posting here... If I did, I'll go back and do it. I'll just say I'm eccentric and I do things in reverse. :D

Well... I'm a girl, again just to clear things up :D (although I guess the sound of my pen name kind of hints at it, I guess?)

I generally go by Ashe on the sites where Amethyst Asheryn is my username. If that doesn't work though, hey, I'm cool with pretty much anything as long as it's not a cuss word or an insult or whatever. :D

Apart from loving to write, I read a lot - Sci-fi and fantasy stuff, mostly - and some other stuff as well. I play the flute, and I'm a huge band geek and internet nerd.

You know the drill. So much an internet nerd that I'm procrastinating on my homework.

So, having said that, I'd better go get aforementioned homework finished or I'll get fried and won't be able to write a story in May *at all*.

Sweet idea, by the way! I hope this'll inspire me to write even more than I've done recently!

Ashe

#13 Apr 24th 2008, 6:43pm

LOL Is my amazing confusion about genders really scaring you all into just telling? :D

Normally, I'd go out of my way to completely mutilate your name and come up with something that doesn't seem to make sense with your pen name at ALL, but I love the names Ashe and Asheryn a ton, so I'm just gonna let everyone else have the fun if they want it.

You're totally awesome for coming by! ;) Hooray for more members! Pretty soon, we gonna be popular.

So, Copper found us by surfing the forums... I harassed Lime and Yin to make them join... how about you two? Did any of you come because me, Lime and Frac are all pimpin this place on our profiles? (although my pimpin sorta sucks right now... I should go edit that...)

#14 Apr 25th 2008, 1:53pm

Teehee. You can butcher my name all you want, but if you like it, there ya go. :)

Yes. We're all terrified. :D *giggle*

Yes, it was because of Frac and the review game. I visited her profile and - there it was, so I thought, 'hey, what the heck?' and here I am. :)

Ashe

#15 Apr 25th 2008, 2:30pm

Lol, the review game has been really good advertizing for this forum. I actually got the link from Silv3rDr34ms' profile from the review marathon. I'm really glad I found this ^^

#16 Apr 25th 2008, 5:22pm

^^ I knew I loved the folks over there 3 They're so sweet! And with such great new members, we should be amazing! :D

#17 Apr 26th 2008, 1:31pm

uh, introductions kinda make me nervous, even if it is online.

im pretty little stupid girl, and my nickname is minnie. DB i laugh too hard, and sometimes by myself in class. i make corny jokes in the back of the class and im usually the one to get paper balls and other things thrown at me, i'm obsessed over pretzels, old black-and-white movies, willy wonka and books. oh, and i don't really fancy capitalization.

i cry at things that people would normally go, "oh please," at, like the scene where the pokemon where fighting each other, in i think, the first pokemon movie, i really don't have any fashion sense and one of my favorite movies is cry-baby.

i also prefer pants over skirts, dramedy over romance, mariah carey over leona lewis and pretzels over tv ... and this is turning into a essay, isn't it. (lowers head sheepishly)

anyways, to wrap this up, i clicked on this forum because it had the ! mark, and when someone uses a !, it makes me feel like, hey, this sounds promising, or welcoming. XD

so, i uh, guess thats it.

#18 May 26th 2008, 3:15pm

Hi minnie! You sound nice. Welcome to the forum :D

#19 May 26th 2008, 3:35pm

Tell me about it. The rest of us with our little "hi!", and minnie comes up here and shows us all up with such... ah.

