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  • Research Re: Research for Story

    You might want to look up monarchies.

    Aug 20, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Procrastination

    I met smaur on the internet. ;) There are plenty of writing buddies you can team up with who will love to critique your work. All you have to do ...

    Aug 18, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Procrastination

    Get a writing buddy! Or at least a reading buddy. For instance, without the lovely smaur beating me on the head, I would have NEVER written more than 15 thousand ...

    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
  • Writing Tips Re: Fallacies

    Fallacies are flaws in logic. Basically, if you try to use these methods, you won't get away with them. Why? Because you won't make sense. From stereotyping to personal attacks, ...

    Aug 12, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: The Soundtrack to Your Story

    I used to do it quite frequently, but it's silent here now. "Gladiator" soundtrack is awesome though.

    Aug 12, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Short Assignments

    What book is this from?

    Aug 12, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: I Hate Outlining

    Also, if you can, sticky notes are fun to. What you do is get a large piece of carboard and attach a string to it so you can hang it ...

    Aug 8, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Discipline, oh my!

    Chances are, if you don't like writing the parts you have, it's not good and the reader will hate it. So you have to step back. Ask yourself, why do ...

    Aug 8, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: YWS Skinning

    It looks sexy...

    Aug 3, 2006


Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
— Ann Landers