Older writers?

[tambrathegreat]

January 8, 1965. I was worried I would be the old bag on the block. It makes me fell good that I'm not.

I just noticed I was listed as a virgin. I haven't been that in a while.

Edited July 1, 2008 by tambrathegreat

[Altari]

I'm not really all that old, but because of the times we live in, there are things I remember that would make today's high school students look at me funny.

Ditto

My big wake up call was at a BestBuy. I was asking the kid about cool new Wii games.

He said, "Try Mario!"

I say, "I've been playing Mario since 1988."

He responds, "....*crickets*...."

"*Sigh* You weren't alive in 1988, were you?"

"No, ma'am."

:D ><

[crash]

Oct, 1956. Old enough to know better, Young enough to think I can get away with it, and stupid enough to try!!

Working after school for $1.50 an hour. That was above minimum wage. Putting myself through university on 4 months of $6 an hour, and I had money for beer!

[mannahpierce]

December 1959

Being writing for myself for almost 40 years. Let one friend read one story once. Decided I had to find an audience after passing that '50' milestone. Chose here because I liked some of the fics.

Am posting one of my old fics: http://original.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600101342

and a new one: http://naruto.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600102093

Enjoying myself greatly.

[BronxWench]

December 1956 here, so I guess that makes me one of the older kids on the block!

What I do find encouraging, however, is that so many of us (and I mean all ages here) are writing. Dear sweet gods, does that ever make me feel better, because if the art of playing with words is ever reduced to 140 characters or less one a permanent basis, then I'm going to start feeling old. Until then, though, I'm just another kid in the sandbox.

[Calanthee]

December 1956 here, so I guess that makes me one of the older kids on the block!

What I do find encouraging, however, is that so many of us (and I mean all ages here) are writing. Dear sweet gods, does that ever make me feel better, because if the art of playing with words is ever reduced to 140 characters or less one a permanent basis, then I'm going to start feeling old. Until then, though, I'm just another kid in the sandbox.

Bronxwinch,

One is never told old to indulge our wild and happy muses, for their of appreciation of hot classy elvish smut or any other kind! The day we allow ourselfs to get too old... were dead... so we might as be buried! Age is just a number not a lifestyle!!!

Cal the Gslinger

[BronxWench]

Bronxwinch,

One is never told old to indulge our wild and happy muses, for their of appreciation of hot classy elvish smut or any other kind! The day we allow ourselfs to get too old... were dead... so we might as be buried! Age is just a number not a lifestyle!!!

Cal the Gslinger

Cal,

And laughing gives you better wrinkles!

A happily evil Wench

[Danyealle]

July of 1967 here hehehehe

[DemonGoddess]

I never responded to this, because I'm not a writer. I'm certainly one of the older peeps around here though. November 1961, which makes me 49.

Things I remember -

The first moonwalk, and all of us crowded around the television (black & white) watching that moment in history

Eight track tapes

Sinclair gas stations (remember the dinosaur?)

getting a transistor radio

[BronxWench]

I never responded to this, because I'm not a writer. I'm certainly one of the older peeps around here though. November 1961, which makes me 49.

Things I remember -

The first moonwalk, and all of us crowded around the television (black & white) watching that moment in history

Eight track tapes

Sinclair gas stations (remember the dinosaur?)

getting a transistor radio

All of the above, plus my first reel-to-reel tape player! I still have a rather large collection of vinyl records (note to self - buy usb turntable!). I remember go-go boots (oh, dear gods...). I've been proudly blowing up motherboards since DOS was young. Hopefully, I'll have a lot more to remember as I go on!

[Danyealle]

Things I remember (forgot to add this to my post ):

Nixon resigning-it was the only time i can remember my father asking us to be quiet while playing in the living room. He said it was something so historic that he wanted to watch it. Then his pardon by Ford.

The Iran hostage situation.

Some of the rocket launches from NASA and just how big they were.

8 tracks, geesh i remember those! Had the whole collection from the Rolling Stones on them. Had that on cassette too, had to replace those as well. Before those, records aka big, black CDs as the kid calls them.

The fall of Saigon. I don't know if it was live or on tape, but I remember the mass exodus out of the city and all the people waiting on the rooftop of the one building trying desperately to get out on the last few helicopters.

Ronald Regan getting shot.

The shuttle Columbia blowing up right after launch (I also remember the one that blew up on reentry, it happened right over where i live now-we heard it but thought nothing of it, assuming it was live fire practice on the military post).

The first TV remote (hehehe i had a toy banana that squeaked and it turned out that the squeaker in the banana was the same frequency as the remote and would change the channel as well LMAO! )

The fall of the communist party in Russia then the coming down of the Berlin wall. I sat up all night and watched that live.

The big earthquake in San Fransisco.

