WickedSmurf
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Some poems in recent years and a couple of short stories (horror) when I was in school.
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@MrPresident: A sealed, post-dated letter is flimsy evidence if it really comes to that. Even Harriet the Spy can forge a postmark or chamfer an envelope. A better, but more expensive way is to rent a safe deposit box at a bank and access it once only. The bank keeps a record of access to the box. Then if necessary a constable may witness retrieval from the box. This is also good for small prototypes in lieu of patent, or other objects you want dated.
The Last Conformist
Irresistibly Attractive
In my free time, I rarely write any longer or more literary than a CFC post.
I like writing, but haven't written much recently.
I prefer to write sonnets, vilanelles and so on. I really respond the challenge of working within such constricting forms, and trying to remain naturalistic. I also enjoy writing poetry in the style of other poets, such as Coleridge, Byron, and so on. E.g. the start of one I did in the style of Coleridge -
My Orphean muse, th'Aeolian harp, lies still,
And quivers not where once it had waxed keen.
Communion with nature seemed to fill
My mind with teeming images, I had been
more prodigious then, now my brain is dull..."
and so on in that vein.
I also write short stories, nearly all humourous, nearly all absurd. Several were about a bunch called "Professor Bonkers and the Beirdie-Weirdies" Professor Bonkers was always getting the wrong end of the stick, and the Beirdie-Weirdies were brothers (Open University Lecturer types, Alan and Trevor) who rented a room at the Professor's place. I wrote about them more than ten years ago, and now I see on Google someone going around the UK calling themselves 'Professor Bonkers' and doing science shows. Good luck to 'em.
There was another character I wrote several stories for, a bullsh*tter German Professor Emeritus of Intellectology at the Viennese Psychological Institute (named after myself, because I felt like it), his Wooster-like sidekick Edgar Stick, and his arch-rival Professor Schliemann who had cottoned onto his BS.
I keep meaning to write a novel but have gotten into a Hamlet-esque sort of perverse shilly-shallying about it. I must just sit down and get on with it.
I'm pleased to see so many people like to write 'stuff'.
I prefer to write sonnets, vilanelles and so on. I really respond the challenge of working within such constricting forms, and trying to remain naturalistic. I also enjoy writing poetry in the style of other poets, such as Coleridge, Byron, and so on. E.g. the start of one I did in the style of Coleridge -
My Orphean muse, th'Aeolian harp, lies still,
And quivers not where once it had waxed keen.
Communion with nature seemed to fill
My mind with teeming images, I had been
more prodigious then, now my brain is dull..."
and so on in that vein.
I also write short stories, nearly all humourous, nearly all absurd. Several were about a bunch called "Professor Bonkers and the Beirdie-Weirdies" Professor Bonkers was always getting the wrong end of the stick, and the Beirdie-Weirdies were brothers (Open University Lecturer types, Alan and Trevor) who rented a room at the Professor's place. I wrote about them more than ten years ago, and now I see on Google someone going around the UK calling themselves 'Professor Bonkers' and doing science shows. Good luck to 'em.
There was another character I wrote several stories for, a bullsh*tter German Professor Emeritus of Intellectology at the Viennese Psychological Institute (named after myself, because I felt like it), his Wooster-like sidekick Edgar Stick, and his arch-rival Professor Schliemann who had cottoned onto his BS.
I keep meaning to write a novel but have gotten into a Hamlet-esque sort of perverse shilly-shallying about it. I must just sit down and get on with it.
I'm pleased to see so many people like to write 'stuff'.
MrPresident
Anglo-Saxon Liberal
On doing a little research and I found one can copyright a piece of work simply by sending it to the Copyright Service along with £35 for a 5-year registration or £60 for 10 years (up to a limit of 150 pages A4 or 300 pages A5 per registration. Larger works should be submitted via two or more registrations). This only applies in the United Kingdom though.
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