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Re: Cliche's and Something for Everyone
Perhaps I've merely misunderstood what this thread is all about (and if I have please inform me.) but I've always thought that when you're writing something it was best to ...
Jun 20, 2008 -
Re: Cliche's and Something for Everyone
Perhaps I've merely misunderstood what this thread is all about (and if I have please inform me.) but I've always thought that when you're writing something it was best to ...
Jun 15, 2008 -
Re: Constantly Risking Absurdity
It's strange...I don't see too many of these kinds of poems nowadays...I miss them...
Jun 15, 2008 -
Re: First Novel?
Keep your first novel. I have. And I'm glad that I haven't published it or thrown it away. It's horrible stuff, really. But looking back at it, it definitely keeps ...
Jun 12, 2008 -
Re: Haiku Battle!
I never say much. But when I do speak it's clear, I know quite a bit.
May 4, 2008 -
Re: What are you reading at the moment?
Just started Uncle Tom's Cabin for the first time ever. Feel stupid admitting I haven't read a classic like that. I'm also studying the Bible for the first time in ...
Apr 15, 2008 -
Re: Perfect Characters?
I used to write perfect characters. But after a while I stopped. It's not like writing someone who has a problem or suffers from an internal condition. Nowadays pretty much ...
Apr 10, 2008 -
Re: Takes one to write one?
Every antagonist I've created I've partially based off of myself. I'm not insane. I just have a few traits I think some antagonists could benefit from having....
Apr 9, 2008 -
Re: Rose Madder, Stephen King
I haven't read King in a long time...I'll have to look this one up. King used to be my favorite author.
Apr 7, 2008 -
Re: Swearing In Stories
I don't swear that often; probably because if anyone in my family saw it they'd be pissed. But swearing - especially f--k and b--ch and s--t, they just degrade the ...
Apr 5, 2008 -
Re: Your favourite tense?
I tried to write a book in the present tense once with a first-person viewpoint; it was the most difficult thing I've ever tried. I abandoned the idea after that. ...
Apr 4, 2008 -
Re: Swearing In Stories
I don't swear that often; probably because if anyone in my family saw it they'd be pissed. But swearing - especially f--k and b--ch and s--t, they just degrade the ...
Apr 4, 2008 -
Re: Torturing your character
...I thought this was a literal question about real torture...I would've said it couldn't hurt to remind your character what physical pain really is like...Never mind that though.
Mar 19, 2008 -
Re: The Rum Diary
Let me see...this takes place in the 1950's. This guy is a journalist, as I mentioned. He dropped out of Vanderbilt, went to New York and he'd been working as ...
Mar 18, 2008 -
Re: The Rum Diary
Has anybody else read this? Fantastic read, for older writers on here, anyways. The story's about A journalist that moves out to San Juan, trying to scratch a living among ...
Mar 18, 2008
