Moejoe.. Please come back - Page 3

Moxie Mezcal · 10-25-2009, 06:27 AM

This is a real shame. Moejoe was the first e-book author I talked with when I started e-publishing my own stuff (I connected with him through twitter, as @typewriterhead). His encouragement meant a lot to me, and I drew inspiration from what he was able to accomplish creating his own art and getting it out into the world on his own terms.

I hope he won't mind if I continue to pass along copies of his work to friends, respecting the Creative Commons license he published under; his stuff is just too insanely good not to share.

Donnageddon · 10-25-2009, 06:50 AM

Moejoe, I hope you understand the respect this comes from:

"I have no mouth, and I must scream"

"I hate being wrong, but I love it when I'm set straight"

- H. Ellison

Take Care, Moejoe, and I hope we hear more from you soon.

pshrynk · 10-26-2009, 11:59 AM

Let me add my slightly belated voice to the choir. If you have, indeed ceased to write, then the world much the poorer by it. I hope that you can find the right avenue of release for the pent up creativity that your writing so obviously was doing.

Peace, my friend...

animedude01 · 10-26-2009, 03:51 PM

I'm gone for a little while to concentrate on real life and what do I find when I come back but that mojoe isn't going to be here any more!

It's his decision, but I'm sad that I won't be able to read more

jaxx6166 · 10-26-2009, 10:12 PM

bummer... :-/

LazyScot · 11-05-2009, 05:31 PM

(I've been struggling with myself over this reply for sometime, hence the delay. Especially since it may well be based on a mis-conception...)

Moejoe, I may not always have agreed with your positions on some subjects, but I do respect your consistency, passion and wonderful command of the language. In the same way, I shall miss your writings.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Moejoe

I've given up tilting at windmills. Passion, integrity, joy and any of the other more noble sentiments surrounding the writing of fiction don't mean much in the world. And I'm too tired now to convince myself otherwise.

This can be read two ways, and I don't know which you mean it. Firstly it may be that you have, for want of a better phrase, lost you Muse. If that is that case, I hope you find some time trying to find him/her/them again. And from the posts in the thread, I hope you realise you weren't tilting at windmills, but were making them turn.

However, it can also be read that you are frustrated at a world that doesn't live up to your expectations. If that is the case, you're right. It doesn't. It never has and it never will. But one thing we can all do whilst we are here is change it and improve it so that it is closer to what we would wish, and is better for others. And chief among those who can make those changes are the writers and thinkers. Where would the world be today without the likes of Tom Paine, or Orwell, or Dickens, or Voltaire, or Rosseau, or Milton, or Bunyan. You, as they, have the ability to use words to stir people to improve the world. If this is the case, then you should write about the importance of these sentiments have been abandoned by the world. And you should be raising them centre stage again.

I don't know which I hope it is, but if it is the second, then I can't help but feel I will think, slightly, less of you for not fighting on for what you believe in.

But whichever it is, I would still like to count you as a friend.

LazyScot

Moejoe · 11-05-2009, 05:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LazyScot

(I've been struggling with myself over this reply for sometime, hence the delay. Especially since it may well be based on a mis-conception...)

Moejoe, I may not always have agreed with your positions on some subjects, but I do respect your consistency, passion and wonderful command of the language. In the same way, I shall miss your writings.

This can be read two ways, and I don't know which you mean it. Firstly it may be that you have, for want of a better phrase, lost you Muse. If that is that case, I hope you find some time trying to find him/her/them again. And from the posts in the thread, I hope you realise you weren't tilting at windmills, but were making them turn.

However, it can also be read that you are frustrated at a world that doesn't live up to your expectations. If that is the case, you're right. It doesn't. It never has and it never will. But one thing we can all do whilst we are here is change it and improve it so that it is closer to what we would wish, and is better for others. And chief among those who can make those changes are the writers and thinkers. Where would the world be today without the likes of Tom Paine, or Orwell, or Dickens, or Voltaire, or Rosseau, or Milton, or Bunyan. You, as they, have the ability to use words to stir people to improve the world. If this is the case, then you should write about the importance of these sentiments have been abandoned by the world. And you should be raising them centre stage again.

I don't know which I hope it is, but if it is the second, then I can't help but feel I will think, slightly, less of you for not fighting on for what you believe in.

But whichever it is, I would still like to count you as a friend.

LazyScot

The fight isn't over, merely postponed while I searched for a light switch in the dark. You can't fight when you can't see the enemy, after all

Where I've been, what I saw there, and what I've brought back with me I only realised this very night as the sky burned above the town of my birth. As we draped ourselves in shawls of smoke, our faces tanned orange and green and red from the blooms of fireworks, I imagined I could smell the fires all over England. And in those fires, possibilities, the thundered drumming of Phoenix wings.

From the ashes of what once was, something has risen. I'm not quite sure what that something is...not yet, but I'm close. Really close.

In any case, you shouldn't worry, nobody should because it's Guy Fawlkes Night

Remember, remember the fifth of November..

zelda_pinwheel · 11-05-2009, 05:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Moejoe

The fight isn't over, merely postponed while I searched for a light switch in the dark. You can't fight when you can't see the enemy, after all

Where I've been, what I saw there, and what I've brought back with me I only realised this very night as the sky burned above the town of my birth. As the fireworks popped and we draped ourselves in shawls of smoke, our faces tanned orange and green and red from the blooms of fireworks, I imagined I could smell the fires all over England. And in those fires, possibilities, the thundered drumming of Phoenix wings.

From the ashes of what once was, something has risen. I'm not quite sure what that something is...not yet, but I'm close. Really close.

