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Re: Favorite bits from The Great Gatsby
Right you are Mad Moo, I'll change the rating haha. Merlin, come the revolution I will personally oversee the lining up against the wall of people who think that all ...
Sep 24, 2010 -
Re: Favorite bits from The Great Gatsby
Most of the confidences were unsought--frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the ...
Sep 17, 2010 -
Re: Places to submit first novellas and novelettes
Thanx for the boost ladymask - I hope the list worked for you :smt003
Aug 26, 2010 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Re: List of vamp/paranormal/urban fantasy bestselling authors
Wohoo, ein list! Anyway, here is the list I made. Blood dripping over roses and other genital symbols, half naked men with sixpacks and women in flowing dresses or leather ...
Jun 24, 2010 -
Re: Does anyone else hate the Twilight series?
There's nothing wrong with Twilight as such, it's the whole vampire genre raised from the dead by Anne Rice that sucks. Haha, I made a pun - vampires suck - ...
Jun 18, 2010 -
Re: Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol - hoarded
Hehe, I've decided that whoever the fates willed to see this analysis has seen it, now I'm going to hoard it all for myself, and am leaving only point 16 ...
Jun 18, 2010 -
Re: 360,000 words in 90 Days?
honestly, 50,000 words isn't even a publishable length nowadays. Almost totally true, unfortunately. Gone are the days of tight thrillers and fantasy adventures. Now the bolaters control the market on
Jun 11, 2010 -
Re: 360,000 words in 90 Days?
Michael Moorcock wrote each of his Hawkmoon series books in three days. Stephen King wrote 'Rage' in ten. George Simenon wrote more then 12 novels a year. All three authors ...
Jun 10, 2010 -
Re: 360,000 words in 90 Days?
Ah, another writing spree lunatic. Excellent, good luck! I myself am going for six novelettes and one novel until July 11th. Yeah, even if it all turnes out crap, it's ...
Jun 6, 2010 -
Re: James Bond.
Hey, Aspiring, here's a sample of young bond
May 29, 2010
