Leja

I listen to the classical music station on the radio. I was trained to think of a story for the songs I listen to [my flute teacher is mad at ...

I don't see any problem with it. I'm gonna make a way-out-there analogy [that probably won't hold up in the long run]: Say there is a guy and a girl ...

yes, I did mean American Sign Language. I was just wondering because they're different culturally.

Very encouraging, but you took away all my excuses!! XD Even if I'm just thinking about what I'm going to write (and never actually write it, we writers do love ...

Maybe in their extreme avoidance of each other, they end up running into each other. Kinda like in cartoons where each character backs away from the other around the house/tree/whatever ...

The second one sounds strange to me; I can't really think of an instance where you might use it outside of (satirically? idk). I'd go with the first one: general ...

I'll just elaborate on what Dream Deep said... This is like the president example, or the mother example (they always seem like common examples in my schoolbooks, anyway). In these ...

ok, i agree with not sugarcoating stuff, but at the same time, we do have to understand that a thirteen-year-old's piece of writing ISN'T going to be as good, simply ...

I didn't know what an Alphasmart was until this post (then I googled it and recognized it from a magazine, I think). It looks big and cumbersome to me. But ...

If you need to remind the reader that the character is mute, you could throw in another character's frustration at not knowing what s/he is saying. I'd probably go with ...

I like the stupid decisions idea. Conflict is the worst thing that could happen to a character at the worst time (I always see it quoted something like 'run your ...

XD I don't think I've ever actually finished a story longer than 2000 words.

phew! That's finally cleared up! :D I've been wondering myself about the differences of addictive/addicting for a while.

Roundabouts? You wouldn't happen to mean traffic circles or rotarys? :wink: Seriously, even in America, there are words like rotary/traffic circle/roundabout/island that I don't even know which one to

Oh, I love the writing on the third one. I'll see what I can do about posting them.