• SoulCast said on Jul 27, 2006....

  Dear Soulcast Members, Unfortunately there was database issue today that caused the loss of comments in a handful of posts. No posts were lost, only the comments of a few posts. This was one of those posts, and we are very sorry for the loss of comments. We appreciate your participation and are working hard to improve SoulCast for you. The Soulcast Team

• Zayda said on Jul 27, 2006....

  Darn it sucks that all the comments got lost form here.

• mysterious said on Jul 28, 2006....

  dang! I was just about to read through all these, urgh! Anyways, I write poems and basically correspondence to family and friends. Also, trying to be a songwriter, more on the lyrics part cuz I'll be needing help for the composing the music part. Actually, I am working on it to get on the published writer part. :-)

• silverwhisper said on Jul 28, 2006....

  this may have been my favorite of the various entries on my blog. :< mysterious: good luck! ed

• Alyss said on Jul 28, 2006....

  That is indeed a pain. However, what's to stop everyone writing their comments again? I write ~ sort of. I write the usual humdrum things; lists, letters and the like but I also now blog and have very recently begun trying to write creatively after very many years. As part of that I have just begun writing short articles for a 'zine.

• WeirdWorld said on Jul 28, 2006....

  I read the title of this blog, the day you wrote it, and i opened it also, but somehow forgot to comment on it. Actually i reached soulcast, when i got bored reading a blog on a news channel, so i was just checking out the google ads. And i found soulcast. i dont think i read the part apart being paid. And even if i did, i dont think i would have believed it.That was not long back, almost a couple of months. By the time i had logged i knew about the getting paid part. The first blog i saw on soulcast was named "you click mine, and i will click yours", or something of that nature, i dont know who wrote it. Brutal honesty, seriously could anyone had put it better?? I didnt read it, i didnt feel like, but the title was damn funny. Why i started blogging?? I wanted to write again, i want to see the words linking together and forming beautiful webs and chains. I know my language sounds flowery, but i love words, if anyone has read Isabel Allende's book 'the stories of Eva Luna', then just think of the first story, "Two Words", i read it when i was 16, and ever since that story strikes a cord which i dont know why but i relate to. I dont know why i write, i wrote my first poem when i was 15(late starter) and subsequently went on writing. As i am a loner, my words were a tenuous link to the intruding word of people around me. Maybe my language is too flowery, i dont know, but when i write its not me, its never me, its my hands which writes, i know how eerie it sounds, but am i not WeirdWorld, my world is supposed to be weird. Once one of my sisters found a poem by me and everyone thought i am severely depressed. I will tell you the poem (cause it is my only poem i remember), i wrote it after i had finished my exam-paper and didnt have anything to do, college tends to do such things to us. So sitting in class i wrote it and everyone thought i was living in depression(infact the funniest comparison was to Sylvia Plath, imagine). "Happiness comes with a vertigo of pain, they stab me in the same way, their anticipation is like a walk to the gallows, I am paranoid of my own shadow , it sometimes feels like a manacle of terror…" I know pretty depressive, but i dont ever got to know why i wrote these monsters (cause believe me there are lots of them). Anyways when i was twenty i think, i lost my writing, i dont know how, i dont know why. Numerous poems, two books, and somehow something happened to me, i stopped writing. And that was the only reason i came to soulcast, i wanted to write, maybe anything, maybe just rambling, but i wanted to write again. Because now i am at a stage in life when i need something to hold on to (words were never a crutch for me before, now somehow i need them desperately). After four years of not writing, i want to write again and i see soulcast as a hope. Adious S P.S.- Sorry for the flowery language, thats the only way i write. And i know the story is pretty weird to, welcome to my world:-WeirdWorld

• wildfire said on Jul 28, 2006....

  Damn near anything that will pay the bills! But really mostly dry technical and medical related stuff that no one reads unless they have too. But it does pay the bills. I was online searching for a new line of work when I came across soulcast and thought.... well I need to have a better creative outlet and if I can make a buck or two in the process...even better. Wildfire

• Zayda said on Jul 29, 2006....

  As my first post said, what don't I write is a better question. For my primary job, I write/edit conference presentation proposals and then the conference presentation should the proposal be accepted, scholarly journal articles, research proposals, chapters in edited collections, book and textbook reviews, faculty handbooks (that's what I've spent part of my summer doing), how-to articles for disciplinary related journals, software reviews, materials and handouts for my students, and a few sundry other items. For my freelance/consulting work, I write user documentation, usability testing scripts/prompts/test scenarios and questions, training materials, sample surveys (to go with the training materials), press releases, SBIR grants, web site content, marketing materials, white papers, evaluations of UI design, etc. I also edit/review manuscripts of research articles for a couple of journals. For pure pleasure, I dabble in writing short fiction. I am toying with branching out into a new genre, thanks to a suggestion from someone. It seems that I am always writing something, including posts and comments on here.

