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  • Writing Tips Re: Romance scenes.

    I don't normally write these at all, so you could say I'm pretty inexperienced in this area... which is why I really need help here. :? I have two main ...

    Sep 4, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: YWS Addiction

    get a job or go to college Or both Then you'll either have no time, or you'll be too tired to bother when you do have time Rei has a ...

    Sep 1, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: BEARISH!

    Okay... better? He turned to Sadie’s father and smiled. “I suppose this is my last goodbye to you then?” “Yes.” “Goodbye then.” He extended his arm for a handshake, but ...

    Aug 31, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Fluent In Spanish? I Need Help To Produce YWS Spanish

    Yeah, wouldn't most of the differences between Spain- and Latin American-Spanish be spoken? Anyways, I'm familiar with a little bit of Spain-Spanish and a bit more with Latin/South-American Spanish, i

    Aug 26, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Fluent In Spanish? I Need Help To Produce YWS Spanish

    That's a good point about dialects, Dan... Nate, would you prefer YWS Spanish to closer to Traditional (Spain) Spanish, or Latin American Spanish? With most of the translation, there wouldn't ...

    Aug 26, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: How to critique poetry

    Frankly, Incan...I agree about the l.b.l. It does tend to devolve into the nitpicking - though I've never articulating the feeling. With prose, it can be needed at points. But ...

    Aug 26, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Fluent In Spanish? I Need Help To Produce YWS Spanish

    My Spanish is rather ...colloquial, I think - too much slang and bad grammar for website help. But CL, I know speaks it - at least, write poetry en espanol. ...

    Aug 25, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Dictionary.com sold out! Now what?? I need new writing tool

    So... does anyone know a good site that has a dictionary and a thesaurus on the same page? And what do you guys use these days for a spell checker ...

    Aug 25, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: How to Avoid Sex Scenes

    Ah...nothing I've ever written had a sex scene as something relevant - certainly not key to the main events. If the idea is there, it's on the periphery. Books with ...

    Aug 24, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: BEARISH!

    Perhaps if you made it...'crushed him like a bear in an embrace'? But that sounds just as terribly awkward as well. 0.o I think simple and less adjectival would work ...

    Aug 24, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: D is for Diction

    The world can only use more good diction - helps people think straight as well. ^_^ This obviously means what it says.

    Aug 24, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: The Soundtrack to Your Story

    I think all writers are a bit crazy. Though the real word is eccentric. lol Yes, I prefer eccentric. That's a really good idea, I'm going to have to try ...

    Aug 12, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Short Assignments

    'Tis good advice, DD. ^_^ Well explained -- Say to yourself in the kindest possible way, Look honey, all we're going to for now is to write a description of ...

    Aug 11, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: The Soundtrack to Your Story

    Yeah, except that if you've got the words of the song in your head rather than the words that should be flowing onto the paper. :D A problem similar to ...

    Aug 10, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Inebriation

    *looks over shoulder, half expecting Duskglimmer to be there* Hey. *grins* I don't know that I'm much help either. I haven't really been around drunk people (*thanks goodness*), and the ...

    Aug 10, 2006


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