Lesson Nineteen.
The future as I see it!
Your instructor is Professor
Taltos.
Hello again and welcome back. A funny thing happened
to me (no not on the way to the office) the other day and I really want to share
it with you. As you may recall I mentioned the fact that I was interested in
exploring the more smutty sides of writing. Well, I decided to try a couple of
quick short stories on a few of my chat room friends. I am humbled to say they
went nuts for them. It makes me wonder if I haven’t been going about this all
wrong. I mean I knew sex sells and all that and I knew that basically if you
want someone’s interest then mention something about sex in your story. But my
chat room friends really went nuts for them. When I returned to the chat rooms I
asked a few of them why they like the stories so well. I was even more surprised
at the answers I got.
It seems that my friends in the chat rooms think I
have a way of making a story come to life. Some of them told me that when they
were reading my stories they could felt as if they were in the places I wrote
about. I find this extremely flattering and like any ego maniac I will keep
trying hard to live up to this impression. I have to say however that it’s
easy to write in a realistic fashion when the subjects I deal with everyday are
real people. And the people that I deal with are very special types of people .
I would like to send a great big thank you to all of you for being so helpful to
me along my way and for the very encouraging words. It means a lot to me. You
all have been more than just patient with me as I bumbled along.
The other day I was chatting with ‘Cindybear’, one
of my female chat pals. She mentioned the fact that she particularly liked the
way I dealt with people. She felt I was able to deal with different types of
problems with out being judgmental while doing it. Once again I was flattered,
my reply was some smart ass remark about living in glass houses. However her
words didn’t go to deaf ears, I realize how important that kind of feedback
can be.
During the rest of my conversation
with ‘Cindybear’ I started to think about what the Professor was going to do
next. I don’t think I have given Cyber-sex a full assessment and I knew I sure
wanted to go further into the whole issue. Then my dear friend suggested
something to me that would make my next adventure one I have always dreamed of.
Why not a “Ask the Professor’ type of thing. You could e-mail me what ever
questions or problems you want help with. I would do my best to find the right
answers or give you the best advice I can. And we would all be a bit happier for
it. I really liked the idea, and I hope you do too.
I don’t think I have ever
written any thing that hasn’t been based on real experiences. The world with
all it’s people is one large classroom to me. Each experience only drives me
on further to find another
adventure waiting for me. This isn’t because I am a gifted person or special
in any way. It’s because I have always been blessed with good friends and a
loving family. Generally my peers support me in my work as well as the lifestyle
I have chosen.
No, I don’t walk around with rose colored glasses on or
delude myself into believing the world is nothing but a wonderful place to live
in. My real world is a place where I know the hooker standing on the corner by
name, and it’s a daily occurrence
to see a drug deal being made at the corner doughnut shop. I live here by
choice, this the real world that gives me my urgency to write. And it is also
the world that help me understand people and not be judgmental ( I hope) of
them.
Perhaps that’s what my
friend meant. If that’s the case my friend is right the feed back is the most
important thing. The feedback is what I get from you, the nice people that read
my work. And the feedback is what makes my work. But most important the feedback
tells me what’s going on in your lives. And I really do care. If I didn’t
care I’d write about flowers or trees or something.(lol)
What I really want is to hear
from you. I want to hear your problems and I want to hear your questions. I want
you to know that I do care about what’s going on out there. As I have
mentioned numerous times I am not
an expert on any one thing but I try to give good advice, based on life
experiences. It has been decided that the
Professor should have his own column. For simplicities sake we’ll call it ‘Ask
the Professor’. You may send any questions or problems to proftaltos@yahoo.com!
I will try to answer as many as I can in a bi-weekly column. The column will be
starting at the end of lesson twenty. I really hope to hear from a lot of you.
Please note that at all times
discretion shall be the order. I will at all times avoid using any personal
information I may be privy to. Each reference in the column shall be of general
terms, relating only to the specific subjects. Feel free to ask me not to
mention your e-mail in my column.Those that wish not to be included in the
column will be answered in the same fashion as those that will be mentioned. I
will be answering as many e-mails, personally, as I possibly can.
Next time will be the
completion of our twenty lesson course. I will also be throwing out a couple of
subjects that might be of interest to you. They will be just a suggestion of
what you may wish to talk about. The last lesson will also be a summary of our program ‘Cyber-Sex’ and a brief farewell. As I have said I
sincerely hope to be hearing from a lot of you in the near future.
For now this is Prof. Taltos signing off.
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