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  • Writing Tips Re: "The Real World"

    Haha... um yeah. People know, but most don't care. So yeah. Many people know that I'm writing a novel, but since that novel isn't technically finished yet, I'm shy to ...

    Oct 2, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Pretty Only Goes So Far

    Haha... you really DON'T want to try it. Honest. XD

    Sep 27, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Understanding and Finding Voice

    Well, voice is how the writing sounds like, no? So wouldn't concentrating on voice defeat the purpose of your voice shining through? ;)

    Sep 27, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Using the Debate Forums as Inspiration

    Hehe! Well, instead of ranting, try writing something quick about an what you would have ranted about. Let's see what it looks like. ;)

    Sep 27, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Three Elements of a Successful Story

    Haha... good question! But I really think that would depend on what exactly I'm writing. Still, most of the time, if I focus on one more than the other, I ...

    Sep 27, 2006
  • Research Re: Angels

    I was rereading FREAK, and one of the symbolisms I hadn't caught before was the use of angels. Which is kind of funny, since I'm supposed to be the writer, ...

    Sep 26, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Being Critical

    Okay. I wrote this as a blog entry a year ago, but... well... it got hidden up. Because I love my bloggie! So yeah. Some people wonder, what is it ...

    Sep 26, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Using the Debate Forums as Inspiration

    I don't know... perhaps I'm strange. I don't understand why people who aer in the debate forums don't write more. Shall I explain? In debates, you frequently come across people ...

    Sep 26, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Three Elements of a Successful Story

    I don't know... some writing tips make me scratch my head in wonder. I forget where this came from, but basically, the person writing it said that there were three ...

    Sep 26, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Pretty Only Goes So Far

    Haha... Okay. Yeah, I was a little like this, but with a much more limited vocabulary. Because my vocabulary sucks, I would read the dictionary and pick random words from ...

    Sep 26, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Understanding and Finding Voice

    Hehe! Yay! A question! How are we supposed to write naturally and yet still develop our voices? :P

    Sep 26, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Politics and the English Language

    Haha... George Orwell was just a pen name. His real name is Eric Blair. :)

    Sep 25, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Starting and Ending

    I usually have to reread the last couple of chapters I wrote, and generally I get inspired and can write other chapters as well. :) Don't think of them as ...

    Sep 25, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Politics and the English Language

    But he never really liked his writing style! He thought it was too clunky. He always considered himself to be more of a poet, and when his poetry wasn't well ...

    Sep 25, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Politics and the English Language

    Heheh! With clarity comes beauty. ;) Now that I have made this catalogue of swindles and perversions, let me give another example of the kind of writing that they lead ...

    Sep 24, 2006


What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god -- the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!
— William Shakespeare