Anyway, you do sound nice, and I'm actually really intrigued about reading your writing now. If you really want to try, you can join us in the May contest (since the basis for this idea was that you write a well edited five thousand words in the first week of every month, daunting though that may be). You'll be at a disadvantage, though ;)

#20 May 26th 2008, 3:47pm

hehe, thanks FoxTail13 and theflyingcrabsareeatingmyhair, didn't mean to show up anyone. i guess i do talk too much. thanks for the compliment, you two sure do know how to make a newcomer feel welcome. :D

my writing's not doing too good, i'm kinda at the point where anything i write sounds wrong and gets deleted, and plus, the romance, according to my cousin, takes too long. while all the other characters are kissing and falling in love, mine are looking around, still at that, we're getting to know each other stage.

i won't think i will be able to join the may contest, not because i don't want to, it does sound fun, but because tests are arising in school, for evaluations and whose-getting-left-back /moving-on, so i have to pull it together and get my grades up. i'm sorry though, i wish i could. :3

#21 May 26th 2008, 5:53pm

Hi there Minnie! It's nice to have you aboard! ^_^

I know how you feel about getting loaded down with school work. I have a ten-page book on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a four-page autobiography, and a power point on a local river, all due this week. Whoopie!

#22 May 26th 2008, 6:40pm

Hi Minnie!

Welcome! I'm a tad late, but I have a good reason for this! *looks around* uhm....uh...I do. Really. I was editing my story for May while trying to drive home from another city? XD

There's July! Join us for July!! =D

I'm Lime, by the way...the resident lime-cat. ^_^ Nice ta meet ya.

#23 May 26th 2008, 10:12pm

Oye! I've been so busy lately that I've not gotten a chance to post here for a while ...

Anyway, *very* belated welcome! Tehe.

Ashe

#24 May 28th 2008, 3:09pm

(blushes) aw, thanks, you guys are too much. :3

hey cool cat lime (im sooo lame, i got that from the aristocats XD), you were trying to edit your story for may while driving home from another city!? i can barely even multitask. the only thing i can do is chew gum and walk at the same time. but then i usually stop to retie my shoe laces.

hmm, i don't know, i have to think about it ... what am i saying, of course i'll join you all for july! :D bytheway, i like your icon. he looks like he's bent on world domination though, like the brain from pinky and the brain. "world domination shall be ours pinky!"

dragonflydreamyr, you have all of that to do? O_O; i thought i had it bad. all i have is three english essays on ... i forget, a earth science presentation / written-essay and a spanish test next week, as well as binder-check. but those all have given dates, so i have indiviual(?) time to work on each.

amethyst asheryn, forgetaboutit, everyone's busy nowadays. it took me a day or two to respond. we all have things to do, so im not going to be like, "hey, you, yeah you, you didn't say hi to me! come say hi to me before i punch you!"

#25 May 28th 2008, 4:13pm . Edited May 28th 2008, 4:16pm

Ouch. That's more homework than even I have! *grimace*

LOL. Thanks. BTW, you can just call me Ashe if you find that typing out Amethyst Asheryn all the time is a little ... dull. Monotonous. Hard on the fingers. Whatever. :)

Ashe

#26 May 28th 2008, 6:13pm

alright ashe. i do use the pennames before anything, because i don't know what the writer prefers, or i should call them by this or by a nickname. so i make sure it's okay first.

#27 Jun 07th 2008, 8:08am

I love the nickname Frac has dubbed me with: Sparkles. Please feel free to call me that ^-^

#28 Jun 07th 2008, 9:01am

>.>

*ahem* well, I am on a campaign to get proper emotes (preferably animated ones) from the FP admins...and I do have half-funding from my virtual BFF Frac (not to mention I also have a an army...) XD

anyone else wanna join?

#29 Jun 07th 2008, 12:21pm

Animate emotes? Sounds awesome, I'll join.

#30 Jun 07th 2008, 6:23pm

Ditsychick

Hey!

I'm Ditsychick, call me whatever you like. I'm 5'9", but look taller cause I stand really straight and tall. I have never actually finished a real story. I've written a couple short stories, but am stuck on most of my real stories, which are more of a passion. It really bugs me, because I WANT to finish them...I just have no self- discipline.

