I'm learning so much!

I go through soul surfer and you can win...

Best not to hoot, even when talking to oneself

I like the sound of this book.

When I talk to my self I do get sensible answers.....even if they might be strange to other people.....

Speak for yerself, jeni...I know for a fact that I'm really weird. I can enjoy a conversation with myself, and not give a hoot!

We all do it. But then some of us are slightly weird!

broomsticks Talking to yourself is fine; it's when you start talking to yourself in the mirror that you have to start worrying.

I pressed Bump and Reset in a kind of 'End of the World Button, I wonder what happens if I press this' kind of way. Still don't know what it did do.

Oh good. I thought I might be talking to myself again!

It's alright Broomsticks. You haven't broken anything. It's fine.

I think I might have done something weird to this thread. Sorry, if I have! I haven't got the hang of how thing work here yet!

Thank you very much for buying Broomsticks. Hope you don't hate it!
Sounds interesting - the Tales of Beauty and Cruelty and the poetry. U3A writers' anthology sound good too. I go to a writers' group too but we tend to talk more than we write. It's fun though and great people.
Jo5 you'd fit right in on authonomy forums. Better emoticons here though.

I have bought it; thank you, Broomsticks. I'm a poet, but a quietish one. Oh, and welcom to GN. Enjoy it.

(On the same theme as Broomstick's book, but at the other end of the age soectrum,I have to recommend "Tales of Beauty and Cruelty" by Kate Peety. It's a modern re working of Hans Andersen's stories, and I found it really exciting - made all my English teacher colleagues read it. And bought it for DG1!)

Yes!!!!!!!! Only me!!!!

Of course you were speaking for yourself, weren't you, JO5?

I should NOT have said that!!!

sorreee!

Only crap on here.

I jointly run a writing group in U3A which is fun and produces some excellent writing. Mine is mainly short stories and I haven't had anything published yet. My two youngest GC enjoyed the Christmas one I did for them last year. Our group is planning an anthology next year if we can get a small subsidy from our U3A.

What do you all write?

That's ok.

Sorry, Jo not Joe (my son is Joe, so I typed it by mistake)

Thanks Annodomini. I hope Age Uk won't end up with about 50p! I should have said that the book is available on Amazon. It's on authonomy but that's just for fun. I wonder if I'm getting the hang of this?

Just looked it up on Amazon and decided to purchase immediately - so easy with one-click! It sounds original and entertaining. Will add a review when I finish it. Promise!

Hope your book does well Broomsticks both for you and for Age UK.

Sounds a good site.

(Don't worry about not knowing how to reply to me. Nothing unusual there!)

Good luck.

I'm not quite sure how to reply to two people here.
Jess, my book is called Broomsticks, Walking Sticks and Zimmer Frames and is daft fairy tales for older readers. (The royalties go to Age Uk)
I didn't self publish it because, basically, I'm seriously incompetent on the computer.
Joe, well yes, it's a small, embarrassed advert.

I'm not advertising Authonomy though. I've just had great fun and there are lots of nice people, but the chance of being actually published by Harper Collins is very, very remote. If you get to the top five you get a publisher's review. It's really good if you treat it as a writers circle. Get crits. for your writing and do the same for others. It's addictive, like this I suspect