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I think we all pretty much had similar ideas when coming to Bluelight, I know many of us have been here a long time and its always impressive the range of people you can discover on this site.

My question to you is, how did you come to words and what made you decide to post that first piece?

Myself I spent a lot of time in Ecstasy discussion, and lurked around the lounge but never really felt like I belonged anywhere. I remember clicking on someone's sig and it was a link to a poem here in Words (and for the life of me I cannot remember what it was). Again I lurked for a long time, and the more I read the more I was moved. I hadn't written anything in over 12 years before I posted here. Experiences that were difficult to deal with often manifested themselves as images in my head, and the emotions would be tied to the image rather than the event itself (we have strange coping mechanisms don't we?). After a while I felt it was time to write some of these images down, and 2 years later I am still here in my favourite forum.

Tell us how you arrived here, and add a link (not a bump - others will more than likely do this for you) to the first piece you wrote (and what was running through your head at the time)

:)
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I was picking up the pieces of 2 very bad relationships, battling to come to terms with who I had become, the people around me at the time couldn't understand why I just wanted to be by myself, so I wrote it down!

http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/showthread.php?t=82187
 
Nice idea Dastrix. :)

When I first hit this site for the first few months, I spent most of my time in The Lounge (or Social or whatever the hell it was called back in those days, no memory cells of mine have lived to remember) till I was bored with the ceaseless bullshit, and clicking around various parts of the site found my way into words. I'd for some time been writing pretty dodgy poetry and short stories, and words I suppose seemed a friendly enough place to get criticism or comment. I read other people's works for a while, and despite being a bit intimidated by the quality, posted some of my own works up. Eventually Cherub and others took pity on my begging and made me a mod, which meant I could justify spending as much time in the forum as possible. After a whole lot of life-shifting and shit I deserted Words and Bluelight for a while, but thankfully, now I'm back and again spending way too much time reading through the swathes of awesome stuff that people post here. :)

I can't actually find my first piece I posted here, but I can put a link to the earliest piece of mine that I could find. It wasn't very polished, and was an exerpt of a little project which has eventually grown into 50,000 words or so of a novel or some such (currently stalled).

http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/showthread.php?t=21073

-plaz out-
 
=D Well it seems many moons ago when I first came here and when i did,, i didn't register 2 months,, I was not a drug user nor was i interested in any kind of use. But I showed up due to a friend who is no longer around was trying to explain extacy to me and what it was about. Two months later I joined after a now very good personal real friend in my life angelight convinced me to join. Words was on the places I found solice and peace reading other pieces people wrote, I have always written poetry since i was about 8 yrs old, I found it away to use my words to figure my life out. and it still has not stopped. I became mod about sept that year and was definately in a mix of bluelight.
We had two other moderators at time that never poste and never heard from, soon we were adding more mods, I watched things change over the years, some good some bad, but words has always been my peace of mind of place that i can come to at night, read thoughts and poems and know people are just people trying to get along in this world.

here is my First poem on bluelight,
it is very much the start of me learning about me.

http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/showthread.php?t=18102
 
plazma said:
Nice idea Dastrix. :)
I can't actually find my first piece I posted here, but I can put a link to the earliest piece of mine that I could find. It wasn't very polished, and was an exerpt of a little project which has eventually grown into 50,000 words or so of a novel or some such (currently stalled).

http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/showthread.php?t=21073

-plaz out-
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That was unbeleivably intense! Tension more than any movie that I have seen on the subject! 8o
 
Someone told me about Bluelight, I think it may have been a friend who took me to my first rave in Australia... I was kind of skeptical at first about the whole thing, then found a second home in the lounge. I thought the behaviour in there was kind of normal for the entire site, and I owned aus social before getting a couple of warnings and realising that I was being a prat. I stumbled into words around the end of my first year of studying and realised that I had something to say so I said it...

My first post can be found here, I wrote it like it is because I was excited to know that once you knew the rules, you were allowed to break them.
http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/showthread.php?p=1430551#post1430551

I have my periods in and out of words, depending on how uch time I'm online. The more I'm online the less I am in words. There's been a few few people that used to post in here that don't anymore, which is kind of sad, because they had real talent. But there are always people with talent in here, I just like the past more.
 
I started posting on BL mid 2002 and ended up in words a few months after that. I used to read all day while I was working in a call centre because it really helped me escape the monotony. I used to write a little when I was at school - more short stories and stuff like that, but decided at the beginning of 2003 to try some poetry. I'd just started writing a journal again after a couple of years off, and poetry was a good accompaniment to that.

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This was the first thing I posted... it was about my mum's death. I don't think I'm a particularly fantastic writer, but it's such a good catharsis, and it's nice to have these little snapshots of my mind at the time I wrote each piece.

I don't read as much in words as I used to, some of the older posters I really used to enjoy reading aren't around anymore and I guess I'm in a different space emotionally as I was when I first found the place, so I don't connect with as many of the posts any more, but I still like checking in occasionally :)
 
This is actually my third incarnation here. I first discovered Bluelight in 2001 as a means to research drug info and compare notes with other drug users. I started posting in 2002 under the name of Wordy (without the brackets). Then became embroiled in other forums for a couple of years, although I did have a brief stint of religiously reading and posting in Words during late 2002 / early 2003, under the alias of 'WordyOne'. I was always going to be drawn to the Words forum because words are my first and foremost passion.

Now I'm back again and this time I intend to stick around for a while. I've been doing some serious reading of work, commenting where I can, and it's clear there's plenty of talent doing the rounds. And it's definitely a positive, supportive environment for writers to post their work in. %)

I'm no longer a drug user these days, so that probably makes me a bit of a rarity on BL, although feel free to correct me on that (and it appears from this thread that cherub is another in this category). Having said that, I am somewhat involved in drug research and harm minimisation initiatives - I'm a member of Enlighten, amongst other things. So this links me with the community here.

