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  • Writing Tips Re: Writing a speech!

    Okay, Here is a sort of Draft. Please critique! Imagine being trapped in a cold hard cell. Bright fluorescent lights shine continuously in your face. You have been deprived of ...

    Mar 13, 2009
  • Writing Tips Re: Writing a speech!

    Thanks so much to everyone who has helped! I have so little time to write this, and its really good to get feedback on my speech, as I am writing ...

    Mar 13, 2009
  • Writing Tips Re: Writing a speech!

    Thank you for helping! The speech is supposed to be objective for the most part, although I will not be penalized for showing an opinion. I have already written a ...

    Mar 12, 2009
  • Writing Tips Re: Writing a speech!

    For a forensics tournament, I need to write and practice a 4-minute speech. It is about the torture of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Graib prison camps I have ...

    Mar 12, 2009
  • Writers Corner Re: Harlem Runs: Novel to be? Would you read?

    I like it. It sounds really interesting and original, and is something that I would read!

    Oct 26, 2008
  • Research Re: Historical traitors/double agents

    There is a chance Benedict Arnold might work after all. I'll have to do more research. If not, I may have to resort to combing through history books. I'm almost ...

    Oct 26, 2008
  • Writers Corner Re: UPDATE It has begun

    Wow! tough decision. I chose number five in the end, but I would certainly love to read any one of these stories. They all sound really interesting.

    Oct 26, 2008
  • Writers Corner Re: Does this have any potential?

    Okay, I know I haven't been her for a long time, but I have made a lot of progress in the past few months. I came up with a sort ...

    Oct 26, 2008
  • Research Re: Historical traitors/double agents

    Okay, Here's an example: Suppose somebody is spying on the French for the Germans. Then, suppose that the French offer him some reward for spying on the Germans, so he ...

    Oct 25, 2008
  • Research Re: Historical traitors/double agents

    Hmm... I don't think Benedict Arnold will work. I don't necessarily need somebody from ancient history, but will probably be easier that way. With ancient history I'm think about 5000-1000 ...

    Oct 20, 2008
  • Research Re: Historical traitors/double agents

    So for this has proven tricky for me, but maybe somebody else will have some ideas. I need information about historical traitors, preferably some from ancient history, who are not ...

    Oct 11, 2008
  • Writers Corner Re: Does this have any potential?

    Sorry for the confusion. When I said that you should avoid being the next Christopher Paolini, I meant so because he basically got all of his ideas from Star Wars ...

    Jul 8, 2008
  • Writers Corner Re: Does this have any potential?

    Actually, the author of His Dark Materials is Philip Pullman. Christopher Paulini wrote the Inheritance Cycle, and As there are as yet no dragons in my story, I think I ...

    Jul 8, 2008
  • Writers Corner Re: Does this have any potential?

    Okay, you're all definitely right in saying that this sounds way too much like His Dark Materials. Part of this is because I started reading that series just after I ...

    Jul 5, 2008
  • Writers Corner Re: Does this have any potential?

    I am finally starting to seriously work on a story idea that has been in my head for a long time. At this point, I don't have a lot of ...

    Jul 4, 2008


'Hush, hush!' I whispered; 'people can have many cousins and of all sorts, Miss Cathy, without being any the worse for it; only they needn't keep their company, if they be disagreeable and bad.
— Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights