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  • Writing Tips Re: Make Your Readers Feel

    Shafter: Well, research is your best friend. For medical things I tend to use because they have a good list of symptoms and so forth so you can at least ...

    Mar 2, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: Fantasy writing tips anyone?

    *note* I haven't read anything above XD If we could get a good list of links/articles about fantasy fiction, I'd be glad to make a sticky about it in that ...

    Mar 2, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: Posting Checklist

    I usually try not to respond to their work. But then you're being bias! lol. You have to think of it like this: 1) They are like you assume, and ...

    Feb 28, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: Posting Checklist

    Think I could take these and make them stickies in the Fiction Section without you minding? I'm not sure how often people actually read the stickies, but this would be ...

    Feb 28, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: Make Your Readers Feel

    good, I'm not the only one terrified of having teeth ripped out...

    Feb 26, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: Make Your Readers Feel

    Make Your Readers Feel By: Claudette I was reading Against Nature by J.-K. Huysmans when I came across a paragraph that made me shudder. ‘It has been filled before. I’m ...

    Feb 26, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: Catchy Title

    What's sad is that a lot of great stories go unnoticed because of boring titles. If you are talking about books in book stores, its a little hard to judge ...

    Feb 25, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: Cal's Hyde Park Corner Soapbox Oration #4

    I really enjoyed this! It was so helpful, most on the POV part because I've been thinking over POV changes for my novel, and whether I can actually achieve this ...

    Feb 25, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: On Subjectivity in Poetry

    *claps* I only hope the several members who I told that they need to get structure of some form into their work to make it better and then argued with ...

    Feb 24, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: Catchy Title

    FREAK That's my title. Razz The Act of Vanity , perhaps? :P I've never used that formal for titles. I take words from my story, or like with my novel, ...

    Feb 24, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: Semicolons

    Hmmm... Too bad I don't have my grammar book with me. There are like four different uses for Semicolons! or...some number thats numeric like that. But you are right, this ...

    Feb 24, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: Semicolons

    OMG, this is great. Now I can finally have a more explainable way to explain semicolons to Luna... or rather you do. What about all the other weird cases where ...

    Feb 24, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: Do I need the period?

    Well technically Mrs is an abbreviation, right? So it should end in a period. But I do see what your saying, though I've always noticed it with a period even ...

    Feb 23, 2007
  • Writers Corner Re: SAS?

    I'm...not compeltely sure this is the place for questions like these—More like writing tips or something. I'd like it if it was science fiction, AS IN you knew a lot ...

    Feb 17, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: How do you hook someone in?

    How do you hook someone into a story? simple. Conflict. That doesn't really mean ACTION, ACTION, ACTION! But, conflict. And, rising and falling conflict is always fun. Get a character, ...

    Feb 17, 2007


He who knows only his own generation remains forever a child.
— Cicero