• hunter_boyce_chandler said on Jul 29, 2006....

  Believe it or not I write psychological and religious catharses.

• Prewdaug said on Jul 30, 2006....

  Well, I am proud to be in a group of renouned writers....hope that my "off the cuff" writing is acceptable. Have you read the incident in Wallerkey county? I would love to hear from you and see what you think of the story. Of course, I am not a writer, so this is a learning experience for me. As for being paid.....I applied for that part....but haven't gotten anything. So I write for free. I am looking forward to hearing from all of you. Written from the humble hand of a fat man with flaming red hair, who looks like BOZO after the wreck.Prewdaug

• crazyrelations said on Jul 31, 2006....

  I write my thoughts, simple as that. It's like seeing your sould take shape in words, on paper, or rather, on the screen. I write of my pain and occasionally (though you probably won't find it on soulcast, but on my other blogs) of my joys. But yeah, sentimental shit aside, I am an occasional writer, and editor, and I do get published in some magazines. If I could summon enough patience, I would write books, and they would read like instruction manuals, or self-help books about self-help books. Writers are thinkers who are generous with their thoughts. Thanks for sharing yours.

• missb said on Aug 03, 2006....

  Me, I just write what my heart pleases. My thoughts, life, dreams, desperation, poems, human interests and all that. Writing is a media to keep me sane :)

• Elly said on Aug 03, 2006....

  Here I am having some fun, and getting some personal satisfaction by telling the story of my decaying marriage, but it is not the sort of thing I usually write. I am a published writer of short stories and articles, but in reality I'll write about almost anything.

• LoriaAmnekia said on Aug 03, 2006....

  I just write for pleasure. I did sign up for the getting paid thing on here. And I am searching for a way to earn money through writing. But I had to give up on my biggest writing: a published poetry collection. All the poems I was going to have in it got lost when we moved from one of the apartments we had. 70+ poems ranging from my 8th grade year up to 2005 (my high school class graduated in 2001, by the way), when we lost our stuff. I have about 5 or 10 poems from that collection that were, luckily, saved to the various hard drives we had for our broken computers. But, anyways, I just write because I enjoy it. If someone else enjoys my writing, it's definitely an uplifting bonus.

• emokid13 said on Aug 04, 2006....

  i started to get more interested in writting when i read "the shadow of the wind" of Carloz Ruiz Zaffon i was extremely fascinated by the story, from since then i told myself i want to be a story teller someday...about romance,tragedy,mistery,..and a little bit humour. im not good in english and im not so linguistic but my immaginations and creativity to make a story is good. im really desperate to fullfil my dream.just like what the alchemist had preached "the whole universe conspires to help you achieve your personal legend.and that i believe. right now im writting a story that i entitled the sacred mountain of devils.im not yet finished writting it but the story in my head is already done. i love words...i also write poems about tragedies and death and i just composed 2 emo songs with my guitar.i hope i have a band so i can sing them i mean scream them...

• LayaMaria said on Aug 05, 2006....

  I write for posterity!!! Kidding... that's too high a goal. I guess I write to communicate. To let people know what ideas occurred to me and to hope that they get something from those ideas as well. To share my culture and my heritage with others. To fix a picture of the here and now so that when people read it years hence, they will know how it was with us. I write poems... gonna post some of them on my blog later. Essays, food for thought sort of things. Due to my arrested adolescence, I also finished about 10 young adult romance novels, all of which never had 2nd drafts or got into print mainly because I turned them into birthday presents for friends soon after they were finished. I've also done a Gothic young adult, a whole young adult series a la Sweet Valley High, and several young adult mysteries sort of like Trixie Belden stuff, which ditto. I haven't got any copies left of all that output. I'm currently working on two fantasy novels that have been germinating in my mind for years now, with the drawback that I left my PC at my parents' in Mindanao when I skedaddled for Manila (I'm using my workstation PC during breaktime for Soulcast), so I'm still roughing things out on paper. Hopefully, one of them will flesh out enough in time for October and WriteLit's BlogNoMo... for which I plan to use my Soulcast blog. Hopefully.

• maemae said on Aug 30, 2006....

  I write primarily nonfiction/autobiographical stories. Much with Humor.
  
  I write Erotica on the side, for my own pleasure.
  

• Zayda said on Aug 30, 2006....

