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  • Writing Tips Re: Drama Club

    I remember in elementary school (6th grade, I believe) we did a spoof on Little Red Riding Hood called "The Trial of the Big Bad Wolf." It was a musical, ...

    Dec 20, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: What's gone wrong?

    If you'd like to keep the same general wording, I'd try something more like this: The wound was deep; the aim had been deadly accurate. Sometimes when a sentence is ...

    Dec 19, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Anyone try acting?

    This would never have worked before, but now that I'm attending a college whose main draw is its drama program, I'm going to have to give it a try!

    Dec 18, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: How to Write Poetry

    I bow to your genius, Sir Incan. XD

    Dec 18, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: A Big Book Of Characters

    This is great, Phorcys... thanks for posting!

    Nov 13, 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
  • 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
  • Writing Tips Re: Character nams

    I've been writing so long that I have a huge mental database of names... and since I put a lot of stock in meanings, my friends find it amusing to ...

    Nov 5, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Looking for a good book?

    "The Name of the Rose," Umberto Eco

    Oct 22, 2006
  • Research Re: Wicca Society

    If you give me the questions you need answered, I'll relay them to my roommate; she's Wiccan. Maybe she can recommend some good sites/books, as well...

    Oct 22, 2006
  • Research Re: Last names/Surnames?

    I dunno... in school, especially elementary or middle, it was last name, but outside of class--and now in college--I've always heard surname. And I've always used surname, too. Just about ...

    Oct 18, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Titles...

    Just PM'd you my suggestion. ;)

    Oct 16, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Any Exceptional Books About Writing?

    Galatea >> I loved that book! I left my copy at home when I left for college... and yes, I miss it. =0)

    Oct 14, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: The Color Thesaurus

    AHHHH! Dude, CL - I'm bookmarking this. It's too good not to bookmark.

    Oct 7, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Calvin & Hobbes Comic Strip On Writing

    All right... I won't lie... I definitely b.s.'d my way through senior English, mostly because we never had any interesting assignments I could sink my teeth into... yup, and passed ...

    Aug 24, 2006


Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.
— Kate Chopin, The Awakening