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  • Welcome Mat Re: Fand-tastic!

    Update>> I'm now a mentor! Go me! :elephant:

    Nov 12, 2006
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Can't you see?

    Well done, Sir Trident! ;) I think I'll bookmark this one... it's too priceless to lose in the forums.

    Nov 11, 2006
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: My very short simple story

    This is a story? *raises eyebrows skeptically* Looks more like a rant to me.... Please do not post works on this forum unless you are serious about writing. The Young ...

    Nov 11, 2006
  • Welcome Mat Re: KrystalStars

    'Allo, Krystalstars. And just being my pedantic self--you misspelled 'realm.' You might want to fix that. ;) From what you say, you'd get on well with my sisters--she's a monkey ...

    Nov 11, 2006
  • Welcome Mat Re: Me - green_river

    We SERIOUSLY need to start a vegetarians club here or something... there are so many of us! :D That school of yours sounds pretty awesome, too! We didn't have anything ...

    Nov 11, 2006
  • Randomosity Archive Re: Rate the Signature Above You.

    9/10... it's Maya Angelou!

    Nov 11, 2006
  • Writing Activities Re: Character Answer Game

    Eat. And wield my whips and chains. Booyah, b*tches. - Lynne Avoid stalkers. I'm almost as good at that as I am at attracting them. - Marcy Oy, Charlie--I think ...

    Nov 8, 2006
  • Research Archives Re: Horses v Deer

    A hand equals 4 inches. And as for average heights, at least in terms of horses... it really depends on the type. EDIT: Heh... looks like I was beat to ...

    Nov 8, 2006
  • Welcome Mat Re: I'm not that good at writing... but I sure work hard.

    By the way, whose cat is that in your icon? (S)He's loverly.

    Nov 7, 2006
  • Lounge, The Re: "Harry Potter fans unite!"

    But this time, the advertising isn't for myself. Nonono. It's for the greatest RPG of all time (and I'm not talking Rocket-Propelled Grenades, or whatever it is they call themselves ...

    Nov 7, 2006
  • Lounge, The Re: A Minor Concern

    NaNoWriMo is definitely a big factor right now; though as to that post/crit ratio... it would certainly help if certain newbies *clears throats and sends accusatory glances at CENSORED * ...

    Nov 7, 2006
  • Randomosity Archive Re: Rate the Signature Above You.

    7/10... amusing

    Nov 7, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: "Critiques" - A Word from the Department Head

    Inevitably, I will decide to critique your buddy's post and crush them because you have inflated them with a false sense of worth, and then everybody loses: your buddy is ...

    Nov 6, 2006
  • Welcome Mat Re: I'm not that good at writing... but I sure work hard.

    Massenet! *dies* All the violinists I know looooove Massenet... and I hate him. Hate hate hate. Heh. But you like Nickel Creek, so you are redeemed! ;) And great quote ...

    Nov 6, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: First-person Narration

    A passage from John Barth's "Lost in the Funhouse" came to mind when I read this... just let me find my copy of The Story and Its Writer ... "The ...

    Nov 5, 2006


It had a perfectly round door like a porthole, painted green, with a shiny yellow brass knob in the exact middle. The door opened on to a tube-shaped hall like a tunnel: a very comfortable tunnel without smoke, with panelled walls, and floors tiled and carpeted, provided with polished chairs, and lots and lots of pegs for hats and coats—the hobbit was fond of visitors. The tunnel wound on and on, going fairly but not quite straight into the side of the hill —The Hill, as all the people for many miles round called it—and many little round doors opened out of it, first on one side and then on another.
— JRR Tolkien