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  • Fantasy Novels Re: Scall's Magic

    Derren /3 ‘The lizards that crawled into the crypt would have devoured fresh bones away, he hoped Varzin was wise enough to know that because the skeleton was supposed to ...

    Jan 4, 2007
  • Welcome Mat Re: The Evolution of a Writer (Sureal's History of Writing)

    Both unpaid - my plan is to start off with unpaid publications (done) and then to move onto paying markets. Yesterday (or was it the day before?) I submitted a ...

    Jan 4, 2007
  • Welcome Mat Re: The Evolution of a Writer (Sureal's History of Writing)

    I think you have an obsession with parantheses. I suspect that is true :). Most the time they're not even needed, so I dunno why I keep on using them ...

    Jan 4, 2007
  • Fantasy Novels Re: Black Feather Rising- Beggining of chapter 1

    - Although is a fairly strong opening, it’s riddled with errors. Incorrect punctuation, missing words and awkward sentences detract from the story, and this would be so much better if ...

    Jan 4, 2007
  • Fantasy Novels Re: The Prologue

    Some points: - One of the first things you did in your opening paragraph was establish how both of your characters look. We don’t actually need to know this right ...

    Jan 4, 2007
  • Welcome Mat Re: Phorcys, The Modern Prometheus

    Yay, I don't like LOTR either :). I've read through the trilogy once (it was a present, and would have been rude not too), but didn't really enjoy. I've been ...

    Jan 4, 2007
  • Welcome Mat Re: Don't call me Anti-American, Call me a Peacefully Crazed Rev

    Liz, if you wasn't aware that you were Vernon's fiance, I'd be rather worried :P.

    Jan 4, 2007
  • Welcome Mat Re: The Evolution of a Writer (Sureal's History of Writing)

    The Evolution of a Writer Not sure where - or rather, when - to start. So let us just run backwards in my own personal timeline, and let us examine ...

    Jan 4, 2007
  • Science-Fiction Short Stories Re: Dimond Of Wind

    kaolin: Remember, everyone here only wants to help you. The entire point of this site is for us to all improve our writing. Looking over this thread, I can see ...

    Jan 3, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: Evolving Your Alien Species

    Not in the conventional sense of the term ;). Random thought: it'd be quite cool if the bones could be filled with not air, but a gas that is less ...

    Jan 3, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: Evolving Your Alien Species

    Ah, but those bones are filled with bone marrow (so aren't truly hollow), whereas bird bones are filled only with air :).

    Jan 3, 2007
  • Official Polls Re: Who Do You Like More?

    There was no option for 'Bond, James Bond' :(.

    Jan 2, 2007
  • Welcome Mat Re: Convents, Lesbians and Electric Toothbrushes

    Wahey our first volunteer for castration with tweezers! Thanks Sureal ;) Keep your tweezers away from my bobbly bits :shock:.

    Jan 2, 2007
  • Fantasy Novels Re: Scall's Magic

    Here’s a quick run down of part two :). ‘Scall was unfazed.’ - I don’t like this sentence. It breaks the flow of the dialogue and doesn’t provide any useful ...

    Jan 2, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: Evolving Your Alien Species

    There's a reason bones aren't hollow... 'Pterosaur bones were hollow and air filled, like the bones of birds.' - :) The Pterosaur are probably as close to dragons as you're ...

    Jan 2, 2007


You're wrong about humanity. They are your greatest creation because they're better than you are. Sure, they're weak, and they cheat and steal and destroy and disappoint, but they also give and create, and they sing and dance and love. Above all, they never give up.
— Metatron