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Re: Which Planet Would You Travel To?
Pat Buchanan L9 all the way. It sounds so mysterious and intriguing!
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Re: Whispers of the Fallen - Chapter One, Part 3
I feel like maybe you *did* go over the top, if only a touch. On the other side of the road stood a number of flats. Tess wondered how they ...
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Re: Whispers of the Fallen - Chapter One, Part 2
Yeah, I have to admit that when I was reading the description of her vomiting in the first chapter I actually gagged because I was so grossed out. Whether or ...
Aug 13, 2007 -
Re: Whispers of the Fallen - Chapter One, Part 1
Wow, I saw this on the front page and the first few paragraphs really drew me in - that doesn't happen too often. I wasn't expecting it to be in ...
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Re: Good Morning
Hey Quietus! Well, hopefully you'll have better luck here. We're a pretty amiable bunch, as far as writers go - we don't bite. I can't wait to see some of ...
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Re: Making a Character Death Sad
Writersdomain pointed out some great stuff. I think that really the most important thing is to tug on the reader's heartstrings before and after the death - get them attached ...
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Re: How do YOU get last names for a story charater?
If it's set in modern-day times, I just open up the telephone book, and there lies a treasure trove of material, fresh from life. If it's set in past times, ...
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Re: Diaries/Journals/Notebooks
As a writer, I get a lot of advice about keeping a notebook. I never really believed it at first because I was never really the diary type. My family ...
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Re: Do TV and Movies Inspire your Writing?
Occasionally books and movies will do this - usually big epic ones based on works like Lord of the Rings and such. I'm much more likely to be inspired by ...
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Re: At what age did you start writing and
I was five. I had just seen the movie "The Mouse and the Motorcycle" and I was absolutely thrilled with it. I went home and wrote a story about it, ...
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Re: Does everyone else hate their own writing?
However, after I show it to someone else...THAT'S when I start to hate it. I'm happy with it grammatically and everything, I've run it through the YWS Nazi's and it's ...
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Re: Rhetorical questions in poetry
I use rhetorical questions quite a bit in my poetry, I guess it's just because I'm the kind of person who asks a lot of questions. In fact, my poems ...
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Re: Who are you?
This poem is kind of funky because it seems to switch between seriousness and a strange kind of lightheartedness... it's not quite humorous though, I'm not sure I really understand ...
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Re: The My Lai Massacre
I really like this, and I must commend you for taking on this subject, as it's something that I feel strongly about and have never really been able to approach ...
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Re: La Fleur
This is a really cool concept. I especially like the line about "testing her new freedom" because that's when it goes from pure imagery to something narrative: you've given the ...
Aug 13, 2007
