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Re: How Much Planning
o.o;; I'm currently writing a story taking place in a cafe. I wrote an entire dessert and drinks menu, including the types of fillings and icings on every cake, and ...
Aug 7, 2008 -
Re: Paranormal Romance?
I think that just having the word "paranormal" in there means that there has to be something unrealistic about the situation. I like that term, "paranormal faucets". However, I don't ...
Jul 23, 2008 -
Re: Need some help with my story :)
Honestly, bringing across the emotions and moods that I'm feeling through my writing is absolutely the hardest thing for me to do, but then I work on it so much ...
Jul 23, 2008 -
Re: Has anybody an all time favourite poem?
With things that I love, it's always impossible for me to choose favorites, but I suppose that in poetry, I can break it up into my favorite poem from a ...
Jul 23, 2008 -
Re: Cliche's and Something for Everyone
If you're writing a sort of romance, there are plenty of cliches piled up. Shy Girl suddenly catches eye of Popular Guy (an example of the Romeo and Juliet, High ...
Jun 10, 2008 -
Re: What's to be done when the angst is gone?
Poetry is about expression, and trying to express exactly what it is you feel. Maybe you could try a hand at something happy. Even if you're not very good at ...
Jun 10, 2008 -
Re: Do people think your strories are cliche?
Just because someone claims something to be cliche doesn't necessarily make it true. I've read stories that have been taken from the authors' own lives that have been called cliche ...
Jun 5, 2008 -
Re: Showing Time
I agree with Phindin. Sometimes, if something doesn't really add to the plot, then it's all right to simply move forward instead of lingering on every small detail. If nothing ...
Jun 5, 2008 -
Re: What influenced you to write what you are writing right now?
The dragon saves the knight from the evil princess? Heh. Close, but not quite. I actually thought of that one, but figured it would be a little tougher to pull ...
Jun 5, 2008 -
Re: That's just a pipe dream!
Many of my friends are also writers (as well as anime geeks) so we have a nice circle of similar interests, constructive criticism, and creative help and collaboration. My parents ...
May 7, 2008 -
Re: Extremely dangerous, keep out of reach of children
I could never use charts either >.> They feel too much like personal ads, you know? "Likes to ride horses along the beach and dislikes onions on her pizza." It ...
May 7, 2008 -
Re: All Poets Should Read This
Of course poetry doesn't have to follow good grammar or spelling =O It's called poetic license! Syntax is a powerful tool in poetry and its manipulation can make the piece ...
May 4, 2008 -
Re: Types of Poetic Structure
A sonnet usually has two or three points where the tone changes. Shakespearean sonnets ask a question or address a topic in the first two lines, elaborate on it for ...
May 4, 2008 -
Re: How do you write poetry?
First, I think about my subject. Am I trying to write about a specific thing, person, place, idea? I've written poems about love, best friends, flowers, cats, and superstition so ...
May 4, 2008 -
Re: Takes one to write one?
I believe that every person has a little of everything in him/herself. A romantic, a ditz, an aristocrat, a scholar, a manipulator, a sadist, a hero, a villain. You don't ...
May 4, 2008