  I recently started writing short fiction again. I took a long time off from it. And, I've found myself writing poetry, which I've never done before.
  

• silverwhisper said on Aug 30, 2006....

  maemae: cool, on both counts. :>
  
  super z: and it's good to see that you are. :>
  
  ed
  

• okelay said on Sep 06, 2006....

  i mostly write fanfiction.
  i have writen some poetry and some original stories too, mostly short things but what i usually write is fanfiction.
  it's fun and i like to write pov, missing scenes or post-eps
  the things you never get to see in canon.
  
  by example,in stargate:atlantis, they do write a lot of character development moments and quite a few 'shippy' (romantic) moments.
  but it never seems enough.
  cause they can't spend all the episode in that. there has to be action. episodes can't be all introspection or fluff.
  i would love that, but it's impossible.
  
  many times, in certain episodes i've felt a scene has been missing. elizabeth thanking john after 'the real world' would be one of them.
  and it's what fic writers like me do. write the scene TPTB does not. it's almost as if they don't write them to leave them to us. like they're not sure how to do them or something.
  
  i like to get inside the character's mind and try to figure out what they're thinking in certain scenes.
  

• harriedpsychmajor said on Sep 12, 2006....

  I fancy myself a good fiction writer. I'm working on two novels simultaneously... well, scratch that. I'm really working on one more than the other because it's something more personal. It's fiction, but is actually pretty autobiographical.
  
  Also, I do poetry. Most recently, I've been doing short stories to pitch to various literary magazines across the country, just so I can say I got something published.
  
  Then there's my blogging. More impersonal rants about society and how stupid people tend to be.
  

• forbiddendreams said on Sep 13, 2006....

  I'm a writer of many blogs, haha. I've written articles, but really nothing special.
  
  I signed up with soulcast for the anonymity, and a place to write what I don't what the people I know personally to read. Getting paid (if someone will be good enough to click on the ad links) is a nice incentive, but it's mostly the new place to express myself. (Or so I say)
  

• sunsethue said on Sep 15, 2006....

  hi silverwhisper... thanks for the warm welcome you gave me...
  
  anyway, glad to know that there are lots of writers here like me... i do write scripts for drama on tv (soap operas) and storylines for movies... as of now a good friend of mine who is already in the mainstream writing movies is helping me out with my first screenplay... he is co-writing with me since i got sick and can't really meet the deadlines that the company sets... anyway, they know i had cancer so they give me a little more time than the others.
  
  i also write poetry in my spare time... and i have a site that my daughter made for me when i got sick... i have an e-journal there... if you have time you can visit the site www.mamafund.cjb.net and click on mama's journal to read my crazy thoughts during and after therapy.
  
  i subscribed here because i like the name "soulcast" and i was looking for a place where i can share my thoughts and stories i write... or just babble my heartaches away where no one will complain... hehehe.
  
  glad to have met you even just in the virtual world... thanks for the warm welcome and hope you have time reading my blogs.
  

• silverwhisper said on Sep 15, 2006....

  okelay: sorry i missed your comment for so long; thanks for visiting! i'd be curious to see some of your fan fiction.
  
  forbiddendreams: how do you keep up more than one blog? that would make things really tough for me.
  
  sunsethue: that's very cool that you're in the business. and it's a pleasure to meet you as well. :>
  
  ed
  

• forbiddendreams said on Sep 15, 2006....

  silverwhisper: each of my blogs are different. one is for my personal ramblings, one is a travel blog, another is a private journal which only a handful of friends have access to, and this soulcast, which nobody I know knows I have.
  
  some blogs get more attention than the other, depending on my mood. I guess it's like having a friend you can count on to listen to your rant and rave about a particular subject.
  

• nasserannette said on Sep 26, 2006....

  For me, i write journal, a letter, article, poem, but mostly i write about love, respect, i don't know what to call it but anything just to help people realize the right from wrong.. i hope people would see and understand what i mean.
  

• silverwhisper said on Sep 26, 2006....

  forbidden dreams: sorry, i don't know how i missed this. you keep up multiple blogs? i can't imagine how you have the energy to do that, but more power to you!
  
  annette: guess i'll have to go and see. :>
  
  ed
  

• Zayda said on Dec 04, 2006....

  You know, you should link this blog entry to the second one you did on this subject because the comments on this one got eaten in the great SC server meltdown.

• silverwhisper said on Dec 04, 2006....

  you know, i thought i did...good idea!
  
  ed

• Zayda said on Dec 04, 2006....

  You linked that one to this one yes, but if you look at your list of "most popular blogs" and click on "What do you write?" it comes to this one.
  
