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Re: Showing Time
I typically think it's a bad idea to write something simply for the sake of writing something. If a describing a journey from one location to another does nothing to ...
May 24, 2008 -
Re: Swearing In Stories
Nobody ever notices a lack of swearing. Aha. I was hoping someone would say this. I actually do, on occasion, notice a lack of swearing. I've probably read too many ...
May 24, 2008 -
Re: King Dork by: Frank Portman
I think I got a little less than halfway through and stopped. I didn't like it much. It's pretty standard as far as YA is concerned. You have your quasi-loser ...
Mar 24, 2008 -
Re: Atonement by Ian McEwan
Well. I saw the movie, but I havem't read the book. I know my dad really liked it, though. And so the ending. From what you said, it seems to ...
Jan 12, 2008 -
Re: Unique Styles - Yay or Nay?
.oN Actually, if it doesn't make it terribly difficult to read and there's an actual purpose to the weird font, then I probably wouldn't care.
Dec 7, 2007 -
Re: Actually Getting it Written
The key for me is to just sit down and do it. Even if I don't feel like it. It takes just a few minutes for me to get into ...
Nov 14, 2007 -
Re: Making Fantasy "Original"
My advice would be to worry less about whether your using clichés or not. I say that because once you put yourself in that mindset, you starting getting mental walls ...
Nov 14, 2007 -
Re: A male's opinion
In response to what Katharsis is saying, I would say that intensley over-zealous anti-racists are overplayed – I have every reason to believe, that they represent only a tiny tiny ...
Nov 7, 2007 -
Re: Starting with Quotes? Yes or no?
Churchill, Hitler, those kinds of people maybe. Backstreet Boys and the Spice Girls - A big no-no. I have no problem with quotes, I just have a problem with awful ...
Nov 6, 2007 -
Re: Said, said, said, said
I think a happy medium is the key. When I see 'said' used over and over it annoys me, and when I never see it the replacements can become tiresome. ...
Nov 2, 2007 -
Re: What's your NaNo 2007 about?
Ha. This sounds like fun. Looks like a good opertunity to quickly lay down a plot I've been tossing around in my head for awhile now. Ty-tul: Breaking 50 Jon-ruh: ...
Oct 16, 2007 -
Re: Cliche Fantasy
I personally find Goosebump books very amusing reads once in a while. My friend and I spent a little time reading them once during a sleep-over, swapping stupid lines and ...
Oct 15, 2007 -
Re: Which authors/books do you hate?
Let's see. The two summer reading books I was assigned are somewhere near the bottom for me: Atlas Shrugged and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. The former was simply an ...
Oct 11, 2007 -
Re: A male's opinion
It's actually not reverse sexism. It's just that "masculine" traits are considered "superior" to "feminine" traits. Ergo, if a female adopts "masculine" traits, she's "improving," but if a male adopts
Oct 10, 2007 -
Re: A male's opinion
I'd be an exception as well. I was always baffled by how girls can have masculine traits and (not in all cases, certainly) be accepted while boys with feminine traits ...
Oct 10, 2007
