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Hi, Quill! I started a new WritersMarket.com group for business writers who also like to write literature ("creative writing"). Would you like to join? It's called Industrial Quill. Sort groups by "Other" to find it. Hope to see you there! It's going to be fun (and helpful) to share ideas with others who want to do both business writing and creative writing.

Thank you!

I would go ahead and enter the contest. One of the stories I entered was about a couple dealing with the death of their daughter at the hands of a serial killer. You never know who is reading the manuscript. During the last contest it was an editor of a small press who asked me to submit a manuscript of poems this fall.

Wow. I’m amazed to have gotten a response so quickly, and am very appreciative that you read the chapter all the way through. That was a concern, because it is such a long piece. Thank you for taking the time.
The “….bars and pawnshops” line was Chickie’s observation that wherever there are military bases, there will be many bars and many pawnshops. In my Air Force years, I was a faithful customer of both. Several times I hocked my typewriter in my quest for cold beer and the company of pretty women. So that tells you where my priorities were in those days.

“…at Fort Sam” and “Kelly” referred to military bases, Ft. Sam Houston and Kelly Air Force Base. To most San Antonians in 1966, just the word “Kelly” would have identified the military installation, but perhaps I should have written “Kelly Air Force Base”.
Women in college? It’s true that in the 60s, there were fewer women in college. There were also fewer men who went further than high school.
Your story about the brothel/opium den sounds intriguing, and I would like to read it if I had access to My Space. Perhaps I’ll look in to that possibility.
Your site photo is one of the best I’ve seen. The hurricane lamp and the candle. The quill pen on notebook. A throwback to a quieter time. The lighting is great. Did you consult Thomas Kincaid?
Thanks again for the read and the critique. It was a huge boost.

You're the second person who has told me that they are not aware of an adult content restriction on this site. Possibly you are right, and it's just something I assumed. There is some provision for viewer complaints however, and the spectrum of subscribers includes those who write for children and those who have religious perspectives. So maybe that is why I got that idea. I do know that the computer will automatically replace certain words with ********.

Thanks for the input.

I have toured MySpace and Facebook briefly, and have been put off by what seems like too much cyberspace intimacy. But I’ll look at them again.

Actually, if it were feasible, I’d prefer to set my project up on Writer’s Market.com. But this is a paying subscriber site, and also there would be the censorial constraints regarding language and explicit scenes.

This may be knit-picking, but I do have a problem with the “Friend” term used on this site and on others. It implies an intimacy that does not exist between people who have no faces and no common history.

You are so sweet to offer! Thank you! After much typing, backspacing, retyping, and throwing around the f-word, I did come up with a suitable bio that I believe will work. :-)

Ahh! I'm not alone!