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  • Fiction Discussion Re: Successfull authors who don't describe anything

    For me personally Chandler, Hammet, Len Deighton and Ian Fleming are examples of the perfect balance between tight description and minimalism. Here's a bit from Chandler's The Lady In The ...

    Jul 12, 2010
  • Fiction Discussion Re: Successfull authors who don't describe anything

    I just re-read Metal Swarm /space opera/ by 'Kevin J Anderson' and 'Interesting Times' by Terry Pratchett. I read these books before, but now, after over eight months of being ...

    Jul 11, 2010
  • Novel Workshop Re: taken downski

    another one bites the dust. Hopefully an upgraded version will be ready in a few days

    Jul 11, 2010
  • Novel Workshop Re: deleted

    Thanx for being so dedicated dude :smt003 But! I'm on the verge of finishing a different juve novella, so how about waiting for that instead? The planetfall is old news ...

    Jul 11, 2010
  • Action/Adventure Novels Re: Guardian- chapter 1

    Hey, very nice beginning of story. The relatively small size of this text allows it to be examined on a sentence by sentence basis instead of just overall impression. I ...

    Jul 11, 2010
  • Novel Workshop Re: Cash for Souls

    Well, I love the way narrative scrambles and the dude's brains scramble. For the first time I'll allow myself to contribute scene-description-wise: when the dude is rapidly submerging into the ...

    Jul 7, 2010
  • Action/Adventure Short Stories Re: Croaking

    Yup, this was very amusing. Care to turn it into a longer piece set in a world inhabited by frogs and maybe other sentient critters? That'd be fun :smt002

    Jul 7, 2010
  • Fiction Discussion Re: List of vamp/paranormal/urban fantasy bestselling authors

    Cassandra Clare has been added to the list! 'Twilight' I believe I've covered in this bit at the introduction: Anyway, here is the list I made. Now, I know the ...

    Jul 5, 2010
  • Novel Workshop Re: deleted

    Math... I hate math! It stopped making sense after eighth grade and I've never managed to jump on that wagon since. It was always touch and go with me scraping ...

    Jul 3, 2010
  • Writers Corner Re: jump starting the writer inside

    Well, I've fallen incredibly short of my megalomanic objectives - I'll return to them in the autumn :D

    Jul 2, 2010
  • Novel Workshop Re: The Linked Worlds

    Bickazer, mein comerade, when I download the file my comp can't open it. How 'bout saving it as something different,like an rtf file and upping it again?

    Jul 2, 2010
  • Fiction Discussion Re: Places to submit first novellas and novelettes

    Here is an infinitely more professional list made and maintained by legendary fantasy author Piers Anthony:

    Jun 26, 2010
  • Action/Adventure Novels Re: cold sweat (continued)

    "cough", break up into paragraaaaaphs! :D Aaaaaargh :smt003

    Jun 25, 2010
  • Fantasy Novels Re: The Stars Are Watching (Chapter1)

    Heeey, this is an excellent piece of writing. Absolutely by the book, and by the good book, not by the crappy book at that :smt003 . Good sense for psychological ...

    Jun 25, 2010
  • Poetry Discussion Re: Lermontov's Borodino poem - 19th century narrative

    You 're never to behold such fights!.. The banners would fly by like sprites, In smoke would glimmer fire, The blade would sound, the grape would shriek, The fighters' hand ...

    Jun 25, 2010


I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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