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  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: Becca....

    This is amazing. It has an honest, open, emotional feel to it, and it's beautiful. I like the use of present tense - it makes the story feel more rushed, ...

    Jun 10, 2008
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: Tom

    *cries* Wow. This was amazing! Bad things first, good things later. You switched verb tenses A LOT. For instance, under the first asterisk, the second paragraph is in the present ...

    Feb 26, 2008
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: The Hard, Cold Facts

    Well, I like it. It seems like one of those pieces that leave everything up to the reader, almost like "The Lady and the Tiger." (which everyone should read, by ...

    Feb 26, 2008
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: The Old Man and the Doll.

    I know this is formatted a little wierdly, but it should be easier to read. It had been a very long day, and Marie was having difficulty thinking of anything ...

    Feb 26, 2008
  • Art & Photography Re: How to Make a Photoshop Avvie

    *sobs* my photoshop won't let me use anything but pdf images...which are pretty much non-existent... the HELP info thing said i had to use the GIF & PNG plug-ins to ...

    Feb 26, 2008
  • Randomosity Archive Re: What does this username make you think of?

    Elizabeth--a girl who is somewhat strange, misleadingly honest, easily distracted HOLY COW SINCE WHEN ARE THERE SO MANY SMILIES? a bit mischieveous, very smart. chocolatechipmuffin

    Feb 26, 2008
  • Writing Activities Re: Writing Exercises

    A few quick, short things to do, courtesy of the UVA Young Writer's Workshop...which I would loooooooooove to go to...

    Feb 24, 2008
  • Historical Fiction Short Stories Re: Gypsies...who as yet have no title...

    Passersby looked angry, and moved to the other side of the street, resenting the way the bright colors of those long skirts contrasted with the drab, unhappy, overall grayness of ...

    Feb 21, 2008
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: The Photograph

    This is wonderful! I'm not sure I have much to add to what's already been said, but I'll try. I'm not sure if dark-room is supposed to be hyphenated; I ...

    Feb 21, 2008
  • Narrative Poetry Re: One Good that came from Crime

    mmmmmmmmmmmkay. I's back. Several days later. (& I knew you were Gud, Wozzel) First: piepiemann2: "overall" is one word. Not two. It has never been two. It was probably a ...

    Feb 19, 2008
  • Narrative Poetry Re: One Good that came from Crime

    Ouch. Put the claws away. All of you. Wozzel, it could use some editing, but that's easily done. The Grammar Nazi within me begs for a pronoun at line two ...

    Feb 16, 2008
  • Writing Activities Re: Character Answer Game

    "My greatest dream in early childhood was to marry Melantha. If you repeat that to anyone, I'll kill you. Later, my dream was, and is, to serve the Fuhrer honorably, ...

    Apr 20, 2007
  • Writing Activities Re: Answering machines

    Melantha: You rule the world? Hmm. Funny how politics move so fast when you don't pay attention. Ah, well. C'est la vie. If you kill me, could you make sure ...

    Apr 20, 2007
  • Writing Activities Re: name association

    Makes me think of Jude Law. A lawyer, just passed the bar, very successful. Undertakes a difficult case, involving a young girl, and comes face-to-face with his own childhood, finds ...

    Apr 20, 2007
  • Writing Activities Re: Most Meaningful Quotes

    "The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's." Jane Austen, Mansfield Park *swoon* I love you, Jane Austen! "When you have seen as much of life as ...

    Apr 19, 2007


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