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Sumi H. Inkblot

  • Writing Tips Re: Mary-Sue Litmus Test

    Yay, Miea only got 15. ^_^

    Aug 29, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: Help me create a horribly cliched romance scene!

    Have them run to each other through a field of daisies. Dx Have the guy have black hair that falls around his faces so it "tickled her plump, cherry lips, ...

    Aug 16, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: 1st and 3rd person?

    11th person? :shock: Um, the Bartimaeus trilogy - or, at least, the first one, which is the only one I've read - uses a 3rd person narration for one of ...

    Aug 14, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: When to ditch it?

    Argh! This has been my problem for years. I flit between stories like little kids decide on ice cream: I never stay on one thing too long, I have ideas ...

    Aug 11, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: Dear 13-year-old: YOU SUCK!

    And they give us a bad name. So many people blindly hate 12 and 13 year olds now, it's an insult at this point to call someone that age. >.< ...

    Aug 11, 2007
  • Writers Corner Re: Book to Screen...?

    I think I would faint. :P It would depend on the story, actually. I know that Geezer's Property will be virtually impossible to make into a movie good enough for ...

    Aug 7, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: Making Characters mysterious?

    A mysterious character is someone we don't know much about. That's the bare bones of the concept, anyway. I suppose my character, the Geezer, is a bit mysterious; we don't ...

    Jul 20, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: Dear 13-year-old: YOU SUCK!

    I wrote...*hides* MARY SUE FANFICTION! Oh god the PAIN. I'm embarrassed to even admit it.... If it weren't for it, I never would've gotten better! (Just don't ask me to ...

    Jun 25, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: Dear 13-year-old: YOU SUCK!

    I'm thirteen. I suck. I actually found something I wrote when I was five -YES, FIVE!- on the computer. I cried. And that's when I was eleven. And recently I ...

    Jun 18, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: Internet writing tips

    :raises hand: I either disagreed with a it or found it blindingly obvious :P

    Jun 9, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: how to write short stories.

    What I was thinking, WD ^_~ Dragon, here I feel I must disagree- I've always been against what I call "organized writing", but I should give it a try, anyhoo.

    Jun 9, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: Alleviate writers block

    I should try that some time. Hmm. One of my favorite methods is to write mini stories with the main cast going shopping at the mall, playing paintball, at Christmas, ...

    Jun 2, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: The Apostrophe In Writer's Digest... Wrong?

    You know, Nate, a couple of weeks ago I was talking to my writing teacher and we discussed "Starbucks", and whether it should be "Starbuck's" or "Starbucks'". (In the end, ...

    May 19, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: Killing a character...

    I do! I love my characters. Maybe some don't realize it, but all the characters you create have a little bit of you in them...and it hurts to kill them. ...

    May 12, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: Chapter names?

    I really prefer chapter names, because 1) they can "Foreshadow" a bit (I absolutely love it when books do that) and 2) because if I want to re-read a certain ...

    May 7, 2007


There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
— W. Somerset Maugham