Intro!

[mollysheldon.livejournal.com]

 Hi everyone, I'm Molly.  I have lurked in this community for a while since I found it again after a couple of years. I was happy to see many of the same authors. I am not sure I ever posted before, but I went by HollywoodIdol if I did.  
While I love to read, I hardly ever write anything that gets posted anywhere. (I wrote a Greg/Jen fic years ago that was put up on fanfiction.net) That may change soon, though. Reading the stories here has me inspired. Other things I love include making art, writing poetry, letting my short attention span run wild, and making others laugh. Whose Line has been a part of my life from day one of its show and I still DVR old reruns on ABC Family to watch and re-watch.  That show got me through the depression that was High School, and still makes me glow inside today. 

Along with my intro, I come bearing much praise to some of the authors here! Stories I have very much enjoyed are (recently): Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, Business and Pleasure, and from a while back, My Salad Days (where can I find more of that one??)  Others I liked were Nocturne, Rose Colored Glasses, Psychosocial, and LuvStories' Comic Strip.  And I have read most of the stories from Claydevil's archive with R/C, R/G, R/C/G, G/J pairings. My kudos to you all for your most excellent writing!  I look forward to reading more!

Thanks for reading, 
Molly Sheldon
 

Comments

[mollysheldon.livejournal.com]

*facepalm* I'm so sorry! That should be under a cut! I dont know how to do them, but I am a fast learner! Help pwease?

[clayangel.livejournal.com]

Oh, well, for something this short, a cut's not terribly necessary (though we always like them for stories, even short ones), but for future reference, you can find that info here: http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=75

[mollysheldon.livejournal.com]

I fixed the cut, sorta. They have made it easier since the last time I tried to do that! (years agoooo)

[clayangel.livejournal.com]

Ooh, art, huh? What kind of art do you do?

[mollysheldon.livejournal.com]

Sculpture, painting, photography, photoshop-ish kind of stuff. I love to collage and shadow box as well.

[clayangel.livejournal.com]

Very cool. Is it all original work or do you do fan arty type stuff, too? And do you have a deviant art account or somewhere you show it off? I do art, too, and I love looking at other peoples' work. ^_^

[mollysheldon.livejournal.com]

I forgot to mention that I also crochet. I guess that's an art form. I have an account at Ravelry. I'm LollyPopHoyt. I need to update that to show some of my more recent stuff.

Most of my work is original. I look at the icons and manips here though and wish I had a program that let me play with that type of thing. I love those! I guess I need to look into Deviant Art.

If you search EnnaJ19 on YouTube, you can find some of my silly/arty videos; those are really all I have to show online right now.=^..^=

[sungreen70.livejournal.com]

Welcome! Or, welcome back :) Always great to see new/returning faces. I hope you'll jump in and start writing. And (*blushes*) thank you for your praise of Nocturne. That story means the world to me, so I'm flattered when someone enjoys it :) And I'd love to read that Greg/Jen fic sometime... *nudge*

[mollysheldon.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! And I just went to fanfiction.net and searched for my long lost story, it does not seem to be there. It was probably horrible anyway! I remember it was Jen's POV, to the song Thank You by Dido.

To PD and Capt, Hi! I really enjoy reading your stories, as I said before. Thank you guys for the warm welcome. I am excited to be a part of such a friendly family. =D

[sungreen70.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think fanfiction.net bans RPF now :P I never posted anything there but used to read a lot. You'll just have to write a whole new story then, won't you? *eyes you meaningfully* ;)

[mollysheldon.livejournal.com]

haha Well you must have inspired me when you sent me looking for that fic. I started working on something last night and might be posting it soon....

[mollysheldon.livejournal.com]

Okay, who would like to teach me about fic tags and such? What is a *must list* for my fic- pairing, rating, disclaimer, anything else? I also have no idea what to rate what I just wrote. ha. I would like to post it soon, nervous yet excited. Someone please clue me in... =^..^=

[sungreen70.livejournal.com]

Ooh, a new story! Woot! You definitely want to include a header before your cut that has the title, author, pairing(s) or main characters, rating, and also a brief summary. Just a sentence or two is fine. As for ratings, I generally say NC-17 for explicit sex, R for vague-er sex and/or violence, PG-13 for language you wouldn't use in front of your granny, PG for less coarse language/adult situations, and G for happy fuzzy bunnies and nothing naughty. Most people on the comm are pretty liberal about their smut, so you don't have to worry too much if your rating is a bit off. If you're nervous, err on the side of a stronger rating.

[mollysheldon.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I've read enough fics here to think I have the hang of the drill, but I wanted to make sure. Nervous about posting my first fic!

[sungreen70.livejournal.com]

No need to be nervous :) I can't wait to read it!

[mollysheldon.livejournal.com]

Help! I'm having issues posting! It wont let me paste it into the Rich Text, so I did HTML, but I cant use the easy Cut... so it messes up the formatting when I try. =( What do I do?

[sungreen70.livejournal.com]

Does it give you any kind of error message when you try to paste into rich text? Sometimes, depending on what computer I'm using, I get a yellow bar at the top of the screen that tells me to click if I want to allow "active x controls" (or something like that).

