Farewell to Ficly

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I joined the site back in 2012 when I finally started posting my writing, no matter how good or bad online, and now, about 2 years exactly later, the website is shutting down. This website has been inextricably linked to many of my memories, both the good and the bad ones, over the past two years. It’s almost unreal to hear that the website would shut down in just a few weeks. 

Over two years I’d written over a hundred poems, and this website both gave me motivation and ideas to play with. However, everything comes to an end. 

In an act of perhaps, vanity, or simply to remember the website, I took some of the poems I wrote on the website and compiled it into this gaudy pretentious-looking booklet, so I can place it on my shelf. I picked only the ones I either had fun writing, or reading afterwards. It’s titled, “The Ficly Poems: An Archive, A Memory, A Time.” I like to think of it as just a collection of internet poetry, because it is. What makes it different? It’s mine.

If you want to read it, you can always find the link here, but I don’t guarantee any form of quality. I hope you like the poems nonetheless.

You can find the book here at http://bit.ly/1lh2Het. To reassure your fears, the link doesn’t lead to some virus-infested website, it brings you here

In any case, farewell, Ficly, thanks for two years of writing, memories and experiences.

P.S. I already found a typo in the foreword.

6 responses to “Farewell to Ficly”

  1. cometyeidi Avatar

    I dearly enjoyed your poetry, my ficly compadre. I hope to see more of your works on ficlatte.com!

    Sincerely,
    Princess Binky Lemontwist

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    1. Thanks! I’ve just set-up my account there. I should get around to posting something soon…..

      Although I messed up and couldn’t login to punpun so i made a new account named Spectrum..

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  2. […] be more or less integral to my identity, the death of its attempt at revival and the death of what motivated me to write for so long. websites aside, on a more serious note, I’ve also seen several people come close to death […]

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  3. Although I’ve never been one for writing poetry myself, I do fondly remember a few of the pieces in that book.

    Wishing you all the best,
    HSAR

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    1. Thanks HSAR! I’ve had much less time for writing anything now, so I’m glad to see that someone still remembers my writing 🙂

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