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J. Wilder

  • Research Re: Jobs that require moving overseas?

    Maybe a hotel manager for one of the international chains?

    Mar 30, 2010
  • Research Archives Re: Drug Addicts

    I have to disagree with Moriah Leila about peer pressure. People do drugs because they want to do them. "Peer pressure" is just an excuse. Druggies, as Wilder referred to ...

    Feb 8, 2010
  • Fiction Discussion Re: Is the short story dead?

    I actually really want to write short stories, but I feel like I can't. My ideas have always been for novels. Maybe it's because on average I really prefer reading ...

    Feb 8, 2010
  • Fiction Discussion Re: I have a question about Snow.

    I wasn’t raised around snow either but I currently live in ski town, work at a ski resort, and snowboard to work everyday. The texture varies a lot depending on ...

    Feb 8, 2010
  • Lounge, The Re: Writing tips

    I tried to look for that quote from Lois Lowry, but actually all I could find was her telling kids who want to be writers to read and write a ...

    Jan 11, 2010
  • Action/Adventure Novels Re: ARC 4

    Something about it makes me think it might work better as a movie than as a story/novel, but maybe not. I do think the first person works well. You might ...

    Nov 18, 2009
  • Action/Adventure Short Stories Re: Winter

    I think you do a good job of getting the reader to clearly picture the scene. I like the characters in HMYOI Huntercombe so far. The girl doesn't seem as ...

    Nov 18, 2009
  • Fiction Discussion Re: Swearing In Stories

    I think people should use (or not use) swearwords like they use (or don’t use) any other words. If it fits, use it, and if it doesn’t fit, don’t. Some ...

    Oct 19, 2009
  • Research Archives Re: Drug Addicts

    If you're writing about somebody addicted to one of those three drugs, it's going to be cocaine. Acid isn't addictive and neither is weed. The best site out there for ...

    Oct 15, 2009
  • Research Re: Question About My Character...

    I thought 5'9" was average height for a guy. I'm sure it depends on the country, though. Anyway in my group of friends we refer to any guy 5'7" or ...

    Oct 15, 2009
  • Lounge, The Re: Personality Test

    I've been interested in Meyers-Briggs for years. I don't know why. moderately extroverted moderately intuitive distinctively thinking moderately perceiving I've also taken it for my characters in the

    Oct 11, 2009
  • Lounge, The Re: Writing As A Career

    I don't get the point of majoring in English to be a writer. If you want to write, write--there's no need to pay thousands of dollars a year for classes. ...

    Oct 11, 2009
  • Lounge, The Re: Writing short stories for school...Not so short.

    Once we had to write a short story, five pages maximum. I tried to get around this by using font size 8 and single spacing. I wrote four pages like ...

    Oct 11, 2009
  • Writing Activities Re: You know you're a writer when...

    You know you're a writer when you start narrating your own actions in your head When any time anyone speaks, you add a mental description. ("She said while stroking her ...

    Jul 2, 2009
  • Research Re: Pirates

    You need to remember that being a pirate isn't something that people envied (despite what pirates of the caribbean say, very few dreamed about them) they were hated, hunted and ...

    Jul 2, 2009


If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.
— Mo Willems