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Leja

  • Writing Tips Re: Writing Well: Vocab!

    That's a lovely idea, winters, but you have to be careful because the captions are often littered with mistakes.

    Oct 21, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: Writing Well: Vocab!

    Well, the thing with big words is that you know what they mean. I don't mean, necessarily, that you've looked them up in the dictionary and read the words following ...

    Oct 21, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: Simile Generator

    ^ :squee: what is this website you speak of? ^_^

    Oct 21, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: Simile Generator

    I love Stumble Upon!! Here's a link to virtual magnetic poetry:

    Oct 21, 2007
  • Narrative Poetry Re: Painted Red Nails

    Abruptly cutting off lines is interesting for a little, but then becomes too overused to remain effective. Similarly, some of the ideas here seem equally abrupt: "this house is an ...

    Oct 20, 2007
  • Other Poetry Re: The Morning Colors

    I liked the words; all the W's made it calming and swirly and pretty. That said, things seem to be wandering all over the place, held together only by the ...

    Oct 20, 2007
  • NovMo Archives Re: NaNo profile links

    I'm never going to remember who anyone is on the NaNo site XD

    Oct 20, 2007
  • Lyrics Re: Boys Named Macedonia and Nowhere Land

    The only thing I didn't like so much was how every verse started with the same structure "I met a boy named Macedonia in _____." While I liked the repetition ...

    Oct 19, 2007
  • Poetry Discussion Re: How do you write poetry?

    I almost always start with an image. Though it usually comes with a good line, which always helps. Then from there, I look closely at word choice, and go to ...

    Oct 19, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: Cutting out a Character

    *cries* I had to cut out a whole character in one of my earliest stories. But it was so sad because he was such a nice character, and a nice ...

    Oct 19, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: The Timing of Conflict

    I like to have my conflict [medium-well with lettuce and tomatoes, please...] introduced further into the book, like the second chapter or so, otherwise I think things seem too sudden. ...

    Oct 19, 2007
  • Other Poetry Re: Senryu

    Short, lovely, a wonderful senryu, Kit ^_^

    Oct 19, 2007
  • Lounge, The Re: Free Ebooks, gather 'round!

    Project Gutenberg is cool. And all the books they list are in the public domain, which means [I think] that they're no longer under copyright, so there's this cool website ...

    Oct 18, 2007
  • Media Reviews Re: What's the weirdest book you've ever read?

    Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen. Odd, odd plot. Odd, odd characters. I couldn't even finish it.

    Oct 17, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: Description- describing facial expressions

    Notice how people talk when conversing with you. Or watch how other people converse with each other. They might never look at each other. One might be preocupied with something ...

    Oct 17, 2007


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