Hi Lostboy, I've seen you around every once in awhile. I don't see the rush. There's not a shortage of space, stick around. I've read your stuff, i'm sure a lot of people have. i have a policy of keeping my recommends down to only a few a day, otherwise what's the point. Also mostly i don't comment, unless i have something particular to say.

I write like crap. But I try a few different things, try to learn how to write a bit better as I go along, eventually got lucky with one post people thought was funny. But you've got to experiment. Keep trying, find your issues, your style. Anyway, if you're going to work at the writing gig, might as well do it here... hope you hang around.

I have another idea. Many people participate without writing blogs themselves. They respond to the blogs and posts of others and get a real conversation going.

If you think the only way to participate is to write a blog yourself then you are missing out on 90% of what is going on here. I think that if you have the attitude (and you seem to, to me) that you want to learn when you see new information, and contribute when you want to share your own thoughts, you'll get the most from this site.

Hope you'll stick it out, and continue to participate. But as you read the threads, take note of how many people DO NOT have their own blogs for weeks at a time, and some of them never do.

Stay. Learn. Read. Rant. Rave. And don't forget you can teach us much too grasshopper. I find your prose to be real and heartfelt.

We all learn here everyday. Different things. Some important, some not so much.

C'mon in, stay awhile.

goodbye lostboy

Since when did you have to be a great writer to post here?

Lost Boy. This is Wendy speaking -- she of the lost boys.
Every personal goal we have is vulnerable-making. We speak, passionately, about those issues we care about.... and sometimes, it seems that no one hears. And then we think, if a tree falls in the forest and no one hears, did it, in fact, fall?
The answer is yes, it did, in fact, fall. Whether or not anyone happened to hear it happen. What matters is that someone -- you, for instance -- cared enough to document the fall.
Lostboy: stay awhile. If you cannot do it for you, do it for me, remembering the lyrics:
"Let's be quiet as a mouse
And build a lovely little house for Wendy
So that Wendy won't go away.
Home sweet home upon the door,
A welcome mat down on the floor
So Wendy, won't go away.
Oh what pleasures she'll bring to us--
Make us pockets, and sing to us;
tell us stories.... we've been longing to hear.....
Over and over.
She'll be waiting at the door,
We won't be lonely anymore
since Wendy, our own Wendy's
here to stay.
She'll be our mother;
It's nice to have a mother...
Wendy's here to stay."
Which quote is another way of saying: " Lostboy; there is always tomorrow, which may well be another day."
And, in the meantime, I'll make your pockets and sing to you.

Lostboy, I would like to add my half penny and say, I hope you will stick around. There are a lot of intelligent and well versed people on TPM and a few can be intimidating. That’s coming from someone who is not easily intimated, so I think I understand your frustration. Don’t let that stop you, follow the advice from all the caring people that have taken the time to respond and in the end, just be you.

Seriously, what everyone above said. I think everyone here takes a look at every post that goes up, but not every post gets a comment. Keep writing. As one of my friends once said, "Practice makes better practice."

"Practice makes better practice."

I must steal that, may I?

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Stick around . . . Lostboy . . .

Maybe you can let us all know what's up in Kansas. Even if you think the rest of us wouldn't give two hoots reading about the area of Kansas you're from, you'd be surprised.

You say you've been a workingman all your life. Now there's something that you can possibly bounce some interesting stories off of...

It's not all politics all the time.

As Oleeb said, the best way to get better at writing is to write.

~OGD~

This is some pretty maudlin shit, eh?

Lostboy! If you stick around you have to chang eyour name, but let us all know. You ain;t lost! You're roight here. Good writing means you took the time to read what you wrote and corrected things. I does not mean you don;t know any better. Look at me! I write okay, but my editing is the wrose because I hit often hit send before I read it again. It's he thought that coun ts and people are very patient here because we're not about the outside so much. Although, I;m sure it would have been easier to read if I did edit this. I;m learning to be patient. Stick around!

Lost,
How will you know what you think, if you don't write it out?