Quote: zooo @ February 27 2009, 8:41 PM GMTHowever I don't think Shakespeare consistently spelled a word completely wrong and then pretended he'd meant to all along and had in fact invented a 'new word'...
I dunno, awfully stubborn lot them Brummies. 
Whoever said - zooo, I think - that this is definitely "the first gotmilk"; well, I think you were wrong by at least 3 or 4.
Quote: gotmilk @ February 27 2009, 7:46 PM GMTA new form of writing, in which pictures and prose are inseperably linked, a complex web. A picture on one page illustrates a simile three pages before. When I say 'my stories' I speak of the illustations as much as anything.
I'm trying to understand you here. But it sounds like you're describing an illustated novel for child prodigies because I can't imagine average seven-year-olds working out simile illustrations seperated from the text by several pages. Your example of an illustration saying "Please vote" is laudible but it's neither subtle nor Chaucer. It sounds more bludgeoning rather than your suggested insinuation that requires six or seven reads for the message to sink in, surely?
By the above, I refer to the message held within the words, "Please Vote," not whether you place it in small print within an illustration. The message contained in those words is utterly explicit rather than your implied implicit meaning that requires many reads to sink in.
I hate this thread.
*Hovers over close button*
Closing this thread would show that you are a bit like Stalin.
Quote: gotmilk @ March 1 2009, 3:34 PM GMTClosing this thread would show that you are a bit like Stalin.
Dead?
No. Communistish. Not like the good communists but the nasty ones.
Quote: gotmilk @ March 1 2009, 4:17 PM GMTNo. Communistish. Not like the good communists but the nasty ones.
What a peculiar statement. Since when have there been any good communists?
I believe that gotmilk is telling us that the system needs changing and that all human beings are not just black and white characters - but also grey. Gotmilk is telling us, through his fine writing that the most important thing in the world is the human element. Some BSG members may find gotmilk's work a little too 'intelligent' and trash it. Well, frankly, they are just jealous. I have no problem at all with gotmilk's writing, au contraire, I actually love it. It identifies the greatest problem today; it also educates and entertains at the same time. Few writers have that talent. I cannot praise it enough!
Quote: jonny2 @ March 19 2009, 12:37 AM GMTI believe that gotmilk is telling us that the system needs changing and that all human beings are not just black and white characters - but also grey. Gotmilk is telling us, through his fine writing that the most important thing in the world is the human element. Some BSG members may find gotmilk's work a little too 'intelligent' and trash it. Well, frankly, they are just jealous. I have no problem at all with gotmilk's writing, au contraire, I actually love it. It identifies the greatest problem today; it also educates and entertains at the same time. Few writers have that talent. I cannot praise it enough!
Thanks jonny2 - I had forgotten about this thread and it's nice to have it back. Your own writing is also fine - as fine as gotmilk's.
Quote: Badge @ March 19 2009, 1:21 AM GMTThanks jonny2 - I had forgotten about this thread and it's nice to have it back. Your own writing is also fine - as fine as gotmilk's.
Thank you Badge, but you are wrong! If my writing was one-tenth as good as gotmilk's, I'd consider myself extremely talented. Alas, that is not the case. I have a lot to learn from gotmilk - and so have all aspiring writers on this site!
Quote: jonny2 @ March 19 2009, 12:37 AM GMTIt identifies the greatest problem today; it also educates and entertains at the same time.
Examples please, Johnny2.
Maybe I'll have more luck from you, Johnny2, because when I asked gotmilk to help me understand by explaining just one of his statements, he wouldn't answer. 
Quote: SlagA @ March 19 2009, 8:56 PM GMTExamples please, Johnny2.
"Lo and behold my kings and Queens, we sit on chairs of silver and brass, yet were we to stand for a moment and sing, we would be better and should cry "Oh ho ho!"
I found the above very entertaining. Chairs of silver and brass are hard on the ass; were we to stand for a moment and sing, we would be better. Of course we would! That was funny!
"We emerge from the slime like water from the wheel. O ho, O ho. Xanthia Piscuali, a world of gnomes. Reincarnated under the guidance of Perthiuth Thwaite, servant to the queen of mice."
I found the above very educating. I did not know that Perthiuth Thwaite was servant to the queen of mice. One learns something new every day!
Now then; there's a formula. A formula that never fails to rise to the challenge because it educates and entertains by grasping at the very roots of the human condition. That formula is classical mythological story structure. It has allowed stories like Homer's Odyssey to persevere for literally thousands of years. Gotmilk shows that one can play with the formula quite a bit. After all, it's just a framework. (Calm down dear, it's only a framework).
As for further questions; Let me quote gotmilk - "Irony is here like trees in a wood or feathers on my talons – for I am a bird – question me not. Irony."
Nice chatting but I have to continue writing my sitcom, entitled, "Haphazardly Throbbing Like The Droll Armpit of Hercules"
My name's Jonny2 - Goodnight!
Quote: jonny2 @ March 20 2009, 12:28 AM GMTChairs of silver and brass are hard on the ass; were we to stand for a moment and sing, we would be better.
I didn't need to read that to know it, even if I've never sat on a gold chair.
Quote: jonny2 @ March 20 2009, 12:28 AM GMTI found the above very educating. I did not know that Perthiuth Thwaite was servant to the queen of mice. One learns something new every day!
But it's not the educating I was led to believe.
Quote: jonny2 @ March 20 2009, 12:28 AM GMTAs for further questions; Let me quote gotmilk - "question me not."
Is there such a thing as an educator who refuses to educate? 