  So, I was thinking if you linked this one back to that one--in both the entry itself and maybe a comment here at the end it would be helpful.

• silverwhisper said on Dec 04, 2006....

  noted! :>
  
  ed

• inspiration2jms said on Dec 31, 2006....

  I will write about anything unless it's technical and boring.  I do a lot of Website content, mostly examples.  I write personal and business biographies, resumes, newspaper and magazine articles and about the things that piss me off.

• favored said on Dec 31, 2006....

  The sermons that you write, do they suggest what we should do when we get PO'D?

• silverwhisper said on Dec 31, 2006....

  inspiration: i take it you're a b5 fan? welcome to my blog!
  
  favored: so sorry..."sermons"?
  
  ed

• favored said on Dec 31, 2006....

  the screename description says hes a writer for sermons and ministers for the past 3 years 

• favored said on Dec 31, 2006....

  the bloggers description says they are a writer of sermons and ministers for the past 3 years - im just curious

• inspiration2jms said on Dec 31, 2006....

  I also write sermons silverwhisper.  Yes, favored, some of them do.  Most of what makes me mad is general injustice to inocents.  The bible tells us that we are to protect those that can not protect themselves. 

  I realize you meant to be facetious but the fact of the matter is that most of the truly great people of the past, MLK, Gandhi, Nelson Mendella, just to name a few, did what they did because they first got mad.  I will not apologize for that. 

  Since you read my profile I assume you may have read my blog.  Do you think that what the man who read my work and rewrote it was being fair?  What if he had done the same thing to someone else.  Someone that is totally new to this business and insecure but talented.  What a shame that would be.

  I got PO'd once about the animals that were left to starve near my home and wrote about that in my newspaper.  Last summer there were only two.  The summer before the article there were 32 at my home wanting to be fed. 

  Oh silver, I am not sure what b5 is exactly.  I came to your blog because you were reading mine as I polsted. LOL

• inspiration2jms said on Dec 31, 2006....

  I am a she favor.  My name is Janet Atwell

• favored said on Dec 31, 2006....

  when you describe yourself as a writer for other minsiters, does that mean you are a minister as well?

• inspiration2jms said on Dec 31, 2006....

  Yes I am ordained.  I have been ill for a few years now.  I have just now been able to get back into the swing of things.  I am trying to work as a freelance writer, I used to write newspaper and magazine articles.  I will make it, just takes time and a little more money than I have right now.  LOL

  I kept conducting services until about a year ago.  I was a circuit rider.  I went to five different churches in a month because they could not afford to have their own pastor and I did hospice services.

• silverwhisper said on Dec 31, 2006....

  sorry, inspiration: JMS are the initials of the creator of a classic sci-fi show, babylon 5, j. michael straczynski. :>
  
  and you make a good point about anger sometimes being a good thing. heck, isn't that what led martin luther to nail his theses to the door of a church centuries ago?
  
  ed

• okelay said on Dec 31, 2006....

  actually, keeping more than one blog isn't that hard, i've got several.
  they just are about different things.
  
  i write about different topics in here than in lj, greatestjournal or myspace.
  
  lj is my default though.
  
  back to the topic of the entry, lately ive been writing some poetry. it's something i'd never tried before.
  
  some is very  much like fanfiction, and i draw most of my inspiration of lyrics.
  
  i was also working on a challenge,  writing fanfiction drabbles based on a line of a song.
  it was  fun, but interrupted by NaNoWriMo, and i haven't gotten back to it.
  
  i'm still working on my NaNoWriMo novel.  

• silverwhisper said on Jan 01, 2007....

  goodness...i'd completely forgotten about that contest! are you satisfied w/ the quality of what you're writing?
  
  ed

• higgiemom said on May 12, 2007....

  To pay the bills I write website content.  For fun I write about my thoughts and my views on life in general, especially love, which is my favorite topic.  I get lucky sometimes and get to write some great web content, but mostly it is boring stuff.  I have, however, become a mecca of knowledge about almost useless information.  Like I can tell you all about reading glasses or how to make biodiesel gasoline.  Most of the stuff I write ends up being about how to make money on the internet or work at home things. 
   
  My dream was to one day write a novel, but at this point I'm lucky to find time to do anything but work.  I haven't written fiction in so long I don't know if I could still do it-lol. 
   
