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"I've just spent two hours writing a topic"

But I've just deleted it because I can't put my feelings into words properly enough... it's more of an insult to post it. Some things you just can't explain, no matter how hard you try.

*shrugs*

Never mind.

How often do you delete something you write?

Occasionally. A lot of my gaming topics I deleted halfway through, because they were just crap.

Most of my Life posts I'll work on for a while until they sound right, although some of the time (especially lately) I just write what I feel and it flows along nicely.

Only some times! I change usually posts rather than not post them at all.

Ironically, I just deleted a few paragraphs I was going to add in reply to this topic.

Mostly it's the thought provoking topics. I've lost track of the amount of time I've spent replying to them, only to decide not to...

I always do it, that's why you don't see me much in here or Fog chat.

Reaper, if you want good fantasy books, check out these two authors:

Terry Goodkind (www.terrygoodkind.com) and Elizabeth Haydon (www.elizabethhaydon.com).

Both have fantastic series' out at the moment.

Grix Thraves wrote:
> Reaper, write more, please. I'm pretty damn sure there's more to you
> than meets the eye... well, what you've shown us, anyway. :0)
>
> If you're afraid of being judged, don't be. This is a damn fine forum,
> there are good people here. They won't mock you, they'll love to read
> what's going on in your head. And the more you write, the better you
> get.
>
> Please please write.

Mm..thanks, I'd like to myself, but I never know what to say. Right now, I want to write something. Well, something more interesting than an essay on Far From the Madding Crowd.. I used to all the time, up until about year 8. I wrote in my free time, I wrote at lunch, I spent hours on stories for English class, I had directories full of poems and page after page of stories I'd written at various times.

And then I stopped. I don't know when, or why, although looking back it was probably due to our englsih lessons. I grew to hate the subject, because all we did was analysis. Most of year 7 and 8 was spent writing our own pieces, experimenting with styles, but as soon as we hit year 9, the SATs obsession started. All our work became focused on analysis of other texts, responding, and evaluating them. I just don't read in my own time now, I keep telling myself to catch up with everything I said I would read and stretch myself, but the analysis completely put me off. Every time Jess is here now, she throws a book at me, something I know I should read..I really want to get started again.

So we stopped writing in school, I stopped reading here, and my interest dwindled. I read newspapers, magazines, non fiction books, but I just can't get back in to the style that I used to like, fantasy worlds and anything I could expand on in my mind, creating my own parts of them and immersing myself. I try sometimes, just writing as I did before.. it tends to reflect my mood, but because of that, I can't keep it up if I take a break from it - which I have to do sometimes, just to convince myself I haven't drifted in to irrelevant ramblings.. Everything I do seems so cynical and analytical now..

I'll try. I want to, and as you said, these are excellent forums, I should know that by now...even if most people here don't actually know me, heh.

Right, back to Bathsheba and Oak..

I do that about once or twice every day. I can never get across how I feel properly.

Me and my tag were in the magazine?

Cool.

Your Honour wrote:
>
> Damn right! "Simple is always best" that's what my teachers
> always said about me at parents evening anyway...
>
> :-D

Lol!

I remember when that tag was in the magazine and you weren't Notable. You're name now looks odd in purple....

Reaper, write more, please. I'm pretty damn sure there's more to you than meets the eye... well, what you've shown us, anyway. :0)

If you're afraid of being judged, don't be. This is a damn fine forum, there are good people here. They won't mock you, they'll love to read what's going on in your head. And the more you write, the better you get.

Please please write.

[On a side note, I'm exactly like what you just said... I can't speak, stop myself, hate myself for doing so... but that's why I write. For some reason, I found myself being able to write a little, and really, it was only because of other people on here that I wrote more, and I built my self-confidence a bit. I don't think I'm a perfect writer, and I'm certainly not the best writer on here... but I enjoy it, and I enjoy reading what people say. It's an escape for me really. :0)]