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  • Fiction Discussion Re: Critiquing Books You Read

    This is such a problem for me, and others I am sure. I was urged by a horrible sentence to make this thread. "But Rieux was gazing frowningly at the ...

    Dec 13, 2006
  • Writing Activities Re: Character Answer Game

    Sure - lots of card games. I even know how to win without getting caught. Mostly. Hey - I didn't say I knew how to play fair. -Tov One, and ...

    Dec 12, 2006
  • Fiction Discussion Re: Where does my story go?

    Urban fantasy? *Runs off to check wikipedia* *Runs back.* Okay, Urban Fantasies are a subset of Contemporary Fantasies, which are under Fantasy Fiction. Still, the underlying basis is that mythical ...

    Dec 11, 2006
  • Fiction Discussion Re: Where does my story go?

    Fantasy Fiction is set in a world with mythical, usually medieval, settings. If your story has dragons, elves, or knights in shining armor, this is probably where your story belongs. ...

    Dec 11, 2006
  • Fiction Discussion Re: What are you reading at the moment?

    Oh, I love Arthurian legends! Middle Ages are probably my favorite time in history to read about. Currently, I'm reading Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. There was one time ...

    Dec 11, 2006
  • Writing Activities Re: Answering machines

    Tov : Does that mean hang up now ? Or I could hang up in a minute. Still hung up, right? Means -- oh bloody hell -- click Aidan Teller's ...

    Dec 11, 2006
  • Writing Activities Re: Character Answer Game

    You think I ever tried?...means you're probably not capable of asking a competent question. Or talking. Right? -Tov I don't have the faintest idea, bloody hell. -Piers -- How long ...

    Dec 11, 2006
  • Fiction Discussion Re: What are you reading at the moment?

    The last two books I finished reading in their entirety (by about mid-november) were Das Reich by James Lucas (I've also read/have The Third Reich by him), which tells about ...

    Dec 9, 2006
  • Writing Activities Re: Character Answer Game

    Nothing. Honest. Hey--really. Why'd I ever want to change anything when...it's hell. Right? -Tov Sometimes I think I might forget how to think, and be better for it. But bloody ...

    Dec 9, 2006
  • Writing Activities Re: Ultra-short Fiction

    It lit like light on his fingertip, gossamer wings translucent and veined in threads of gold and blue. Still, the round-faced boy stared. "'Fly," he whispered, tentative. "Fly?" It fluttered. ...

    Dec 6, 2006
  • Fiction Discussion Re: Sticking With a Story Until the End or Taking a Break?

    I tend to have one I drift back to, one way or another. But I wander between...ah, perhaps six or more? It works sometimes. Though to finish something, I've got ...

    Dec 6, 2006
  • Writing Activities Re: Character Answer Game

    Depends...right? Ha. How significant? -Tov You mean a beau, an idiot, a closer than close friend? Ach, don't ask me... that's a personal question, you know--or do you ask questions ...

    Dec 6, 2006
  • Fiction Discussion Re: What are you reading at the moment?

    Idoru by William Gibson. ...I think it was CL that mentioned the name a few times; and I'd never read cyberpunk. Mind-blurring read for pace; fun. ^_^

    Dec 5, 2006
  • Writing Activities Re: Character Answer Game

    If I wore a dress, right? Hell. ...been drinking or just blind? -Tov -- Have ever had a piece of clothing you hated to have worn out, lost, or grown-out ...

    Dec 4, 2006
  • NovMo Archives Re: What we learned...

    - Writing some thousand words or more is easy in an hour - Hours are hard to come by, quiet or not, at a computer - Plot anamolies don't matter ...

    Dec 4, 2006


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