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  • Writing Tips Re: 7 Simple Rules for Stronger Prose

    On 'said'- I'll use it sometimes. But what I use more of is what I call "action tags" which describe the character's body language. If you want to let readers ...

    Nov 11, 2010
  • Writing Tips Re: 7 Simple Rules for Stronger Prose

    I've seen this set before, and I still disagree with #1. I doubt this, as I only wrote it an hour ago. =P Anyway! I swear I've seen something so ...

    Nov 10, 2010
  • Writing Tips Re: 7 Simple Rules for Stronger Prose

    I've seen this set before, and I still disagree with #1. "Said" is bland. It conveys only that words have been spoken, and requires further description to express volume, emotional ...

    Nov 10, 2010
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Is homosexuality a choice or a result of nature?

    Why are you confused? This matter is plainly stated in Bible. Lookie here.... 1 Corinthians 6:9–10 9 Or ado you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom ...

    Nov 10, 2010
  • Writing Tips Re: Unusual Dialogue Patterns: yay or nay?

    It's not so much a difference between the accent and "normal" speech as it is the difference between two regional dialects, kind of like the way I speak being from ...

    Nov 10, 2010
  • Writing Tips Re: Need help on my beginning !

    You also don't have to explain the entire problem right away. If the angel believes humans are the problem with the world, he/she will probably act unsympathetic towards them. We ...

    Nov 9, 2010
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Stereotyping

    In other news...white, Cherokee, German, possessed, ducks. Name the first word you thought of for each. Milk, Jeep Grand, chocolate, Sam Winchester, cute. What does it meeeaaaan?!?! :smt002

    Nov 8, 2010
  • Writing Tips Re: Unusual Dialogue Patterns: yay or nay?

    I'm not talking about writing out dialogue in Cockney or changing the spelling of "no" to "nae" so it sounds like a thick Scottish brogue, but more about characters who ...

    Nov 8, 2010
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: War With Iran...

    People often mistakenly assume that the act of engaging in WWII is what saved the US from the Great Depression, but this is not true. War is expensive . It ...

    Nov 4, 2010
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Stereotyping

    Stereotypes are funny because they are generalizations and they are meant to be generalizations, but in them we always see a grain of truth. I make jokes about Italians being ...

    Oct 26, 2010
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Racial Profiling in the 21st Century

    Where did the idea of this being a policy come from? It certainly didn't come from Williams' remarks. He was speaking of Muslims marking themselves openly as Muslim by their ...

    Oct 26, 2010
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Racial Profiling in the 21st Century

    There are two types of racial profiling. The kind that stirred the controversy that began this discussion is the personal, unavoidable kind. Everyone does it. In the US, seeing an ...

    Oct 23, 2010
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Racial Profiling in the 21st Century

    The US always needs some group to look down on. It's gone from African slaves to free Black Americans to the Irish to Eastern Europeans to the Japanese to now ...

    Oct 23, 2010
  • Lounge, The Re: The "Different" Questionnaire - All Answer!

    Un: You are hanging for dear life off the edge of a cliff face. Explain your thoughts in no more than two words. "Oh sh**!" Deux: What's your favourite type ...

    Oct 23, 2010
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Racial Profiling in the 21st Century

    Who has been suggesting this exactly? Anyone of political importance or just your standard internet nutball responding to online news articles/ignorant family member?

    Oct 23, 2010


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