In terms of the first work I posted in Words, I'd say this one was among the earliest I posted:

http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/showthread.php?t=71524

A bit of history with this one too...

The inspired, inimitable, indefatigable Allen Ginsberg passed away in 1997. I was pretty affected by his death: I was an aspiring poet/thinker/writer and he was (and is) a hero to me.

I believe I first wrote the poem in 1998, obviously in response to his death.

I posted it on BL in 2002.

Earlier this year it was published (with a few slight edits) in Verandah, which is the literary journal of Australia's Deakin University.

All through its history, it has been, and will be... for Allen.
 
I did a Yahoo! search once for poetry forums, which are hard to come by, and I have been on a few poetry mailing lists but they generally fall to pieces after 8-20 months of activity. I joined in 2001 and have been here on and off (synchronised with my Internet connection and my mental health). I have no interest in drugs and little exposure to drug culture so I think maybe I am unique in being here solely for the Words forum? I always enjoy my time here, the poetry is fantastic and this group is kind and fun. I love everybody <3

Here's my first post, entitled Obituary. I wrote it in response to watching a fly run into the windshield of the car and bounce off it as we were going down the highway. Gosh I was strange when I was 15!! ;o;
 
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yakksoho said:
I did a Yahoo! search once for poetry forums, which are hard to come by, and I have been on a few poetry mailing lists but they generally fall to pieces after 8-20 months of activity. I joined in 2001 and have been here on and off (synchronised with my Internet connection and my mental health). I have no interest in drugs and little exposure to drug culture so I think maybe I am unique in being here solely for the Words forum? I always enjoy my time here, the poetry is fantastic and this group is kind and fun. I love everybody <3

Here's my first post, entitled Obituary. I wrote it in response to watching a fly run into the windshield of the car and bounce off it as we were going down the highway. Gosh I was strange when I was 15!! ;o;
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I think this is saying something for the words forum, for someone to come to BL without any reference to what the sites purpose is, but to come here just for the poetry. Props to us all!

We <3 you too!
 
Heh... i found bluelight through a random i met at a band competition a few years ago... He came up to me and started talking and i liked him instantly. Eventually we went to a rave, and i joined bluelight shortly after that.

Unlike most people i actually started on Words, and then moved to other forums. I wasn't really into drugs when i started on BL, but i really loved to write, and i was inspired by a lot of the people who posted at the time, especially speedlimit55 (i think that was his name).

THis is the first piece i posted here, which insidentally was also my first post:

http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/showthread.php?t=23874

I guess i thought it was appropriate. :)

I don't post as much as i used to anymore... that's just how life is a guess. I am happy to be back though. Words was always my favourite forum. :)
 
Not too sure how I found this place, 'cos I began in Music, went to Aust Social and then here. I was going through some bad time, began writing and probably because I was feeling so disconnected, I ended up posting the writings in here.

I love this forum even though I don't write and post much these days. This place is at once emotionally invigorating and draining. Reading a lot of the stuff in here, you can't help but feel.

And incidentally, this forum also became a repository of the changes I've gone through over the years (and all the captive readers here who've been witnessed to everything in one form or another). It's weird because of the times when I've felt most disenchanted, disconnected and detached, it's the people in here whom I've never met who "felt" what I was experiencing then.

This is the earliest piece I can find. Which is just as well, I think the earlier I go back, the more embarrassingly trite they sound =D
 
E-girl and I were roommates and friends for awhile, I use to only come onto words, it was the only place I knew to come at the time.. I spent alot of time in here then started working my way around.. I haven't posted much in the last yr. but I still read alot of the post...
 
^^^^^ glad you are still around,, your one of my favorite writers to read.

Cosmic Mist--- that was his name,,,, Josh in real life,,, we miss him lots not only in words but in person... :)---- also like you i didn't really do drugs before bl welll i never did them before bl,, but it was just a phase ,, now i a passed it but words is my home :)

I love reading these,,, great to find out how everyone arrived here.
 
I found bluelight through dance safe back in 2000. This is my second name here as my first was trollin101 which meant something completely different to me then the internet description of a troll. Seeings how we all despise them I recreated my name to better describe myself. I first came to the ecstacy discussion thread and ended up finding much solace in the dark side as I was coming out of a very long relationship with an addict. Special K helped me through. Much thanks to her.

My first piece written here
http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/showthread.php?t=195113&highlight=trollin101

Though this is far from the first piece I ever wrote it was the first time I had enough courage to put myself out there.
 
Great idea Das :)

My brother TiberCross introduced me to the site in November of '03, specifically the non-sensical threads in the Lounge. So that's pretty much where I stuck around. Then I came across the Words forum, and wasn't really thinking about writing anything(it had been years). I read for a couple of days, then decided to post something. my first writing was absolutely atrocius in my opinion lol.

http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/showthread.php?t=117579
 
I started in Aus Social first, and it was through some of the people I've been chatting with that I found the Words forum, and the first few pieces weren't exactly happy stuff because I was going through some bad times.

It seems my writing was always inspired by the people I love, and I guess some of them can be said to be tributes to them (Cherub, Fluffy, Kitty take a bow ;) )

The following isn't the first piece but the happiest piece I've written, and sort of the reason why I don't write so much anymore (work excluded).

what is
 
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
- Professor Keating (Robin Williams) in "Dead Poet's Society"

That's why I'm here.
 
i started reading soon after i joined but i took me about two months to start posting stuff. This place kept me from wandering into the lounge for a long time :D

The first poem i posted was Faith and Bliss was the first set of lyrics
 
hello i'm forstopenholio, from planet bifdag, and to answer your question: this is hwere they brought when i asked them to take me your leader
 
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