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  • Writing Activities Re: Character Answer Game

    No. -Tov ...No, I don't think... But it wasn't a bear, it was a ragged sort of thing that had rabbit ears. I suppose - all stuffed animals are a ...

    Sep 24, 2006
  • Writing Activities Re: Character Answer Game

    To be amused. Right? Hey - a joke. Purpose? -Tov Please God, don't ask me that bloody question. Don't - -Piers --- What makes a man or woman different from ...

    Sep 24, 2006
  • Fantasy Short Stories Re: The Lady and the Unicorn - REVISED (see second page)

    Just as David...I read most of it earlier - and it does come out much more neatly with the revision. In particular, Eleanor's first notice of the unicorn is cleaner; ...

    Sep 24, 2006
  • Welcome Mat Re: I AM NEW AND THE SOON TO BE GREATEST MEMBER HERE!

    Er, hey Jimmy - welcome and all that. You don't write by any chance? - aside from other accomplishments previously noted by yourself. The Welcome forum isn't actually a place ...

    Sep 24, 2006
  • Writing Activities Re: Character Answer Game

    Ha. Flavour? ...Cyanide, right? -Tov -- What is - definitively - a friendship?

    Sep 24, 2006
  • Welcome Mat Re: I'm new here (yay!) and I have a question...

    You get points for posting in the literary, critiquing people's work, for giving tips in the Writing Activities and Writing Tips. You have to spend points to post in Randomness ...

    Sep 23, 2006
  • Narrative Poetry Re: The Adventures of Ivan the Stable Lad

    A different telling of The Firebird - much more lighthearted than the Russian. ^_~ But wonderfully amusing, neatly rhymed. With him was the King to wed So Ivan’s heart wouldn’t ...

    Sep 23, 2006
  • Welcome Mat Re: I'm new here (yay!) and I have a question...

    Hullo Wings - and welcome, of course, to YWS. ^_^ As to the question about the message: Merely means that you're supposed to comment on someone else's work (in the ...

    Sep 23, 2006
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: [exam/class] Detached

    I looked up "limned." :P You still might want to change the word so it's not so confounded. And hehe! You can be subtle and detached. What you want to ...

    Sep 23, 2006
  • Randomosity Re: Happy Birthday Imp! ^_^

    Thanks Snoink, Wiggy, Cass - and all others! was - now. Last teen year. (Thanks in particular to Fishr's catering. ^_^ ^_~)

    Sep 23, 2006
  • Writing Activities Re: Character Answer Game

    Or if I could turn it around, right? -Tov It wouldn't be much use, you know -- and I've bloody well still got the hope to keep. Hell, she was ...

    Sep 23, 2006
  • Writing Activities Re: These words...

    Lotus wax flaking fake-flower in your hair Perfume-laced dancing midnight's past thin air. -- Fun to play with words...even when they turn out oddly. Words : lilting, darkling, fated, dear, ...

    Sep 22, 2006
  • Fiction Discussion Re: A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings

    Allegory struck me the moment I started, and I didn't have high expectations of that. I ended working out the theology of that matter, which wasn't the point... But I ...

    Sep 22, 2006
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: [exam/class] Detached

    Thanks to both of you. ^_^ It is meant to be detached, vague. Perhaps, of course, it's gone almost over the edge...I hoped to reflect the conflict rather than telling. ...

    Sep 22, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Killing Off a Character

    When he deserves it - to put it flippantly so don't mind that for a moment. If I don't knock into things too much, or hold on too tightly to ...

    Sep 22, 2006


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