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Flemzo

  • Writing Tips Re: Writing a seizure

    To answer the questions: Vietnam is what I know most about. Also, it's the most interesting war in regards to America's reaction. Most of the population was against the war ...

    May 11, 2012
  • Writing Tips Re: Writing a seizure

    I'm currently brainstorming a novel about a Vietnam veteran dealing with his PTSD and depression. At one point, he'll be admitted to a psych hospital, and part of his treatment ...

    May 10, 2012
  • Writing Tips Re: Rewriting?

    Recently I decided to revisit a novel I wrote a couple of years ago. I realized as I was writing it that later chapters were turning out "perfect" while the ...

    Dec 24, 2011
  • Writing Tutorials Re: Getting Over Your Fear of Scripts

    I'm currently writing a play, which is a pretty big venture. Writing a play, I'm learning, is like writing a novel, except a lot of the description needs to be ...

    Aug 1, 2011
  • Writers Corner Re: High School students: 8. 9, 10 or 12 grade students?

    As a fellow college student who went through the American high school system, I think your story would be much more believable if you used 11th graders (juniors) than 9th ...

    Jan 30, 2009
  • Miscellaneous Re: Copyright Law and YWS

    I recently attended a national convention for the American Music Therapy Association, and one of the sessions I attended was about copyright law. While the main focus of the session ...

    Nov 24, 2008
  • Writing Tips Re: Planning 101

    After getting back into the Goosebumps series (by R.L. Stein, my FAVORITE writer in fifth grade), I had the crazy idea to write a choose-your-own-adventure novel. I know it's a ...

    Aug 9, 2008
  • Research Re: Searching for "S" words

    there's a certain word i like to say that begins with S, but i'm not allowed to say it here.

    Jun 3, 2008
  • Writing Tips Re: Passed or Past?

    hah, all these answers and nothing was helpful. try replacing the word with a different word, so for "passed" we'll put "overtook", and for "past" we'll put "previous" so "Which ...

    Apr 28, 2008
  • Research Re: Music instruments

    I'm currently writing a book about a group of college musicians forming a band. The sound of their style is going to (most likely, anyways. I'm not too sure yet.) ...

    Apr 9, 2008
  • Research Re: Ma'am

    I agree with Areida. I use "Sir" and "Ma'am" on the phone at work, and when people at church are talking to me. I don't use it in the house ...

    Dec 29, 2007
  • Research Re: The Epic Search To Fill The Cliche Bank

    The end should be a huge battle, where the heroes appear to be losing, but then miraculously a minor character from earlier in the story reappears and sacrifices himself to ...

    Nov 23, 2007
  • Research Re: Rebellion

    Read A Tale of Two Cities for some good ideas on torture. If you don't want to go through that agony, here's basically how it goes: a group forms, they ...

    Nov 23, 2007
  • Writers Corner Re: Writing in Spanish...

    go for it. i don't speak spanish, but if i really wanted to critique it, there's always ...

    Aug 19, 2007
  • Research Re: Variables in Math

    Time is an independant variable. All things depend on time. As time increases, the population of a certain country either increases or decreases with it. A lot of statistics that ...

    Jul 30, 2007


Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not.
— Elias Root Beadle