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Re: When men cry...
None of them sound blokey to me. Bawl - babyish Bemoan - it sounds alien to me. So if you've ever got an alien crying I'd go with this one. ...
Apr 24, 2006 -
Re: When men cry...
You'd think there'd be an bloke sort of word for crying. "weep" and "tears" and all those other words sound way to girly.
Apr 24, 2006 -
Re: Obliterating Skimming or Skipping
It occured to me that I've mentioned several times that I skim or skip things in books, and then stand up for my right to do so. Lots of people ...
Apr 24, 2006 -
Re: When men cry...
I was going to suggest something like what someone else said, where you describe the tears. The guys I've seen cry tend to also be very very angry. Probably pretty ...
Apr 24, 2006 -
Re: Story Ideas/Character Names
I never seem to have much trouble with plots, but naming ... *shudder* I can do it for real names. Like, for people with names in our world. One day ...
Apr 14, 2006 -
Re: detail-dumping - rated for language
Hello, I'm El. *everyone chorus's: Hello El!* And I have a tendancy to skip large blocks of text, especially dumpings. *cries of "it's okay" and "everyone skips thing sometimes* And ...
Apr 14, 2006 -
Re: Creating an Evil Character
You see, most evil characters start off good. Some of the greatest mass murderers of history started off from humble origins and did murder in the name of the better ...
Apr 13, 2006 -
Re: Gender
Yes! The blogs are the answer to all the big questions of life!
Mar 11, 2006 -
Re: Gender
And just talk to guys. I can't see many of the guys I know giving you deep, meaningful insites into themselves and their minds ... at least not without giving ...
Mar 6, 2006 -
Re: Need opinions - Is this clothing well described?
You're saying what you did to it a lot. Like "I sewed" and so on. I don't know ... that gets to me. Like you're not describing what they guy's ...
Mar 4, 2006 -
Re: how do i draw the reader in...?
Well, if you ask me you've got to tell it like you're talking to the audience while bouncing up and down doing hand signals with the excitment of it all. ...
Mar 3, 2006 -
Re: GAH! I hate this sentence!
Yeah, I'm with Smaur on this one. What I noticed about it's annoyingness was not the adjectives but the way the sentences was put together. The conjunctions and whatnot. I'm ...
Mar 3, 2006 -
Re: Need opinions - Is this clothing well described?
Do you still want my tips then? Well, you can have them anyway. You're saying what you did to it a lot. Like "I sewed" and so on. I don't ...
Mar 3, 2006 -
Re: I'm over attached to chappies.....
I think you'll scare more critiquers away with longer posts than with shorter ones ... but I don't really know how long chapters ought to be, because you can really ...
Jan 28, 2006 -
Re: Um... (peeking over shoulder)
Well, get a huge rock or a large piece of furniture and put it behind the door instead. After all, you're not locking it, are you?
Jan 28, 2006
