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Re: Bjorn's Free-Writes and Fragments
Seems like a great literal story-board - springboard for a short story. A bespectacled man in a tweed jacket arose from his chair in the front row of the assembly. ...
Aug 21, 2006 -
Re: A Tale of Two Cities~Charles Dickens
Dickens has that mindnumbing writing which makes you want to *head/desk*. No, come - not mindnumbing - perhaps at times, painfully mind-stretching. I don't think that I'd ever imitate his ...
Aug 21, 2006 -
Re: Ahem.. Ahem.. Roald Dahl is here!!
It's like JK Rowling's, except even more creative and fantastic. Basically? Good stuff! ...of course, I'm talking about his children's novels, that is. His other books are rather offbeat and ...
Aug 14, 2006 -
Re: How Not To Make a Human
It would be worth the publication, I think. ^_^ I enjoyed this in more than simply frivolous 'ah, that was fun'. It was thought well and as such, formed well. ...
Aug 14, 2006 -
Re: Pen Envy (redone from TYWC days)
I loved the disjointed form of this - it fit singularly well with the theme. Aside from that simply, the idea itself is worth the read. I want to see ...
Aug 11, 2006 -
Re: Anna Karenina
One book of Tolstoy's I haven't finished -- the library wanted it back and I couldn't afford pay fines to keep it... Inept excuse, I suppose. Now it always seems ...
Aug 11, 2006 -
Re: Just a thought
This was a neat (in brevity) piece of thought. Well iterated questions. The last sentence seemed to have less point however as it trailed so long in length. For if ...
Aug 10, 2006 -
Re: The Umbrella (contest entry)
I was going to note the same question at the beginning as Cicero - but he slipped in ahead of me. ^_^ An overly taught piece of night, Taut - ...
Aug 10, 2006 -
Re: Ainor - Prologue
I like the has apt description and involves the reader in the scene. It starts, however, rather in listless melancholy - and the break between dashes and exclamation (italicised) breaks ...
Aug 10, 2006 -
Re: Girl With a Violin (UPDATED)
Misty's right - a lovely lyrical descriptive sense you have. He longed to to join the distant, glimmering stars, suspended in the vast sky so far from earth. So far ...
Aug 9, 2006 -
Re: Unpredictable: Forward, Chapter One
The style was pleasantly laid-back, and I think the conversational attitude at points did what no amount of detail would have managed for something more formal. ^_^ Green Day/song lyrics ...
Aug 8, 2006 -
Re: Considerably Sharp Teeth
This was hilarious, Waffles - very fun read. Mostly in the dialogue, I think - that badinage between Matthias and the vampire was what kept it compelling. ^_^ only suffered ...
Aug 8, 2006 -
Re: Lay of De Harain
This was a compelling read - very nice to see legend/story poem so. It reminds me of Tolkien's poetry, epic, rhyming archaic in the best sense of the word and ...
Aug 8, 2006 -
Re: An Ode to Squirrels
Oy, Snoink - that was a hilarious bit of pointed nonsense, if anything quite rational can be said about it with a straight face. ^_~ I sed to him -- ...
Aug 8, 2006 -
Re: Eriol/Ottar Waefre/Aelfwine
As usual, Bjorn, good story-teller's sense in the oral tradition - it could be chanted, almost. ^_^ The length of it and brevity of the lines though tended to feel ...
Aug 7, 2006
