RainbowDood

Weird... I had a sample of these show up in the mail today without ever ordering them... I think I bought from this company once like two years ago. Anyone else have that happen?

Hey all, So I won't be ashamed to admit that I've been out of the dating scene for quite a while. Working graveyard shifts combined with a relationship that ended badly, which left me single for almost a year. But I've bounced back and find myself in a conundrum. See, I'm ready to jump into dating once again in the hopes of finding Mr. Right, but I'd also like to try and find a Mr Right who at best shares my interest in diapers, and at least understands why I wear them to relax (this wasn't the case with my last relationship; thankfully I kept quiet, cuz he turned out to be the kind of guy who would post that info everywhere). So I'm putting up some age-old questions in search of some sage advice. 1. Where did you look to find your other half, either in person or online? 2. If you didn't find someone who is AB/DL but still understands and accepts your interests, how did you approach the subject with them? Thanks in advance to anyone who answers

Wow that's a lot of acronyms... Anyway, topic is what it says. I'm just wondering if there are any other LGBT AB/DLs in Southeast Michigan? I haven't been able to track down a decent social site on the web for such a niche group, so I figured here is as good a place as any to ask around. I won't lie and say it wouldn't be cool to meet somebody over IM and maybe even (God forbid!) have coffee or lunch!

My Triumvirate of favorite authors is: Robert Heinlein - favorite inside joke with my friends comes from him: "Do you Grok me, motherf----r?!" J.R. Ward - the Black Dagger Brotherhood was suggested to me by a friend, and while it started out like a standard vampire romance story, it shifted rapidly into horror/action/drama the likes of which I've not seen since my third fav... George R.R. Martin - When you've absolutely, positively had enough of elves, dwarves, halflings and happily-ever-after fantasy. Accept no substitutes. Others worth mentioning: Hero (Perry Moore, young adult), Magic's Pawn (Mercedes Lackey, semi-YA), The Malazan Book of the Fallen (fantasy balanced between Martin's brutality and Tolkien's whimsical; 14 books long, with at least one more Epilogue book to go), Redwall series (made my childhood), and let's just throw in Suzanne Brockmann's Troubleshooter series for good measure.

Despite the age of this forum, I figured I might as well throw this one out there. 24 year-old gay DL from Southeast Michigan, near Sterling Heights.

Meh, I work in the Novi area.

What I like about it: You do have the foundation of an opening here, with lots of room to expand upon. What's the part time job? What do the parents do? How old are the sisters? What could use improving: It's very very very compartmentalized as WB said- you could easily turn that paragraph into two chapters of a regular story. Just have to put the work into it. Also, the constant use of the word normal- generally when I write and want to get a point across by word repetition, I use the word no more than three times. That's it, end of story. Also, I try to put a sense of humor into the third use of the word. (Example: he had a normal house, with a normal white picket fence, with a normal dog name fluffy who, like every other dog, just had to use the neighbors lawn when he let Fluffy out to go). How I would recommend you proceed: Keep all the details and expand upon them in your first draft- but don't start out with it as a normal day. Start the day with something not normal happening. For the first time ever, his alarm doesn't go off and he's late for work. Or his tire blows out during the morning commute. Or the coffee from the coffee machine burns his wrist as he's running out the door. You know, something that NORMALLY goes wrong. Because really, the perfect "normal" doesn't exist outside of I Love Lucy and Leave it to Beaver. The small calamities of "normal" life are what make it exciting! Good luck and happy writing!

'Bartholomew' by The Silent Comedy. Thank you, 'Hatfields and McCoy's' for introducing me to this band!