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  • Writers Corner Re: Book ideas: Having so much trouble thinking up one!!!

    Write because of your ideas and not because of impulse. A lot of people disagree with me but writing garbage that you aren't remotely interested in seems a pointless waste ...

    Sep 3, 2008
  • Writing Tips Re: Into the Male mind...

    Hanging out won't work. Males behave differently when in single sex groups. I have studied Gender Linguistics this year and I've attached a summary document that may give you an ...

    Aug 30, 2008
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: The Way the World Ends

    I would be really interested in a few more crits for this story... its not that long....

    Aug 30, 2008
  • Writing Tips Re: What's in a Name, or a Title, in this case

    Titles usually come to me after the first few sentences. I'm not sure whether they are good or not but they are certainly different: Silver Ferride, The Boatman etc...

    Aug 29, 2008
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: The Way the World Ends

    bump.

    Aug 28, 2008
  • Narrative Poetry Re: Wifey

    Call this what you will, I just had an idea for a story and thought it would be cool to express it through poetry. Wifey My wife's a cheating know ...

    Aug 27, 2008
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: The Way the World Ends

    Thanks again. Yeah the idea was not to make the character unique really in any way - I wanted him to be one of the hundreds who were imprisoned during ...

    Aug 27, 2008
  • Writing Tips Re: A new kind of magician

    Magic in groups is one of my favourites. This eliminates any clichéd "all powerful sorcerer" scenarios. Magicians need to form gangs in order for Magic to have any effect at ...

    Aug 25, 2008
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: The Way the World Ends

    Thanks for the critiscism, I agree with all the pointers. More welcome.

    Aug 25, 2008
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: The Way the World Ends

    The Way the World Ends 1 am Guards watch. Greasy hair, snake faces, granite eyes; armed with rifles. They do not move. Not even for Death's Concerto : first, the ...

    Aug 24, 2008
  • Science-Fiction Novels Re: In Thrall

    Oh wow - All the best for Gypsies Eyes, I've been following In Thrall more than I have "Eyes." Hope to see it on Amazon within the next year :)

    Aug 12, 2008
  • Science-Fiction Novels Re: In Thrall

    *Thrash* Get another installment out.

    Aug 12, 2008
  • Media Reviews Re: Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks

    Ok, for my Advanced Level English Literature course we have to complete a "wider reading" project and answer several questions in an exam, based on our findings next year. So ...

    Jul 26, 2008
  • Writing Tips Re: Tips on Drawing a Map for My Novel

    I actually create maps as a hobby - sad perhaps but I really enjoy inventing new worlds.

    Jul 18, 2008
  • Writers Corner Re: First Draft of Play FINISHED!!!!

    Just a little celebration note to say that I have completed the first draft my first full length play, a stage adaptation of Wilde's A Picture of Dorian Gray. :D ...

    Jun 29, 2008


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— Kaladin (Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson)