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  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Humanities Departments getting nixed; cause for alarm?

    Economics/business degrees in particular need languages to be the most versatile (granted, not all tycoons have multiple languages, but if you want an edge then languages are often the key). ...

    Oct 19, 2010
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Humanities Departments getting nixed; cause for alarm?

    Ethnocentrism was the exact word I was looking for but which my poor brain, as overflowing as it is with the details of viral replication and cellular mechanisms and such, ...

    Oct 18, 2010
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Humanities Departments getting nixed; cause for alarm?

    I, being a science major, used to hate being required to take Arts and Humanities classes not because I disliked the material, but because they were unrelated requirements for my ...

    Oct 18, 2010
  • Other Poetry Re: cherishing the bones

    Late. I know. Please forgive. Thread is called "(Un)timely Reviews" for a reason. --- The first thing I noticed in the first stanza was the inconsistent punctuation -- you sometimes ...

    Oct 18, 2010
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: I Wish I Could Feel the Rain

    Tell me, does the rain fall where you are? Does it sometimes come pouring down in sheets that hammer the roof above your head, even as the thunder rumbles so ...

    Oct 17, 2010
  • Lounge, The Re: Dear YWS, from The Written Chef

    Though gay characters in fantasy aren't uncommon, I avoid stories that advertise their characters based on sexual orientation. More often than not, they have a message to ram down the ...

    Oct 17, 2010
  • Questions and Answers Re: Just Curious:

    Is it just because it's a writing centered site? Yes.

    Oct 17, 2010
  • Research Re: Too many restrictions on sci-fi. help?

    I know you shouldn't reference Earth in Science fiction, unless you really have to. No idea where you got that idea from. Some of the best sci-fi out there takes ...

    Oct 16, 2010
  • Information Desk Archive Re: Report A Site Bug

    Note about the above: When I visited her novel, I got this page: The page she and hockeyfan87 sees is this one:

    Oct 15, 2010
  • Questions and Answers Re: My Novel

    I just checked, and I'm only seeing your parts. Untitled, right?

    Oct 15, 2010
  • Research Re: Cartoon style

    Learn how to draw realism first. Cartoons/comics are exaggerations and/or simplifications of natural forms, so you need to know those forms and how to render them properly before you can ...

    Oct 13, 2010
  • Science-Fiction Short Stories Re: Empty Sky

    I'll admit I was a fair bit leery of this story when I saw it at the top of the Featured Works list. "Sci-fi on the Featured Works?" I thought. ...

    Oct 13, 2010
  • Writing Tips Re: Character Question

    Could we have a couple of examples of her behavior in the story? Also, if you could mention why you think the reactions are unbelievable in those situations, that would ...

    Oct 13, 2010
  • Research Re: Climates, Weather, Environments, The Works.

    If you want to write sci-fi, you're going to have to know your science. ;P

    Oct 13, 2010
  • Writing Activities Re: funny words

    Bricolage

    Oct 13, 2010


The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write?
— Gilles Deleuze