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~BrightestStar~ said:



*ducks rotten fruint*


:laugh:



Random note.....
With all this talk about writing......I'm quite strange. I always notice errors in books. And they bug me. For no good reason. :shrug:
I can't stand it when there is ONE phrase repeated over and over in a book:madspit:
 
Russty Cat said:


Honey, don't give up hope! I know its hard, but it will be so worth it in the end. I know you will get someone to publish you one day. You have such amazing talent. I do understand how you feel though, I get so frustrated sometimes when I think of ever getting my work in a good gallery or getting in one of the national magazines. Just remember I expect a signed copy when you do!

Do you scare easily?

The book which is nearly complete is a fantasy very 'tolkein-esque' but definitely my own creation at the same time (good thing or bad... not sure about that yet) :wink:

but the other one I'm working on will (hopefully) be more along the Horror line. I HOPE it will be / intend for it to be quite frightening

(The first copy of the fantasy novel is going to Bono, no matter how long I have to save it, keep it until I get it to him. He is very very much responsible for a great deal of the inspiration in that story.)
 
Sad_Girl said:
Russty - that was a very cool little experience, I would love to have been there! :lol:

Dazz :hug: It's always so nice to have someone with that artistic soul to talk with. A Kindred spirit

VP - *cheezy 70's heavy - bass porno music starts* *Bom-chicka-mow-wow* since you're interacting with him via the internet, with you be needing some of Bri's hand sanitizer? :lol:

Catching up on a few pages, but to update, he wanted to come over and I blew him off. LOL
 
~BrightestStar~ said:


With all this talk about writing......I'm quite strange. I always notice errors in books. And they bug me. For no good reason. :shrug:

My boys (nephews) have dubbed me the grammar police. I drive them crazy pointing things like that out in books, magazines, wherever. :reject:
I had one friend who I used to write with but her spelling and grammar came between us. I couldn't stand the errors and she didn't like having me return her writings edited and corrected :shrug:
 
Snooky pie said:

I can't stand it when there is ONE phrase repeated over and over in a book:madspit:

For some reason, I pick up on the spelling and grammar mistakes.
Which is weird, cause I hardly use perfect spelling and grammer myself.
In fact, this post has atroucious spelling and grammar, but you know what? I'm too lazy to fix it.
 
Elessarian said:
Elessarian's dictionary: (cuz it's hard to censor myself sometimes)

stank - pissy, cynical, grumpy, but usually in a comically or potentially amusing way. The look on Larry's face most of the time is classically stank. Always used as an adjective.

reer - pronounced mostly like 'rear' but the second e bottoms out a little, so it sound like a cross between 'reer' the cat noise and the word rear. It means pissed off. Has a variety of forms such as "Don't be reer. " :shame:

or

"Reer, that hurt my feelings." :(

or

"Reer, that is SO not true!" :eek:

budget - low class, cheap, crappy; has increased affect when combined with the suffix -ass.

:wink:

In that case, I am *totally* stank. :wink:
 
Sad_Girl said:


Do you scare easily?

The book which is nearly complete is a fantasy very 'tolkein-esque' but definitely my own creation at the same time (good thing or bad... not sure about that yet) :wink:

but the other one I'm working on will (hopefully) be more along the Horror line. I HOPE it will be / intend for it to be quite frightening

(The first copy of the fantasy novel is going to Bono, no matter how long I have to save it, keep it until I get it to him. He is very very much responsible for a great deal of the inspiration in that story.)

I don't scare easily. I use to be a huge Stephen King and Dean Koontz fan. I've read alot of scary as well as fantasy stuff in my time. When I was a kid the only way to escape my life was by reading. I spent many hours after school at the library reading everything I could get my hands on. Because my dad had problems reading even as an adult he would buy me any books or borrow any books I asked for. He always encouraged me to read and learn whatever I could.
 
~BrightestStar~ said:

Random note.....
With all this talk about writing......I'm quite strange. I always notice errors in books. And they bug me. For no good reason. :shrug:

Me too!!!! *not surprising in the least, is it? :wink:) And it's for this very reason that I think i'd make a much better editor than a writer. :sigh: Those who can, do...those who can't, edit. :|
 
Sad_Girl said:
Eles, do you ever post over in Dream Out Loud?