[mollysheldon.livejournal.com]

The Rich Text option isn't even there anymore. Earlier when it was doing it, I would click paste and the text would flash, but not paste.

[sungreen70.livejournal.com]

Will it let you paste using ctrl-V?

[sungreen70.livejournal.com]

And, is it a really long entry?

[mollysheldon.livejournal.com]

I dont think it's that long. Depends on what LJ thinks... Dont know how many words. I restarted my Mac and tried again. My Rich Text button is gone and I don't know where it went. The default is now HTML. I can paste within that, but have no idea how to make it under a cut. RT had the button.. it was my fwiend.

[sungreen70.livejournal.com]

I can't find anything in the LJ FAQ section that sounds like the problem you're having. If it's still not working, you might try sending a question to support:

http://www.livejournal.com/support/submit.bml

sorry I couldn't help you more! :(

[mollysheldon.livejournal.com]

It looks like I set it to HTML and just can't get Rich Text back. No earthly idea how I did that.

[sungreen70.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, I can't figure it out :( I would try the LJ support link...

[sungreen70.livejournal.com]

I think you can do a cut in html by using [Unknown site tag] and

[sungreen70.livejournal.com]

lol, or apparently not...

(trying one more time...)

and

[sungreen70.livejournal.com]

argh. nope.

[mollysheldon.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. I'll check the link Clay gave me earlier for cuts and such. I'm just horrible at HTML though. Gah, who told the button to take a vacation!

[mollysheldon.livejournal.com]

I submitted a report. Manual cutting is not working. arg arg arg

[mollysheldon.livejournal.com]

I think it worked!!! Go see!

[pdglyph.livejournal.com]

*both of us wave and chorus* Hi Molly!

From what we gathered below in your conversation with Clay, you sound like a pretty bodacious person, so welcome! Thanks for the lovin's to our stuff, and we hope to hear more from you!

-Us

[captanonymus.livejournal.com]

Hello Molly, welcome and thank you for ze mention, it is much appreciated :-) I'm glad you liked our stuff. I'm into photography myself but I'm an idiot savant without the savant part when it comes to creative bits like sculpture, drawing, painting etc... I am, however, completely in awe of people who can do those things.

[saiya-tina.livejournal.com]

Wow, I'm flattered that you like my story! Welcome to the sisterhood of crazies obssessed with men nearly old enough to be their fathers! :) Hope we'll se you around!

Wow, you're really a creative person! I can't so that stuff to save my life! ^^;

[sungreen70.livejournal.com]

men nearly old enough to be their fathers!

snort, don't I wish ;)

[saiya-tina.livejournal.com]

Well, it's true in my case! My mother's 50, my dad's 53! I've barely turned 18 and I've been gushing over Ryan since I was 10!

[sungreen70.livejournal.com]

*laughs* When I was 10, Ryan wasn't old enough to drink. That makes me sad. And Jeff... oh my. He probably didn't know how to write in cursive yet *is old*

[saiya-tina.livejournal.com]

Well, age is all in the mind! At least the age difference between you and Ryan won't freak out anyone! My friends think I'm crazy for fawning over him!

[newbiepoet.livejournal.com]

Hey there! ^_^

most belated welcomes to you and its lovely to meet you!
you wrote greg/jen stuffs! is it still about anywhere? i'd love to have a read of it if you know where it is.

and, as the others have said, please jump in and write something, i bet your far more awesome than you think!

[mollysheldon.livejournal.com]

I wish I still had the Greg/Jen story. :o( I'm pretty sure I wrote it on paper too, but alas I have lived in two houses and moved 700 miles since... so I don't know where any of my stuff from that era ended up. Maybe I'll try and recreate it...maybe.

BUT! I am working on a new story right now, and it's Greg-centric. I would love to get together with all you great writers (whether you post or have posted here or not) and throw out ideas on how to develop characters and such. Y'all let me know! =o)!!!

[mollysheldon.livejournal.com]

And THANK YOU for the nice werds!

[newbiepoet.livejournal.com]

ahh yes that can create problems. i haven't even moved and i lose most of my stories. hmm recreating is tough, it either comes off totally epic or sucks completely.

O.o you have really piqued my interest now! i look forward to your fic, and i love the thought of a character development idea jam fest. its something i spend hours on with fbrobey, character developments always fascinate me, and how people perceive their characters in different lights.

[mollysheldon.livejournal.com]

The funny thing about that fic is, I read it so many times while I wrote it, I basically memorized it. (T'wasnt very long) It was a song fic, so some of the song went between the dialogue and some of it *was* the dialogue. Anyway. I wonder if I could remember it all...

It's been fun these last few days- I got a notebook from work and since my work is rather boring and mundane and just requires me sitting there and nothing else, I get to write down ideas, images, dialogue, as it comes to me. But I'm really interested in how you other great writers develop such great characters. =o)!

[newbiepoet.livejournal.com]

would be awesome if you could! ^_^

can i have your job? sounds wicked. i do the same as you, think of something and i write it down, even if it doesn't lead to anything for months.