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David Guinness

  • Writing Tips Re: Proofreading Marks

    Handy resource, Snoink. I'll use this! :)

    Sep 23, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Chapter 5 Opening Proving Difficult...

    I'll be back with a few more suggestions shortly, hopefully... but for now: I would reformat most of your dialogue in the first couple of chapters, into individual indented paragraphs. ...

    Sep 11, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Constructing an outline?

    This is very helpful, Snoink. Thanks for posting this.

    Aug 30, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Serpents On An Aircraft

    Very professional review... I think I'll skip Snakes On A Plane, though... :) Though I might see Serpents On An Aircraft. :D

    Aug 27, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Fluent In Spanish? I Need Help To Produce YWS Spanish

    That's a good point about dialects, Dan... Nate, would you prefer YWS Spanish to closer to Traditional (Spain) Spanish, or Latin American Spanish? With most of the translation, there wouldn't ...

    Aug 26, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Dictionary.com sold out! Now what?? I need new writing tool

    Oh- Poor Imp's right, J. I. Rodale's The Synonym Finder is an excellent thesaurus (over one million terms!).

    Aug 25, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Fluent In Spanish? I Need Help To Produce YWS Spanish

    I'm in my third year of Spanish... I probably don't know enough to really help, but my father's a fluent bilingual I'll offer both our services... ;)

    Aug 25, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Dictionary.com sold out! Now what?? I need new writing tool

    Hmm.. I agree with Nate on this; I really like the new layout: it's much more streamlined. I use for most definitions (through Google, then definition, on the top right ...

    Aug 25, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Procrastination

    I'd like a reading buddy... :( Though I have nothing for you to read at the moment... :D

    Aug 21, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Cool Feature in Word

    I've never seen this view... interesting.... ;) Oh, I see... it's for Microsoft Word 2004. Darn it. I'm just a year behind. Perhaps they'll release an update for those with ...

    Aug 21, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Objects to Prompt You...

    I listen to a piece of music I'm working on to give me inspiration for my characters. I try to use objects when I can, but I usually don't have ...

    Aug 20, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Starting and Ending

    I start basically all writing projects the same way- making an outline, and or just pre-writing, getting any ideas I want to include down on paper. There are plenty of ...

    Aug 19, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Essay Elaboration

    Very, very true. Thank you, Snoink.

    Aug 17, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Essay Elaboration

    I have a question that's troubled me for quite some time now. How do you elaborate and lengthen essays? The longest essays I have written have been about five hundred ...

    Aug 17, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Discipline, oh my!

    The best work I've done has been produced in a noisy classroom. I guess it's the stimulating atmosphere. Perhaps it's that the noise is so completely monotonous (albeit loud) that ...

    Aug 10, 2006


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