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  • Writing Tips Re: A Problem with Plot

    It depends on what you're trying to accomplish with the dreams. A separate dream section works if the dreams are supplemental and can be skipped without harming the main story. ...

    Sep 10, 2012
  • Research Re: Flashback dilemma

    Short answer: it's probably okay. Longer answer: you should be able to get away with it, seeing as how everything before that point, flashbacks and all, were (ideally) building up ...

    Sep 1, 2012
  • Research Re: Point of View Issues

    Jumping between persons is tricky, tricky business, especially within a single chapter. I know. I've tried. And got mixed results. While I've moved away from using the different persons for ...

    Aug 20, 2012
  • OOC Archive Re: Cotton DT

    Read the first post. ;P Basically, yes you can join, and there is no such thing as "too late to join" in this SB. Send your profile!

    Aug 19, 2012
  • Archive Re: Cotton [Come One, Come ALL]

    An Act of God (not really) drowns out the cacophony of screaming victims with a monster hurricane. All along the Atlantic coast, the air is thick with rain turned to ...

    Aug 19, 2012
  • OOC Archive Re: Cotton DT

    Oh dear. It seems I forgot to let everyone know I was taking a very sudden month-long not-vacation. Well, I'm back. And a post shall be arriving soonish.

    Aug 19, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Creationism in schools

    Religion in itself doesn't hold any - let's simply say - profound scientific knowledge, or truth about the origin of the Universe, as it does claim. But it does provide ...

    Aug 14, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Creationism in schools

    @ Enema Withhold can also mean the following: 'keep to oneself' - which is what I meant. I just assumed that it was a direct equivalent of the Swedish definition. ...

    Aug 13, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Creationism in schools

    @ Enema This, however, I did know. But it doesn't invalidate the essence of my point. Actually, it does. You said "it is also certain that the animals who we ...

    Aug 12, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Creationism in schools

    Nr. 1: Different animals are found at different depths, meaning that they lived under different eras. Actually, it's not the depths the fossils are found at, but rather the strata ...

    Aug 12, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: God(s) and Society

    "I don't know the answer, but I know it's not god" Actually, I'd argue that the correct mind-frame is "I don't know the answer, but I know it exists and ...

    Jul 20, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: God(s) and Society

    Now that I've well and truly established that god is pretty bad for people on the whole Wait. You established this where? All I saw was arguing about the Bible. ...

    Jul 20, 2012
  • Writers Corner Re: The Sun Children V Appendices

    I have nothing constructive to say AT ALL, but this thread is so lovely and the worldbuilding is so delicious, I just have to let you know that I've been ...

    Jul 19, 2012
  • Writers Corner Re: Rising Tellurian progress!

    Goshdangit. I wish I could write as fast as you.

    Jul 19, 2012
  • Research Re: What to do about Data Dumps?

    Malfunctions are also a good way of showing more of the inner workings of the machine. Depending on how exactly the machine works, different malfunctions could occur, and these malfunctions ...

    Jul 19, 2012


I cannot separate the aesthetic pleasure of seeing a butterfly and the scientific pleasure of knowing what it is.
— Vladmir Nabokov