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  • Writers Corner Re: My idea

    Welp, let's take a crack at this one. I think it's a pretty neat premise, honestly. The general plot has been done a lot, but it's not usually about how ...

    Apr 1, 2014
  • Writing Tips Re: Slow and steady or quick bursts?

    Generally speaking, I always have to start writing slow and steady. If I open the document and just go for it, it all comes out stiff and forced. I gradually ...

    Mar 29, 2014
  • Writers Corner Re: Which rule would you burn?

    Run-on sentences are great for dialogue and communication and I suppose that I have to take back my previous statement to some extent, but not entirely because in actual writing, ...

    Mar 27, 2014
  • Writers Corner Re: Which rule would you burn?

    DOWN WITH RUN-ONS. I love you Cole, but I can't appreciate run-on sentences :P Personally, I'd burn the "thou shalt not overuse commas" rule. I love commas. Commas add to ...

    Mar 27, 2014
  • Writers Corner Re: Post and Study Quotes

    From the first throws of a novel I'm working on, called "Jackets": The third time was after the bell let out, and you caught her hovering around the back door, ...

    Mar 25, 2014
  • Writers Corner Re: [-_-] The Future of reading and writing [-_-]

    Do you think present reading and writing will evolve? Do you think that one day technology will advance to such high peeks that reading and writing will no longer be ...

    Mar 21, 2014
  • Writers Corner Re: Do you write by logic or intuition???

    I don't entirely understand what you're trying to ask here, but I'll do my best to answer the question, anyway. :) Writing is a combination of logic, intuition, and simply ...

    Mar 19, 2014
  • Research Re: LGBT Awareness Contest Q&A

    @BlueAfrica Okay! So the thing with gender-neutral pronouns when writing a non-binary character is that non-binary people will choose their own. There's xe, zi, nem, singular they, and many, many ...

    Mar 19, 2014
  • Writers Corner Re: Post and Study Quotes

    His laugh was that drink that you loved and tried to throw back too fast, so you choke on it, but you obviously don't regret it because you still take ...

    Mar 11, 2014
  • Research Re: Traditional publishing and literary magazines

    Well, the thing about publishing to a literary magazine instead of "really publishing" your own book is that publishing to a literary magazine will make it more likely that a ...

    Mar 9, 2014
  • Research Re: Getting a poetry collection published

    I'm actually not too knowledgeable on getting poetry published by a publisher, but there are a few different ways you could go about getting them published. Firstly, your friend could ...

    Mar 7, 2014
  • Research Re: Orphans and Big brothers

    Often children adopted feel lesser, more so if the family who adopted have birth children as well This is actually largely untrue. Yes, an adopted child will have their own ...

    Mar 5, 2014
  • Writing Tips Re: Help!!!

    To expand on both of the above: I have the same issue that Rosey does, usually! You need to figure out where you wrote yourself into a corner, and, if ...

    Mar 4, 2014
  • Research Re: Questions about nursing

    Zolen's correct on length of time. Also, if you want to know what age the child is when the mother stops, the average is anywhere between six months and two ...

    Mar 1, 2014
  • Writing Tutorials Re: Writing a Character From a People Group Not Your Own

    @Snoink Religions! I could probably tack a section on about that too, because wow I know what you mean xD I'll get that done. Um. Eventually.

    Feb 27, 2014


The day, which was one of the first of spring, cheered even me by the loveliness of its sunshine and the balminess of the air. I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, revive within me. Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I allowed myself to be borne away by them, and forgetting my solitude and deformity, dared to be happy.
— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein