6S Comments & Suggestions

[Robert McEvily]

Hi Guys,

After receiving so many emails from you (and telepathically communicating with Kate, who seems to have an endless supply of super-powers), I thought it'd be a good idea to set up an "official" comments and suggestions page - a way to let everyone cut loose and voice their honest opinions about the main site, and of course our home here on the 6S Social Network.

What's working for you? What isn't? What features here on the Network do you love? Which can you live without? What would make this an even more enjoyable place to spend a little time?

Say whatever you like, whenever you like, and as often as you like - and say it HERE! On this page, in this thread! Feel free to bounce ideas off me, and each other. I'll be checking back often... and taking careful notes.

You guys rock. Thanks.

[Jodi MacArthur]

Hey you two, knock it off, you're arguing like a bunch of old timers (ha,ha Kate (who indeed does not grumble, and I am shocked she even heard grumbling sounds in the first place, perhaps the PROF needs lunch?)

If you two noticed, this is also a Suggestion forum. I was making (flinging?) a suggestion that I thought might make all parties happy. I have a lot of ideas, most of them are bad ideas, but since I'm not the one making the decisions I figure I might as well put them up, it might inspire or spark a good thought.

I personally agree with you two, 6s is a place to create, express, and share. It seems to me critiquing sites have a hard time because (rude) people with bad intentions squash others writing dreams. I think that if one wants a critique they should privately ask or exchange with another writer they admire or are friends with. This way the critiquer has your best interest at heart.

Most of the ideas I have for 6s are fun interactive games. It's just that I haven't fully thought through most of them.

One of the ideas is a Sixens With Dickens…where someone..Rob? Kate? Adam? (random 6'er?) Would choose a random sentence from a Dickens novel ( most likely the first sentence of a chapter). Then a name lottery will ensue from people who were published the month before. 5 people are chosen to finish off the 6s, with the guidelines of : beginning, middle , and end. The goal would be fun interaction between fellow sixers. The community sixers would submit (and read more) from the featured Page. The people who read mainly from the featured page would take more interest from the 6s community…you get the picture. This might not work, but something along the same lines might be really fun.

Have a few more ideas I've thought if over the last couple months. Let you know when I remember.

I appreciate all the great minds on this site. What a great atmosphere Rob has created for us all to express us ourselves in the art of 6s.

[Jodi MacArthur]

I didn't say you two were old timers, I just said you sounded like some. :) Mainly, it was to get Kate's goat. I like to tease my sis ever so often, it helps me deal with the personal identity problem of a frogslinger-sometimes people look at me kinda funny. (Honestly, Kate, there's nothing to be embarrased about being 25. I was that age once too. It's not THAT old. Come on, now.)

Are two saying I'm supposed to post my ideas somewhere else, like on the main site or featured site? I thought this was the 'suggestion' box? Remember, I suffer from mild (or not so very) technical retardedness and also sleep deprivation.

[Roy Five]

I'm still pretty much a newbie here. I've been meaning to get by and read some of the posts but my online time is limited relative to what it used to be. I found out about this site from a cyber-pal of about eight years and I really think it's a great idea. There is a lot you can do with a mere six sentences.

-Roy

[Linda]

Ah... AK, send me your zing, baby.

Yes. This is a grand spot to set awhile. Peace, Linda

[Olive Rosehips]

ROTFLMAO. love *your zing, girlfriend!

[Olive Rosehips]

here, have a t-shirt

[Linda]

Thanks for the zing - just picking it up NOW! Been traveling with sketchy time and enet access, so getting me fixes before popping to bed with my latest love - ALL ABOUT LULU - and a piece of dark chocolate... peace, Linda

Oh, Olive - do you really sell those cool shirts? I covet...

[Olive Rosehips]

I coouullddd sell those cool shirts, they are my creation. I'll give it some thought.

Olive

[VioletsGirl]

Heehee beautiful :P

FYI The Scarlett has officially changed to drama :)
So that makes four Aussie*Flowers in the class!

:)

[Kevin Michaels]

Dick-
I'm a little late to this part of the discussion but let me weigh in with my thoughts on leaving/going (even though others put this more eloquently than me). Stay. Period - end of story. Stay. STAY.

I've been with 6S for some time and as it has transofrmed and morphed from a tiny little literary zine into something a little more encompassing to each of us, it still remains a great avenue to write and express yourself (either on one of the blogs, the forums, or on the main page where I tend to frequent). We are all writers in one shape or another, and the gift we have and the craft we work at involves both words and an audience to read those words. I think one of the most satisfying aspects of being a writer is getting our words in print (or cyber space or however the f you want to categorize words on a screen...) and sharing them with others. If you can make one person smile, laugh, cry, mad, thoughtful, stimulated, etc with something you wrote then you have succeeded. Write. Write some more. edit, keep writing. ... And share it with everyone you can. 6S provides a nice forum and a strong community, and it's a home for many of us (even if we don't wander in as often as we used to). I still check 6S every day - look for stories from old friends and look forward to reading stories from writers I haven't yet discovered, and continue to submit to the main page. And even now as I'm deep into writing projects pulling me into different directions there are still stories I write that I know will work best on 6S (a book project I'm working on was actually started with a six and has now grown into something much larger in scope and size).

Any way - keep writing. Keep submitting. F everything else that stands in your way, and stay with 6S.
Best-
KM

[peggy]

As always, my friend, eloquent and to the point. Thanks to Absolutely*Kate, I am trying to frequent this community site more, and make better connections with fellow writers. And this year, as my New Years Resolution, I am admitting to myself and the world that I am a writer...

See Dick? All of us are regular people with jobs and kids and life and bills and obligations and maybe a spark of something that allows us to pretend that we can put words together on a page that others may be interested in reading. You, dear sir, are among friends. Half the battle is admitting...

Kevin, glad to see you are here too.

[Linda]

Ditto, KM.

No, tritto.

AND HEY DICK - so glad you're gonna hang around here. I come in and out - I love this place, the people, but I do need to WRITE - and sometimes the writing words come in a gush.

Peace, Linda