What I have against that, is that it's going to get a bit cluttered above each story.

Hmmmm.....

We would like to know.

In terms of ethics and morality, by promoting freedom of speech, whilst cracking down on hate and intolerance.
I've flat out deleted and banned out and out porn, hate, smut, and childishness.
Now I know, yes, we can have a great debate about freedom of speech here. But to my mind, what passes for freedom of speech is often just a shallow mind expressing its lack of depth by dragging its rusting keel along the bottom. (yawn) Boring-boring.

So there IS such a thing as frickin' Bull Fertiliser.
Not too interested in stepping in it. Or standing there, and admiring it.

1)  G
Gender       I was exploring this theme the other day in my fictional short story "The one night stand". That peculiar 'behind the scenes' exploration/presence of sexuality that comes and goes as two members of the opposite sex meet together.
Does it matter, when you are reading a story on Writers Haven or Writers Harbor?  I think not. We are looking mostly at the story, and the fact that it is written by a male or a female, pretty or ugly, becomes -largely- irrelevant. Certainly, there will still be the hungry ones hunting for a partner, who have very little interest in creative writing. Strayed mysteriously from MySpace and Facebook, they might be looking more at the pretty face than the letters. Broadly speaking however, the importance of gender is lessened, don't you think?
2)   R
Racial prejudice.  In this day and age, with the Human Genome project establishing clearly that racial genetic differences are so infinitely tiny as to be negligible, it seems to me the case is proven beyond any doubt that we ARE all brothers and sisters. Period.
Seems to me that "race" on a genuine writing website is much less important than in real life, and is in fact almost a non-issue?
3)  A
Age.  Does it matter on a genuine love-of-writing website? Can a seventeen year old fall in love with a seventy year old writer?
I think so. Not sexually,or romantically, but creatively. If you like, spiritually. A good writing website can help people see past the MINOR (?) attributes of age, gender and race. And focus on the writing.
4)  B
Bias.  Bias in general. Does it matter what the writer's job is, when he or she is examining such common human experiences such as Love, Death, Romance, Longing, Heartache?
Does it matter if the writer is rich? Poor? University Educated? Self taught? A Professor?  A carpet cleaner? An engineer? A lawnmower repair man?

So, for my part, I DO think there IS a distinct GRAB effect at work on "genuine" love-of-writing websites.

What say ye?

I have thought of my rotary best moment, and my best combined, but I shall save them until my posting privileges are upgraded. Moggy, can my posts be self approved ? Every one has been met with the message "Your post will need approval and moderation", or some such.

It's all good stuff, but it's not....writing as in "writing". It's not serious. It's more social networking, friendship making, chin-wagging coffee drinking, socializing.   Again, nothing wrong with that. But...  I kind of like the way Writers harbor is slowly shaping up as a lean, mean, writing machine.  I don't see any benefit in trying to be a "MySpace clone" or a "Multiply.com lookalike"....

My thinking is: write, write and write again. Write for the love of writing. Keep it simple to use, lean, mean, and easy to navigate.
If you click on a writer's name, and then go to "view all works", you can quickly locate ALL of somebody's writings...
I like that. And there's no intrusive advertisements....

I'm open to differing opinions.... this is just my personal opinion. I think the SIMPLE formula is great. Simple to use. Simple to navigate. Lean, Clean.... and fun!   Feel free to disagree...!!!

These are the movies I can think of so far that started out as books. Any others you can think of? What did these writers do right to get their books made into movies?

Wow this forum is so quiet. What y'all up to? Let's get a little conversation started here.

What books have you all read lately? I'll confess I actually did read the Twilight Novels, and though I really don't like Stephanie Meyer for her morals or for how she portrayed a female character as such a possession of a male character (and also how she had her male character stalk her and do all these weird illegal things), her writing style was amazing and she has a great command of the English language. Her story was so not something little girls should be reading though, it completely goes against teaching them to be independent strong young women and tells them to be meek and helpless.

Any other books you guys have read?

I write about all sorts of things. I try and be honest in my feelings. I see the tacky, sordid side of the human experience (I spent several years in Law Enforcement), but I also see the hopeful side of our existence. I try therefore to balance the Ugly, with what I shall call our Dreams. There is Hope for Man, despite everything.

I hope to continue and expand on my Cyberspace friendships with kind and creative folk. So we may encourage one another to enjoy the creative experience.

I'm an advocate for the poor and working class poor, behavioral health issues, the environment, women and children of domestic violence/abuse, and desire to help in some small way with the state of affairs with health insurance and healthcare in general in the USA - it's total chaos and is leaving many underserved or without healthcare at all.

I have a BS in Health Information Administration and worked for over 20 years in acute health care - mostly in large, teaching hospitals.  Due to my illness in 2005, I am exploring new career avenues.  I currently work in a rural pharmacy in my small rural hometown.

I find harsh writing and angry people disconcerting. I don't do much writing. I have tried a little poetry, but it's not very good. I enjoy reading. My main reason for being here is that a friend put me on to "If you're good" by Mr Meyrick. I thought the audio version was remarkable. I am now half way through 'Jeremy's War'.  After a wobbly start, I am now quite immersed in it. I'm a bit behind on comments, and I need to go back and leave some reviews.

I find the site is clean and very easy to use. The lack of intrusive advertisements is a welcome change. I can see the whole concept is in the initial stages, but I think it can go far. Looking forward to some interesting reading!