I haven't read all the posts in this section, so I don't really know anything about anybody here, but hopefully I'll stick around long enough to make some good friends, and accountability partners. I'm looking forward to jumping on next months story project. Making up stories is the easy part for me...sticking out the longs ones is the toughie. :P

I also really like Crabs review requirements. Her reviews are the best I've gotten so far. :D

Oh yeah...and I'm a girl. :P

#31 Jun 08th 2008, 9:57pm

Welcome . . . Ditsy (got a better nickname?)! I'm gonna call you DC for now ^^

Haha, I don't know about everyone else, but I definitely know how you feel about sticking to a story. Hopefully this forum will help cure us of that ^_^'

If you've got any story ideas, feel free to post them in the Feedback topic. I'd be happy to take a look (as would the others here when they show up)!

#32 Jun 09th 2008, 2:35pm

(grins) hey Ditsychick, what's going on? i'm around that height too, i take after my father ... and i really never do finish any of my stories, because it would seem that i'm a grade A procrastinator when it comes to anything, including work, which would explain the low mark i got on my project for bringing it in wayyy past the due date. -.-;

yeah, making up stories the easy part, but then catching it all on paper and brainstorming and editing is another story. makes me want to give up half of the time, but i'd never be able to stay away forever, i feed off of writing.

me + writing = batman (i have a unhealthy obsession with batman, especially b: tas. i fanstalk, er ... i mean, fanpimp, no, fangirl, yes, fangirl batman :3)

me + no writing = captain planet (though there's nothing wrong with being apart of the solution to making the earth a cleaner place ... but all you have to really do is throw dirty diapers at the guy and he's melting, melting ... meltingggg!

so, anything you preferred to be called? personally, i like what sparkles (eyes sparkles enviously; just kidding) came up with. DC. it's cute. why didn't i think of that!?

(because you fail?) oh yeah, right. XD

#33 Jun 09th 2008, 6:01pm . Edited Jun 09th 2008, 6:06pm

You know, I just got around to reading the intros here and I feel like I should ask something; is this, like, an all girls only thing? No boys allowed? I figured I'd ask first before posting an intro and have all the females gasp and then start to boo the evil boy thing. -=x

#34 Jun 26th 2008, 4:18pm

Haha, no. It just seems like fictionpress is overpopulated by girls in general o.O

So, welcome to the forum regardless of gender, nationality, species, you name it! We serve all kinds ^_^

EDIT: Wow, I thought this was the RG intro. I have too many forums on alerts ^_^'

#35 Jun 26th 2008, 5:16pm . Edited Jun 26th 2008, 5:17pm

"Haha, no. It just seems like fictionpress is overpopulated by girls in general o.O"

Heh...yeah, I noticed that. Especially with the angry email my profile generates. Yikes.

OK, so I'm Violent Messiah (points over at name) and as my other post pointed out, I'm a guy. I'm a club DJ (currently on a week off...hey, it was the Euro Cup!) who enjoys almost all kinds of music. Um, I've written mostly horror/supernatural theme short stories that have been published in various pen and paper RPG rulebooks and supplements, but I'm kind of curious to see if I can pull off bigger projects, maybe even in different genres.

Oh yeah, I'm a Manchester United fanatic, love my Guinness, and contrary to popular belief, I'm not from the UK. -=x

#36 Jun 26th 2008, 6:42pm

Haha. No, it's not an all-girls thing although now that I think of it, it does seem that way!

But if you wish, we *can* certainly boo a little ... *grin*

Ashe

#37 Jun 27th 2008, 10:30am

raecheleatrhino

Mm, there is definitely an overabundance of females... don't worry, we'll try not to scare you off with our overwhelming amounts of estrogen. :)

Anyway, I'm Raechel, but I go by Alesana on all these writing sites like ff.net and mm.org (and this one of course), my favorite food is probably broccoli (really! I eat pretty healthy haha) and I write pretty much all the time.

Yippee?

#38 Jun 27th 2008, 3:11pm

@Violent Messiah

Oo, this is nice. We now have a resident DJ! woot! welcome welcome! VM, I dub thee Dee! =) Please tell me if you don't like the nick. You have a say in your nickname here.

@ Alesana

Broccoli, eh? Interesting. Not many people (that I know) like broccoli. Hm...broccoli would be the obvious nick (to me), but if this doesn't work or someone else has any ingenious nicknames, please do share. Limecat's brain is a bit on the unimaginative side right now. -_-

#39 Jun 27th 2008, 8:12pm

Bazooka Joy

Allo. I am Bazooka Joy. A 20 year old female...err....I'm bored right now and everyone on instant messenger is busy or doesn't care so here I am ^_^

I used to be a kickass writer but somewhere near the end of my junior year I hit a writer's block :(

Still trying to get out of it. TRYING.

I'd insert some random info but I just got here and can't scare everyone.

Cheers.

#40 Jun 27th 2008, 8:26pm

raecheleatrhino

to Bazooka Joy- welcome, and you'll get out of that block eventually, I had the same problem for about a year...

to Silv3rDr34mS- haha, Broccoli's fine with me. but hey, to make it even more original you could pronounce it like Brock-ally. ha, jskeeting.

#41 Jun 29th 2008, 8:18pm

"VM, I dub thee Dee! =) Please tell me if you don't like the nick. You have a say in your nickname here."

Heh...Actually, Lime, could I get another nickname? Dee is what my family and I call my sister, so calling me that somehow seems odd. o.0

#42 Jul 01st 2008, 5:44pm

Imaginary Rose

Hello.

I'm...me.

I'll be eighteen in a couple of months.

I nearly burnt my house down today.

I have no life.

I believe sleep is for the weak.

I'm intensely private and only a 'little' paranoid.

Bye.

#43 Jul 01st 2008, 11:41pm

Actually, Lime, could I get another nickname? Dee is what my family and I call my sister, so calling me that somehow seems odd.

o_O

oh. lol. hmm......i'm stumped this time...let me sit on this nicknaming thing for a little bit.

-------

@Imaginary Rose Productions, welcome welcome!!

I have no life.

haha, don't we all?

I nearly burnt my house down today.

O_O ....but, you're ok, right?

Inspiration fails me today as it's about 4AM right now. Nicknames will come later. lol. XD

#44 Jul 02nd 2008, 2:33am

Imaginary Rose

Yep, I'm fine. We noticed the burning plastic smell just in time.

And in my defense, I was very hungry.

#45 Jul 02nd 2008, 9:30am

"I nearly burnt my house down today.

I have no life."

You know, I seen some rather unique intros in my time online, but the bit about burning down the house? That was a new one.

Anyway, glad you're OK, and I understand you were hungry...but really, cooking a whole house is a bit excessive, yeah? Heh...

#46 Jul 02nd 2008, 3:32pm

Jayd Scarlett

Well, I got bored, and started snooping and ended up here... Then I decided to introduce myself...

Well, I'm Jayd Scarlett. I used to be 00jade (nicknamed Jade) but then I realised I'd outgrown that name (I can outgrow names?) and used my other Penname: Jayd Scarlett.

Problem is, Jayd, Jade and Scarlett aren't my real names. -notices confused faces- My name is... Dani. LOL! Jade's my middle name.

Anyway, my fave things are writing, reading, writing, talking, writing, challenging, writing, beating up cousins, writing, making vids, writing, HArry Potter, writing and more (including reading. And writing).

I just participated in the July challenge; ate chocolate; and told my best friend that she's lost her sanity. :D

In conclusion (Gah! Essays)... call me Dani.

#47 Aug 07th 2008, 12:44pm

Officer Jeffery

Hello, all.

I'm Officer Jeffery, but my actual name's Mike. The nickname comes from Pirates of Penzance, because my friend and I were both police officers and we gave our characters actual names (that's what happens when you're casted as Policeman 4).

My hobbies include reading, photography, writing (duh.), listening to music, video games, the internet, and alot of other random stuff.

I look forward to spending more time here with you all!

#48 Aug 07th 2008, 3:16pm