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  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: Caffeine

    Wow. As wacky and almost nonsensical as this piece was, it really hit home with me. Something about it was just so raw and vulnerable. Really a great piece. The ...

    Oct 18, 2009
  • Lounge, The Re: discussion on Twilight (and Eragon)

    just out of curiosity, what came first on the list? Harry Potter was first, I believe.

    Oct 14, 2009
  • Randomosity Re: What random thing did you do today?

    Used an electric stapler, was dazzled by it, looked it up and found out that they've been around for a long time. I didn't even know such a thing as ...

    Oct 13, 2009
  • Other Poetry Re: For Vonnegut - Ego Tastes like Burnt Toast

    I loved this. It was so eccentric and frustrated, and yet entirely in earnest. It was disjointed, yet the emotion comes across so clearly. yet I’ve got MY Ego still, ...

    Oct 13, 2009
  • Fiction Discussion Re: PLEASE help make a list of sci-fi and fantasy cliches

    Destiny. Oh how I loathe "destiny". Let the characters do something on their own, rather than being "destined" to do it. Or have them do something completely contrary to what ...

    Oct 13, 2009
  • Fiction Discussion Re: Don't Reveal your Plotline

    I've heard that before and I agree. Taking this to its extreme, this is why I have a hard time outlining. I'm very much a seat-of-the-pants writer, so I start ...

    Oct 13, 2009
  • Writing Tips Re: Symbolic character name help?

    *hugs* Thank you all so much. My brother has read Percy Jackson and is trying to get me to read them. I guess I should now. :) I'm thinking "Hayden" ...

    Oct 13, 2009
  • Writing Tips Re: Symbolic character name help?

    So my NaNo this year is borrowing heavily from the Hades/Persephone myth and I am trying to name my characters accordingly. My stand-in for Pesephone is named Percival (and gets ...

    Oct 13, 2009
  • Lounge, The Re: What musical album has affected your writing most?

    *bows low before Merlin34* After being introduced to Dragonforce by this very thread, it has been an incredible influence on my writing. It's hard for me to pick a single ...

    Oct 13, 2009
  • Lounge, The Re: What musical album has affected your writing most?

    *bows low before Merlin34* After being introduced to Dragonforce by this very thread, it has been an incredible influence on my writing. It's hard for me to pick a single ...

    Oct 13, 2009
  • Scripts Re: Road Trip

    First of all, I want to see what happens from here on in. It's a bit short and without resolution as a stand-alone piece, but if it were to be ...

    Oct 13, 2009
  • NovMo Archives Re: NaNoWriMo Survival Kits

    Now see, isn’t my list so much cooler then Gryph’s with his fingerless gloves and his health conscious ‘water.’ You mean 'her'? ;) *headdesk for not thinking of slippers*

    Oct 9, 2009
  • NovMo Archives Re: NaNoWriMo Survival Kits

    Page from : The question is, what do you put in your NaNo survival kit? That is, what supplies do you find essential to the NaNo writing (and sometimes just ...

    Oct 8, 2009
  • NovMo Archives Re: Who's ready for NaNoWriMo?

    Ah, Time. I've got too much of it actually: two days a week with 5 hours on the computer each day. If I don't own NaNo with time like that, ...

    Oct 6, 2009
  • Action/Adventure Novels Re: The Janitors Prologue (Trash)

    Let me just start off by saying that your title hooked me. I don't know what it was, but for some reason, seeing a story called "The Janitors" in Action/Adventure ...

    Oct 6, 2009


I have lived through much, and now I think I have found what is needed for happiness. A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good... then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor - such is my idea of happiness.
— Leo Tolstoy