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  • Writing Tips Re: Sweetie!

    I suppose this is any form? Endearments are so...idiomatic. Are you looking for something more formal, American, British, slang? ...Or is that all rather irrelevant? ...See if I repeat some...hopefull

    May 1, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: When do I describe looks?

    It's not a hard and fast rule. How does it fit best with the flow of the story, and the structure of the writing? I tend to let other character's ...

    May 1, 2006
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: (very FREE-WRITE) Featured Window

    Free-write...3:00 in the morning. I don't know where the characters came from. ...Thoughts? “I probably could,” said Kevin, “Probably.” Quiet, glazed eyes drifting into the reflective glass, h

    May 1, 2006
  • Research Re: Need help translating spanish :)

    If it's that old, the spelling has probably changed. Lolleba looks rather like something that popped in in an Italian translation I was doing (not that the meaning is at ...

    Apr 30, 2006
  • Lounge, The Re: What are YOU Wearing?

    ...Fencing 'breeches'! Knee socks; green T (again) with Fencing Academy printed across. Oh well - I ought to change. White too easily stains. !_!

    Apr 29, 2006
  • Fiction Discussion Re: Most Disturbing Books

    1984 by Orwell. I read it when I was 13 or 14...and was unsettled for months. I can think of little more disturbing than a world as controlled and depraved ...

    Apr 29, 2006
  • Lounge, The Re: Chat This Sunday, April 30, @ 3 pm EDT

    A chat sounds amusing... But I've got a competition all day Sunday - unless I'm eliminated (I won't be) I'll be fencing until 3:00 at earliest. Does that mean I'm ...

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

    Awww, I loved To Kill A Mockingbird! I'm reading A Man Named Dave by Dave Pelzer. I liked the first two books, A Child Called 'It' and The Lost Boy ...

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

    The Light Beyond the Forest by Rosemary Sutcliff. A retelling of Arthurian legend - and Sutcliff is deft with the style. Though I never cared for her historical books quite ...

    Apr 29, 2006
  • Official Polls Re: Have you heard yet?

    Doubtless.

    Apr 28, 2006
  • Official Polls Re: Have you heard yet?

    What about the Chinese? Obsessed with cultural supremicism and rice?

    Apr 28, 2006
  • Fantasy Short Stories Re: Letters Ran Away

    That was brilliantly amusing. ^_^ As Dusk says - I don't have anything particular to note in the negative (not that I'd need to). When the proofreader woke up, he ...

    Apr 28, 2006
  • Official Polls Re: Have you heard yet?

    (Imp looks sadly at Everyone and crosses herself) RIP Everyone. You'll never eat rice again; nor down vodka by the pint. ...but having done that, I can only be surprised ...

    Apr 27, 2006
  • Welcome Mat Re: The Various Tiring Aspects of Dreaming Too Deep

    Ah...Sponson - grammar and such are important, admittedly (yes, this a writer's website). But these are simply bios , remarks. I've seen bloody worse grammar and typos in others - ...

    Apr 27, 2006
  • Writing Activities Re: Character Answer Game

    Ha. ...Don't ask. -Tov --- What is the importance of speaking precisely? Does it really matter as long as you can just 'get the point across'? (Good question for Tov...he ...

    Apr 27, 2006


Daddy Long Legs are more closely related to crabs than spiders and somehow the idea of crablike creatures with spider legs that have escaped the entrappings of the primordial sea and now crawl over land and can walk up and down walls and ceilings creeps me more than I can adequately describe.
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