The Manson family.

The very first Star Wars movie, saw that in the theater on opening day.

And we had Pong, yes, PONG! It was hooked up to an ancient TV and we would play it for hours. Later on, it was the original Atari.

[Calanthee]

I never responded to this, because I'm not a writer. I'm certainly one of the older peeps around here though. November 1961, which makes me 49.

Things I remember -

The first moonwalk, and all of us crowded around the television (black & white) watching that moment in history

Eight track tapes

Sinclair gas stations (remember the dinosaur?)

getting a transistor radio

Dear DemonGoddess061, anyone over-reading this too!!!

Thanks for adding me as a friend, went to add YOU too and discovered I already did it A WHILE AGO... YO TALK ABOUT OLD SHOOooooSH now ITS A secret..........................

................. but its very likely I am oldest of the old on this board, I remember bread when it cost 25cents and there was penny candy. Do any of you know what a coal heater was? Oh I walked two miles to school and was chased by dinosaurs on the way... really only kidding very slightly. I am truly a very ancient fan person... and my Aff writer name is Gslinger, from the fact that my western relatives truly had real outlaws from the old west for neighbors! So ladies your just kids too me, please don't think of yourselves as old.... your "younger than springtime", as long as you let your feel that way!

DemonGoddess061 and rest of you reading this.>

>>To ALL... BE Happy and Healthy in 2010<<

Ancient CAL the G

[DemonGoddess]

LOL Cal! I just think it's cool there's so many of us that are actually over 40 here . Kinda surprised me at first, honestly.

[BronxWench]

DG, I was pretty surprised myself, and honestly, I didn't even put my age at first because I was so sure I was the odd duck out! But I'm proudly flying the birthday now, so...

And to add to Dany's list, since I remember all of her list...

I watched the World Trade Center go up when I was in college (such a NY wench I am), and I was holding my toddler boy when I watched it go down...

[Shadowknight12]

If we count mental age, I'm old. Very old. I'm the one that is put in charge of chaperoning older friends. I'm the one that grumbles about the weather, the one that yells at people to turn their crap down, the one that looks at new technology apprehensively (and finds its dizzying and constant updating slightly staggering), the one that offers unwanted advice, glares all the time and uses ANY (and I mean ANY) excuse to say "back in my day."

You know how for every old person with a young spirit there's an ancient curmudgeon hidden within a young person? Yeah, the latter is me.

I disagree with the old adage. L. Frank Baum knew nothing of the reality of witches and munchkins, and wrote a classic. Agatha Christie was likely, in reality, involved in few mysteries. I have read many a good sex scenes written by virgins. Perhaps not "porn" sex scenes, but certainly not fade to black or "he put his thingy into my you-know-what". Sorry. I just found that bit of your post grating, but to each their own! It also depends on what type of stories you read, I imagine.

And as an aside, I happen to agree with this quite wholeheartedly.

Edited January 27, 2011 by Shadowknight12

[Satai Delenn]

I am so happy to see more of you coming out and saying "Hi ya!". Ok here is a fun thing...Let's start a "Stuff we remember" and show some of the youngsters what "dinosaurs' we are! Feel free to add your own rememberances!

1) Watching the first moonwalk LIVE on TV!

2) Watching about Vietnam on the news, nightly.

3) Reel to reel tapes, then 8 tracks and then cassettes (thinking they were REALLY cool and small!)

4) Cola wars! (Pepsi or Coke!)

5) when TV was more PROGRAM than commercials

6) Schoolhouse rocks! (for those of us in the US)

7) Apple computers, atari, commodore 64's (now THOSE were high tech!)

8) Beta vs. VHS

9) The launch of Cable TV, and MTV when all they played was MUSIC videos and nothing else (Video killed the radio star!)

10) AM radio and transistor radios everywhere.

11) the first WALKMAN's.

12) the first 'car phones'/portable phones (big BRICK looking things that took up half your car!)

13) the Energy Crisis of '75 and long lines.

14) When gasoline was around 50 cents a gallon, when you got free gifts when the attendants filled your car (and checked the air and oil for free!)

What else can you all remember or add from your memories?

