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  • Media Reviews Re: Wild Magic by Tamora Pierce

    Hehehe... Tamora Pierce is really the author who got me into writing for fantasy. :)

    Aug 18, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Essay Elaboration

    The more research you can do, the better. You'll find that, as you get deeper into a subject, that it begins to connect with the world and that it's not ...

    Aug 17, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Plotting

    Never plot. Ever. Ever. Ever. Plotting doesn't let your mind create things which you didn't originally think of. Plotting limits what you can do with a story. No it doesn't. ...

    Aug 17, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: GAH! I hate this sentence!

    Oh dear... this was written when I believed the first draft should be the final draft... O_o I forget what I finally put, but yeah. The problem's been resolved. ^_^

    Aug 17, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Starting and Ending

    This was really hard for me as well. What I ended up doing was making each chapter an episode, or a short story within itself. So there is constant conflict, ...

    Aug 16, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Objects to Prompt You...

    Ray Bradbury also used this technique. As he wrote more and more, he would focus on a specific object and then write about it. One of his works, using this ...

    Aug 16, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Writing in E-Prime

    Just don't get to caught up with this! YOu don't want to inadvertantly censor yourself. ;)

    Aug 16, 2006
  • Lounge, The Re: Stranger Than Fiction

    Okay, I went to the movies today (yay!) and I found this horribly funny sounding film that's coming up! It's about writers and killing off character, and it looks really ...

    Aug 16, 2006
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: There are no Children here

    They light candles despite the flourescent lighting and large windows lighting the hallway The wicks of the small, round candles slowly burn down to nothingness, like a sort of primitive ...

    Aug 15, 2006
  • General Articles Re: A Single Offense

    Very very true. You also may want to point out that double-ply paper can be septic safe, since that's their worry, most of the time. And toilet paper makes the ...

    Aug 15, 2006
  • Media Reviews 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
  • Randomosity Re: Hmm...

    Sort of, but at the same time, watching Big Brother climb on each other's shoulders, offering tuna to the tree, is WAAAY too funny to miss! :D

    Aug 14, 2006
  • Writing Activities Re: Character Answer Game

    Sure. It sounds exciting, in any case. - Daniel How good are you at technology?

    Aug 14, 2006
  • Science-Fiction Short Stories Re: YWS 3.O

    Probably when he's not grounded from the internet. XD Okay, maybe I'll let him on, if he doesn't bite...

    Aug 14, 2006
  • Writing Activities Re: Character Answer Game

    It all depends on the circumstances of my death. I suppose I'll have to die sometime soon though. It just depends on a billion other factors. - Sadie's father Death ...

    Aug 14, 2006


Poetry is my cheap means of transportation. By the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started. I would like him to be slightly disoriented at the end, like I drove him outside of town at night and dropped him off in a cornfield.
— Billy Collins