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Derek

  • Lounge, The Re: Story location, Texas, or Arizona. Need help.

    Thanks guys. Sorry I didn't reply sooner! Yea, it's been hard to find a good place with my standards. I just figure a real city can be related too. Perhaps ...

    Nov 14, 2009
  • Lounge, The Re: Story location, Texas, or Arizona. Need help.

    The novel I'm currently writing is taking place in Texas, or Arizona for the simple fact that both states tend to have cities, surrounded by endless desert and roads. I ...

    Nov 11, 2009
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Twilight vs. Harry potter

    Of course, not all of us are bland. [Especially us writers ;)] But her parents were divorced and she lived the life of what seams a normal average teenager(till she ...

    Dec 3, 2008
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Twilight vs. Harry potter

    The characters are bland, the main character is a whiney, typical teenager. Whoopdidoo. Exactly, a modern teenager. Did you expect her to be different and sophisticated or unlike every other ...

    Dec 3, 2008
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Are cliches a bad thing?

    Cliche's are overrated lol. People expect completely original books which is impossible. Not to mention a lot of cliche's might not even seam like a cliche to you because it's ...

    Dec 3, 2008
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Twilight vs. Harry potter

    I have read them, and I am sorry, but lots of sex doesn't count as "in-depth" to me. They had sex on their honeymoon, more then once of course, and ...

    Dec 2, 2008
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Twilight vs. Harry potter

    I never mention being fast/strong. I know "some" story's use that Also, not all vampires have used those abilities in the past, only in anime, or comic like situations. The ...

    Dec 2, 2008
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Should you give change to the homeless?

    I have a good story :). My church group was on a youth conference and we stopped at the gas station to pick up some snacks and drinks for ourselves ...

    Dec 2, 2008
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Twilight vs. Harry potter

    I agree with you on the originality of Harry Potter but Twilight is pretty original as well. Vampire's being perfect human beings, shining diamond skin in the sunlight, each with ...

    Dec 2, 2008
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Twilight vs. Harry potter

    To some degree of course. Thought I can say I've met people who worship each other. It's not that unrealistic.

    Dec 2, 2008
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Twilight vs. Harry potter

    I think they shouldn't even be compared? Harry Potter is a much longer series based on magic and witchcraft. Twilight is based on vampires and the love of Bella and ...

    Dec 2, 2008
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: The Bible: Literal or Allegory?

    I can think of one thing. Remember the man who read a passage of the bible, and thought that, by literal meaning, to cut of his hand? There was a ...

    Aug 26, 2008
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Is the word retard a "bad word"?

    It's strange. I used the word when i am talking to my friends. or for example. "That teacher is so retarded" I don't mean to insult anyone that is mentally ...

    Aug 26, 2008
  • Official Polls Re: Would you pay to remove ads?

    I'm kinda getting tired of that createspace guy being all over the screen though >_>

    Aug 10, 2008
  • Official Polls Re: Would you pay to remove ads?

    Nate. If you do add the pay for ad removal, it's completely optional. I would pay for it just for the sake of helping out YWS. So would a lot ...

    Jul 21, 2008


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