I have one regarding what type of man a man should be, "And be a simple kind of man. Oh be somethin you"ll love and understand." – Lynyrd Skynrd "Simple Kind of Man"

Nailed it ! hahaha (I like my rock quotes)

That said, masculine qualities I admire are: emotional stability, independent judgement, and decisiveness.

On a more serious note: this question kind of reminds me of "what constitutes a race?" It does not have an answer, because attributes that would describe one vary in a continuous manner geographically, not do they cluster very well.

In the same way, it"s hard to say what a real man is, because even if there is consensus about what a real man looks like on one spot, it will change when deviating from one geographical location. If there are any quasi-universal characteristics, my subjective answer would be:

- Be an individual, be prepared to criticize the status quo if you"re certain to have evidence to support it (meaning: don"t criticize the consensus on a subject, just because you feel like and want to look like a "rebel", it must be well funded to some degree).

- When proven wrong (meaning: your arguments have been proven false as objectively as possible, which is hard to measure), swallow your pride. If not proven wrong, stay the course but reassess your position from time to time.

- Help those that have helped you, and offer help to those that have gained your respect. Reject emotional manipulation of those that did not gain it, or even broke it. Let karma hit them.

- Must possess or have possessed one of following: penis, set of balls, ... other male only organs

Now, in no way am I stating that this list is what makes a man compared to a woman (as in: this is what separates a man from a woman), except for the last point somewhat. There are still a bunch of exceptions to that last point, but I like to think I have distilled the essence here. If not quasi-universal, I still hold them dear to my heart.

Also: male video game campers can never be real men. Never.

http://www.fathead-movie.com/i.....lzheimers/

I don"t have a website up yet, and I"m starting work on a home recording studio, so it isn"t likely to happen soon. So, in the meantime, I"ve put a few of my original songs on Drop Box and shared them out here:

These songs were recorded in a studio with my last band: Age of Dissent
Lies
Somewhere in the Darkness
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And this is a song I recently recorded on an iPad 2 using the Alesis iO Dock and Garageband. Really cool stuff:
All I Need is You

NOTE: The acoustic guitar, lead guitar, and strings were written and recorded by my Friend Jeremy D. I wrote and sang the lyrics, recorded the bass, drums, and percussion as well. And of course, I reserve full Copyright on all the music linked here. (well, I share it with some other guys, but you get the drift...)

Let me know what you all think.

Anacaona said:

Heh I respect you too much to force you to read Twilight in college. Thanks for the offer though, I plan to rewrite the myth of Perseus and Andromeda next or a supernatural mystery with the seven sins, whatever comes first, so I will remember the offer for those, that are more in line something you will like.

Well.... ok, but like I said, my biggest complaint with Twilight was it dropping so many interesting possibilities and it"s sheer wasted potential. If you improve on that...

(notice I"m also being a good boy and not making a clash of the titans joke)

That is the exactly the problem in a romance the possibilities most serve the feelings and the couple not the other way around. You might consider it a better Twilight but then it wouldn"t had been twilight it would had been a book of other genre and the appeal of a romance is the romance. I want to write a romance and I probably will commit the same "sins" Twilight did so what is the point?

Heh I respect you too much to force you to read Twilight in college. Thanks for the offer though, I plan to rewrite the myth of Perseus and Andromeda next or a supernatural mystery with the seven sins, whatever comes first, so I will remember the offer for those, that are more in line something you will like.

Well.... ok, but like I said, my biggest complaint with Twilight was it dropping so many interesting possibilities and it"s sheer wasted potential. If you improve on that...

(notice I"m also being a good boy and not making a clash of the titans joke)

Anacaona said:

Talking about YA...
So I finished my second draft of the first book supernatural romance YA novel (80,000 words as of now), since we are going to be needing more money soon I finally muster the courage to set a date to start sending query letters. I still need to polish the grammar and I plan to hire a professional editor but first I want to test the plot and characters as it is. So if any of you is a fan of the genre and is interesting on test reading it please leave me an email so I will sent you a brief description and see if you are still interested I will sent you a PDF copy with a set of questions I will need answered and of course any suggestion.
Please only people with real interest and time to do this I have a personal goal of starting the sending before May so this is something that is kind of urgent. Thanks on advance.

P.S.
Word of warning this is Twilight meets Harry Potter, or like one of my friends say Twilight with Wizards so if you have issues with any of both of this books this is not the trilogy for you.

Hey, I"ll read it for you - even if you don"t want to listen to a thing I say.

Heh I respect you too much to force you to read Twilight in college. Thanks for the offer though, I plan to rewrite the myth of Perseus and Andromeda next or a supernatural mystery with the seven sins, whatever comes first, so I will remember the offer for those, that are more in line something you will like.

Talking about YA...
So I finished my second draft of the first book supernatural romance YA novel (80,000 words as of now), since we are going to be needing more money soon I finally muster the courage to set a date to start sending query letters. I still need to polish the grammar and I plan to hire a professional editor but first I want to test the plot and characters as it is. So if any of you is a fan of the genre and is interesting on test reading it please leave me an email so I will sent you a brief description and see if you are still interested I will sent you a PDF copy with a set of questions I will need answered and of course any suggestion.
Please only people with real interest and time to do this I have a personal goal of starting the sending before May so this is something that is kind of urgent. Thanks on advance.

P.S.
Word of warning this is Twilight meets Harry Potter, or like one of my friends say Twilight with Wizards so if you have issues with any of both of this books this is not the trilogy for you.

Hey, I"ll read it for you - even if you don"t want to listen to a thing I say.

P.S.
Word of warning this is Twilight meets Harry Potter, or like one of my friends say Twilight with Wizards so if you have issues with any of both of this books this is not the trilogy for you.