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electricbluemonkey

  • Writing Tips Re: Serpents On An Aircraft

    Every...what day is it today? Well, every saturday or so, I shall be posting a movie critique in Squills. Yes indeed. Snakes On A Plane **1/2 (out of four) Hey, ...

    Aug 27, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Fluent In Spanish? I Need Help To Produce YWS Spanish

    I'm fluent in spanish. I see that a lot of people have already volunteered, but if you need someone else, I'll be glad to help.

    Aug 26, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Dictionary.com sold out! Now what?? I need new writing tool

    Wow, the layout is pretty cool. Even if they did sell out, I'm still going to use it. Although the thesaurus is pretty bad.

    Aug 25, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Calvin & Hobbes Comic Strip On Writing

    Bill's a freaking genius. But the best Calvin & Hobbes strip is the one where they play war/peace.

    Aug 24, 2006
  • Research Re: Erhm...

    Arrow loop: A narrow vertical slit cut into a wall through which arrows could be fired from inside Merlon, Crenellation Battlement: part of a battlement, the square "sawtooth" between crenels ...

    Aug 23, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: YWS Round-Up

    Kudos to magicman for such a thorough review. 'Unending Ends' seems like it could use a review.

    Aug 21, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Whatever Happened To...

    ...Dav Pilkey? I was opening up some boxes filled with my old children's books today and found, 'The Adventures Of Captain Underpants' (1997) and 'Captain Underpants And The Attack Of ...

    Aug 21, 2006
  • Research Re: Question on new story

    Ouch. West Side Story meets Godfather. I think it could work pretty well, if you add your usual backstabbers, squealers, etc. But I think you should put something that would ...

    Jul 27, 2006
  • Research Re: Question on new story

    Yeah, I'd like a straight up mafia story too, but it could work if it was about a vendetta between 2 families (i.e. CCF and SPEW, although you should change ...

    Jul 27, 2006
  • Research Re: Need help translating spanish :)

    Yeah, I dont think the blacksmiths knew how to spell. The ' in Camaro'n is probably just a smudge, and since most people in the 1800's didnt know how to ...

    May 3, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: Details

    Glad you agree! That always works for me.

    Nov 18, 2004
  • Writing Tips Re: Details

    Yeah, I think what you should do is just write without stopping and when you are done with the story look back and edit all of it.

    Nov 17, 2004
  • Writing Tips Re: Details

    You never know. Anyways, how about learning some new adjectives. That never hurt anybody.

    Nov 16, 2004
  • Writing Tips Re: suspense

    Yeah, like a lot of books movies do. They just put stupid reasons that something is happening and it gets boring.

    Nov 16, 2004
  • Writing Tips Re: Details

    I think he may have done it on purpose, didn't you?

    Nov 16, 2004


How can I be king of the world? Because I am king of rubbish. And rubbish is what the world is made of.
— Kate DiCamillo, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane