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bookworm201

  • Media Reviews Re: Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird

    Greatest book my crappy middle school teacher made us read. It almost makes up for her making us read books three reading levels below our grade level. One of the ...

    Sat Jan 19, 2008 6:09 pm
  • Fiction Discussion Re: scary

    Body language is key to showing someone's frightened. Since I just got finished with my school play, I have thought a lot about how acting relates to writing. A great ...

    Mon Dec 10, 2007 12:11 am
  • Media Reviews Re: I Just Read ERAGON and ELDEST!

    they're the books you read if you just want to read- like chewing bubble gum. It won't fill you up, but at least it gets your mind off of food/reading. ...

    Wed Nov 28, 2007 4:32 pm
  • Fiction Discussion Re: Name Game #2

    Okay, I read somewhere that if you can't think of a title for a story after you're a third of the way through it, you're in trouble. I don't necessarily ...

    Wed Nov 21, 2007 4:39 pm
  • Fiction Discussion Re: Name Game #1

    I have two questions about naming things, but this one's more important- I'll ask the other one later. I want to give a character a certain name, but I have ...

    Mon Nov 19, 2007 4:42 pm
  • Fiction Discussion Re: Starting with Quotes? Yes or no?

    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- bookworm201 wrote: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants books also use quotes well. Ooh, yeah, that was really well do

    Tue Nov 06, 2007 2:37 pm
  • Fiction Discussion Re: Who do you talk to your writing about

    My sister and I have a running gag where I go to her, and she pretends to have one of those long cigarettes that Cruella DeVille had int he DIsney ...

    Sun Nov 04, 2007 10:01 pm
  • Fiction Discussion Re: Said, said, said, said

    Said, replied, asked, laughed, and cried. Maybe one or two more, but that's really all you need. Too much said is annoying, but the readers should be focused on what's ...

    Sun Nov 04, 2007 9:50 pm
  • Fiction Discussion Re: Starting with Quotes? Yes or no?

    Quotes can be tricky- a good one will have the right "flavor" to it- you know what I mean? But if the quote replaces something that the writer should be ...

    Sun Nov 04, 2007 9:34 pm


How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.
— David Foster Wallace