Sam

I call 'em 'Word Wars' (a la NaNoWriMo) so I feel productive, but usually something weird and cool results. It's quite fun, especially when you don't really care about anything ...

1. I put in some sort of greeting, which usually amounts to 'hey'. 2. General good stuff about the story is described. 3. I get very long and rambly about ...

It doesn't matter how old you are- a piece of bad writing is a piece of bad writing. Even if the people are eleven, it's still helpful to factor in ...

On Gmail, I spied an ad calling 'NaNoWriMo Participants', and procrastinating on aforementioned project, I clicked on it: It's really quite simple- you enter in your characters' names, and then ...

I'd sympathize with Number 4- there comes a point in your writing where you just need to get over it . I loved Smaur's quote of the week from a ...

In Stage Improvisation, there's a game called 'The Stand Up, Sit Down Game'. There are three actors up on stage, and they should all be having a conversation- whilst one ...

But then you run into the opposite of angst... *flails, remembering the sarcastic execution scene of yesteryear* Yeah, not pretty. :P

Bloody Jack , and all of its sequels, by L.A. Meyer Catch-22 , by Joseph Heller The Georgia Nicolson books, by Louise Rennison His Dark Materials series, by Philip Pullman ...

Ah...what do I think. Good question. To me (naive old me :P) poetry does have a deeper meaning- and so does fiction. And with both, if it doesn't come in ...

I'm fluent in Pig Latin! ...but certainly not Spanish. I'd ask Kay_Juran or Snoink- I'm pretty sure they've got some knowledge of the language.

A couple of days ago, I went around the site asking to do some interviews- about writing, about life- from some of our members. Here's a finished product- yes, there's ...

My undead ninja army? ...how did you know about that? Of course there's five more! I just haven't posted them yet, for some odd reason. :? Ari>>> Must...read...that...book. *writes down ...

Thanks, guys! Ari>> Oh, dear, I know... I love the Princess Diaries- which, talking to the girl who watched Master and Commander twice in a row and then wrote a ...

Oh, I LOVED Captain Underpants! ..granted, I was in perhaps first grade when they came out. But I read each one incessantly- probably what started me out reading, along with ...

I've just updated the software on my laptop, only to find a new, sparkly tool in Word- the Notebook View! It's way more helpful with my writing than I would ...