Wow, well, now I was born in '74, and over half the items on your list I remember easily being around in my early days. I remember Walkman's well, and I watched Schoolhouse Rock obsessively, and yes, I remember the portable phones (for me it was the '80s and I was at camp when I saw my first one. The owner's daughter helped her run the camp and she had a giant bag that she kept the giant phone (complete with a long antenna) in it, along with her wallet, etc. It was hilarious when it rang and she pulled out this giant phone to talk on. I also remember APple Computers (though for my family we were already IBM preferers), Atari, and Commodore 64s. Though my mother wouldn't allow me either Atari or Commodore 64. Instead she got me an "educational" game player... The Texas Instruments game station. As much as I admit that I would have prefered Atari or Commodore 64, there are games from that TI system that I miss to this day, lol. Beta was still being used on occasion, but was quickly being overrun by VHS (of which, I still have three VCRs, and also a DVD/VCR player/recorder). I remember well the days when MTV was actually a music station. The Cola Wars were going strong (my mother and I were Pepsi converters according to the taste test, but my dad was a staunch Coke drinker). I sorely miss the days when TV/Cable was more program than commercials (17 minutes for a "half hour" program, and 42 minutes for an hour's program. Yep, I counted the commercial minutes and subtracted the hour once, lol. Yep, I'm a nerd).

So, I find it very funny that you consider me a "younger" writer, when I look at those born in the 80s and beyond, and to me, THOSE people are the "younger" writer, and I tend to lump myself within your age group/generation even though I was born 9 years after 1965. *shrugs*

Oh, and before I forget, for something else I remember: 3-2-1 Contact! and The Bloodhound Gang, and I also remember everyone getting up in arms about "New Coke," and Coca Cola having to revert to the "Coke Classic" formula after that fiasco, lol.

[ShadowsPale]

I can remember walking along the side of the road picking up glass Pepsi and Coke bottles to take to the store and trade in for money. I got ten cents for the small ones and fifteen for the large ones. I would walk out sucking on a grape Popsicle, clutching a paper bag filled with candy because penny candy actually cost a penny.

In second grade I learned the world was a much, much bigger place than I knew, because a sixth grader asked me what my thoughts were on the Vietnam War. My response was that i had not known there was a war.

In the fifth grade I got a radio hidden inside a mouse wearing a frilly dress and lacy bonnet; the first song I heard on it was ironically, Captain and Tennile's newest hit, Muskrat love

My family would go on short road trips every Saturday afternoon. I can remember my dad fighting to find a station on the radio that wasn't playing Hank Williams and my mom screaming at him to "Leave it there!" because Elvis Presley was playing. We always ended up at the A&W drive in. For around six bucks my dad would feed a family of five with burgers, onions rings and rootbeer floats I have yet to find a "kiddie" burger that compares.

I can remember getting an 8 track player for my birthday and all my friends telling me I was so lucky. All they had were Transistor radios that none of us realized how tinny they sounded.

Mostly I can remember being sixteen and my mother not being worried that i was out at night, walking the mile to a friend's house by myself because it was actually pretty much safe for me to do so. We rarely even locked our doors.

I was born on 10/28/ 1963 btw

[TropicalFool]

OK, children, 1954… I'm so old, I don't remember anything… I just have to make it up as I go along.

[Anesor]

late to topic here, but 1964. One of my earliest memories was watching the moon landing my my great grandmother's bed side. While writer came later, I participated in too many writer-like activities for 25 years. I think it was denial. I only found out that an older relative told my 9 yr old self my writing sucked and I avoided writing like the plague for 35 years and don't remember the incident. But much advice I saw for writers said basically, 'live' so it's okay.

It's kind of cool to be in places where the age range is higher!

[sumeragichan]

Well, a 1981 born here. Late November, nearly December 1981. Still, I remember taping songs off the radio onto cassettes and making mixed tapes from CD's when they started to become common place. I never got on the intarwebs until late into 8th grade. Then I thought it was the coolest damn thing that I found a copy of one of the concept scripts for Star Wars A new hope. The one dealing with the Starkiller. Yes, I laughed myself silly when I found out that name and concept got used in the Force Unleashed. I remember Nintendo/Famicon games of my friend. I owned one of the original gameboys that came out until I had to see it for extra cash in the early college days. I remember when they started on mapping the human genome and alot of the forays into cloning. Hell, I even wrote a legitimate science paper that got published on if it was theoretically possible to clone a super human or mutant based on that information in my Sophomore year of high school. Still, I don't know if I count for old all of the time as part of me is still fighting hard to remain young. The other part had to mature and grow old... So I figured I should chime in a bit. I can tell the difference between myself in my teens and now severely. Still, I remember my grandfather owning a gas station and garage that had full service for a while, hell... I can still tell you two places in the US that do offer full service. One is around USHwy 41 inbetween Kennesaw and Marietta, GA. The other is on Dayton Blvd in Red Bank, TN.

Don't know if that makes any difference.

[And Your Little Dog Too]

1965. November. As a kid, I remember Ultraman and Johnny Sokko and his Flying Robot and programming an IBM 370 with punched cards, a geeky otaku even then.

Now, I spend my days designing equipment for spacecraft and my nights writing trashy, slashy fanfiction for AFF...when I'm able to get my wife to stop reading slashy, trashy fanfics long enough to write it.