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Poor Imp

  • Writing Tips Re: Too Darn Hot

    Good tips all around--along with Brad's interjection. ^_^ And I'll take Snoink's remark with sarcasm...

    Dec 11, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: What do people do besides writing?

    Fence. (And Sam...your location. ^_~ It's not meant to be Vladivostok near the border of Korea, is it?)

    Dec 11, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Last Names

    I collect surnames, or at least, notice them when I come across them. And I can't manage to write much in any setting in which characters ought to have surnames ...

    Dec 9, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Critiquing Without Interest

    I'm afraid I run, dash to the back if the first paragraph hits me like a ton of figurative bricks. -_-'' I'm a bloody fiction coward then. With things that ...

    Dec 6, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Have you read this book?

    Neat sites, digital. ^_^ But they really belong in tips...if that. Moved

    Dec 5, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: I'm Too Lazy To Come Up With My Own Plot Twists

    Oy, Sam--whether useful or not, it's fun. ^_^ And this seemed apt: Tov turns and runs The one before it, however, made no sense at all. o0'

    Dec 4, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: characteristics

    Not precisely fiction then, is it? ^_~ Moved .

    Dec 4, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Instead of said, you can use......

    I stick to said, whispered, shouted and maybe one or another now and then. But I try hard to use no tags at all, the action, and what they say, ...

    Dec 2, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Difficulty on Perspective

    Incan-- Thanks very much for the perspective. Honestly, the tweaking is appreciated, and the time. Snoink-- I always get the flip-side with you, Snoink. ^_^ Which is good for looking ...

    Dec 2, 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • Writing Tips Re: To Be or Not To Be...Constructive?

    It's the getting halfway through a long one, and realising privately that they're never going to read or use it. Be that as it may: we try! And live in ...

    Nov 28, 2006


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