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  • Media Reviews Re: Good Dark Fiction

    Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo. It's an oldy but a goody, dark political story about a Soldier that gets all of his extremities blown off and is stuck ...

    Sep 17, 2009
  • Media Reviews Re: Finnegans Wake (James Joyce)

    Ha, ha. Well put, sir.

    Sep 10, 2009
  • Media Reviews Re: Finnegans Wake (James Joyce)

    It's awesome if you're a linguist. He mixes a lot of different langauges together in the same sentences, constantly making quips and puns that I'm sure he was the only ...

    Sep 10, 2009
  • Writing Activities Re: Haiku Train

    Helpful McHelpfulpants, I love your name! uncounted, loveless "Son cosas de la vida," buck up, yellow-gut

    Apr 27, 2009
  • Writing Activities Re: Haiku Train

    Will never happened upon a lesser carnage birds eat cats eat men

    Apr 27, 2009
  • Writing Activities Re: Inspiring lines from songlyrics

    Here's a passage from the song The Drowning by The Haunted. The singing and the guitars do quite well to accent the amazingness of this part. "As I close my ...

    Apr 26, 2009
  • Writing Activities Re: Rate the first sentence above you

    I'll give it a 7, because it at leasts makes me wonder who 'they' are, and why they share the same revulsion of air moisture. :P “Here, take this, it’ll ...

    Apr 26, 2009
  • Writing Activities Re: Haiku Train

    This is pretty simple and can be lots of fun. The premise is you take the last line of the haiku before yours and make it the first as yours. ...

    Apr 26, 2009
  • Fiction Discussion Re: Would a character smoking in a novel bother you?

    People smoke in real life, 'nuff said.

    Mar 10, 2009
  • Writing Activities Re: Speedwrite the word above you!

    Logotherapy.

    Mar 1, 2009


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