Never. :reject: In fact, I haven't even given anything to any of my professors. A few things I'm actually quite proud of, most of it's crap. In the last year or so my sister (17 months my junior) has started writing a little, and she's a *natural* so we've been going back and forth with a few things like our secret little sister conversation.

I dunno...I'm too afraid people will be like :| or "Yeah, that was great! :)coocoo: )"
 
~BrightestStar~ said:


!!!!!!!

:lmao:




VP.....I'd like to know *how* your perversions somehow end up in my lap.....and you know what, that doesn't sound how I meant it too.....

Does that mean Bono's on my lap? :hyper:

My perversions would include Bono *and* me...so I think we'd both be there. LMAO
 
I really like the real rigorous stuff, like sonnets, but a little free verse as well. I've got 2 short stories and one screenplay brewing but I usually talk myself out of working on them.
 
Russty Cat said:


I don't scare easily. I use to be a huge Stephen King and Dean Koontz fan. I've read alot of scary as well as fantasy stuff in my time. When I was a kid the only way to escape my life was by reading. I spent many hours after school at the library reading everything I could get my hands on. Because my dad had problems reading even as an adult he would buy me any books or borrow any books I asked for. He always encouraged me to read and learn whatever I could.

Ok, knock that off!

I was originally going to compare the second book to Koontz/King :ohmy: I shit you not


I was the same way with books, too. At age eleven or so I was reading true crime novels about split personality disorders and satanic cults and horrific murders...
I had a thirst to read, no library easily accesible to me because I lived out in the middle of nowhere, and I read through the books my mom and dad bought me really quickly, often twice. And then I read the comic books. and then I read my brothers comic books. and then I read what my mom was reading, thus the true crime.

I was a little :censored: up in the head for a long time because of those damned books :lmao:
 
Elessarian said:


Never. :reject: In fact, I haven't even given anything to any of my professors. A few things I'm actually quite proud of, most of it's crap. In the last year or so my sister (17 months my junior) has started writing a little, and she's a *natural* so we've been going back and forth with a few things like our secret little sister conversation.

I dunno...I'm too afraid people will be like :| or "Yeah, that was great! :)coocoo: )"

YOu sound just like me....I see so many talented writers here...and Sarah is a great one, too...she wants to write for a living...that I just feel like "yeah, this is my crap contribution...".
 
VintagePunk said:


Me too!!!! *not surprising in the least, is it? :wink:) And it's for this very reason that I think i'd make a much better editor than a writer. :sigh: Those who can, do...those who can't, edit. :|

Omg!
I am getting way too used to this.....:laugh:
:clonelove:

Heh.
It'd be nice if I could find all the errors in my own papers though, rather than n other peoples books..:p
 
Elessarian said:


Never. :reject: In fact, I haven't even given anything to any of my professors. A few things I'm actually quite proud of, most of it's crap. In the last year or so my sister (17 months my junior) has started writing a little, and she's a *natural* so we've been going back and forth with a few things like our secret little sister conversation.

I dunno...I'm too afraid people will be like :| or "Yeah, that was great! :)coocoo: )"


I hate sharing with others as well it always makes me so nervous. But I did once in college and I actually got published in a book of poetry. :ohmy:
 
Elessarian said:


Never. :reject: In fact, I haven't even given anything to any of my professors. A few things I'm actually quite proud of, most of it's crap. In the last year or so my sister (17 months my junior) has started writing a little, and she's a *natural* so we've been going back and forth with a few things like our secret little sister conversation.

I dunno...I'm too afraid people will be like :| or "Yeah, that was great! :)coocoo: )"

That is the hardest thing for every writer to get over :hug:
Stephen King had two railroad tie spikes hammered into his wall to hold up all of the rejection letters he got before he got published for the first time. It's not easy to give something like that over to another person for evaluation. It's like handing someone a little piece of your soul.

I'd always be happy to talk with you about what I know and what you want to write, brainstorm, run through ideas, proofread or whatever.
I promise to be gentle but honest. (I'm a little like Larry that way... I'm a horrible liar. I'm honest to a fault)
 
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