From: owner-eda-thoughts-digest@smoe.org (eda-thoughts-digest) To: eda-thoughts-digest@smoe.org Subject: eda-thoughts-digest V1 #265 Reply-To: eda-thoughts@smoe.org Sender: owner-eda-thoughts-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-eda-thoughts-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk eda-thoughts-digest Sunday, November 1 1998 Volume 01 : Number 265 * If you ever wish to unsubscribe, send an email to * eda-thoughts-digest-request@smoe.org with ONLY * the word unsubscribe in the body of the email * . * PLEASE :) when you reply to this digest to send a post TO the list, * change the subject to reflect what your post is about. A subject * of Re: eda-thoughts-digest V1 #xxx or the like gives readers no clue * as to what your message is about. Today's Subjects: ----------------- [none] [mandabear4@juno.com (Mandabear four)] [none] [mandabear4@juno.com (Mandabear four)] ET: Re: ["Seth D. Fulmer" ] Re: ET: doc's back/applaudings #4 [Angeljlb96@aol.com] ET: falling in love [winters ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 09:41:46 -0500 From: mandabear4@juno.com (Mandabear four) Subject: [none] Kristin, That poem from eli was cute. I can't believe he came up with that. He even spelled everything right!! Tres cool. I wish my boyfriend wrote me poetry. <3 always ~Mandabear~ Somewhere down the road there'll be answers to the questions. Somewhere down the road though we cannot see it now. Somewhere down the road you'll find mighty arms reaching for you. And they will hold the answers at the end of the road. -Amy Grant- ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 09:57:13 -0500 From: mandabear4@juno.com (Mandabear four) Subject: [none] I have a question for you all. When any of you write fictional stories, do you ever use events from your life? If you do, do you make up characters that portray the people in your life in that situation? Do you ever start a story about something in your life, use people from your life through characters and then make stuff up about your character that doesn't fit that person at all? I wrote a story for my Creative writing class this past week and I let my mom read it. The situation I put my main character was one where she was raped by her best friend. The object of the story was to get the reader to feel for the character some sort of terror. The character that I used to do the raping was named Dylan. Since Dylan and Victoria(the rape victim) were best friends, I decided to model their relationship based on mine and my best friend who is a guy. anyone reading the story who knew me and the relationship between me and him could identify who Dylan was portraying from my life. There was one line in the story that directly linked Dylan to my real life best friend. No one in my c.w. class knows me well enough to know who my best friend is. My mom read the story and got offended by it. She knew who Dylan was in real life and she thought I was being offensive. My best friend in real life is not a rapist but in the story he does rape Victoria. I don't see how that could be offensive. The only other person who will read my story is my teacher who knows nothing of my life. He isn't going to be able to tell who I modeled my charaters after. My problem is that she doesn't understand how I could give a character such horrible traits like that. Especially when the character has some of the same traits as my real life best friend. The one line in the story that links my real life best friend to the trait of Dylan was this,"Dylan was holding a party marking John Lennon's death and my sister was invited to it and dragged me along." That is the only line in the whole story that is really true about mine and my best friend's relationship. Do any of you think what I wrote was wrong? or that my mom has the right to be offended. I mean I know she's entitled to her own fellings but it's just a fictional story that popped into my head. What do ya'll think? I'm sorry this is long and it may be confusing but could you help me out? how can I make her see that it's just a story and not real? I mean every writer has to get their inspiration form somewhere. W/B ~Mandabear~ ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 10:28:09 -0500 From: "Seth D. Fulmer" Subject: ET: Re: At 09:57 AM 10/31/98 -0500, Mandabear four wrote: >I have a question for you all. When any of you write fictional stories, >do you ever use events from your life? If you do, do you make up >characters that portray the people in your life in that situation? Do you >ever start a story about something in your life, use people from your >life through characters and then make stuff up about your character that >doesn't fit that person at all? I wrote a story for my Creative writing Do I? I have 1 novel that I wrote in which I took events in my life and I fantasized, satirized and parodied my life. I had 3 characters with 3 permutations of my name and I split my personality into some of the best and the worst characteristics and these characters personified those(plus, I added some fantastical elements to the characters as well)...but anyways, I