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Sumi H. Inkblot

  • Writing Tips Re: Cliche Names..?

    Well, that depends on what genre you're using. For romance, using anything overly frilly (like Louise, Marie, almost anything French-sounding) is generally a bad idea. For fantasy, that's really based

    Mar 1, 2009
  • Writing Tips Re: Telling vs. Showing?

    Telling is okay when giving back stories and things such as that, but I hate when people write sentences like, "She screamed." What does it look like? What does it ...

    Feb 13, 2009
  • Writing Tips Re: Telling vs. Showing?

    As a reviewer (and a writer), I know the whole drill about show vs. tell, how great it is, blah blah blah. But what I really want to know is, ...

    Feb 12, 2009
  • Writing Tips Re: Trimming the idea hedge

    I sympathize. It sucks to have a ton of ideas. xP If you have too many ideas, chuck them in an ideas box (a shoebox or something like that). That ...

    Jan 2, 2009
  • Research Re: Question for the Girls Here

    Hahaha, great question. For me, it's generally three things. Height, firstly -- no girl wants to feel taller than a guy she likes. That just makes it awkward between both. ...

    Dec 10, 2008
  • Research Re: Looking for some local poetry buffs...

    *Poetry- reading buffs. In English we're supposed to put together a poetry portfolio based on a theme and a topic... the theme is "journey" (assigned theme :roll: ) and my ...

    Nov 14, 2008
  • Writers Corner Re: what are some good villan names?

    The single best name resource ever. Arabic or Welsh names seem particularly dastardly. My only other advice: At all cost, avoid using the sound "mor". It's been done before, and ...

    Apr 16, 2008
  • Writing Tips Re: Favorite Form of Procrastination?

    YWS, Solitaire, YouTube (I'm a complete sucker for German death metal AMVs), and Paint Shop Pro.

    Mar 16, 2008
  • Research Re: How long does cookie dough keep?

    but you could get salmonella! *shock!* So?! :P Brownie batter is much tastier than the actual brownies. I agree with Imp -- month, tops, in the freezer, and a little ...

    Jan 14, 2008
  • Research Re: Ma'am

    I agree with Ari -- it's respectful and, I think, necessary. Waiters, waitresses, the clerk at a store, the guy who you catch up with because he dropped his wallet. ...

    Dec 29, 2007
  • Writers Corner Re: not sure if this belongs here...

    Hmm, I think this belongs in the Writer's Corner. *Moved*

    Nov 3, 2007
  • Writers Corner Re: Recycled Ideas?

    Heh, I know I'll never use this one. ^^ A girl is writing her novel and putting it up on a writer's site, but she stops in the 15th chapter ...

    Oct 23, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: Simile Generator

    "Bitterness is like chewing gum." I really don't think so. XD But it's juicy and cinnamon-flavored and looses all niceness after five minutes of good chewing! O.O

    Oct 21, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: Simile Generator

    "Hell is like a marker." XD

    Oct 21, 2007
  • Writers Corner Re: Pen name?

    C.K. Baron :P My last name is rather distinctive, also, but I doubt anyone would know how to pronounce it...and I hate it when people mispronounce my last name...so, Baron. ...

    Oct 15, 2007


Follow your passion, stay true to yourself, never follow someone else’s path unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost and you see a path then by all means you should follow that.
— Ellen Degeneres