In any case, you shouldn't worry, nobody should because it's Guy Fawlkes Night

Remember, remember the fifth of November..

he's back, baby.

i've got tears in my eyes to read it, and this time they're the good kind.

Bilbo1967 · 11-05-2009, 05:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Moejoe

Where I've been, what I saw there, and what I've brought back with me I only realised this very night as the sky burned above the town of my birth. As we draped ourselves in shawls of smoke, our faces tanned orange and green and red from the blooms of fireworks, I imagined I could smell the fires all over England. And in those fires, possibilities, the thundered drumming of Phoenix wings.

Now that's what I call good writing.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Moejoe

From the ashes of what once was, something has risen. I'm not quite sure what that something is...not yet, but I'm close. Really close.

Now that's what I call good news!

phenomshel · 11-05-2009, 06:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bilbo1967

Now that's what I call good writing.

Now that's what I call good news!

Amen and Amen.

dreams · 11-05-2009, 06:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dreams

<snip>
I never say never, and I believe there is always hope.. so, I will be looking for that next story.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Moejoe

<SNIP>And in those fires, possibilities, the thundered drumming of Phoenix wings.

From the ashes of what once was, something has risen. I'm not quite sure what that something is...not yet, but I'm close. Really close.

In any case, you shouldn't worry, nobody should because it's Guy Fawlkes Night

I believe the "possibilities" are always there.

The "ashes" have parted and the "Phoenix" has arisen again. ***and so, I await the pouring forth of words.***

Happy Guy Fawlkes Night..

Patricia · 11-05-2009, 07:00 PM

Moejoe's returned, and he's got his mojo back.
That's the best thing I've heard in ages.

ShortNCuddlyAm · 11-05-2009, 07:06 PM

So glad you're back

Laz116 · 11-05-2009, 07:37 PM

So happy MoeJoe is back. He's my favou.. ahem second to zelda my favourite person on this forum.

And from what I have read from him, I should probably have been banned long before such nonsense was ever uttered about him.

Anyways this is a place of tolerance and I welcome him back. Just as well as I welcome the genuine expression of a difference of opinion. That is after all what a discussion board is all about.

Moe The Cat · 11-05-2009, 08:44 PM

Welcome back, Moejoe. All you need now is a new avatar. Maybe something like this:

10-25-2009, 06:27 AM	#31
Moxie Mezcal Human Fly Posts: 32 Karma: 1500 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: San Jose, California Device: iPad	This is a real shame. Moejoe was the first e-book author I talked with when I started e-publishing my own stuff (I connected with him through twitter, as @typewriterhead). His encouragement meant a lot to me, and I drew inspiration from what he was able to accomplish creating his own art and getting it out into the world on his own terms. I hope he won't mind if I continue to pass along copies of his work to friends, respecting the Creative Commons license he published under; his stuff is just too insanely good not to share.

10-25-2009, 06:50 AM	#32
Donnageddon Now you lishen here... Posts: 2,494 Karma: 479498 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Seattle-ish Device: Sony PRS-650. Kobo Touch, Kindle Fire	Moejoe, I hope you understand the respect this comes from: "I have no mouth, and I must scream" "I hate being wrong, but I love it when I'm set straight" - H. Ellison Take Care, Moejoe, and I hope we hear more from you soon.

10-26-2009, 11:59 AM	#33
pshrynk Beepbeep n beebeep, yeah! Posts: 11,726 Karma: 8255450 Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: La Crosse, Wisconsin, aka America's IceBox Device: iThingie, KmkII, I miss Zelda!	Let me add my slightly belated voice to the choir. If you have, indeed ceased to write, then the world much the poorer by it. I hope that you can find the right avenue of release for the pent up creativity that your writing so obviously was doing. Peace, my friend...

10-26-2009, 03:51 PM	#34
animedude01 Addict Posts: 254 Karma: 1200 Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Los Angeles Device: DR1000S, ILIAD2, Nokia n900, Kindle for PC, Astak EZReader Pro	I'm gone for a little while to concentrate on real life and what do I find when I come back but that mojoe isn't going to be here any more! It's his decision, but I'm sad that I won't be able to read more

10-26-2009, 10:12 PM	#35
jaxx6166 Wizard Posts: 1,222 Karma: 769316 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Eternal summer Device: 350, iPad, PW	bummer... :-/

11-05-2009, 07:00 PM	#42
Patricia Reader Posts: 11,504 Karma: 8720163 Join Date: May 2007 Location: South Wales, UK Device: Sony PRS-500, PRS-505, Asus EEEpc 4G	Moejoe's returned, and he's got his mojo back. That's the best thing I've heard in ages.

11-05-2009, 07:06 PM	#43
ShortNCuddlyAm WWHALD Posts: 7,879 Karma: 337114 Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Mitcham, Surrey, UK Device: iPad. Selling my silver 505 here	So glad you're back

11-05-2009, 07:37 PM	#44
Laz116 Guru Posts: 640 Karma: 12129 Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Denmark Device: Sony PRS-700	So happy MoeJoe is back. He's my favou.. ahem second to zelda my favourite person on this forum. And from what I have read from him, I should probably have been banned long before such nonsense was ever uttered about him. Anyways this is a place of tolerance and I welcome him back. Just as well as I welcome the genuine expression of a difference of opinion. That is after all what a discussion board is all about.

11-05-2009, 08:44 PM	#45
Moe The Cat Bear Melt Posts: 919 Karma: 5433051 Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Toronto Device: Google Pixel 6, Moto G9 Power (both with Fbreader) & Kindle PW2	Welcome back, Moejoe. All you need now is a new avatar. Maybe something like this: