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  • Writing Tips Re: In need of writers block destruction.........

    PM a mod (the ones with dark green names - try Claudette or Snoink or someone else) and they'll lock this thread for you. Look around this forum, and you'll ...

    Dec 7, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: Be a Foundation

    *feels guilty* That's something I think I do too much of. I can only feel justified when I'm trying to add more words in, or when one of my characters ...

    Dec 5, 2007
  • Writers Corner Re: A Writer's Schizophrenia 4/16/09

    I'm reading! :D Heh, I know how that is, you're thinking, Am I really *this* boring?? That newfaces site is really good! So, thankly much for saying about it, as ...

    Nov 30, 2007
  • Research Re: So I'm trying to research genii...

    Genius as in Artemis Fowl genius? From the title, I was thinking of Aladdin. I think ypu can do what you want. Make him like a normal person.

    Nov 28, 2007
  • Research Re: The Epic Search To Fill The Cliche Bank

    In other words, mimic Eragon as much as possible?

    Nov 23, 2007
  • Research Re: The Epic Search To Fill The Cliche Bank

    Fantasy, Kitty. It's kind of weird, but it's these characters who start off by being cliched ones - beautiful heroine, self-doubting hero, sidekick, comic relief, street urchin (who isn't really ...

    Nov 23, 2007
  • Research Re: The Epic Search To Fill The Cliche Bank

    Thanks for those! :D

    Nov 19, 2007
  • Research Re: The Epic Search To Fill The Cliche Bank

    What makes for a cliched storyline and cliched hero behaviour? It's for an idea for a story I had while watching The Fellowship of the Ring, and it's all rather ...

    Nov 17, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: just 'cause

    It's like Shakespeare and other people would say, "o'er" and "wak'd" to make it flow better. Too many syllables makes it clunky, like.

    Nov 15, 2007
  • Research Re: I really need help! Please!

    Go to the Index. At the top, above the forums, you should see a list of options in small print. Among them is "View Your Drafts and Posts". Click on ...

    Nov 2, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: historical fiction: how much can I fudge?

    I think you can do that. Lots of historical authors that I've read have put notes at the end or beginning saying what's accurate or what's not. I think writing ...

    Oct 31, 2007
  • Writers Corner Re: Twitterings: Of Unfinished Works and Skeletons

    The next chapter of THIOBS is up. Stormy Petrel. One person said it was cruel, and others voiced much the same opinion. Well, he's dead. It came out different from ...

    Oct 31, 2007
  • Writers Corner Re: Twitterings: Of Unfinished Works and Skeletons

    ... It's up. All Flesh Is Grass. Angst, pain, torture. Fun, fun, fun. Now I have about four(?) more chapters to write. It should be done by November. Or around ...

    Oct 17, 2007
  • Writers Corner Re: Pen name?

    My surname's rather distinctive, so I think I'll use that. Even if I am a loser, having a weird name on the spine of a book might inspire people to ...

    Oct 15, 2007
  • Writing Tips Re: Stupidity Test

    If you think it's going to be childish, so you don't want to write it, then don't write it. But sort of what like Meep said. I'm thinking of plot ...

    Oct 12, 2007


When all think alike, no one is thinking very much.
— Walter Lippmann