Classic Shmeng Date Friday, April 19, 2024 - 02:32 PM PST Topic This Website Hiya kids, here I am! Without going into extreme detail-mostly I stopped coming around because I was bored. At iamsquid’s urging I read some of the “Tough Love” forum, and something Kira wrote made me shout out “Yeah! Me too!” Thank you, Kira, for being so poignant. “The climate of Shmeng has been weird to me for a while. When I first started coming here years ago it was a fun site with cool people who posted these 2-5 paragragh rants about whatever was pissing them off that day. I could come into work, plop down in my chair, and be entertained the rest of the boring afternoon. If I felt I had something to contribute, I could rattle it off in an hour or so, post it, and then reply back to any comments it collected. I would say that things were very low pressure and laid back, yet still pretty intellectual most of the time. There was a nice family feeling to it, even for someone who only posted sometimes but read it nearly every day. Now, the pressure to submit something that is literary gold is too high. I don't have the time to dump into an article that expresses some profound truth to the world, or cross references every book ever written about bdsm or polyamory. I am not a writer by trade. I don't care enough about most people's mediocre fiction attempts to even read them. Eye candy is nice, but there are thousands of sites where I can go look at hot photos of people. I like hearing about the things that make people tick, and the things that get under their skin. That was what Shmeng was like.” -Kira I urge everyone to send in a submission. Please don’t worry about what I will think of you if your submission is crap. Or if anyone else thinks it is crap. Be silly, bitch about something. Don’t write a journal entry. Write about something people can relate to. Tell us what makes you tick! Remember Schizo complaining about her awful boss? Or bettie bitching about the sexualization of little kids? Kira’s experience as a retail whore? And of course, Devin bitching about Seattle! Send in some good ole Classic Shmeng. Speaking of Devin, here is something I stole from him: (Write About) Actual Shmeng that has happened to you (Not your friend or your cousin's ex girlfriend's father's bestfreind's classmate) with the drama pulled out. Don't send imaginary shmeng. We can tell, no really we can. Don't send a diary entry telling how mean everyone is to you, doesn't understand you, and how they are all wrong. That is you making shmeng, not telling about it. Don't tell us about politics that you have heard about somewhere. Don't repeat some real reporter's work. C'mon, tell me a story. This article comes from Shmeng http://www.shmeng.com/ The URL for this story is: http://www.shmeng.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=715