How Many of us Write?

[Tux Toledo]

Great lyrics. Do you have music, too?

I had written about 500 songs by the time I was 30 (and threw away all but about 40) in the pop vein When I started playing vintage jazz, my writing stopped until a few years ago, when I started writing in the 30s style. It's pretty hard to come up with a lyric that Ira Gerswin hadn't thought of yet... but here's one (a slow foxtrot once you're past the intro):

I Tried

(Introduction)
Nothing ventured, nothing gained at all
That's no way to live, always wondering "if"
In each life a little rain must fall
But it's been raining every day, so what's the diff?
I am such an optimist, I never feel that I can fail,
But I've crossed you off my list
And here's the sordid tale...

(Chorus)
I tried
Telling myself not to care
Not to stare
At you standing there
I tried
Telling myself you'd be gone
Like the dawn
Into the day, and on and on
I tried to convince myself
We were never meant to be
But I can't kid myself
Because your kiss was heavenly
I tried
Telling myself
Time will mend
All things end
Also evidently
You yourself never would want me no matter how much I cried
But at least I tried

 

[Tux Toledo]

I enjoyed the trench coat article very much.

I write for Classic Style Magazine.

My lastest article is on the trench coat in the current Fall Issue. I am very pleased with how it turned out. I hope you all have a chance to read it and the other fantastic articles.

Before that, I have been published in InSite Magazine and The Shopper's Guide.

I also had a column on The Fedora Chronicles.

 

[drjones]

i write

i am currently still working on my WWII novel.

DRJONES

 

[Miss 1929]

Thanks!

Great lyrics. Do you have music, too?

Yes, it's sort of an oratorio on the intro then a slow foxtrot. Lots of modulations.
I hope to record it sometime, it worked out pretty well. Now I have to teach it to the band...
Hey, you're local! Coming to the Ball?

 

[Tux Toledo]

Yes, it's sort of an oratorio on the intro then a slow foxtrot. Lots of modulations.
I hope to record it sometime, it worked out pretty well. Now I have to teach it to the band...
Hey, you're local! Coming to the Ball?

Unfortunately, I can't make it to the Ball. I'd love to hear the song once you've recorded it.

 

[hepkitten]

Thanks for bumping this thread, Amateis Gal! I don't know how I missed it before. It's cool seeing how many of us have been bitten by the writing bug.

I've just published a novel centering around a taxi dancer (aka dime-a-dance girl) in Chicago in the early '40s. Hot jazz and beaded gowns, slaughterhouses and theater palaces, black-and-tan clubs and bad, bad boys... Actually, researching for the book is how I found the Fedora Lounge.

I had a blast writing in my main character Ruby's voice. I've always loved dialogue from '30s and '40s movies, and that was a big inspiration. And I'm fascinated with the Greatest Generation, and the homefront during the war. I've an excerpt posted on my website.

Miss 1929, your lyrics are gorgeous. I hope you do record this song.

 

[Aviator]

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[AmateisGal]

Thanks for bumping this thread, Amateis Gal! I don't know how I missed it before. It's cool seeing how many of us have been bitten by the writing bug.

I've just published a novel centering around a taxi dancer (aka dime-a-dance girl) in Chicago in the early '40s. Hot jazz and beaded gowns, slaughterhouses and theater palaces, black-and-tan clubs and bad, bad boys... Actually, researching for the book is how I found the Fedora Lounge.

I had a blast writing in my main character Ruby's voice. I've always loved dialogue from '30s and '40s movies, and that was a big inspiration. And I'm fascinated with the Greatest Generation, and the homefront during the war. I've an excerpt posted on my website.

Miss 1929, your lyrics are gorgeous. I hope you do record this song.

I can't wait to read your book, Hepkitten! I stopped at the library today and they had your first one, but not the second one. I shall persevere!

 

[splatt]

Between 1994 and 1995 i spent a lot of time researching some background material for a historical fiction crime novel set in Queenscliff (Victoria, Australia) in mid 1948. I got a lot of the main research done and started to write it in my spare time and completed a few chapters...but then deserted it a few years later.

I got a little bit further with a crime fiction novel set in Melbourne in 1995, as i didn't have to do too much research, but also deserted it at about the same time.

A few months ago i started up again on the 1948 novel and decided i really needed to finish the research and also do a slight re-write of some of what i had already done.

The only problem is that in the past few months i decided that i needed to intro the main character of the 1948 novel with one set about a year earlier. As the main character is heavily involved in a recently formed post-WW2 Australian intelligence agency, i then decided I really needed to do one that was set around 1944 or 1946 to give even more usable depth to him.

So it’s back to doing some researching for me i suppose...oh yeah...an agent friend of mine has told me that a publisher has shown some initial interest in the idea (from the 1948 story outline and the first chapter) if i can complete at least two of the books

Who knows...maybe one day i might be a published writer

 

[TessTrueheart]

Not a published writer yet...

...but I'm on my way. I just got my degree in creative writing. I am not published yet, but the University prints our finished books, and at the end of the last semester we get to present and read from our books. This is me, reading from my book:

 

[Tux Toledo]

...but I'm on my way. I just got my degree in creative writing. I am not published yet, but the University prints our finished books, and at the end of the last semester we get to present and read from our books. This is me, reading from my book:

Very cool!

 

[pgoat]

very cool Tess!

Nice thread. I really want to start writing more. I try to keep a journal. I also write songs....about one per decade. Oops - I'm due for my latest by 2010!

 

[AmateisGal]

...but I'm on my way. I just got my degree in creative writing. I am not published yet, but the University prints our finished books, and at the end of the last semester we get to present and read from our books. This is me, reading from my book:

Congratulations, Tess! :eusa_clap :eusa_clap

This is a wonderful accomplishment! And I hope I can read your book someday.

 

[TessTrueheart]

Thank you! It was a big day for me.

 

[Two Gun Bob]

I'm a professional photographer, writer and historian.

As a sideline to my 'day job' which includes amongst much else writing a monthly history column for a local newspaper, over the past twenty years I have written numerous articles for various factual magazines in the computing, astronomical and historical fields.

A while ago I decided I wanted to branch out into fiction writing and am presently working on becoming a published author in the sword and sorcery/gothic horror/adventure genres.

In this latter regard, I am strongly influenced by such Golden Era and earlier authors as Robert E. Howard ( aka 'Two Gun Bob', creator of Conan the Barbarian), H.P. Lovecraft (legendary cosmic horror writer and creator of the Cthulhu Mythos), Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes, Professor Challenger etc) and H. Rider Haggard (King Solomon's Mines, She etc).

I am currently working on a chilling story set in late Victorian England...

 

[hepkitten]

...but I'm on my way. I just got my degree in creative writing. I am not published yet, but the University prints our finished books, and at the end of the last semester we get to present and read from our books. This is me, reading from my book:

Yay, Tess! :eusa_clap Congratulations on the degree, and on finishing your book. Both are enormous accomplishments.

TwoGun Bob, best of luck with your fiction! Your Victorian England work sounds intriguing...

 

[Spitfire]

JUST ABOUT ANY IDIOT CAN WRITE.
AND JUST ABOUT ANY IDIOT DOES.

...was the headline of one of my best ads.
An ad meant to attract clients to our own ad agency.

It did.

 

[TessTrueheart]

JUST ABOUT ANY IDIOT CAN WRITE.
AND JUST ABOUT ANY IDIOT DOES.

...was the headline of one of my best ads.
An ad meant to attract clients to our own ad agency.

It did.

I hope they weren't all idiots.lol

 

[CharlesB]

in my field its publish or perish

 

[Spitfire]

I hope they weren't all idiots.lol

lol
No - actually we avoided the clients, who think they do better adverting than the advertising agency.
And THAT was partly the objective.
To get clients who was willing to go into a proffessional teamwork, with respect for each others skills.
The other objective was - of course - to say that all ad agencies are not the same.