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  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: Rach

    Hey Reas. ^_^ It seems more than years since I last got to critique something of yours--now the review week is an excuse to. Firstly, alternate history is always fun. ...

    Dec 2, 2006
  • Writing Activities Re: Answering machines

    Tov -- Hell. You know, prank calls aren't as fun when you don't pick up? Not that I was going to. Right? Piers' Answering Machine (that would be, I suppose, ...

    Dec 2, 2006
  • Writing Activities Re: Character Answer Game

    ...or either? Hey, someone could just give it to me. Right? -Tov Compromise. -Piers -- Can you think well under pressure?

    Dec 1, 2006
  • Fiction Discussion Re: Influences?

    Joan Aiken and Diana Wynne Jones. I still read their books and love 'em. Diana Wynne Jones...I forgot her. Howl is hilariously brilliant. ^_^

    Dec 1, 2006
  • Fiction Discussion Re: Influences?

    Most enduring influence? ...I suppose Dostoyevsky, Tolkien, Dumas...and perhaps Lloyd Alexander. Though sometimes, for certain things, Douglas Adams. He slips in. -- Everyone's going to hate me for sa

    Dec 1, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: To Be or Not To Be...Constructive?

    Poor Imp's original article, she never even mention the words "positive" or "negative." Therefore, my diagnosis is that Incan and Sponson have eyes that are starting to go into the ...

    Dec 1, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: To Be or Not To Be...Constructive?

    Ah, Incan, I think we're merely at odds on semantics. A definition of positive and negative (similar to that of 'optimist' and 'pessimist'--something GK Chesterton skewers well) is perhaps a ...

    Dec 1, 2006
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: Musings of a Statue

    My first thought--on the side of curiosity is -- why is it titled 'Musings of a Statue' when it does seem that the girl isn't a statue and is musing? ...

    Nov 30, 2006
  • Writing Activities Re: Character Answer Game

    If I remembered, I'd tell you. Probably. Hey--why lie about that? -Tov Hard to recall when you don't sleep...days blur. It might have two months ago. -Piers -- How long ...

    Nov 30, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: To Be or Not To Be...Constructive?

    Incan and Sponson: I hope I wasn't misconstrued entirely--or that my remarks above weren't too obscure. Criticism is as defined by both of you, more or less well enumerated. It ...

    Nov 30, 2006
  • Writing Activities Re: Character Answer Game

    Boots. -Tov Something that doesn't tie, and can't be have laces tied together or knotted. -Piers -- Do you care what you like? Anything bother you/stick in your mind?

    Nov 30, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: How Do You Critique?

    I usually take the thing as a whole and comment, and from there go the finer points. There's always--or nearly always--something that sticks out as intriguing or very well done, ...

    Nov 29, 2006
  • Information Desk Archive Re: Announcing YWS Reviewing Week!

    I think I can manage to do it. Until December 6th? Three a day and I'll be finished before... Yes, well, one way or another. ^_^ If I can get ...

    Nov 29, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Difficulty on Perspective

    A piece of Vetren'iy draft here that I've worked to death, in a manner of speaking...and I can't stand it in all honesty, no matter... It hasn't even got Tov ...

    Nov 29, 2006
  • Fiction Discussion Re: What are you reading at the moment?

    On a subject similar to the previous and the above... Gorky Park Martin Cruz Smith and... Alice in Wonderland Louis Carroll

    Nov 28, 2006


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