  I have dabbled in erotica, as well.  I quite enjoy it, but as I said, I am trying to pay the bills and I have yet to find a way to get paid good for erotica.  Believe if I ran across something I'd be writing that instead of web content :)

• silverwhisper said on May 13, 2007....

  higgiemom, welcome to my blog and thanks for visiting! i know the problems of working so much and not having time for the fun writing all too well, too: my sympathies.
  
  ed

• okelay said on May 13, 2007....

  am i satisfied with my nanowrimo work? more or less, i like what i've written so far right now im working on a couple ficathons, one's for AU stories and the other ones for apocafic. i'm really enjoying writing apocafic right now, i had this dream a few weeks ago and i'm writing a new story on it. im not sure if it's a fic or an original story.

• inspiration2jms said on May 13, 2007....

  Ed, anger has lead to a lot of things that turned out to be useful to future generations. 
  
  Most of our emotions are tools, if only we will use them.
  
  Janet
  

• silverwhisper said on May 14, 2007....

  okelay: i'm glad to hear that, then. i like nanowrimo conceptually but i find that it's a bit too much like shock therapy for my tastes.
  
  janet, a very good point.
  
  ed

• gentlepie said on May 24, 2007....

  i write poems, mostly. then essays too. high school type ones. :) never really evolved with essays. hehehe.

• silverwhisper said on May 24, 2007....

  well, essays are things you write b/c you have to. do those really count? :>
  
  ed

• Zayda said on May 24, 2007....

  Yes, Ed they really count; eventually they will help with writing other things effectively. Even you should know that.

• silverwhisper said on May 24, 2007....

  bah, i say! :p
  
  ed

• Zayda said on May 24, 2007....

  Nice, Ed, really nice.

• silverwhisper said on May 24, 2007....

  yes, of course it helps. what i'm trying to figure out is why you're taking something that was meant as a joke so seriously. ?
  
  ed

• Zayda said on May 24, 2007....

  Because I take writing essays seriously, Silver. And is someone who is supposedly my friend and who knows how much I value my work, you are the last person I would expect to make a joke about the lack of value of essay writing and implicate that anything one writes for a class "doesn't count". It's frankly insulting. And I would have thought better of you.

• silverwhisper said on May 24, 2007....

  zayda, i would have thought you would know me well enough by now to know i didn't mean anything of the sort. obviously, any form of writing is useful as practice for the writer in learning how better to express him or herself more effectively, as well as reinforcing the ability to construct an argument. how could i possibly actually think ill of the essay when the hallmark of my blogging here is the "on the nature of" series of essays?
  
  ed

• Zayda said on May 24, 2007....

  You know, Silver, it's not so much the implication that "essays" don't count that bother as it is the "you had to write it; therefore it doesn't really count" attitude that strikes me as wrong, even if you are joking about it. It's the attitude behind the joke. If you write it because you have to; it doesn't count.
  
  It's nice to know that all those papers I wrote in grad school because I had to write them for my classes don't count despite being turned into articles for international conference presentations and publications.  Oh, and that essay on coffee production that one of my students wrote for my class; it's nice to know it doesn't count because she had to write it for my class even though it's now going to be her first nationally published piece because a national magazine accepted the manuscript of it.
  
  I don't expect to have to encounter that attitude from you, of all people, and frankly, I'm bothered that I just did. It's the same kind of attitude as writing X genre makes you less of a writer than someone who writes something more serious.

• silverwhisper said on May 24, 2007....

  you know...you're right. truth be told, i've thought that way for a while, which is why i was caught completely off-guard by your reaction. but you're right, that's ignorant. b/c no matter the impetus, it still is coming from the same place: the writer.
  
  ed

• wakingharmony said on Sep 08, 2007....

  I came to the begining. I Like to write About anything and everything I have so much in my brain it wants out!! I have hand written a lot of things. there are some I wrote as i was getting better.    got to go make a fool of my self ..maybe no one will look lol it wont be the 1st time tonight. Might as well get it out of my system. (((((to ALL)))))

• silverwhisper said on Sep 10, 2007....

  i can tell you've much to say, WH. i'm looking forward to how you say it. :>
  
  ed

• wakingharmony said on Sep 10, 2007....

  I have to say, I am impressed as to what is hidden behind the links. Seeing so much more as to what is behind SoulCast. No wonder you are in the #1 spot. (after SC of course)  I feel like I have been allowed to spend the weekend in the Library...reading so many storys. I am now having a hard time starting. I can't do the food exercise. I can't get  Fish out of my head. lol Thanks SW.

• silverwhisper said on Sep 10, 2007....

  there really aren't a lot of links in the comments here. ?
  
  ed

• wakingharmony said on Sep 10, 2007....

  Im Sorry I meant  browsing through your writting exercises' :-)

• silverwhisper said on Sep 10, 2007....

  o! well, take your time with 'em. there've been a few as you can see. :>
  
  ed

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