Good evening

[Cynric]

Hello all.

I've just discovered your splendid forum and decided to join in.

I'm yet another aspiring writer, with one epic fantasy novel completed. It lives in a drawer. We're both happy with that arrangement.

I'm 100,000 words into a new work in progress, and I have high hopes that it may one day be seen by a reader. No working title yet (perhaps I'll start a thread on titles...), but the one sentence summary is: "Run for your lives!"

Looking forward to browsing through the embarrassment of riches all around me, and posting if/when I have something worth saying.

Cynric.

[springs]

Good stuff, welcome, I'm glad you and WIP have a mutual arrangement. Welcome to the Chrons, may you waste much time!

[Venusian Broon]

Hi again Cynric,

Looking forward to hearing about your work and related topics...and not so related topics as well!

I only have a brood of short stories at the moment who are currently dirtying my PC and related storage devices with finger paints and throwing tantrums in the sand pit. However I am slowly getting my way through a novel sized beast.

Cheers VB

[Abernovo]

Welcome to the Chrons, Cynric. As you're an aspiring writer, you could always try your hand at the monthly challenges.

[chrispenycate]

Only posting if you have something worth saying? What a refreshing attitude.

It won't last, of course; soon you'll be into atrocious puns and irrelevant digressions like the rest of us, or writing challenges (you're just in time to vote for the 300 word quarterly challenge, with its record-breaking attendance, and in plenty of time to write seventy-five words for May – oh, over in the 'aspiring writers' region, under (surprise) 'writing challenges.

And 'run for your lives' might be reasonable advice for a new member – assuming, obviously that, like a cat he possessed multiple lives, and showed any tendency towards reasonableness. Not that there's any regulation against it, you understand; merely that it tends to wear out.

So? Not supposed to scare people off? But the best ones can't be scared, because that would require some concept of what is to come, and that can only be obtained by living it; and by that point it's too late.

Welcome in. May you live in interesting posts.

[The Ace]

I hope you left your sanity in the proper receptacle when you came in, it's of little use here.

Don't mind the giant spider, she's only dangerous to pringles and people who kick her cat. If the net goes down, she usually hides under the duvet, so seeing one walking around passes for normal around here.

Three expeditions have vanished without trace trying to find the exit, but we usually rub along. Welcome aboard.

[Cynric]

Thanks for the welcomes (and the warnings). I did spot a few murky looking byways; I've stuck to the well beaten tracks so far.

I hope to live up to my "worthwhile posts" ambition, but, well, "worthwhile" is a terribly subjective concept, don't you think

As for time wasting, I have a unshakable rule: 500 words on the WIP buys me an hour of browsing. Otherwise, I'll never be finished...

[Boneman]

Originally Posted by Cynric

As for time wasting, I have a unshakable rule: 500 words on the WIP buys me an hour of browsing. Otherwise, I'll never be finished...

For goodness sake, keep that quiet!!! Before you know it, we'll all have to do that!

Welcome to the Chrons.