Poor Imp

So, an article critical of criticism is fraught with difficulty from the beginning. Fall into the same potholes as it discusses? Hopefully not. What on God's green earth is a ...

Okay, here's the situation. My antagonist has unexpectedly shown his good side. He's still done a lot of bad things, but he's not as inherently evil as I first thought. ...

The best part, and maybe the only light side of editing, is the time it makes you look at your story again. Sometimes you run into the most interesting side ...

Most likely I'll end up starting the ending, then growing so excited that I did the ending that I'll do the beginning and then wander around like that. I don't ...

Yeah... I have a question. I'm thinking about writing the ending first and then progressively working my way to the beginning. Not that it'll actually be formatted so that it ...

I haven't the least use for German, usually--its sentence dangling verbs and consonants bother me. ^_~ But I know at least, that heart- broken is "herzzerbrechend". As to heart-break , ...

I was going to respond similarly to Snoink. For pauses, characters can have innumerable quirks, ticks--or one definitive habit. ^_^ Of course, sans the need to break in with action, ...

Thanks for the help! I'm doing some researching on my own now, and I already acquired a History of the WWII book (and it's damn thick...). I'm trying to focus ...

As to the question of Russian patronimyc (--vich ending): Traditional Russian middle name taken from the father. Alexei's father's name was Fyodor, and his surname is Karamazov, so-- Alexei Fyodorovic

Empire Strikes Back, naturally. At least, the first three made are ten times better than the more recent ones in all respects.

I wasn't aware that it wasn't a surname anymore. ^_^ Certainly I've usually heard and usually used sur- rather than 'last'. In the 1200's you likely would have had (more ...

A cookie for Imp! ^_^ And dear God, please tell me that the bit about Nietzche is from the Fiction Discussion and not Lyric Poery... o.O Anyway! It's good advice ...

Very verbose, DD...but you don't tend to run-on too much. ^_~ Write it all as it comes; then go over it, reading, and tear out every repetition and all reiteration ...

Colour synonyms are like poetry - beautiful just for their sound. Brilliant, CL. ^_^ Add topaz for brown. :wink: (But topaz 'tis yellow/gold, Snoink. Unless it's a blue topaz.)

More like a fencing bout. ^_~ True that meaningless words, or those repeating what's said are unnecassary.