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  • Writers Corner Re: dream sequence stryline

    It's a cheap "twist" if you go the entire story without any indication that the events therein are anything but the reality of the story. In that case, you're basically ...

    Jun 27, 2011
  • Information Desk Archive Re: Changes to Recent Additions Searches

    I think what she meant was is it still counted in the number of posts in the thread? And I think they are. There isn't really an easy/efficient way to ...

    Jun 27, 2011
  • Information Desk Archive Re: Report A Site Bug

    Time of Incident (include your timezone): 5 PM EST Browser: IE 8.0 Page You Were On: Every page Describe What Happened: The ad in the footer makes things disappear on ...

    Jun 27, 2011
  • Writing Tips Re: Tips on Writng Believable Dialogue?

    Reading your dialogue out loud (or having someone else read it aloud to you) is also a good idea. You'll be able to hear if something sounds unnatural, especially since ...

    Jun 27, 2011
  • Writing Tips Re: Things that go boom

    There's also "the plane blew apart/disintegrated into pieces of flaming shrapnel". Another possible route would be to describe the explosion indirectly. Stuff like, "Where once flew an enemy plane dri

    Jun 22, 2011
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: 100-word stories [+New 6/22]

    Those Freaking Flaming Chipmunks Chipmunks killed my car. They’d made a nest in the engine and chewed up some crucial wiring, so when I went to start my car to ...

    Jun 22, 2011
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: The Battle Within*Revised*

    Unlike Unicorn, I knew what was happening to Thea pretty early on without having read the spoiler, and it annoyed me how roundabout you were dealing with the issue. You ...

    Jun 22, 2011
  • Science-Fiction Short Stories Re: Thientiths

    I could have sworn I reviewed this ages ago (as in, when it was on the front page right after you submitted it), but apparently not. So here I am ...

    Jun 20, 2011
  • Research Re: Un Capitano Moro

    Un Capitano Moro was written by Giovanni Battista Giraldi (also known as Giraldi Cinthio), with the Gil Hecatommithi being a collection of his stories, which is probably why you haven't ...

    Jun 20, 2011
  • Writers Corner Re: 1st or 3rd?

    Which do you think is better? You know more about the story than we ever will, after all, so you're the best one to figure out which person would be ...

    Jun 20, 2011
  • Archive Re: Garden of the Cursed *UPDATED* [Started | Full]

    Name: Sister Elena Gender: Female Age: 32 (mentally, 14) Ability Set/Skills: Acting; adorability; and pure, unadulterated Cr@Zy Appearance: Soft, brown hair with a gentle wave, cut simply to shoulder-

    Jun 15, 2011
  • Grammar & Research Re: Prose: What It Is (And Is Not)

    For a while now, I've noticed a trend towards using the term "prose" to refer poetry, and not in the sense that a poem was more prose-like* than traditionally poetic. ...

    Jun 15, 2011
  • Writer's Market Re: Wordstock Short Fiction Competition

    This international contest is a “double blind” competition. The judges, a collection of writers, academics, publishers, bookstore owners, and literary critics, will choose 10 finalists. All 10 fin

    Jun 14, 2011
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Religion causes more problems than it solves

    The entire idea that life came from something not alive is false. Assuming that all life was created by God, and that "alive" refers to having a physical form, before ...

    Jun 12, 2011
  • General Articles Re: I write for homeless perverts!

    This was rather difficult to read, for several reasons. First off, your punctuation was inconsistent, especially regarding question marks. Most of your questions end in periods, which makes your reade

    Jun 11, 2011


Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
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