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I'm with Robert on this one. Cafe Doom is rapidly evolving into an excellent site with great people and some really cool stories. I stop in to BeWrite from time to time but seldom post anymore. The clique is still alive and kicking over there and it stifles those who aren't a part of it. This is always my first stop when I log on. There's been a few sites that seemed to get off to a good start but ended up folding from external pressure very quickly. AIA is one of those sites that eventually closed it's doors and went underground. Too bad, it was a good one for a while. Oh well, as long as CD stays put then I'm happy.
The clique is still alive and kicking over there and it stifles those who aren't a part of it.
***we temporarily close the forum (TODAY -- I can't cope while the moderators are away for the next fortnight) and that membership is strictly by application or invitation when we re-open. I don't care if we only have a dozen members -- if they're all kosher and show real promise. ***we lose the entire forum permanently (my preference). And return to the old system of personal email messages between the team and authors. ***WE LOSE BEWRITE COMMUNITY. This would be sad. But why bother with it? Everyone involved on the contributor side has day jobs ... it's about time they realised that we do, too! Our day job is called *BeWrite Books*. The job is to get new authors into print.. ***remember that short stories and poetry don't pull us a hill o' beans. This has been a FREE service, even to digging into our own shallow pockets to subsidise collections and anthologies. Why bother? I no longer feel inclined to waste my time on general freebies. There's a very small bunch of developing authors I would sell my soul for. The others have opportunities elsewhere. I'd prefer to close the BeWrite Community completely on January 30. It has always been obviously disproportionate effort and has cost me my health, my home life, a financial tribunal, and my precious work. Do you know that during everyone else's palaver I -- one of the very, very few *real* pros here -- have not had a second to write a single word of my own since May 2000? Someone actually wrote to me this morning thinking he was doing us a favour by attracting new members! What's he on??? The very last thing we need is new members. If you don't like it here, don't waste time making a comment ... just go somewhere else.
