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Maybe if you say the binary suns, plural?
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At least a few times, I've sort of 'woken up' partway through something I was reading and thought to myself 'was this whole thing in present tense all along?' and it turns out it was, and I just didn't notice. Like, until someone mentioned it here, I had forgotten that The Hunger Games is in present tense. I wonder if it's one of those things that's invisible if the writing's good and horribly glaring if the writing's bad.
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Jul 19, 2014 01:57
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I also got a DM my first time. Then the second time I won! It's not like you get a DM and everyone decides you are Bad At Stories and laughs at you.
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Aug 19, 2014 01:51
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I find deadlines are absolutely necessary, because I am a hideous procrastinator. On the other hand I once wrote and turned in for English class a self-insert story about New Kids on the Block, so it's all relative.
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Oct 10, 2014 11:59
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Stop caring so much what other people think about you. That way you won't run yourself into getting all flustered like you do.
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Oct 10, 2014 15:05
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Last time this was discussed I realised I flat out couldn't remember what tense the book I was reading was in and had to go check. Do people really feel it makes that much of a difference? I don't think I even really notice.
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Nov 10, 2014 13:33
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The Lottery by Shirley Jackson is just an absolute masterpiece of tension and pacing. She wrote it in less than two hours, so clearly she was a witch.
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Dec 29, 2014 22:26
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Liam Emsa posted:I just started writing a short story, and then I realized I was writing "Life on Mars" meets "Interstellar." Make it the best possible version of 'Life on Mars' meets 'Interstellar' you possibly can.
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Jan 24, 2015 22:45
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Stuporstar posted:I always wondered what kind of crap Limyaael was reading where she regularly ran into some of the problems she rants about. It reminds me of something an ex of mine (an electrician) said about why there's a rule in safety manual about not installing an electrical outlet inside a swimming pool: "It's only in there because someone was that goddamned stupid." I was just reading one and at the start she mentions she was a freshman English teacher. The poor woman.
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Apr 6, 2015 21:25
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TheGreekOwl posted:http://pastebin.com/6D3v81b5 I don't want to be overly harsh but this language doesn't sound natural at all. It sounds almost like something deliberately heightened, like an argument between two Homeric gods or something. Like: 'Polytechnous: Shut it Varnaskhia, you’re a tumor treading on my wings, a unbeliever pretending to be goddess bestowing us from ignorance' Tumours don't tread. There are grammar issues here, like a missing comma before the name and a missing article before 'goddess'. You don't bestow something from someone. Your English here on the forums is way more natural and fluent than this stuff.
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Apr 8, 2015 22:29
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I thought it seemed very playlike, too. In the context of a grand stage play I actually kind of like the tone of it.
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Apr 9, 2015 18:45
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marmaduke1979 posted:I used to love creative writing in school and always had an ambition to write, but as the years have passed it never really happened. Do you guys have advice of starting out? Or is it really just a trial and error process? (inter-mixed with feedback from peers) You could try Thunderdome! I find the combination of a weekly prompt and a strict deadline helped me get going.
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Apr 14, 2015 12:35
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thehomemaster posted:
Once upon a time... And every day... But then one day... Because of this... and... And in the end... There, a plot. Oh and for the record, the bit of the crit you said was useless meant 'you used non-standard punctuation and I'm not sure if it's fair to pull you upon it, but I want you to know I noticed so it pulled me out of the story at least a bit' and 'Orientalism is bad, don't be weird and racist more than you can help'. I understood that and I haven't even read your drat story.
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Apr 28, 2015 02:55
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Sitting Here posted:it's a writing fact that 80085 makes "boobs" on a old calculator (not those fancyass texas instruments ones, though, gently caress you rich kids who could program stupid nerd games on your digitized nerd abacus) 5318008 but upside-down, imo
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May 9, 2015 23:55
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SkaAndScreenplays posted:Moby Dick is a hard read to get started, but once you break 100 pages it's super engaging. This. I must have tried to read Moby Dick five times before I finally cracked it and goddamn, it's amazing. Pip 
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May 30, 2015 12:28
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I think there's actually an argument to be made that Ice and Fire gives a lot of attention to the damage the world's misogyny is doing to Westerosi culture in general and the characters in it, men and women both, in particular. There are male characters who don't fit the patriarchal norm who are ruined by it. There are women who don't fit the norm who are variously corrupted and destroyed by it. I don't think I'd go so far as to call it feminist, but at least Martin seems to appreciate the idea that pseudo-historical misogyny was completely hosed up.
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May 31, 2015 12:16
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Nano caused me to finally stop being scared of writing a long thing. It also got me moving and was good impetus to keep writing because there was a little gauge that filled up, which is apparently all I really need. A bar to fill in on a website. What I produced is kind of paper-thin and lacks subplots and a proper ending but is otherwise actually kind of okay.
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Jun 1, 2015 11:12
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Mendrian posted:Now the obvious solution is 'quit', and I'm working on it, but in the mean time does anybody have any advice on how to get the daydream engine rolling again? Can you fit in any writing time before work? I totally relate to this and I found squeezing half an hour in before work was the only way to get things done. The evening is just dead time. Also try to care much less about work, but that goes without saying.
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Holy poo poo Doc, that was great. Thanks!
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