started writing it because I was upset at my parents and I made them out to be evil beasts with my mom being the slave. Later on in the story, the crew on my ship rescue this girl and the one verson of seth falls for her...as she does for him(Hey, it's fantasy...why can't I have my own way?), but then my best friend from real life, personified in the story steals her and seth catches them kissing, but he goes into this insane nervous breakdown where his powers manifest themselves in weird and mysterious ways...and when one of the other manifestations of Seth(Hest) tries to enter seth's mind to help...seth tries to kill Hest with the most ungodly powers. But as for his parents...earlier in the story, some elf dude uses magic to make himself look like (the first personification of seth, Thes)'s dad(i.e..my dad) and he really wails on him and I'd hate to watch that scene while I was eating. And the bad guy in the story is my 10th grade social studies/history teacher(probably because he was a good teacher now that I'm in college and I hated him back then). So, I don't see any reason why you can't do it. It's a way for me personally to get my stresses out. Perhaps I should continue my sequel...so far, Seth has been tricked by the personification of god to be king of the fantasty world with the girl that cheated on him to be queen but while he has that problem, he also has this other troublemaker to deal with as well. I understand your problem though...My mom got mad at me for the lines of one of my poems. Well, take care and Have a Great Day! :o) Seth Fulmer mailto:usfulmer@mcs.drexel.edu mailto:st96t879@post.drexel.edu mailto:kaosking@voicenet.com webpages: http://www.voicenet.com/~kaosking Cool Quotes and stuff :) "I just wanna be with you Right here with you just like this" - -Aerosmith "I don't want to miss a thing" ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 18:24:46 EST From: Angeljlb96@aol.com Subject: Re: ET: doc's back/applaudings #4 In a message dated 10/30/98 3:57:25 PM Central Standard Time, romeantic@hotmail.com writes: << And certainly not with Jamie... who dares say that!! *G* >> bitch =) Lara, (you alive, sweetie?) can I borrow that trusty can o whoop ass I lent you? I need it for a minute ;-) Hi Jon =) Love, Jamie ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 20:49:02 -0800 From: winters Subject: ET: falling in love angels it has been so long since i have sent out a post, the list seems to have been changing, or perhaps simply "evolving" like we all do. something has happened to me in the last month which i think i should share with all of you, something that is incredible for me, and has taught me a great deal. i have met the most incredible, brilliant man, and i know that i am compeletely falling for him. a bit over a month ago my family went out for dinner. i didn't even want to go. i was dating this other guy then, who made me feel inadequete, i was selling myself short with him, i realized that but felt a need to be with someone. i went out to dinner with the family that nihgt instead of going out on a date with that other guy . i went to the restraunt and was ordering my food when i looked up at the waiter and felt something so strong and rare that i could barely even speak. he joked around with me all night and i felt like i just had to know him, i slipped him my number, although i was with my family, i barely knew him, and he was 5 years older. a week went by, a week of pure turture, and then he called. i have had some of the best conversations, i have had the best kisses, and the best feeling around him. he has taught me some life lessons, and the major one that he taught me is: look at where you are in life, are you happy? if your not happy then get out and get happy. esp. in relationships. the main point of a relationship is to be happy afterall. this guy has been life altering and now he has moved to a city a few hours away. i don't know what is going on between us anymore, now that the distance has been set. i do know though, that even if this ends right now, i feel like all of my expectations have been compeletely met. he gives me such faith in humanity, the fact that he is alive here on earth. the future is so unknown with us and often times i just want to walk away from the whole thing, because i know if i stay longer then finaly when we do say goodbye it would hurt so much more. he has also taught me about baby steps. to take things one step at a time. often times i analyze everything until it becomes nothing. i have to classify my emotions instead of simply saying how i feel. he has taught me indirectly to simply take one step at a time. i have no idea what is going on with the two of us, the future is so confusing, but instead of looking at a few months down the line or years, i am learning to look at today, what i can do about it right now. i just felt like sharing what i have been feeling and learning the past month. i have some poetry that i'll send in the next post. thanks for reading this if you did. kat ------------------------------ End of eda-thoughts-digest V1 #265 **********************************